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Strength for the Soul – 31 Days of

Prayers, Devotions & Meditations INTERVIEW

Entrepreneur, speaker and author Eric Sandor
talks to Chris Porter about his new book.

In this collection of devotions and meditations, written. I thought a
Eric Sandor lets us into his conversations beautiful image that is
with God to encourage others along their faith echoing the metaphor
journey. Each reading is full of imagery and in the language of
revelation, from deeper topics like prayer and the devotion can help
sorrow to adventure and joy. He talks about amplify the experience
his writing process, his hopes and dreams for and deepen the
the book and for the people reading it, revelation of it. It was
as well as the charity to which proceeds important to have the
will be donated. images that correlate
to the theme and
Where did the inspiration for your metaphors in
devotions in Strength for the Soul the devotions.
come from?
It is truly a book formed through God’s As people read
faithfulness, and my greatest delight in life Strength for the
is knowing God’s love. I firmly believe that Soul, what do you
knowing His love is what empowers you for hope they will ISBN 9781838335205/Pinpoint Media/Eric Sandor/
life and enables you to deal with whatever get out of your HB/64 pp/£14.99/available from KCLCT
comes, telling people about God’s love and devotional?
helping them gain a real knowledge of how People have been isolated through these
amazingly loving our Lord is. Each devotion lockdowns and have suffered loss of various
comes from hard lessons and tender kinds, but I felt that, despite our circumstances,
experiences with the Lord, which prompted we can still have abundant life within. The
me to write the book. abundant life is found with Jesus and through
intimacy with Him, and so my deep desire for
You faced a lot of hardship and pain the book is that it will give people a way to
before starting the book, how did you get quiet with Jesus, spending time with Him
feel as you wrote this devotional? and getting to know Him better, and that it
I wrote Strength for the Soul when I was brings us strength to stand through difficult
recovering from Covid-19 in the spring of last circumstances. A diamond is made from
year. I had a really difficult time recovering pressure, and we too are spiritually formed
from it and was struggling getting in and out through challenge, pressure, and difficulty, and
of bed. I had recently published a book of how, in those times, we cling onto God and
poems which I wrote after the loss of my wife, trust Him. I hope my book helps them along in
and found it therapeutic to write, read and re- this process.
read them. Then, in late spring, George Floyd across different denominations and church
was murdered in America, and I was struck The proceeds of this book are going to expressions to worship Jesus. I think the people
with a burden in me for the injustice in the David’s Tent, what do they do and why did who come love it because of its purity, so it is
world and for the marginalised. I had all this you choose them? a very special gathering. This book echoes my
emotion which I was bringing to God, and that David’s Tent is a Christian charity that hosts times of worship and the proceeds from it will
is when I remembered how helpful writing had seventy-two-hour non-stop worship events go towards multiplying worship through David’s
been. I poured out my heart and cried out to where people gather from all around the world, Tent. For more info visit www.davidstent.net.
the Lord throughout this process, writing the
first devotion on prayer. I hope that one day Eric Sandor is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author of two
the dam will burst, and all our prayers will be books. His first book, ‘Arias for Emma’ was published in early
answered, and the world will conform to the 2020 and is a collection of poems written over three years
Lord’s longings. following the loss of his wife in 2016 to cancer.
With all the photographs, it truly is a You Tube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/
beautifully presented book. What was the UCflj80uVEIHrB74wr0Qid0w
reasoning behind the photographs rather Instagram – eric_sandor
than just words?
I often feel that the Lord communicates things
through pictures and metaphors, so there Adapted by Miriam Mathie from an interview with Chris Porter
are a lot of metaphors in the devotions I have from Andover Baptist Church and Eric Sandor.
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