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title: Is That Really You, God?
description: One of the most influential books for modern day missions.
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# [Is That Really You, God?](https://blog.ywamtyler.org/is-that-really-you-god-ed2)

 Written by [Amy Fish](https://blog.ywamtyler.org/author/amy-fish) | 17 Dec 2021

# Get a FREE copy of Is That Really You God?

Ever wonder if the thought forming in your brain was from God?

I know I have many times. 15 years ago, I did my DTS and read the inspirational book by the founder of YWAM, Is That Really You God?

His stories left me wide-eyed and wonder-filled. I honestly couldn't put it down. He addressed the very questions I had about hearing from God. 

During my DTS, I wrote a poetical synopsis, I hope it will wet your appetite to want to read this book for yourself! 

 

*Loren Cunningham was twenty years old when a vision passed before his eyes*

*Huge waves were rolling in, but they were different than he usually recognized*

*They were waves of young people, like himself, marching onto the sandy shores*

*Missionaries in their teens and early twenties were walking through each continents’ doors*

 

*The arresting vision stayed with him for many years to come*

*He couldn’t explain it really, yet knew the Source where it was from*

* For on that ordinary day, God had opened his eyes to see*

*Championing young people to go into all the world would be his destiny*

*Learning to hear God’s voice*

* became essential in this man’s life*

*God often spoke through others like his parents, friends, and wife*

*But God also spoke through His Word and to his mind, stirring this young man’s heart*

*Go ye into all the world was a continual reminder that he too had a part*

 

*Often God spoke spectacular things, greater than his mind could conceive*

*And then other times God spoke very convicting words that he, too, had to heed*

*Having a clean heart before God was needed for God’s guidance and blessing*

*Bitterness towards those who rejected him became something he ended up confessing*

*A week of prayer and fasting, became a turning point in his life and ministry*

*Confession to God and man was key for God’s guidance he firmly believed*

*It was in New Zealand that the vision of waves began to take shape like never before *

*Young men and women, who once were hardened, started crying out to the Lord*

 

*After that time of deep probing, new ideas started coming forth*

*A short-term school where young people could learn, became part of YWAM’s core*

*In Switzerland, YWAM’s first School of Evangelism began to take shape*

*Thirty-six students from five nations gathered in an old hotel to be taught God’s ways*

*Through this first school, God began to raise up ministers to go into all the world*

*Schools and outreaches in many nations were beginning to unfurl*

*God was gaining the victory in all the places YWAM was traveling*

*But through the successes a great danger regarding guidance was also unraveling*

 

*It was on a trip to Hong Kong that God brought to mind a ship*

*“Is this You, God?” was Loren’s first question, for if not he wanted no part of it*

*He knew this task would not be easy and would require a great amount of work*

*But God showed him that this ship was apart of his future to help those who were hurt*

 

*It wasn’t until years later that the ship actually became a reality*

*An important lesson had to be learned first about worshipping God solely*

* A dream had to die and hearts be humbled for this lesson to be learned*

*A hunger for the Guider and not His guidance in Loren’s heart was deeply burned*

*And so the story ends with many amazing miracles taking place*

*University to the Nations was founded and Mercy Ministries took shape*

*YWAM has become like that huge wave of young people crashing upon the shores*

*Praise God, for many from all over the world are hungry to know Him more*

 

*When we call, God promises to answer, and what He shows us will surely be great*

*What we hear will change people, even nations if we let Him lead the way*

 

**Get your own FREE copy of Is That Really You God?**

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**Learn more about the Discipleship Training School and how your life could be forever changed!**

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