Stepping Out of the Boat (a year of miracles)

For twenty years I lived the Christian life in my own strength and in ignorance of the Holy Spirit's work. I did not talk to Him, I did not acknowledge what He desired to do in my world or the lives of others, and I drug Him into my sin - grieving Him in the process.

Coming out of the Pandemic in 2021, God started to call my wife and I into a form of Christianity resembling the book of Acts - filled with adventure and risk. It wouldn't take long walking with the Holy Spirit for me to see my first instantaneous miraculous healing - a man's broken arm coming back together.

Since that day I've seen dozens of miracles. I've seen God burn terminal illnesses out, dissolve kidney stones, realign vertebrae, and drive demons out of people - instantly freeing them of spiritual sickness in the process. I've seen Him save marriages on the brink of collapse, stop a miscarriage, and open the womb of the infertile. Since that day I've had scales fall from my eyes, opening them to the horrors of the spiritual war raging around us. And I have learned the modern church is ill-prepared to deal with the American mission field.

This book details a year of my life walking with the Holy Spirit and in miracles. I hope it inspires you to do the same.

James M. Thayer is an evangelist and serial entrepreneur in the entertainment industry with a penchant for philosophy and theology. As the recipient of 36 awards including a regional Emmy, James has brought 6 companies to profitability since graduating from the University of Tennessee in 2012 with a degree in entrepreneurship. He is the author of the {Our God} series which imaginatively answers difficult questions children ask their parents about God. His first book for adults to be published is titled "Stepping Out of the Boat (a year of miracles)" where James recounts his story of coming to know the Holy Spirit and witnessing dozens of miracles in a year. He's currently writing a book titled "The American Mos Maiorum (Our Shared Culture)" where he hopes to make a compelling argument for uniting Americans across political, religious, and ethnic divides.James currently resides in Middle Tennessee with his wife Aly and two daughters - Ella and Josephine. When he's not filming or writing, you can find him hanging out with his family, preaching the gospel, praying for the sick, teaching biblical foundations, chopping wood, mowing the yard, farming, fishing, hunting, nerding out with his friends, shooting said friends in a game of paintball, consuming the writings of CS Lewis or GK Chesterton, doing carpentry, flying kites with his daughters, throwing a LAN party, hiking (how he met his wife), sharing a Jack N Coke with company, losing at a board game, or indulging in some other wonderful pleasure found in God's creation.