In Blessed in the Mess, Joyce Meyer has written a brand-new book about how to blessed in the middle of all of the chaos and trouble in life we experience. We will all face challenging times throughout our entire lives. Jesus explained in His word that we would all have tribulation but we can rest assure in the fact that He has overcome the world. This book will teach readers how we can still be blessed in the mist of our messes. She looked at the Beatitudes that Jesus taught on and broke them all down to where readers can understand the passages and she tries to help readers to want to rise up and have good moral excellence.
In the book, she shared with readers how she was sexually abused by her father. He was very controlling and angry all the time. He would ignore his son and would beat her mother. She grew up constantly living in fear of what could happen. Her mother knew of the sexually abuse that her own daughter was enduring and she did nothing to stop it. She later admitted that she couldn’t deal with the scandal on incest. Her father told her he was doing the abuse because he loved her. No one would help her and she learned how to survive it. When she was nine, she was visiting her aunt and uncle and they took her to church. She knew she wanted to be saved and that she was a sinner. She received Christ and was born again. She didn’t have any teachings to help her grow spiritually. She shared how she thought that once she sinned again that she lost her salvation and she would desperately try and become back into good graces. It took her many years until she was freedom from that thinking and she was able to grow deeper into Christ and His teachings.
She also revealed how she married at 18 years old after meeting a guy on a blind date. They were married for about 5 years and he would regularly disappear. She would always take him back. He was arrested and con people. She shared how she married him because she was desperate to escape her home life. She ended up having a miscarriage and later had a son. Her husband left her again at that time and went to live with another woman and claimed the kid wasn’t his. She lost 35 pounds instead of gaining weight when she was her carrying her son. This was one of the darkest times, she has ever had to go through. We can be reminded that God promises to give us treasures and hidden riches so that we will know He is the God of Israel. Her son later grew up to become David and CEO of Hand of Hope at Joyce Meyer Ministries. This program goes a lot of good serving others. God was able to redeem and restore. She also shared how she met Dave and started her ministry.
I would recommend this awesome book by Joyce to readers who are beaten down by life and they feel like there world is just in a plain mess. This resource will assist readers into having hope again and to discover their blessings in the middle of their mess. I loved how she wrote this book at 80 years old and it was very well written! I think this book is one of the best materials from her and it contained astonishing teaching to help readers. I loved how she also included personal stories throughout the book about how they deal with their own messes in their lives. One of the these included, Katie Piper and how she had acid thrown on her face from a hitman hired by a man she had dated. Another one discussed the king and spider and how a spider taught him the importance about never giving up and having patient. All the stories are inspirational and will provide readers with much needed encouragement. One of my favorite topics was steps on how to maintain a good attitude. This is powerful if readers will just remember them whenever life doesn’t go like we planned. I also loved the study of the Beatitudes and what rewards we can expect from God. I think this book would be a wonderful book to read weekly again to study the material presented to let it get reinforced into your daily life.
"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.”
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https://www.amazon.com/Blessed-Mess-Experience-Goodness-Midst/dp/1546037349/
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