Why I’m Giving This Away for Free
Pastor Darius Arnold
FaithCoast Church · Destin, Florida
Over my several decades in full-time ministry — and after a lifetime of being raised in a pastor’s home — I’ve been heartbroken to see marriages fall apart, people tormented in their minds with anxiety, guilt, fear, depression, and loneliness.
And at the root of it all, I’ve discovered something:
There’s a void built into every human that can only be filled by God.
I’ve seen people who don’t have a relationship with God experience devastating trauma and eventually die completely lost — without God and without hope — because they never surrendered their life to Him.
But I’ve also seen countless others who go to church regularly but don’t give Him their all. They hold back parts of their life for themselves and don’t fully surrender every part of their life to Christ.
These people are incredibly frustrated because they think they have God, but somehow that’s not enough. They still have all these struggles they can’t seem to find victory over.
Here’s what I’ve learned: The more intimate our fellowship is with our Creator, the more joy, peace, and victory we have — in our minds, our hearts, our homes, our relationships, our marriages.
In fact, whichever area we hold back our full devotion to Him in is the exact area we struggle to find peace, hope, and victory.
I’ve seen it repeated over and over again. But I’ve also had to come to grips with this reality in my own life.
Every time I’ve tried to do it on my own, I end up frustrated and buried by tremendous failure.
It doesn’t matter if it’s spiritually, physically, emotionally, relationally, intellectually, or financially — whatever area I don’t fully surrender to Christ in is the exact area that produces worry, fear, frustration, and no satisfaction.
So I want to hopefully transfer what I’ve learned over 50 years to people who are either:
Without God and searching for Him, or
People who think they have God but that He is somehow insufficient
He is more than enough. But He can’t give us blessing in areas we refuse to release to Him.
I want to inspire people to pursue Him passionately in every area of their life — so that overwhelming peace, joy, freedom, purpose, and fulfillment become the testimony of their lives.
That’s why I’m making this free.