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the Final Quest by Rick Joyner (how has this book changed your life?)
While at onething 2007, (@ IHOP in Kansas City, MO) I spent a good bit of time in the prayer room reading Rick Joyner’s book the Final Quest. It rocked my world!
My life course has been greatly impacted by this book (and I thought I was on fire before).
I would love to hear what this book has done in other people’s lives.
Post your comments below. (things are still settling out for me, but in a few weeks I will be able to comment more in detail about how this book changed my daily routine. The story of Angelo really hit me hard.)
Keep the Flame!
ADDED 1/23/08
Thirteen Stories
With tears streaming down my face, I stand up and exit the prayer room, I have had all I can handle for now. His presence is so overwhelming I have to give my skin-suit a break from the intensity, besides I need to go find him… I head out into the corridor, gain my bearings and beeline for the door. My mind is racing, I hope he is still around - the homeless man we bought soup for the other day.
At a brisk pace I head for the last place I saw him, the food court we eat at, about a half mile away. The sound of my shoes on the snow and ice remind me that he was only wearing “Crocs” and it can’t be more than 20 degrees out here. Why was I content to just buy him food the other day, instead of at least attempting to engage him in conversation? I had told myself that I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable, which was true, but if I was homeless wouldn’t I have enjoyed a conversation with someone who would treat me like a fellow human. I remembered how someone had came up to me and praised me for buying him lunch. Why do I like it so much when people notice the “good works” I do. Pride, I hate it.
I’m almost there, at least he has the food court to go and get warm in, I think to myself. I turn the corner, OH, NO, the door’s locked! They closed a half hour ago. Where can he be? I know, I’ll circle the block, maybe he’s tucked into a doorway somewhere. I’m out of breath now, and my lungs are starting to ache. I circle the block. Man, this is a long way around. He’s nowhere to be seen.
As I make my way back to Bartle Hall where onething is held, I reflect on what sent me on this hike in the cold. While in the prayer room I was reading the book “The Final Quest “ by Rick Joyner. I had just finished the story about Angelo, a homeless man that God had given Rick a vision of, so that he would reach out to him in the park. However, Rick had forgotten the vision, and when he actually saw the man in the park, he had brushed him off as a “religious nut” being used by Satan to turn people off from God. God had intended Rick to reach out to the man and mentor him. My mind goes to God’s exaltation of Angelo in Heaven, and how the “last shall be first” now meant so much more to me than the watered-down “last in line at the fellowship dinner” concept this verse had been reduced to for me.
As I re-enter Bartle Hall and head back into the prayer room, my heart burns for the encounter to continue. The Holy Spirit has been stripping me bare, and exposing the complete depravity of my condition.
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9
It is a beautiful thing – this unadulterated conviction, a force that brings true change.
But that’s just a glimpse of my story at onething, and there were thirteen of us in all.
onething is the annual gathering (sponsored by IHOP.org) of young adults from around the world seeking God through prayer, worship, teaching and impartation.
This year thirteen SEEKERS and workers went seeking an encounter with our great King. We were not disappointed.
Recommended reading, “The Final Quest” by Rick Joyner. (non-fiction)
Timothy Luce
January 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Washington Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm e
I read ‘The Final Quest’ when I was in high school (7 years ago) and it blew me away… what a powerful book, I was undone for days.
God Bless,
Washington
January 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
this is awesome…The Final Quest rocked my world as well.
the story of Angelo is likewise what impacted me the most about the book (and of course the entire vision of the Judgment seat of Christ).
question…do you have the Justin Rizzo worship set from One Thing 2006 available in a higher bitrate, maybe 128kbps or higher? or do you have the original wav or aiff recording? I can provide you a server space to upload it to if that is an issue. I would very much like to have a higher quality copy of this, hopefully today if possible.
