Destiny: Dream it, Declare it, Do it! By Hezekiah Walker

“Then Jesus said, to him, Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!” John 5:8 (NIV)

Richard Cox

Author: Hezekiah Walker (Whitaker House)

Grammy award-winning Hezekiah Walker has been a part of the gospel music industry for the last two decades. Raised in Brooklyn, New York in the Fort Greene housing projects, he’s known around the world as a popular choir director, preacher and singer. He has been anointed with a gift to draw youth to Christ through his fresh cutting-edge approach to gospel music. Walker is well-known by many today as the “Pastor of Hip Hop.” He has a heart and passion to minister and reach out to the impoverished in our communities and especially troubled teens.

In his book, Destiny: Dream it, Declare it, Do it!, you will be moved and touched as Walker shares his insights and wisdom about his personal life of struggles and triumphs. In vivid detail, Walker explains his personal journey of mountains and valleys experiences from birth to the present. He gives personal examples of how he stayed focused on his destiny and gives many parallels of destiny experienced by such Biblical characters as Moses, Joseph, David, Paul and others. Destiny will encourage you to stay focused on your personal destiny and/or help you to tap into your possible destiny to fulfill in life.

There are 12 well-written chapters in this book where Walker reminds every reader to know that you are born with gifts, talents, desires and dreams. He wants this book to liberate and challenge you to fulfill your destiny in life. Walker also examines the way change affects our lives and how it’s painful yet so necessary in our growth as Christian men and women.

Destiny reveals many of the pitfalls we can possibly face as we seek to achieve our destiny. In Getting Over your Past,four areas are covered that cause pain about mistakes we have made, regrets we have, things that have happened to us or around us and self-pity. Fatal Attraction explores how things that attract us are not always the best things for us. Even if when we fall prey to one of these “fatal attractions,” we can still learn from the experience and use it on our way to our destiny. Other chapters found in the book are Discovering Destiny, Seize the Moment, Betrayal in the Worst Way, Fear Factor and Destiny is Your-Get Up and Go After It!

Walker states that his turning point was when his father abandoned his family. That abandonment caused Walker to question what it meant to grow up to be a man? and how to be a man? These questions flooded his heart. God spoke to him as an eight‑year-old boy saying, “I going to make you great before men.” He explains it was God’s plan, God’s blueprint for his life. That was the moment when Hezekiah Walker felt his life started to make sense.

Some ways to strengthen your faith on your path to destiny are prayer, reading the Word, praise and worship, spiritual warfare, fruit of the Spirit and fellowshipping with the Body of Christ. He makes an important point that our family and friends are the kind of support system we all need in order to fulfill God’s plan for our lives.

Destiny is the book for you to read if you are looking for a sense of direction in your life or you need to hear some encouraging words to keep you focused on your destiny. After reading the book, I gain some helpful insights and encouragement to keep me on track to fulfilling my own destiny in life.

Destiny: Dream it, Declare it, Do it! is available through www.whitakerhouse.com as well as Amazon.com and BarnesandNobles.com. The ISBN is 0-88368-874-3.