Download or read book Restored Out of the Ashes of a Broken Life written by Loren E. McWilliams, Sr and published by Loren McWilliams. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loren McWilliams was born disabled with a rare muscular disease and became hopelessly addicted to narcotics. After being bullied as a child, he was a late-stage alcoholic by adolescence. At 46, he was addicted to heroin and living in his car. None of his family would even talk to him. At his darkest moment of despair, he cried out and was saved.

Download or read book Broken and Restored from Ashes to Jewels written by Ruby Bush and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-07 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up a child desires to be loved and nurtured. Not every child grows up with the pieces of life in place. Some grow up in a life of ashes and broken pieces. The broken pieces are what lead them to the arms of Jesus. Just like jewels, their purpose is hidden under the mire. They must become discovered by becoming uncovered through time. In "Broken and Restored: From Ashes to Jewels.," Ruby takes you inside the life of a broken child. She was that broken child. She grew up without her mother in her life, yet God had a purpose for this. Take a journey of faith with a broken child. Each chapter of her life was for a greater purpose to be used for His service. From Ashes to Jewels, she tells you how God can create a masterpiece through the many broken pieces of life.

Download or read book Broken Healed Restored written by Kanisha Lewinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the tender age of eight, Kanisha was molested and abused by close family members which opened the door for rejection and betrayal to enter her life. As she progressed through life, she found herself hurting in broken relationships searching for love and acceptance. One day, she decided to rededicate her life to the Lord and yield to the process that he set before her. During this process, she found healing, deliverance and restoration while simultaneously discovering her true identity in Christ. Kanisha seeks to inspire others who are hurting, to yield to the Lord's process, so they too can find healing, restoration and purpose in Christ Jesus.

Download or read book Broken and Beautiful written by Liz Liles and published by Fire Tower Media. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those of you who are like me, and have found yourselves lost in the rubble. You look around and all you can see is the devastating aftermath of a life that somehow went terribly wrong. The life that you had imagined would be yours is nowhere in sight, and restoration appears impossible. For those of you who are in the broken place of failed dreams, shattered hopes, raging waters that you cannot seem to calm and voices that you cannot silence, this book is written for you. It is a story of Love and Grace. It is where Beauty and Brokenness collide. It is where story lines are redeemed before our first breath and where Hope breaks every boundary to come and make Love Known! It is where the Creator of Life and Love comes to dwell with us, so that we can be healed, restored, and deliver others. There is truly something beautifully raw when we choose to be broken, for the sake of being restored. And this is the journey that we must be willing to pursue - if we truly want to be healed from the remnants of failed dreams and enter into the Life that was designed specifically for us by the Giver of Grace.

Download or read book Embracing Unfair Situations written by Shannon Moore and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybe things in life haven’t gone the way you thought they would. The picture-perfect life you always planned and dreamed of came to a crashing halt when your actual reality looks nothing like you ever thought it would. How do you keep persevering and living a hope-filled life when nothing around you feels good and it feels like life may never feel okay again? Shannon Moore shares her story of how God met her in the middle of the darkest moment in her life and helped her change her bitter situation into a beautiful story full of hope, restoration, and faith. Now her goal is to help you do the same with your life. Shannon will help you: - place your hope in a God of restoration - discover practical ways to overcome the Enemy’s schemes - learn ways to stay strong when life constantly wants to pull you down and discourage you - figure out how to embrace the unfairness that has invaded your life - learn how to walk through the messy road of healing Life is full of so much unexpected pain, and it can easily make us bitter and leave us feeling like we don’t have the strength to continue. But this is not the end. Life can be good again. Restoration is possible. The darkness doesn’t mean there isn’t light ahead.

Download or read book The Bondage Breaker the Next Step written by Neil T. Anderson and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of thousands of Christians have found spiritual freedom as they’ve grasped the Bible’s truth about who they are—with the help of the million-selling Bondage Breaker® by Dr. Neil Anderson. In The Bondage Breaker®—the Next Step, Anderson offers more help to those suffering from destructive behaviors and spiritual entanglements—and an expanded vision for helping others realize their freedom in Christ. Life-transforming guidance includes vivid personal accounts that show in detail how individual believers have found freedom from childhood abuse, compulsive behaviors, eating disorders, depression, tormenting guilt, sexual abuse...and how readers can too encouragement and direction for believers on how to deepen their relationship with God their Father proven ways readers’ churches can newly enjoy God’s life and freedom, with specific advice on Spanish-speaking and African-American contexts Christians will see how they can experience new growth and significance in The Bondage Breaker®—the Next Step.

