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Interview with In Love with the Whirlwind Author Susan Davis

Interview with “In Love with the Whirlwind—When God Takes Your Heart by Storm” book author Susan Davis

Q: What is the book “In Love with the Whirlwind” about?

SD: Well it sounds like a title for a novel, but it really is a non-fiction book about the incredible way God has moved in my life as I pursued a friendship with Him.  I started to have so many wonderful encounters with the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that I wrote them in my private journal and I would often speak of them to friends.  My friends and family said I should write a book.  I really hated that idea and resisted it.  But truthfully, I decided to do it one day because I knew God was showing me some wonderful truths and I also felt I had so many people I knew who didn’t know this wonderful God and I wanted them to think about these things.  So I set out to convert my private journal about God into a public-access document.

Q: What is the significance of the “whirlwind”?

SD: Well, I wasn’t the only one experiencing amazing things—my young son was also having encounters with God and reporting amazing things to me.  Onetime, at age ten, he had a vision of going up into a whirlwind—and he immediately drew a picture to record his experience (the same one on the book cover).  This is something he has never done before and what he described matched the experience recorded by the Prophet Elijah in the Bible.  He described things no ten-year-old would have known.  I also learned that God is referenced in the Bible as in the whirlwind—also something I was not previously aware of: Nahum 1:3 says: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm.

Q: What kinds of things will people take from reading this book?

SD: I say the book is fun and deep both—and I think that reflects God’s personality.  God has a wonderful sense of humor and He is also a just, righteous, and powerful God, which is what I discovered and this is reflected in my writings I believe.  Truly, I set out to testify of how God is really involved in all the little details of our lives and how passionately He loves us and longs for us to put Him in the center of our lives.  You know, I just so desperately want people to read my book because I want them to think about the importance of the decisions we make in this life and to take a hard look at how close we really are to eternity and where we will spend our eternal lives.  I recall one author once writing that God is a God who says, “Love me or else,” and this is really true.

Q: You talk about the incredible way God has moved in your life—what exactly do you mean?

SD: You know, you can see Christ’s personality—reflected in the incredible variety in nature—like no two snowflakes are alike, and that is the way God interacts with His children I believe.  I have experienced God in so many different ways: visions; hearing His audible voice; healings; and miraculous experiences.  I really don’t believe in coincidences anymore.  I believe the closer you get to God, the less likely it is for you to avoid the supernatural—because God is supernatural.   God revealed personal things about my life to me and He revealed things that I felt He wanted me to share with others about living their lives.  Realizing that was what helped me to turn the corner and to decide to write a book.

Q: Do you think this experience you describe with God is something others can have?

SD: If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t have written this book for one thing.  I believe the key for anyone to experience a close relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is through salvation and believing Jesus died for us and was resurrected.  So that if we believe that He did this and confess this to men we can be saved.  Then I believe in water baptism as a public demonstration of our salvation.  But I believe that we should surrender our lives wholly over to Christ.  Now God crushed me and took away my little personal idols and one of those things was the love of this world and my career.  Looking back I regret putting worldly pursuits and things in the place of God in my life.  This is one of the reasons I also wrote the book is to demonstrate how short-sighted it is to put God in second, third place, or even further down our priority list.   

Q: What do you hope to accomplish with this book?

SD: I knew of course when I set out to write this book that there will be those who don’t believe what I am reporting about my experiences.  However, I believe that there are many who want to believe and already know that God is real and calling them to come to Him.  I worked a year on converting a personal journal into a public-access document and at the time I thought to myself—if just one person read my book and the Lord spoke to them through my book—then wouldn’t it all be worth it?  What if my one-year project meant one person could avoid an eternity in hell—wouldn’t that be worth it? I think so.

“In Love with the Whirlwind—When God Takes Your Heart by Storm”: available at these fine online booksellers:

www.amazon.com/Love-Whirlwind-Takes-Heart-Storm/dp/1439238502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250738191&sr=1-1

www.booksurge.com/In-Love-With-The-Whirlwind-When/A/1439238502.htm

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www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9953299801&query=in+love+with+the+whirlwind&qsort=&page=1

Book website: http://sites.advancedministry.com/lovethewhirlwind

Author email: lovethewhirlwind@sbcglobal.net

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ISBN-10: 1439238502

ISBN-13: 978-1439238509