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Purpose Revealed: Discovering Your Calling in the Midst of Trials
Romans 8:28 states And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose . What does the word all mean? It means ALL! This means that the repossession, foreclosure, divorce, molestation, sickness, loss of your loved one, financial lack, business failure, bankruptcy, loneliness, depression, mental illness and every injurious situation that has come your way is actually working for you and not against you. Think of it in the terms of mathematics. If a negative number is multiplied by another negative number it yields a positive number. So, the plethora of hardships that you ve had to deal with are being used to unveil your purpose and elevate you to a greater level.
168 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2016
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November 11, 2016
I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I devoured this book today. I admire and inspired by the raw honesty the author displayed in this book. I found myself writing down key points she wrote and added them to my Bible for further reflection. This will help any woman of any age in need of hope and a reminder of our purpose. God has blessed this author and I am so happy I had a chance to read this.
January 18, 2017
Lately, I’ve bunkered down with Christian books that are all about facing trials and suffering. Jonathan Martin’s recent and quite good How to Survive a Shipwreck was a balm to me, as well as a few other books I managed to get bargain deals on for my Kindle. As someone who has faced life’s challenges these past few years, and perhaps this year the most in particular, I suppose I’m looking for a magic bullet that will cure me of what ails me. This, of course, is impossible to get in a book, but when you read about how to pull yourself back together after a calamity, you just want to read something soothing.
To that end, Jessica Smith’s Purpose Revealed is a book for sufferers. She’s an African American Southern Baptist in the States — which was a refreshing viewpoint for me, and I’ve always wanted to read more books by visible minorities just to broaden my world view — who had gone through her share of major ups and downs. She shares them candidly in this book. But this is not just a memoir. The book includes some Bible passages to prove her points, some prayers, and whatever else seems to come to mind as the author felt fit for print. Basically, the only thing missing from the pages of the book are food recipes. This is less of a liability as it seems, because Smith is a bit of a natural raconteur. You can tell she’s a Church leader in how she writes. It’s a little unfocused, her viewpoint, but you probably won’t care too much anyway. She weaves you into her story, and she does it with a few dollops of grace.
Read more here: https://medium.com/@zachary_houle/a-r...
To that end, Jessica Smith’s Purpose Revealed is a book for sufferers. She’s an African American Southern Baptist in the States — which was a refreshing viewpoint for me, and I’ve always wanted to read more books by visible minorities just to broaden my world view — who had gone through her share of major ups and downs. She shares them candidly in this book. But this is not just a memoir. The book includes some Bible passages to prove her points, some prayers, and whatever else seems to come to mind as the author felt fit for print. Basically, the only thing missing from the pages of the book are food recipes. This is less of a liability as it seems, because Smith is a bit of a natural raconteur. You can tell she’s a Church leader in how she writes. It’s a little unfocused, her viewpoint, but you probably won’t care too much anyway. She weaves you into her story, and she does it with a few dollops of grace.
Read more here: https://medium.com/@zachary_houle/a-r...
January 21, 2017
I found this book to be enlightening, This was a good read full of emotion. I could relate on many levels with the author and I felt the connection.
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