Books by Nika Maples

Do you desire to change or completely start over? Starting over is not as difficult as we think. The Genesis account of Creation reveals a divine sequence, showing us the secrets to new life. When we invite the Creator to make us new, we release any blame and regret we carry and embrace His foundation for re-creation, a new life. There we find exactly Who was presiding over the genesis of the earth. He can re-create us with a similar process: first bringing us revelation, then giving us benefits such as purpose and guidance, and finally teaching us to build a legacy. Through the divine sequence of Creation, we can learn simple spiritual disciplines for abiding in Christ and staying in step with the Spirit. If we want to begin again, we start at the Beginning.

As an educator, you bring your whole heart to school every day. But how can you keep your heart as healthy as possible? Reading Scripture over yourself and your classroom is one simple way to bring miraculous growth and sustainability. You want to be effective, and there is nothing like the equipping power of God's Word to stregnthen you. Use Keep Teaching as a daily devotional book that centers your thoughts on Jesus any time during the school day. With 365 Bible verses and insightful devotional thoughts, you will find enough grace to take you from the first day of school to the longest days of summer. Keep Teaching is filled with prayer prompts, moments of meditation, and brief spaces for reflection, making it a book you will want to keep as close as your coffee cup. Make this year the best one yet. Invite the Teacher of teachers into your classroom.

Imprisoned in her own body by a paralyzing stroke at age twenty, Nika Maples depended upon spiritual strength in order to surmount the greatest challenge of her young life: standing on her own two feet again. Not only did she stand, obliterating doctors initial prognoses, she walked ... directly into the passionate profession of a public high school teacher. Thirteen years after the medical trauma she was not expected to survive, Nika stood inside the glimmering granite capitol building in Austin, honored to receive state House and Senate resolutions as 2007 Texas Secondary Teacher of the Year. Let your heart rise along with the inspirational account of a single mother's faith, her dying daughter's hope, and God's triumphant love.

When you can't see any hope in a season of difficulty, hunt for it by holding onto God's character and letting Him develop your own.