What is Happening to Me?: How to Defeat Your Unseen Enemy by Jeannie Ortega Law Book Review

In What is Happening to Me, Jeannie Ortega Law has written her first book about how to recognize and discern the unseen spiritual attack of the enemy and how he is trying to destroy us. She begins the book by sharing how she was born in the 80s and how her parents had been married for four years when she was born. They had an abortion before she was born and they also had one afterwards. She revealed how her parents thought she would be a boy. Her parents and family were superstitious and they believed that spirits were communicating to them that she was a boy. Her dad already had two girls and one boy from another marriage. She explored how the thief comes to steal and destroy and how he tried to take her life at the beginning. She opened up about how she was born and how her family background had some black magic and witchcraft. 

 

 

She also shared how she born with green eyes and how she was one of the few in her family that had this eye color. Envy was present throughout her childhood because of this. She opened up about rejection and how she felt alone growing up among her peers, judged by her relatives, conflict and fighting in her home, and how she felt like an outcast in general. She shared how she dealt with suicidal thoughts. She revealed how she later learned to replace the lies with the truth found in scriptures about who she was in Christ. She was raised Catholic and she shared how she later came to know Christ and was rebaptized. In the book, she also looked at her rise to fame as a teen and was a chart-topping R&B and hip-hop artist. She revealed what caused her to become a Christian artist. In the book, she also shared how she met her husband and the incredible way they met. 

 

 

I would recommend this life changing book to anyone who is ready to grow in victory and they are ready to overcome the attacks of the enemy. I loved how open she was in sharing her life story about how the thief tried to knock her out before she born. I immensely was touched by how honest she was in revealing her parents had two abortions and how the enemy still tried to take her life. I was blown away about how story covered the topic of witchcraft, rejection, suicidal thoughts, abuse, demonic attacks, and much more. I connected with her story and the root of rejection that was in her life and how God assisted her along the way. I also remember hearing some of her R&B songs years ago and now she is a Christian recording artist and her songs cover how God has transformed her life. I liked how she included, “what do I see, what can I learn, and scriptures for meditation, prayer and declaration for each chapter. I truly believe if readers will follow along and use the principles found in this book, it will greatly help them break the strongholds of the enemy.

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of What is Happening to Me?, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/What-Happening-Me-Defeat-Unseen/dp/0800761766/

Make Their Day: 101 Simple, Powerful Ways to Love Others Well by Karen Ehman Book Review

In Make Their Day, Karen Ehman has written a helpful book to assist readers in brainstorming up creative ideas to reach out and do something kind for someone else. In the book, she looked at how we can bless our friends, family, community, other counties or across the screen, people who are hurting, household of faith, holidays, and opening your own home. The book enclosed 101 examples and stories about how we can show the love of Christ to others and make a difference in their lives. Some of her ideas included a surprise coffee delivery, helping someone else with a chore that they are trying to finish, give God’s Word and encouragement, a book basket, honoring people who serve, prayers in a basket, co-workers snack section, couple ten-dollar date night, taking notes in your phone of special dates to bless our friends and family, giving away soup, top secret twelve days of Christmas, and much more. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone who is ready to get creative and become a blessing to others. I immensely loved how detailed she was in sharing how she has been able to surprisingly blessing others around her. One of my favorites was the topic of the twelve days of Christmas and how she and a few others was able to help a single divorced dad who was struggling with raising five children and he wanted to give them a normal Christmas. She came up with an idea to do a basket and they all filled with goodies each day and they were instructed to just place the basket outside. I loved this idea and how easy and helpful it could be to a person that might need cheered up. Another favorite suggestion, she gave was in paying attention to small details and take notes in our phones or important dates that matter to other people and to be a blessing to others such as a death of a love one. Maybe do something positive that day for them to show them that you care. Also, another thing we could do is remembering their favorite coffee or snack of choice. The main thing is just being creative and be open to always look for ways to be a blessing to someone else. I also liked how she enclosed a printable section that had recipes, scripture verses on tags, and fill in event suggestions. 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of Make Their Day, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Their-Day-Simple-Powerful/dp/0764238426/

The Military Guide to Armageddon: Battle-Tested Strategies to Prepare Your Life and Soul for the End Times by Colonel David J. Giammona and Troy Anderson Book Review

In The Military Guide to Armageddon, Colonel David J. Giammona and Troy Anderson have written a brand new book to assist readers in understand what is about to happen in the last days. Colonel Giammona served in the military for 32 years and shared some of his personal experiences. Troy Anderson is a Pulitzer prize journalist. They begin the book by sharing the heartbreaking truth that the world has only experienced 268 years of peace and that equals 8% in history. There has been more war times and we had people killed and who lost their lives because of it. They explained how we have also an unseen war between Heaven and hell. In the book, they explored the life of David and how he engaged in war and how we can be a warrior for Christ. This book enclosed details and information to prepare believers for the battles that we will face in the end times. 