Download or read book The Broken Promise of Love Restoration and Renewal written by Jasmin Jade Vann and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aligned with the author's debut book, "Threaded Chords of Life: An Inspirational Memoir," in "The (Broken) Promise of Love, Restoration, and Renewal," Jasmin examines selected experiences with romantic love that required healing. Using a stream of consciousness and poetry, she highlights how she continues to receive 'beauty for ashes,' while she reemerges with love, like a phoenix out of her ashes, restored, renewed, and self-actualized as a force of encouragement and empowerment. Along with journaling pages, she includes chapter reflections, application segments, and affirmation statements to encourage the reader to #behealed to effectively #dreamforward in pursuit of divine purpose.

Download or read book Beyond Suffering Bible NLT written by Joni and Friends, Inc. and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 6663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is hardly a person who doesn’t know someone dealing with a disability, disease, chronic illness, or other form of personal suffering. The Beyond Suffering Bible is the first study Bible to directly address those who suffer and the people who love and care for them. From bestselling author, singer, and radio host Joni Eareckson Tada and the experts at Joni and Friends Christian Institute on Disability, the Beyond Suffering Bible is filled with thousands of notes and features that invite readers into a conversation about suffering and its place in each person’s life. Each feature has been carefully created to provide readers with valuable information, meaningful encouragement, and challenging applications as they encounter God’s Word.

Download or read book Miracle Road written by Angela Adkins and published by Trilogy Christian Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIRACLE ROAD is an inspirational story describing how steadfast faith pleases God and how He delights to bless us with healing and restoration. At some point in our lives, each of us pleads with God for His supernatural touch in our body, mind, or spirit. We need God's healing touch and presence in our lives to be completely whole! In 1987, my family's car was struck nearly head-on by a drunk driver. Prayer made all the difference that harrowing evening as my parents beseeched God to save my life. Defying all the doctors' expectations, God proved His supernatural healing power. My story chronicles miracle after miracle as God restored my physical body while He also tended to my soul. He has enabled me to share His hope with thousands traveling on their Miracle Road.

Download or read book I Love Jesus But I Want to Die written by Sarah J. Robinson and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compassionate, shame-free guide for your darkest days “A one-of-a-kind book . . . to read for yourself or give to a struggling friend or loved one without the fear that depression and suicidal thoughts will be minimized, medicalized or over-spiritualized.”—Kay Warren, cofounder of Saddleback Church What happens when loving Jesus doesn’t cure you of depression, anxiety, or suicidal thoughts? You might be crushed by shame over your mental illness, only to be told by well-meaning Christians to “choose joy” and “pray more.” So you beg God to take away the pain, but nothing eases the ache inside. As darkness lingers and color drains from your world, you’re left wondering if God has abandoned you. You just want a way out. But there’s hope. In I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die, Sarah J. Robinson offers a healthy, practical, and shame-free guide for Christians struggling with mental illness. With unflinching honesty, Sarah shares her story of battling depression and fighting to stay alive despite toxic theology that made her afraid to seek help outside the church. Pairing her own story with scriptural insights, mental health research, and simple practices, Sarah helps you reconnect with the God who is present in our deepest anguish and discover that you are worth everything it takes to get better. Beautifully written and full of hard-won wisdom, I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die offers a path toward a rich, hope-filled life in Christ, even when healing doesn’t look like what you expect.

Download or read book When You Don t Like Your Story written by Sharon Jaynes and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author, cofounder of Girlfriends in God, and writer for Proverbs 31 Ministries Sharon Jaynes reveals the secret to living a better story: understanding that the worst parts of our past are the very things God uses most. Many people don't like the story God is writing in their lives. The mistakes, failures, tragedies, and circumstances outside of our control linger in our minds and hold us back. How do we come to grips with the pieces of our stories that we wish weren't there? How do we silence the pain of what has been done to us and the shame of what we've allowed to be done through us? In When You Don't Like Your Story, Bible teacher Sharon Jaynes shows us how God untangles our most painful emotions with the fingers of grace, putting his redemption on display. In the hardest parts of our narratives, we get to see God's greatest work--and this changes the ending of our stories. As we overcome shame, offer forgiveness, and use our stories to help others, we find freedom from the past and learn to live in the restoration of the present.

