This is a wonderful little book by a well known Christian author and speaker. I've been to one of her conferences and she is an excellent and eloquent speaker on fire for God and His Word.
BOOK SUMMARY
This book reads like a devotional book. I found it at our local Christian bookstore and it was perfect for meditative Scriptures for my women's walking group. We would read one of the Scriptures, meditate on it, or journal about it, and then walk and share our thoughts.
The book is divided into 40 chapters, with each chapter highlighting a promise from God/Scripture. The overall theme is how God's Word strengthens us through life's greatest challenges.
After a short introduction, the chapters are as follows:
- God's Word teaches Truth
- God's Word is life, healing, and health to all who find it
- God's Word heals and delivers
- God's Word protects us
- Meditating on God's word brings wisdom, prosperity, and success
- God's Word brings stability, fruitfulness, and prosperity
- God's Word upholds, guides, maintains, and propels the universe
- God's Word has the power to create
- God's Word brings blessing to those who order their conduct and conversation according to it
- God's Word cleanses and purifies
The other 30 chapters also begin with "God's Word..."
- reduces our capacity to sin and strengthens us against temptation
- renews and revives us
- enables us to walk at liberty and at ease
- is filled with promises of His mercy and grace
- gives us good judgement, wise and right discernment, and knowledge
- is better than thousands of gold and silver pieces
- makes us wiser than our enemies
- gives us light and shows us how to live
- accomplishes God's purpose
- gives us hope
- brings light and dispels darkness
- brings direction and shows us what to do
- Jesus is the Word
- implanted in our hearts, has the power to save our souls
- strengthens us
- melts a hard heart
- often brings persecution
- transforms us into His image
- is a weapon against the devil, and it is armor that protects us in warfare
- renews our mind
- destroys mental strongholds and teaches us the truth
- divides soul and spirit
- comforts and consoles us
- helps us see the error of our ways and turn in God's direction
- causes us to have joy even in the midst of our trouble and anguish
- gives us great peace
- abiding in our hearts makes us victorious over the evil one
- We are born again by God's living and enduring Word
- is good news, and it endures forever
- Contains self-fulfilling power
There is also a conclusion and a notes section.
Everything Joyce writes is based on Scripture and she includes anecdotal recordings of her own life or of friends.
My THOUGHTS
When I first bought the book and glanced through the various chapters, I was concerned when I saw the words "prosperity" and "Success". BUT, she does an excellent job at explaining that this does not necessarily mean financial/material wealth and personal success. It means emotional/spiritual. I was much relieved because sadly, the prosperity message that is still running rampant in this nation among certain Christian groups, has done much damage. Of course some people take it a different way and live a poverty mentality which is also not scriptural.
I was most impressed with how the author uses not just New Testament Scriptures but also Old Testament Scriptures and they all tied in together in each separate chapter.
My fave chapters were numbers 2-4; 21-25; 31, 33, and the last five (35-40). I did a lot of highlighting of her words/thoughts and the various Scriptures she used in each chapter.
I loved that the chapter would also have one key Scripture...kind of like the main point Scripture.
This is a good personal devotional book that I will keep and refer to often particularly as a supplemental source for small groups that I help lead or facilitate.
In my opinion, this book is appropriate for ages 12 and older.
On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, I rate this a 10.
3 comments:
Can't go wrong with a book recommendation that is 10 out of 10!:) I like the titles of the chapters...intriguing, for sure. I hope that your walking group is still going strong. Such a great idea - accountability for walking AND discussing scripture!
Hi Faith. I really like Joyce Meyer and have read many of her books. I used to watch her TV show every morning. I still have several of her books on my "to read" shelf so I need to I have this one. It sounds good and I want to read it. Thanks for the review!
You still have a local Christian bookstore? What a blessing! I sure miss ours. Browsing all the books I always purchased something. It's not quite the same now doing it online. Anyway, this does sound like a good one. I've read a few Joyce Meyer.
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