 

 

It also explored when Jesus could return and the signs that have already happened. One of the first event, we saw that Jesus could return was back in 1948 when Israel was rebirth in a day, which was foretold in scripture. They revealed a poll done by the Lifeway Research and how they discovered that nine in ten pastors saw some current events such as the Covid-19 would match an event that could lead to Jesus return. The book included a checklist of do and don’t and also an end times check list. The book also looked at the rise of the antichrist and his rise to power and how he could be among us today. They looked at the technology aspect and how implantable microchips could lead to the mark of the beast. They shared how we can prepare in advance for a per-disaster/pre-tribulation and get supplies that we may need for the future. Each chapter also enclosed a section entitled, “military prepping principles, believer’s prepping principles, and strategic spiritual exercises”. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone is ready to prepare for the end times and they are ready to gear up for what is to come. I immensely enjoyed the military aspect that the authors brought to the end times scope and they were able to emerge an impactful guide to prepare readers. I loved how they included countless scriptures to explain what the future is going to become and what we can expect. I enjoyed how they connected current events such as the Covid-19 virus and how this event has stopped the world in its tracks. I also liked the checklist they include about how we can prepare our house with supplies in case of pre-tribulation times. I liked how the book contained the spiritual training we need to become a warrior in the final battle. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of The Military Guide to Armageddon, check it out on Amazon.com: 

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Military-Guide-Armageddon-Battle-Tested-Strategies/dp/0800761944/

How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk: Deepen Your Connection and Strengthen Their Confidence by Becky Harling Book Review

In How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk, Becky Harling opened up about parenting and how she learned the importance of listening to what is our children heart’s. She raised four children and now has 14 grandchildren. She begins by sharing a personal story about her own parenting and how God spoke to her during one conversation with her daughter. One of her daughters who was 4 at the time loved to argue and disagree with her on many things. One time, they were arguing and her daughter was telling her no and she was begging for her to listen to her side. The Lord spoke to her and said give her a voice and since then she tried the timer method. She gave her daughter one minute per year of her age to state her case. Later, she was able to recognize that her daughter had strong leadership abilities. She compared her to Deborah in the Bible and how God used her to help defeat enemies of Israel and how she was a strong leader and confident. Throughout her parenting, she was able to see how critical it is for our children to feel like we are hearing what they have to say. She shared how if we will listen to our children now and connect with them, then when they become adults, they will be more open to speak with us and in turn we will develop a healthy everlasting relationship. 

 

 

She shared how we need to all become more mindful in our parenting and to limit the distractions with work and technology when we are supposed to be engaging with our children. This will help us to let our children know we are hearing them. The book looked at how we can be intentional with having a date with each of our child and doing a special activity one on one. She also shared how playing is importance for the growth of our children. We can also learn the practice of asking questions and creating conversation topics to engage at family dinner time and other times as needed. She included 50 open ended questions to assist parents in asking their children these questions and to learn more about how they are feeling and thinking. She also included tips on using wisdom to ask questions wisely. 

 

I would recommend this awesome parenting book to anyone who is struggling with raising their kids. I immensely like how she looked at ways to use wisdom found in scriptures and how we can use better listening and listening practices to engaged with our children. I liked how she included how to pray scriptures over our kids’ lives and she included fill in the blanks in the book. I also liked how she included wisdom tools at the end of each chapter. This enclosed wisdom from God, self-care, and wisdom from the different ages: preschoolers, grade schoolers, tweens, and teens. I enjoyed how she looked at different ideas and suggestions for each stage of your child’s life. I also liked how she included suggestions on how to affirm and recognize our child’s strengths. This book will guide readers into making sure our children are seen and heard and it will greatly transform our parent and child relationships. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of How to Listen So Your Kids Will Talk, check it out on Amazon.com: 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Listen-Your-Kids-Will-Talk/dp/0764237217

The Only Answer Is Prayer: An Intimate Walk with God into the Miraculous by William McDowell, Jason McMullen, and Caleb Grant Book Review