Download or read book Broken into Beautiful written by Gwen Smith and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God delights in transforming lives. In Broken Into Beautiful, singer and songwriter Gwen Smith's first book, she tells the real-life stories of women with shattered dreams, shameful secrets, and damaged souls, and the God who makes them beautiful again. Each chapter features a compelling personal story coupled with relevant biblical teaching and application. Readers will meet women wounded by infidelity, abortion, widowhood, abuse, and other tragic events, only to discover the joy of being restored by a loving heavenly Father. The book will remind women of all ages of God's willingness to eternally forgive and forget and of His heart to transform broken lives. Readers will be empowered to believe truth, to remember grace, and to live for God's greater purposes. Broken into Beautiful is ultimately about a beautiful Savior who became broken for us so that all who are broken can be transformed to reflect His beauty.

Download or read book Hidden Potential written by Wendy Pope and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fears. Faults. Failures. Frailties. Every woman at some point wonders, Do I have to get past all my weaknesses before God can use me? Wendy Pope is happy to tell readers: No! You don’t have to overcome, correct, rise above, or get strong before you are qualified to be part of God’s plan. He can use you right now. You are a worthwhile possibility. In Hidden Potential, readers see that they can be: faithful, even in fear included in God’s plans, even in weaknesses worth something, even in failure valuable, even in pain Pope explores the life of a fearful murderer on the run with a speech problem and daddy issues—also known as Moses—to show readers God’s power and grace. As she writes, God will never count anyone out as long as they count themselves as His children. Hidden Potential includes discussion, reflection, and Bible study questions, challenges to take readers further in their faith, and real-life stories from other women to remind readers they are not alone.

Download or read book Glorious Ruin written by Tullian Tchividjian and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Here, the author] takes a look at the reality of suffering, the ways we tie ourselves in knots trying to deal with it, and the comfort for those who can neither fix themselves nor others. ... [You] will not so much learn why God allows suffering or even how to approach suffering. But you will come face to face who suffers with you and who suffered for you."--Back cover.

Download or read book Restoration written by Wade Jensen M. Div. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We do not necessarily flourish where we were planted. Therefore, we must go to the right place and to people who are willing to pursue restoration with us as well as within us. If you are wondering if this is possible, some personal, Biblical, and historical examples showcase how this can not only be achieved but reproduced. Chaplain Wade Jensen shows how these examples can serve as a blueprint so you, too, can achieve restoration. God is a master builder and rebuilder. No matter how broken the pieces are, God can heal wounds and restore you so you are better than before. In fact, God’s purpose for restoration extends to every person, both to the offender and the offended. When we pay attention to God’s Word, the ensuing restoration can transform everything—from a mindset to a community. Restoration can be time-consuming and even painful, but it will bring you closer to the Lord, your dreams, and a meaningful life. It takes a dreamer to restore a dreamer.

Download or read book It s Not Supposed to Be This Way written by Lysa TerKeurst and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Be Restored written by Bob Schuchts and published by Ave Maria Press. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a third-place award in the healing and self-help category from the Catholic Media Association. We all have sexual wounds—some caused by over-sexualized culture, some by our personal choices, and some through the actions of others. Have you struggled with wounds from sexual abuse and molestation, pornography use, infidelity, divorce, sexual identity confusion, genophobia, or unwanted sexual compulsions? In Be Restored, bestselling and award-winning author Bob Schuchts of the John Paul II Healing Center offers you concrete steps for healing and wholeness, relying on a combination of clinical expertise, Catholic theology, and personal experience as a survivor to guide you. An essential guide to healing sexual wounds, Be Restored speaks to our deepest longing for sexual wholeness. It reveals the way to be freed from debilitating shame, sexual compulsions and sin, identity confusion, and wounds in psychosexual development. You will discover the reasons behind your emotional pain and how it’s connected to your sexual wounds—whether those wounds come from acute moments of sexual trauma in the past or from the more subtle trauma of living in our sex-saturated world. Speaking from his own experience of sexual woundedness and his professional background as a marriage and family therapist, Schuchts—the bestselling author of Be Healed—is sensitive to the shame of sexual wounds. In Be Restored, he compassionately guides readers through a comprehensive understanding of potential areas of sexual wounds and shame. He then lays out a practical roadmap for restoring sexual wholeness. Each chapter in Be Restored contains “Take a Moment” reflections and personal activities that include prayer and scripture-based exercises, emotional mapping, and thought-provoking reflection questions. Four appendices offer specific instructions and prayers for restoring sexual wholeness.