Beauty for Ashes - Receiving Emotional Healing by Joyce Meyer

Joyce Meyer penned Beauty of Ashes as her way to share her personal healing story. If you may ask, Meyer is actually not that much of a stranger when it comes to acquiring negative experiences in life. And whether she liked it or not, these experiences brought her to a place in her heart where healing seems impossible. She suffered physical, verbal and sexual abuse for more than thirty years of her life, that it was a complete shock even to her when she grabbed her faith and managed to lift herself up once more with God.

Beauty for Ashes is a book that is dedicated primarily for victims of abuse. Through this book, Meyer states that the adversities faced by victims will surely change the way they look at themselves, thinking that they are worthless. But life must go on. Meyer talks about the course of her own life, highlighting the fact that she have gone through everything that these victims are going through. Then she moves to tell how through God, she found herself getting back and picking up where she thought life has stopped.

We may not fully realize it, but we all are a victim. It doesn't have to be a specific kind of abuse, but we all face adversities in life. And because of the pain that we harbor, we sometimes start to push God out of our lives. We think that we are going through the pain alone, but we are not. And this exact message is what Meyer aims to share to her readers. The past is gone and what was forcibly taken away from us at that time is lost forever, but we still have the present that we can use to reshape our lives in order to have a better future.

Also, Meyer mentions the point about wanting to revenge for all the suffering of victims. It is understandable how easy it is for victims to think about revenge and getting back at the people who have wronged them. After all, with their trashed mind and body, having clear thoughts is nearly impossible. But Meyer says that victims should forget about these thoughts, as only God alone has the right to punish wrongdoers

If there would be someone that could really talk about these sensitive things with utmost accuracy and empathy, it is a person who knows the true feeling of going through them. You will surely find it somehow sad yet still impressive how Meyer uses her very own story to construct the flow of the book. In three words, this books is honest, painful and beautiful. Beauty for Ashes is a must-read for everyone who is struggling to fight a battle with tragedies in their past. Grabbing a copy of Beauty for Ashes is one thing that you can do to teach yourself to heal and move on, whether you were a victim of abuse or not.

Also checkout the Confident Woman book.

Battlefield of the Mind - Winning the Battle in Your Mind by Joyce Meyer

Christian author Joyce Meyer wrote the book Battlefield of the Mind in the aim to give solution to people who fall victims to their own negative mindsets. Our minds, as we are all fully aware of are very complicated yet very powerful things, as they can control everything about us.

Through her book, Joyce Meyer helps her readers learn how to control the directions of their thoughts. Every single day, we come across the same feelings as the other days, such as of doubts, confusion, anger, worry, anxiety and depression. And we are also familiar with how one or all of these can affect our quality of life.. We forget how to smile, we become absorbed by bad moods, we treat others coldly, and we become indifferent altogether. In more basic terms, we are throwing away our lives.

But the world does not end right there and then, because Meyer says we can fight. If you will only open your mind to strength and motivation, you'll realize that you can actually win the battle in your mind. Guessing the method that the book suggests is quite easy of you have read Meyer's books before. Yes, it is through God that we can find the assurance of victory. Battlefield of the Mind is equipped with all the things we must know to get hold of the most effective weapon we need when we jump into the war. Meyer will guide her readers on how they could find the words of God, and how these words can be used to take the place of the negative words filling the mind. Because only by embracing God's thoughts as our own can we really make it through the war.

And although the topic is very serious, Meyer will never fail to entertain and keep you interested with her punches of humor every now and then. Admit it, we are all guilty of loving this kind of style. Of course, reading a book with such a dragging atmosphere is really exhausting even if it has a good core message. Meyer, though, can assure you that you won't get your eyelids droop even for just half a millimeter.

Over all, Battlefield of the Mind is a very moving piece of work. Joyce Meyer's life alone can stand proof with how much things could change just by letting God fill up your mind, and even the readers who have bought this book before openly speak their appraisal for it. Meyer's easy-to-comprehend style and format are very suitable for all kinds of readers. There is no excuse for people to let themselves be prisoned by the negative thoughts that they have, if only they know how to get hold of God's thoughts for them. So what are you waiting for, if you want to win the battle, grab a copy of the Battlefield of the Mind now.

Also see Be Anxious for Nothing and Beauty for Ashes Books.

Approval Addiction - Overcoming Your Need to Please Everyone by Joyce Meyer

"Approval Addiction" is something that almost all of us have, and Christian author Joyce Meyer talks about how we should learn to overcome it. You may think that you are living your life fearlessly and confidently, but perhaps you are not just fully aware of what your actions say about you. Imagine yourself running down the street; you are already late for work. But then a random person walks toward you and asks for your assistance with some problem. What do you do?

I'm quite certain that you'll do this person the favor they need. From one angle you can say it is a good deed, but from another it is not. Did you forget that you were already late for work? If ever you refused to help this stranger, it is not because you do not want to help them; but still you chose to agree. You can look at this situation and say that you're just being selfless. Then again, if you reassess the situation, you will see that you are actually being more selfish. By helping a stranger even if you are also running late makes you feel like you've sacrificed something to help this person, which in return makes you feel accomplished. Plus, if you successfully help this person, you get their approval which makes you feel more great.

This is my perfect summarization of Joyce Meyer's masterpiece titled approval addiction. We are all hungry to find the fulfilling feeling of being liked by other people, even if it means that we are doing it the wrong way. We all love the feeling that we get when someone likes what we are doing, and so we strive hard to get this feeling. Then again, Meyer did call this 'addiction' if it weren't a bad thing.

We were not put in this world to gather praises from other people, we were created to do a purpose for mankind. Doing deeds as we know is indeed what God would have wanted for us. But doing good things for the sake of other people's approval is not. All our lives, we work so hard just to earn the approval of family, friends and even people we meet on the streets. But we forget who is the most important of all, the only one whose approval really matters. We were so focused to make everyone else happy, that we did not care if we were making God happy as well.

Approval Addiction is a good way to wake up from the pressures of society. If you have long forgotten the essence of saying "NO", then let Meyer help you find it again. We have our own opinions and beliefs for a reason, it is because we have our minds that process them. It does not matter if you are a Christian or not, reading Approval Addiction will help you find the means to start living your life based on your own will and liking.

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