About the Book

Seven Essential Relationships - How To Pass God’s Crucial Tests

by Howard Katz

Each believer will be tested in seven essential relationships, mirrored in the meticulous steps an ancient potter would have taken creating a clay vessel.

Each believer will be tested in seven essential relationships. These include our relationship with God’s Word, our relationship with the world, with authority, with God’s plan for our lives, with the way in which He deals with us, in our personal relationship with God Himself, and with His glory. Seven Essential Relationships describes each relationship and its corresponding crucial test, which must be passed by all believers in order to progress spiritually. The author uses candid examples from his own life, as well as an exposition of the life of Joseph, to illustrate each of these seven crucial tests.

God used adversity to shape Joseph into a vessel able to accomplish His plans, as Joseph passed each successive test. Although sold into slavery by his brothers, wrongfully accused, and thrown into prison, Joseph grew into each crucial relationship and progressively passed each corresponding test. God’s plan was accomplished as Joseph ultimately governed Egypt, and all of Israel was saved. The author’s unique revelations into Joseph’s life make the story come alive with fresh insight into how Joseph’s afflictions shaped his character.

As a continuing theme throughout the story, each relationship is prefaced by a description of how an ancient Israeli potter would have fashioned a clay vessel. Each of the seven steps in the creation of a clay vessel mirrors one of the seven essential relationships. The process begins as the clay is removed from the earth and completed with the final firing—resulting in a beautiful vessel exclusively designed by the potter—fit for his specific use.

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Endorsements

Whitney Von Lake Hopler • Crosswalk.com Reviewer

No matter how messy your life is, God wants to make something beautiful out of it. Reading this insightful book, you won’t be content to just coast along in your faith. Every chapter challenges you to move closer to the Master Potter and invite Him to touch your life in new and deeper ways. Just like clay, you’ll emerge from the process changed, and your new shape will be a perfect fit for God’s great plans for you.

Stan Telchin • author of "Betrayed and Abandoned"

Howard Katz asks us this important question: “Why are all believers not experiencing victory?” As you study and apply the seven truths this book illuminates, you will find you are able to walk in the victory God desires for you. Read it carefully and you will be blessed.

Wayne Hilsden • Senior Pastor, King of Kings Community, Jerusalem

Seven Essential Relationships is the result of decades of learning intimacy with God at a depth few know about these days. This book cuts like a scalpel, but thankfully, Howard Katz provides an anesthetic of humor throughout, while he presses ahead with open heart surgery. I’ve known Howard for two decades. He walks the talk. As a businessman and a pastor he lives in the real world. In this important book Howard Katz cuts to the chase and gives us the real deal.

About the Author

Howard Katz

Howard Katz was the founding pastor of Open Door Christian Fellowship. The eldest son of a Jewish Holocaust survivor, Howard came to faith in Christ at the age of twenty. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree and became the President of his family’s real estate business. Howard and his wife Lena raised three sons in London, ON. Howard was the author of numerous books and also wrote and produced the audio-visual presentation entitled “Noah’s Ark and the Flood—Is it Scientifically Possible?” He was affiliated with ministries in Mexico, the United States, Russia, and Switzerland. where he frequently visited, ministered, and taught. Howard passed to his heavenly home in 2020.