In The Only Answer is Prayer, William, Jason, and Caleb have all teamed up to write about their experiences with prayer while leading their congregation at Deeper Fellowship Church. They begin the book by exploring scriptures on prayer. One of the important ones is found in Second Chronicles 7:14 and this speaks about how if we will be humble and seek God and turn from our sinful nature. He will forgive us and heal our lands. What power and change would we see if we did this! They also looked at Elijah and how he prayed for it not to rain for three and a half years and how God answered that prayer. After three and a half years when he prayed again that it would rain, it did. They all strongly shared how we are all called to be intercessors. They also revealed how critical it is to have intimacy with Christ and to know Him, where we will know what He wants for our lives. We will find our true authority when we get closer to our Creator. The enemy doesn’t want us to become closer to Christ and often times satan will use distractions to keep us from abiding in Christ. Some of the things the enemy will attack is our relationships, flesh, mind, time, wealth, health, and the allure of fame. They also explored ten benefits of prayer and some of these included, “peace, revelation, discernment, and direction, boldness, answers, confirmation of your identity”, and much more. They revealed a powerful truth in, if we are tossing and turning at night and worried about an issue that we already prayed for, then this shows how we aren’t really trusting in God and his ability and power. We subconsciously are believing we are in fact God. 

 

 

I would recommend this awesome book to anyone is ready to grow in their relationship with Christ and they are wanting to boost their prayer life. This book will provide readers with the foundational principles on gaining greater intimacy with our Creator and to pray bigger prayers. I immensely enjoyed how they explored the ten hindrances to prayer and they went in great detail on how we maybe blocking our prayers from being answered. It isn’t the devil causing them to be not answered. I liked how they revealed the painful truth on how we can repent and change our ways and stop the hinderances on our prayer life. This book will teach readers to agree with Heaven and pray for it to be done, as it is in Heaven. I also liked and was blessed by the personal testimonies that they shared throughout the book. I also liked how each chapter included a special prayer at the end of each chapter to assist readers in opening their hearts in prayer. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Bethany House/ Chosen for my honest review.”

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of The Only Answer is Prayer, check it out on Amazon.com: 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Only-Answer-Prayer-Intimate-Miraculous-ebook/dp/B08CJLHYL5

In Search of Wisdom: Life-Changing Truths in the Book of Proverbs by Joyce Meyer Book Review

In Search of Wisdom, Joyce Meyer has written a brand-new book on Proverbs. King Solomon wrote most of the book of Proverbs with the except of chapter 30 being written by Agur and chapter 31 written by King Lemuel. It was compiled over a period of 200 years. She shared how we can learn a great deal of wisdom from Proverbs. It discussed how to treat people, power of our words, managing our finances, marriage life, handing offenses, laziness, discipline, and much more. She begins the book by revealing 7 foundational principles found in Proverbs: wisdom, understanding, prudence, knowledge, discretion, and discernment. She did a detail study on what each of these means and how we look for each of these repeatedly in studying Proverbs. She explored each chapter of Proverbs throughout the book. She first defined the meaning behind the word, “fool” and did so in today’s terms. Basically, it means a fool is morally deficient and makes poor decisions. Joyce explained how the Bible described wisdom as a she and how wisdom reflected God’s thoughts. 

 

 

One of my favorite topics was one on the thirty saying of the wise and how detailed she went into each. She started with Proverbs 22:17-21 and this discussed listening to Godly counsel and trusting the Lord. We are instructed to be honest and speak the truth and bring back truthful reports to people we serve. Joyce shared a personal story about how at one time she was asked by her boss at the time to lie for him. She told him no and she admitted she was worried that she would be fired over it. She eventually instead received a promotion and she felt like she did because she was honest and refused to be dishonest. She explained to readers how we all serve someone who we work for. But at the end of the day, we all serve God.  

 

 

I would recommend this awesome devotional type study to anyone who is ready to gain more wisdom in their lives. Proverbs contains vast knowledge on how we can live our lives and grow into the person God created us to be. I immensely loved how she looked at the topic of the power of our words and how gossip can damage people and relationships. I enjoyed how she reminded readers to think Godly thoughts and to focus on what we are thinking about because they will eventually become words that will leave our mouths. We can choose to speak life and hope out unto a dying world. I also liked how she looked at laziness and people who are passive in life. She encouraged readers to follow the Biblical principle and that the diligent will prosper in life. This book will be extremely helpful in applying the wisdom and Biblical principles found in the book of Proverbs. Joyce Meyer does a wonderful job at diving into the lessons. I liked how she included countless everyday examples to help readers to understand what they were reading in Proverbs. This book is a book that is meant to be studied in depth where readers can gain the knowledge and the wisdom that God wants us to have. 

 

 

 

"I received this book free from the publisher, Hachette Book Group/Faithwords for my honest review.” 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to purchase a copy of In Search of Wisdom, check it out on Amazon.com:

 

 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Wisdom-Life-Changing-Truths-Proverbs/dp/154601764X