Book Review: Unexpected

 

Unexpected

Devotions and Prayers for a Delighted Soul

by Valorie Quesenberry

Barbour Publishing, Inc. 

Barbour Books

 Christian 

Pub Date 01 Dec 2020 

I am reviewing a copy of Unexpected through Barbour Books and Netgalley:

This book includes 120 devotional readings as well as prayers and scripture selections.

In this devotional you will be encouraged to spend purposeful one on one time with the Creator which allows your soul to be stirred.

Unexpected will help you through those unexpected times in life, times when we are struggling but searching for delight in him.

This book reminds us that  sickbed rest is forced rest, interrupted rest, unplanned rest. But it is rest. I used to hear people say that God had to “put someone flat on his back” to get him to rest. Maybe that’s just a colloquial way of saying that the person wouldn’t rest unless he or she was sick. But I think God sometimes uses illness to get us to rest our bodies.

It is also pointed out that What marks Christians is not the absence of conflict but the way in which we handle it. The love we have for one another is to outshine our desire to win. In fact, if the desire to have our own way is so dominant, we may need to seriously examine our surrender to the Spirit’s control in our lives. In his letter to the Philippian church, the apostle Paul urged two Christian women to reconcile in the name of Jesus.

We are reminded too that; woman  is inherently strong because God made her. Eve became weak when she listened to the serpent and doubted her Creator. And that’s what weakens women today.

This book deals with some of the harder aspects of life, as well as some other unexpected moments, and offers hope and encouragement throughout.

I give Unexpected five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!