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Waiting on God in the Wilderness – Abounding Faith for Today Podcast Episode 2

I’m delighted to share the second episode of the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast! Be encouraged as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! Today we’re talking about waiting on God in the wilderness.

You can listen to this short and inspiring Abounding Faith for Today Podcast episode right below or on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or Stitcher.

For even more encouragement, I invite you to pick up a copy of Waiting on God Well on Amazon or Barnes & Noble’s website.

If you’re being blessed by the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast, please tell your friends, subscribe to the podcast and leave a kind rating on your preferred platform.

If you have a comment you’d like to share or a question you’d like me to consider answering on a future episode, please post it on Abounding Faith’s Facebook page. Blessings!

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Announcing the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast! Episode 1 – God is Good!

I’m so excited to announce the launch of the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast! You can listen to the very first episode right below and also on your favorite podcast platform including iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

The Abounding Faith for Today Podcast provides inspiration as you walk by abounding faith, hope and love and live your God-given dreams! I pray the stories, Bible verses and resources shared in each episode will encourage you (and even challenge you) as you keep fighting the good fight of faith! Be inspired as you commute to work, hit the gym, run errands or get things done at home.

Only God could help non-techie me produce a podcast. It’s all for His Glory!

I pray each episode will help jump start your faith. This first episode is a reminder that God is Good!

Please tell your friends about the Abounding Faith for Today Podcast and subscribe today on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher.

If you have a comment you’d like to share or a question you’d like me to consider answering on a future episode, please post it on Abounding Faith’s Facebook page.

Thanks! Blessings!

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Another By Faith Excerpt on SpiritLed Woman’s Website!

I’m so blessed that another excerpt from By Faith is running on SpiritLed Woman‘s website! Read how the Holy Spirit showed up during one of our outreaches in Lima, Peru by clicking here.

I pray this testimony encourages you!

Looking ahead, I have some exciting news about my new project. I’ll be sharing more info next week. Please stay tuned. Blessings!

 

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Speaking about By Faith at AGLOW Queens Lighthouse

What a delight it was recently to get to share a bit about By Faith at AGLOW Queens Lighthouse! Click on the link above to watch the short clip.

And here’s a quote from a lovely review of By Faith by Carla Alvarez of Raised to Walk: 

“By Faith by Nancy Gavilanes is her personal testimony of how she came to know Christ as Savior; however, it does not fall into the trap that so many personal testimonies do. The main focus of the account is one that is in Christ, one of walking it out and following where God leads even when the destinations are completely unexpected.”

To read the rest of this review of By Faith,  click here.

God is Good! I hope By Faith is a blessing and encouragement to you and all who read it!

 

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SpiritLed Woman’s Website Runs By Faith Book Excerpt

I’m thrilled that an excerpt from By Faith is now on SpiritLed Woman‘s website! Glory to God.

It’s a delight and honor to have my writing back on a women’s magazine’s website after all these years. This time it’s about my walk with God. God is Good!

Here’s the link if you’d like to check out the excerpt from By Faith that also ran on Charisma‘s main Twitter and Facebook page.

I pray you’re encouraged by reading about how God chased me down in Australia and by the glimpse of what my wilderness season was like.  If so, do like, share and comment on their post.  Blessings!

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Greetings from my Bday Castle

It’s been a blessed Roctober, thank God! Here’s a short video I shot at my bday castle this year. I’m sharing a few thoughts about the release of By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad.

One of my fave spots in the castle is the library. It’s a treat being surrounded by so many books. Seeing the pic below just gave me a flashback of working in my high school’s library.

It’s surreal to see how my list of books is growing! God is Good!

As a child, I enjoyed writing in my diary and creating my own little magazines out of loose leaf paper. I’d write all the celeb profiles, advice column Q&A’s and even had a sports section. As I got older, I wanted to write for magazines. Writing felt very natural for me. I never dreamed about writing books though. My writing went into hiding for years after I felt the Lord ask me to lay down my successful journalism career. So how is it that I’m celebrating the release of my fourth book? It’s a long story, and I’m delighted to share some of it in By Faith.  

Come along with me as I journey to six continents and see God’s miraculous lovely fingerprints near and far. (I guess once a reporter always a reporter.)
 
I pray By Faith, Waiting on God Well, Abounding Faith and Crossing Your Jordan River are a blessing to you! They are available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble‘s website. 

 

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Reflections on By Faith’s Book Launch Event

What a wonderful feeling to finally be able to share By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad with the world! I’m honored that By Faith is being endorsed by Our Daily Bread Ministries, the President of Nyack College and a veteran TV producer/manager and Regional Director of the Christian Women in Media Association!

By Faith is the story of how God chased me down during one amazing week in Australia and how I’ve seen His fingerprints during my travels to six continents. In the clip above, I’m sharing a glimpse of what my time in Australia was like.

I’m so grateful to my family and friends who helped me celebrate the release of By Faith! And I’m touched by how my readers enjoy buying multiple copies of my books to share with their friends.

As I’ve said before, writing can be a solitary endeavor. It’s such a treat when I finally get to celebrate a new book with others!  It’s surreal to think that God has allowed me to write four books and to design items for Abounding Faith’s online store!

I’m so thankful to Open Bible Church International for allowing us to use their church for the launch event.

