Review: Faith Challenge
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2013
I am amazed how little faith I had until I read this book. I thought I had total faith in God. I am by nature a controller. I believe my way is the best and shortest route to get the job done. Giving up even a little control, not just to others, but to God is a hard thing.After reading Shelley's book I see it's not going to be easy but I believe I can do it if I have FAITH.What faith I have started with God years ago, but only when things were really bad and I didn't know what I was going to do, so I would say "The Lord will provide" and leave it at that and he always came through for me. Then I had to start giving some control to my husband and stop trying to wear the pants in the family.See, I was sexually, physically and mentally abused in the past, so to give up control to a man is not something I thought I could ever do. But my faith in God that it would be ok gave me the courage to let him have control. Believe me, if I can give control to my husband then I can learn to give God control, TOTAL control."21 Days of Faith Challenge" showed me too, how just worrying is a sin against God as well as other things when I didn't give him control. Now that I understand I will give it up to God and follow His lead.One thing I have been doing that has helped me a lot is when I feel a panic attack coming on over things that are going wrong I will take a deep breath and say "Lord, this is too big for me and you said to give you my heavy burdens so I hand this problem over to you". The first time I did that and things started coming together I was amazed and felt blessed indeed. I had total faith the Lord would take my heavy burden and He did. Amazing. I'm still amazed each time I do that. See I have to take pills normally for anxiety but far less now that I KNOW the Lord is there for me and that I have FAITH he will take care of me.This book should be on everyones shelf so if you fall and forget that God is there to pick you up you can grab this book and be comforted by Shelley's words of praise and faith in God.Thank you Shelley for a wonderful book."Please note:  I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review."