I work for PropheticWorshipRadio.net, an internet radio station that features cutting edge prophetic woship and broadcasts it to the whole world (we haver thousands of listeners from over 150 countries!). check us out and send us some prophetic worship whenever you find it! e-mail matthew_freewind@yahoo.com for more info.
blessings,
matthew
February 7th, 2008 at 1:43 am
The book “The Final Quest” change my life dramatically. I actually studied the book for 5 years. This was to absorb all I could from it. However,I’ve noticed something else though. When I gave the book to others to read, they only read parts of it or not at all. I can only assume they are not called to be warriors. Or at a totally different place in there christian walk than me.
I see the book as a great gifts to God’s people.
But isn’t that like God. He put’s it out there. But, Only those who are looking and hungry will find it.
February 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Following up to Randy’s post. I had a friend who read the book years ago, and he said it was all right. then he re-read it a few years later and it really rocked him. The parable of the soil comes to mind. When I read it I was at a place where I was desperate for God, and willing to get real with myself. In that context for me. It was quite a profound experience.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I was reading this book by Joyner and when I got to the place in the book where a certain people were called the virgins in refrence to the 10 vigins in the bible, I found the response of God regarding the foolish virgins in his vision was not consistant with the Biblical response from God toward the vigins.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:48 am
This book marked a drastic turning point of my life.
A friend of mine recommended the book to me, and so i started reading it at a seat around a corner of my school library where i was alone. After the first page, i was thinking like ‘wow, this is intense’ but it’s so new and attractive that i couldn’t put it down. At times i had to stop because i was so overwhelmed and tears kept running down(esp when Rick Joyner was in the garden, seeing the glory and love of Jesus).
I believe God is speaking to us through all the revolations in the book, and giving a whole new insight to our relationship with God.
February 28th, 2008 at 9:20 am
hey yewa i read this book and exploded i was in awe at how much i needed and i acted oin that but recently i looked into it on te web a bit and people have made comments calling rick joyner a false prophet and etcv saying the book was biblically untrue and im kinda confused and was hoping someone could help explain whats up. my email is firesohot@hotmail.com if anyoned still checks this pleasde email me.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:20 am
March 10, 2008
Dear Rick Joyner,
I just read a commentary on Rick Joyner’s book, The Final Quest. May I just say that I thank you greatly Mr. Joyner, and I thank you greatly, publishers and other supporters of this man’s ministry for enduring such ignorant flack for the sake of the Kingdom. And I do say ignorant as meant literally because the man that answered my comments within a few minutes of receiving my email politely asking him to examine his spirit in his review of the book, apparently was responding according to all the information to which he had access. Those who are limited to understanding God’s word by intellectual talents only are as third grade students approaching calculus. They may be intelligent, but they just do not know enough yet to evaluate or solve any problem within that subject.
My purpose in this letter, beyond venting my own frustration at the unenlightened comments, is to intensely encourage all those involved with any The Final Quest promotion. I think that every Christian should take Final Quest 101. As I tell everyone for whom I buy a copy of this book, “Even the introduction to this book is anointed!” I have never met Rick Joyner but I love him dearly in the LORD. I know that this book is of God. I am ecstatic that he did not write it as anything other than how it was delivered to him. Who are we to change the word of God as delivered to us or to deliberately change even the slightest detail of a vision? To better what God Himself did? I do not think it possible.
I hope and pray that Rick Joyner is blessed beyond measure. Encourage yourself in the LORD, Rick.
Sincerely,
an eagle
May 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Honestly, it is quite telling how people require a book written by a person in “trance” (which happens to be in a higher level - his admission - than those which the apostles supposedly wrote under).
What happened to 2 Timothy 3:16-17? Why do we need additional “revelation”?
May 16th, 2008 at 11:57 am
“I Wonder…” have you read the book?
For a great span of my life, I ready only required reading in college, and left the rest up to to my study of the word. However God is continually speaking through the lives and experiences of other believers, from whom we can all learn. I view this book as such.
If you have not yet read the book, might I humbly suggest you read it, asking the Holy Spirit guide you to truth.
If you would like I can send you a free copy, just e-mail me your mailing address I personally bought 100 of them to give away.
timothy@firekeep.com