SonPlacing
A Handbook for Warriors 
by Garrison R. Russell
Commentary by Karen Lacy Russo

   It isn’t often that I personally recommend contemporary Christian books; let alone a contemporary author. Historically, I read old books, advocate reading old books as opposed to the new. Why? A new book is still on its trial and the amateur isn’t in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great multitude of Christian thought down through the ages, and all its hidden implications have to be brought to the forefront. Often it can’t be fully understood without the knowledge of a good many other modern books. This isn’t the case with SonPlacing .

   SonPlacing is a work that is God-breathed. It’s a book that demands prayer and work. It’s a book that demands focus, discipline and action.

     SonPlacing should be read in solitude, preceded by prayer; the prayer that God will bless you with divine wisdom to understand what He intends for you to hear.  

   For God to bless you with the full meaning He intends for you to have with each reading of SonPlacing, He demands certain things from you. He must see a true willingness to have a personal relationship with Him; to understand His mind, and to see His interest in other people. Ask God to show you all He intends for you to see.

   This book is a conduit for a strong spiritual interaction between you and your Father. It requires no explanation from other humans; it does not require the ‘human perspective or spin’. Why? Human wisdom is folly. We are much too complex to understand ourselves.

   There are possibilities below the threshold of our lives that no one but God knows. We cannot understand ourselves, we do not know the beginning of our dreams or of our motives, we do not know our secret errors; they lie below the region we can get at. We do not know the springs of our thinking, we do not know how we are influenced, we do not know all the scenery psychically that Christ looked at. Christ saw things and beings we don’t see. He talked about Satan and demons and angels. We don’t see Satan or demons or angels---but Christ unquestionably did, and He sees their influences upon us.

   Prayer is the pre-requisite in approaching SonPlacing. If we only look for results in the ‘earthlies’ when we pray, we are ill-taught. A praying saint performs far more havoc among the unseen forces of darkness than we have the slightest notion of. We don’t have the slightest idea of what is done by our prayers, nor have we the right to try and examine and understand it; all we know is that Christ laid all stress on prayer. We have to beware of estimating Christ’s salvation by our experience of it. Our experience is a mere indication in the conscious life of an almighty salvation that goes far beyond anything we can ever experience.

   It is with great delight and much prayer that this book is being recommended to you. May it broaden your understanding, push back limiting horizons and expand your heart-mind in ways you never dreamed.

   I encourage you to read the following excerpt from SonPlacing, and add this book to your collection of "old" new classics.