Let Us Come Before His Presence: 365 Days to Learn, Meditate and Pray

Description

This book helps readers develop the discipline of coming each day before the Lord in a quiet place for the renewal of their faith, hope, and love through the Lord Jesus. Drawing its title from Psalm 95.2 (“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving”), it contains readings for 365 days of the year, divided into 52 sections (weeks). Each day’s reading includes a scripture from the Psalms or the Sermon on the Mount, focus on a specific topic, a discussion of its meaning, and a prayer. The topics addressed include “Trusting God”, “Nations”, “Parents”, “Babies and children”, “Heaven”, “Angels”, “Being Salt and Light”, “The Narrow Way”.

Along the way, Yann Opsitch encourages thanksgiving as a vital part of the life of the believer, as well as an openness to His Word and a desire to grow in knowledge and understanding of God’s Word.

Yann was born in Versailles, France in 1948, thew son of Sophie Gallois-Bonnal, the daughter of the French composer/organist Joseph-Ermend Bonnal. She was a pianist, teacher, and worked at the Lazare Lévi. Yann lived in New York as a young child with the painter Frank Mason and his wife Phyllis Mason-Harriman, also a painter, and took piano lessons there at the age of 7. After returning to France at age 10, he took theater lessons in Paris, including those of Patrick Antoine, and appeared in a few plays and in the cinema.He became interested in the life of Christ. After studying at the North Ireland Bible School (Belfast) he was the founding editor of the journal Horizons Chrétiens from 1975 to 1990.

Yann Opsitch is the author of several works in French, “Paroles du Christ sur la Montagne”, “En Esprit et en Vérité”, “La Sagesse et l’Adversité”, “Le Cœur et l’Invisible”, “Le Dieu de la Création et de la Révélation”. His  book in English Let us Come Before his Presence: 365 days to learn, meditate and pray from the Psalms and the Sermon on the Mount, was published in 2021, and Dialogues on Revelation with John the Apostle appeared the next year. He holds several degrees inBible, Biblical languages; Theology, Literature, and Conflict management. Professor Opsitch currently lives in Abilene, Texas). He writes, speaks, and coordinates online Bible and Theological School for the French-speaking world. His website is www.yannopsitchauthor.com.

Yann is married to Rita and is the father of three children and a grandfather of six grandchildren.