I’m also so thankful to my friends at Our Daily Bread Ministries and TBN NY for once again providing great giveaways for my guests.

I’d like to say a huge Thank You to my volunteers for helping to make this event a success. What a blessing! I can’t host these events without my faithful volunteers.

I’m already starting to hear some lovely feedback about By Faith, which I’ll share in the upcoming weeks. God is Good!

I pray By Faith will inspire you to trust God with the unique story He’s unfolding for you. I hope that you will follow God’s plan for your life, even if He calls you outside of your comfort zone. God knows what’s on the other side of your yes!

Thanks for your prayers and encouragement! If By Faith blesses you, please leave a short review on Amazon. Blessings!

 

 

 

 

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By Faith Available on Amazon & Our Daily Bread Endorsement!

I’m thrilled to share that By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad is now available in print and on Kindle on Amazon!

This book has taken me almost a lifetime to live and more than a year to write, and now I get to share it with the world. Glory to God!

I’m so blessed by this lovely endorsement from my friends at Our Daily Bread Ministries:

I hope you and your friends, family, small group members, missions and evangelism teams, etc. make plans to get a copy of By Faith on Amazon! If the book blesses you, please take a moment to leave a kind review on Amazon.

Here is a snapshot of what you’ll find in this inspiring book:

As a young journalist, Nancy Gavilanes was on the fast-track to success. She had written for a major international newspaper, earned a master’s degree in journalism from a prestigious university, and worked at a women’s magazine in Times Square. But as Nancy’s career soared, she drew further from God. Then God chased Nancy down during one amazing week in Sydney, Australia. Her decision to follow Jesus changed the course of her life forever.

By Faith takes you on a journey of living a life surrendered to God. Through poignant reflections, captivating testimonies, and insightful blog entries, Nancy takes you along as she travels to six continents and the bustling streets of her native New York City. Nancy shares how she has seen God’s fingerprints during short-term missions trips to the Amazon Jungle in Brazil, the Andes Mountains in Ecuador, shantytowns in Ethiopia, gang-riddled Honduras, and the plazas of Lima, Peru.

Her story also reveals how after years of keeping her writing hidden, the Lord called Nancy to write and speak for His glory. Nancy’s compelling story will encourage and challenge you to live your God-given dreams and to walk by abounding faith!

Thanks for your prayers and encouragement! Get your copy of By Faith today! Blessings!

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Veteran TV Producer/Manager Endorses By Faith & Book Excerpt

I’m so touched by these kinds words about By Faith from Chris Luppo!  I truly appreciate her taking the time to write this lovely endorsement for By Faith!

And I’m delighted that there’s only one week left until By Faith: Adventures and Reflections on Walking with God Here and Abroad is available on Amazon!

I’m so honored that God would allow me to experience His miraculous lovely hands here and around the globe. I’m humbled that He would allow me to write my fourth book! By Faith is filled with testimonies of how God has worked in me and through me over the years. These are some of the stories I would share with you if I could walk you through my photo albums and scrapbooks. Below is just a taste of one of my favorite moments from my third short-term missions trip. It was such a beautiful moment during my visit to Ethiopia. I pray this memory blesses you! By Faith will be available on Amazon on October 8th.

True Worship

It may sound a little weird, but I had been looking forward to the evening when we could go on a street outreach. It reminded me of my days doing homeless outreaches in NYC.

The evening finally arrived, and we visited young men who literally lived in a garbage dump. (I am not exaggerating or being disrespectful.) Our team, escorted by locals who ministered to these young guys, walked through piles of garbage to find the little shacks where these young men lived. At first, I was spooked. It was dark out there. I was being super careful about where I stepped and was afraid of what I might see lurking in the shadows.

It wasn’t a very pleasant place to be, but I knew God was there!

The boys came out, and we started talking to them.

A local ministry leader had brought a guitar, so we sang and worshiped God right there under the moonlight in the junkyard.

I love worshiping God outdoors, so that moment was extra special for me. It’s still one of the holiest and most anointed services I’ve ever been to. It obviously wasn’t because of a fancy building; we were surrounded by heaps of trash. The beauty was that we were worshiping God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).

Where two or three are gathered in His name, Jesus is truly there (Matthew 18:20).

When our leader asked for volunteers to speak to the group of young men, I thought about how God was calling me to be a leader and to speak to groups of people. I surprised myself by being the second one to speak. I just wanted to let them know God was with them and loved them.

I count it an honor to have had the chance to encourage those young guys that night. I trust God is watching over them. And I pray I will always have the peace to speak to groups large or small, poor or affluent, and near or far about the love of Jesus!

BY FAITH: ADVENTURES AND REFLECTIONS ON WALKING WITH GOD HERE AND ABROAD

Copyright © 2018 by Nancy Gavilanes

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

For more information, visit AboundingFaith.com.

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Nyack College President Endorses By Faith Book

I’m so grateful to Dr. Michael Scales for his lovely endorsement of By Faith! It’s such an honor to read such kind words about my fourth book from the President of Nyack College!

There’s only two weeks left before By Faith is available on Amazon. I plan to share an excerpt from By Faith and a few more endorsements, so please stay tuned.

Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement as the release date gets closer, and thanks for helping to spread the word about this encouraging book. I continue to pray that all who read By Faith will be inspired to believe God for greater things!

If you’d like to read By Faith‘s Introduction, click here.

Blessings!

 

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