It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

Lysa TerKeurst

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780718039868
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

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What do you do when God's timing seems questionable, his lack of intervention hurtful, and his promises doubtful? Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances, inviting you to live assured when life doesn't turn out like you expected.

Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a season, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned at best and overwhelmed and hopeless at worst. We quietly start to wonder about the reality of God's goodness and why he allows us to suffer and experience grief and loss.

Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But after many tears, godly counseling, and prayerful seeking, she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to:

• Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations.
• Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy, so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes.
• Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle.
• Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us.
• Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth, the Bible.

Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa:

• Good Boundaries and Goodbyes
• Forgiving What You Can't Forget
• Uninvited
• You're Going to Make It
• Embraced
• Seeing Beautiful Again

Table of contents

• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Between Two Gardens
• Chapter 2: Dust
• Chapter 3: But How Do I Get Through the Next 86,400 Seconds?
• Chapter 4: Tan Feet
• Chapter 5: Paintings and People
• Chapter 6: A Little Too Long and a Lot Too Hard
• Chapter 7: When God Gives You More Than You Can Handle
• Chapter 8: Letting Go of What’s Holding Me Back
• Chapter 9: Exposing the Enemy
• Chapter 10: Fighting Words
• Chapter 11: Upside Down
• Epilogue
• Update from Lysa
• 9 Scriptures for Surviving the Times When God Seems Silent
• Getting the Help You Need
• Acknowledgments
• Scriptures
• An Invitation
• Notes
• About the Author