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Charismata
“To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
1 Corinthians 12:7
A Brixton teenager receives a prophetic gift powerful enough to expose the church's deepest fracture, and the institutes built to regulate the gifted begin closing around him before he understands what he has heard.
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This shelf turns charismatic and institutional here: prophecy, healing, discernment, and the terrifying difference between governing gifts and obeying the God who gives them.
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New Arrival
Charismata
Christian Supernatural Thriller
Gifted power under surrender pressure
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16
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199 min read
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42,351
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Chapters
Book one follows Ezra Osei from a Brixton bus stop to Ashford House, the inter-House Trials, and the first revelations that the institutes are trying to systematize what can only stay alive through surrender.
- 01Acre Lane12 min read
A pressure rises at a Brixton bus stop, and Ezra Osei speaks a prophecy he does not understand.
- 02The Men in the Car11 min read
Institute representatives arrive at Nana's flat, and Ez discovers she has feared this day for longer than he knew.
- 03The House13 min read
Ashford House gives Ez a world of prayer, discipline, and shared language he does not yet have.
- 04Foundation13 min read
Formal training begins, and Ez's uncontrolled gift humiliates him in front of students who have been preparing for years.
- 05The Groundskeeper11 min read
Ez meets the silent groundskeeper who teaches him that prophecy begins with listening before it ever reaches speech.
- 06What He Sees12 min read
Levi Aronsen's discernment reveals Ez as a bonfire in a paper house, and resentment sharpens into fear.
- 07The Unscheduled Word14 min read
When a student begins Turning during alignment practice, Ez speaks the word that stops it and exposes a secret the House wanted buried.
- 08Three13 min read
The annual Trials pair Ez, Levi, and Miriam together, forcing three unwilling students into one field team.
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