New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows readers how to live assured when life doesn’t turn out like they expected.
What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful?
Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a moment, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned, and we quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness.
Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But she’s also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to:
- Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations.
- Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes.
- Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle.
- Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us.
- Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God’s truth.
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Summary
It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way; Finding Unexpected Strength When Disappointments Leave You Shattered by Lysa Terkeurst is a book I cannot stop talking about. I would highly recommend this book to any woman who has had that thought. And I suspect that is most of us.
Lysa is real. Don’t expect just Christian platitudes. She is going to get real with you about life and her own struggles. She addresses many different types of issues: unanaswered prayer, persistent pain, relational fractures, disappointing friendships, and heart-wrenching losses.
My favorite part of the book is where she would tell you where she was in her own life as she was writing the chapters. Books take so long to publish that it helps you know where she was when she was writing each chapter and she had no idea how her own struggles (and there were several) would turn out.
Lysa provided so many things in the book to help others. She provided insights (the two Gardens) and stories (tanned feet) that will help you remember the points she was trying to make. At the end of each chapter she would provide key truths to remember, scriptures and prayer. She created an entire chapter for fighting words to use when you feel attacked by the enemy.
I read this book on Kindle and highlighted a lot of it (fighting words, prayers, scriptures). I want to purchase it and make copies of some of the pages to put in predominant places.
I am now looking for additional books by her and I am considering this one as a bible study.
I received this book from Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review.
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