Six Hours One Friday: Anchoring to the Cross

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Summary: The most powerfully moving books I've ever read.
Review: Growing up in the church, I've had the opportunity to read many books about the power of prayer and the authority Jesus has over the bondages Satan tries to keep us in...but I have never been so completely affected by one book as I was reading Six Hours One Friday. If you sometimes read scripture and feel like it's a documentary and wish you had an idea about the emotional side of things, like how the woman at the well actually felt when she went to get water mid-day instead of in the morning with the other women (why?) What she was probably thinking when she ran into Jesus at the well, and then having Him tell her everything about her life, and then revealing the secret of the ages, that He's the Messiah- I mean, can you imagine what this lady was thinking? Or what the mother of Lazarus was going through at the lose of her son, and what exultation she must have felt at having her son returned to her?! Lucado even describes what the demon hovering over the body must have been thinking when he got a load of Jesus parting the crowds..."He didn't see what the others saw. He didn't see the face of a Nazarene. He didn't hear the voice of a man. He saw the wrath of God. He heard the command of a King." I'll bet you never gave these emotions much thought because the scripture doesn't really tell, but Lucado does, and it will bring you to your knees.