In It’s on the Way, Lisa Osteen Comes has written a book about how to handle the difficult seasons of waiting for a dream or prayer to come to pass. She explained how our dreams have an appointed time to come to pass and we don’t need to get discouraged or feel helpless. Some of these dreams can include: writing a book, starting a business, getting married, having a child, and pretty much any other dream you have been praying about. She described how in scripture how no one has witnessed or can even imagine what God has prepared for people that love God see 1 Cor. 2:9. She encouraged readers to keep praying. She reminded readers that God is listening to our prayers from the moment that we first prayed.
She begins the book by sharing how she was born with a severe birth defect. Her parents were told she would never walk or talk. Her parents believed that God could heal her and by age one she was healed and completely normal. She also opened up about how satan tried to kill her again years later in 1990, when she was working at her father’s church John Osteen. She was opening the mail when a pipe bomb went off with 10-inch shrapnel nails inside the box. She miraculously wasn’t killed and she only suffered from minor injuries.
In the book, she shared how she had a dream of having children and they struggled with infertility. She revealed how her and her husband would declare over their lives, scripture verses and the promises of God about children. She revealed how they made sure when they were getting a house that they would have enough room for children. They also purchased a piano because they believed one of their kids would play it. She also shared how they received in the mail two diapers and they both stood on the promise that they would be having twins. It took them eight years for the dream to be fulfilled and they were unexpectedly able to adopt twin girls and a son from Mercy Multiplied without having to apply through the adoption process. One of her daughter’s also plays the piano and this was like God was preparing their home ahead of time.
I would recommend this amazing book to anyone who is looking for encouragement on not giving up on our dreams. This book is a wonderful reminder that God is always with us even in our waiting period and our current season is temporary. I immensely loved reading about Lisa’s story and how her parents were faithful and believed that God could heal their child. I liked how she shared how her own mother; Dodie was also healed from cancer. She also touched on her divorce, her remarriage, infertility issues, and much more. One of my favorite lessons, she discussed was about the six ways satan steals from the Word of God. One of the most powerful ways that he uses is we listen too much to the voices of others. She also revealed how people told her when they were struggling having children that maybe it wasn’t in God’s will for them. She chose to not listen to them but rather stand on the promises of God. I liked how in the book, she looked at the story with the woman and issue of the blood and how she didn’t listen to the voices of others. I appreciated how she reminded readers not to let anyone talk you out of the promises of God.
"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 It’s on the Way, check it out on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Its-Way-Dont-Dreams-Prayers/dp/1546015965/
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