Beauty for Ashes | 
 enlarge | Author: Joyce Meyer
Publisher: FaithWords
Category: EBooks
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 4428
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Warner Books Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.86
ASIN: B001IZC3YC
Publication Date: October 22, 2008
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Product Description
Bestselling author Joyce Meyer explores the true path to emotional healing through God's love. Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are falling apart,crushed and wounded by their past. But God has a plan to heal the broken-hearted and the victims of abuse. For over 30 years, Joyce Meyersuffered the devastating effects of verbal, sexual, and physical abuse. Today, she has a worldwide ministry of emotional healing for others like herself. In Beauty for Ashes, she outlines the major truths that brought healing to her life and describes how other victims of abuse can also experience this healing, including how to deal with the emotional pain of abuse, how to understand your responsibility to God for overcoming abuse, why victims of abuse often suffer from other addictive behaviors, how to grab hold of God's unconditional love, and the importance of God's timing in working through painful memories. By sharing her personal story, Joyce Meyer wants to help others find inner peace through their belief in God.
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 Beauty for Ashes December 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As an author myself, this book is a bit of a challenge to read owing to the continual interruption of thought by the author's restating, rewording and redefining Biblical passages in parenthesis centered in most sentences throughout.
However, the content carefully targeted to those of us with trauma in our past and how to use faith to help with recovery is helpful though overly preachy throughout.
Bizy Writer
Painfully good. December 11, 2008
Beauty for Ashes was the second Joyce Meyer book I read. This book deals with a heavy subject: how child abuse, specifically sexual abuse, damages your life, and what you can do to be freed emotionally and spiritually from your past. There are a lot of books on the market that deal with childhood sexual abuse (though not enough), but, aside from "The Courage to Heal," this is, hands down, the best. It's practical and empathetic, and, in my copy, almost every single page has something scribbled in the margin or highlighted, because it's all so applicable. The reason is that Joyce has been there: she endured unbelievable struggles as a child and young adult, dealt with it like so many survivors do, by throwing up walls and becomming negative (understandably), and then came out the other side.
While her writing style is easy and conversational, this book is hard. I'm on my second read through right now, actually, I'm going slow, one chapter every couple days, giving time for the concepts of the book to actually sink in. My friend recommends reading Battlefield before this book, and I agree; though the book stands on its own, Battlefield of the Mind will prepare you for the intense mental and spiritual effort you'll start. Dealing with abuse is always tough, always, and it's especially tough when we do it contrary to our human nature. It feels good to want vengance, to hate, to withold forgiveness (or, at least, we think it feels good), but this book breaks down walls. And like resetting a broken bone that has healed wrong, it HURTS. But it's a good hurt, and I feel that I"m a better person for reading his book.
Everyone Deserves the Beauty God Gives Them November 1, 2008
What an amazing book. Not just for women or so-called survivors of abuse. This book has so much tremendous wisdom on how to live a victorious life -- no matter what your past is. I recommend this book so highly, I've purchased a copy for everyone who is important in my life. Must read!
Wonderful Biblical applications for hope and healing June 22, 2008
This is a wonderful read for anyone who wants to live a Biblical life, but just can't seem to get over the hurts of abuse and betrayal. Joyce Meyer writes in her straight forward yet compassionate transparency. In this book, she takes the reader on a hope filled, "get from there to here" journey. I wish I had read this book a long time ago.
Phenomenal February 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My grandfather sent this book to me and I confess that when I first saw it, I wasn't sure it was anything I wanted to read. Emotional healing? What could *I* possibly need to be healed from? Denial is an amazing thing. Thankfully, I had nothing else to read at the moment and picked up this book. From page 1, I was captured by Meyer's ability to share her story, make light of her struggle, and give examples of God's amazing power to heal us from our wounds, whether we recognize them or not. This book took me through the whole scope of emotions. I found myself laughing, and alternately, weeping as I recognized myself in the pages and yes, even found God speaking to me through Meyer's testimony. I simply could not put it down. If you are a survivor of any type of abuse, or even if you're just trying to work on building mature, Christ-centered relationships, consider this book. You won't be sorry you did.
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