In Bamboozled by Jesus, Yvonne Orji tells the story of how her life and how God bamboozled her into living out her dreams. She revealed how she became a comedian and an actress on HBO’s show, Insecure. She stated how this book is a “Get Yours” book and not a self-help book. In the book she covered 25 lessons and divided into 5 sections, “The Burden, Building, Breakthrough, and Blessing”. She uses humor and personal stories to convey the secrets to living out your dreams. She begins the book by sharing how in the beginning how she was conceived. Her parents already had three sons and they were done having kids. But then God had other plans. She jokes about how she was born holding her mother’s IUD in her hands. She explained how this was her experience with being bamboozled by Jesus. She also refers to how God is like a Sovereign Trickster sometimes acting like Ashton Kutcher in Punk’d.
She revealed the do’s and don’t of getting bamboozled. One of the first rules was don’t check the fine print. She joked about how many people don’t read the two thousand pages on Apple’s terms and conditions before agree to them. She explained how that much attention to detail doesn’t help anybody. She then goes on to explain how she come to know Jesus and how many of us don’t read the fine print when we choose to follow Jesus or if we did some of us might jump the ship. She tells the story about how she was on the way to the club in her college days with her friend. But her friend wanted to go to the church before they hit up the club. She had also planned to wait until she turned 18 years old to lose her virginity and this was based on fear and not because of her faith. She was three months away and had already planned how she was going to lost it. God reached her and changed her mind and she decided to save it for marriage and at 37 years old she is still waiting. She was able to surrender her life to Jesus and be changed. She also looked at Joseph and retold the story in a modern twist and how he was bamboozled by Jesus.
I would recommend this awesome humous book to anyone who is needing a good laugh. I also liked how she told the Biblical story in current times in order to provide some new insights and to also help readers to see the stories in a fresh preceptive. I enjoyed how funny she was and how added humor to her own life story. I loved how she related her lessons back to scriptures and teaching of Jesus. One of my favorite chapters was the one on how our haters will be our elevators. I liked how she shared how she overcame her own haters and what God has declared over our lives about how our enemies will be our footstools. I also liked the bamboozled beliefs special section in the back of the book to provide readers with a morning mantra to encourage them to keep chasing their dreams.
"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 Bamboozied by Jesus, check it out on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Bamboozled-Jesus-Tricked-into-Dreams/dp/1546012672/
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