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Subtitle: Help for Life on Hold
Author: Karen Barber, Founder of Personal Prayer Power, Author of Surprised by Prayer and Contributing Editor to Guideposts Magazine.
Contents: A source of help and strength for those going through long waiting periods in their lives for the things that really matter such as recovery, reconciliation or the realization of life dreams. In this book Karen Barber shares her personal search and the Biblical truths that help us live good and productive lives while awaiting the things we long for the most. Written for those going through a difficult waiting period such as infertility, divorce, illness, singleness, unemployment, difficulties with wayward loved ones, deployments and waiting for big goals and life dreams that aren't coming true.
Availability: Currently available. Extremely limited quantities remaining.
Description: If you feel like your life and happiness are on hold, this book points you toward the power of God's grace and the comfort of his love. It avoids pat answers and instead offers honesty, empathy and a hopeful message. You can outlast your pain and actually gain something priceless in the process. Get ready to do something constructive with this waiting period and to experience God's grace in your life as never before.
ISBN number: 0-8010-5712-4
Publisher: Baker Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49516
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Description and Contents: 151 Pages, Trade Paper edition.
Chapter Contents
1. Wait Broke the Wagon.
Names the unpredictable quantities of time we spend awaiting positive change in our lives as The Wait. Describes how The Wait does not follow fairness rules and how patience isn't necessarily what we need the most.
2. Jumping through Hoops Is for Poodles
Discusses how The Wait happens for many reasons and usually is not the result of our personal unworthiness. It relieves us of the notion that we have to jump through "hoops" to earn our reward and tells why we don't have to jump through the worthiness hoop, the readiness hoop or the virtue-in-waiting hoop.
3. Waiting Hungry
Talks about our strong emotional hunger for the things we're awaiting. It tells how this emotional hunger can often be a taskmaster, running our lives. It then advises how to turn emotional hunger into our friend by using the energy to take positive steps forward.
4. Putting on Life's Sombrero
Talks about how to receive God's affirmation of who we are in His sight when we feel unblessed by our circumstances.
5. Taming the Envy Monster
Deals honestly with the issue of how we often become envious of others who already have the things we are longing to receive. It tells the Bible story of family envy between Jacob's two wives Leah and Rachel and later their children. It gives us a blueprint for taming the envy monster by showing how Rachel's son, Joseph, was able to break the envy cycle.
6. Laughter and the Fudgesicle Waterfall
Tells how good humor and the gift of laughter can renew us during our long life waiting periods.
7. Planting Apple Trees in Babylon
Explores how to live a good and productive life while living through times of "exile" when we must live through difficult situations. Uses Jeremiah 1:14 and his advice to the Jewish exiles in Babylon to plant apple trees instead of cursing the land where they were forced to live in captivity.
8. Prayer and Hearing from God
Deals with the feeling that our prayers have not been heard because of our unfulfilled hopes and dreams. Explores how hearing from God can invigorate prayer when your life is on hold.
9. Handgrips for Waiting in Pain
Acknowledges the pain of those who are waiting in emotional or physical pain and offers Scriptures to hang onto one day at a time.
10. Ninety One Miles of Mutton and Other Happy Endings
Talks about the time when our waiting period ends and we finally receive the things we desire. Tells how this isn't an ending but rather a beginning of a new phase of life and how the spiritual graces that we have developed during our waiting period will serve us well as we go forward.
Catalogue Categories and Suggested Uses for this Product
Category: Christian Living, Nonfiction
Suggested Uses for this Product: Personal enrichment, hope, help and inspiration, small group book discussions, devotional.
Excellent gift for those going through a difficult waiting period such as infertility, divorce, illness, singleness, unemployment, difficulties with wayward loved ones, deployments and waiting for big goals and life dreams that aren't coming true.
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