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Your Journey to Extraordinary Starts with One WordYesIf you have a desire deep inside your heart to be sold out to the Lordand do amazing things for Him, you are not alone. Lysa TerKeurst and her daughterHopehave felt that passiontoo, and theyve learned that only God can satisfy the craving to go beyond just making it through the day. Why? Because God is the one who created that need inside of you and Hes using it to draw you closer to Him! As you begin your journey to extraordinary, this book will help youovercome your fear of saying yes to God by focusing on the life-changing results of obeying Himunderstand that you have been uniquely designed by the Lord to play an important part in His planslearn how to grow in your relationship with Him by digging deep into encouraging Bible verseslisten for what the Lord wants to speak to you with practical ways to recognize His voice in your everyday lifeWhen you say yes to God, you will see your faith grow and bloom. Will you accept His invitation and start your journey today?

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	01 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736985802
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Far from Ordinary
Copyright 2022 by Lysa TerKeurst
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Formerly published as What Happens When Young Women Say Yes to God
Note from Hope pieces contributed by Hope TerKeurst Houser
ISBN 978-0-7369-8579-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8580-2 (eBook)
The Library of Congress has catalogued the edition as follows:
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TerKeurst, Lysa.
What happens when young women say yes to God / Lysa TerKeurst and Hope TerKeurst.
p. cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-7369-5455-6 (pbk.)
1. Christian women-Religious life. I. Title.
BV4527.T4645 2013
248.8 43-dc23
2012043873
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CONTENTS
Set Out on Your Personal Journey
Ready for Something Better
1. A Far from Ordinary Life Awaits
2. Is That You, God?
A Note from Hope: Letting Go
3. God Wants Your Whole Heart
4. Going All In
A Note from Hope: Serving Others
5. What Keeps Us from Saying Yes
6. Yes Is About Delight
A Note from Hope: Reaching Out
7. Giving Up What Was Never Ours
8. The Blessing to Be Found
A Note from Hope: Looking Forward
Notes
About Lysa
About Proverbs 31 Ministries
SET OUT ON YOUR PERSONAL JOURNEY
W e are about to discover how God s love shapes our hearts and our individual paths of purpose. It s an amazing journey. We won t want to miss any of the messages He has for us. In this book you will discover the following features. Each is created to make the truths and wonders of faith more three-dimensional in your life.
You re Invited
Each chapter has a special invitation to say yes to God in a new way. Take time with these and pray about how you ll respond to the call to embrace God s best.
God s Word for You
God speaks to us through the Bible. Scripture is not a gathering of material meant for people ages ago. It was written for you . This feature includes questions for group or personal study, reflection points, and verse explorations to get God s Word from the page to your heart.
Living Y.E.S. (Your Extraordinary Story)
Only you can live your story. No one else is designed by God to live this moment and all of your tomorrows. These insights and journal questions will help you understand the uniqueness, incredible value, and power of having a heart for God.
Yes Prayer
A yes prayer opens you up to what God has in store for you. It prepares your heart and spirit for God to work through you and to create your far from ordinary life.
A Note from Hope
My daughter Hope shares four personal accounts of listening to God and following His lead. My prayer is that these glimpses of another young woman facing the difficulties and delights of obedience will encourage you to put your yes into action daily.
READY FOR SOMETHING BETTER
M ost of us long for something better. Different. Special.
Far from ordinary .
We desire something more meaningful than day-to-day survival.
And the amazing thing is that even before we can name this desire, God has placed it within us and is drawing us closer to Him through that desire. Our hunger to be special and to do special things is our spiritual hunger to have an extraordinary relationship with God.
But how do we leave normal behind and head toward extraordinary?
We start a journey! It s the amazing, transforming, anything-but-normal journey you ll begin the day you say yes to God and to the amazing faith life He has planned for you.
Let s begin at the starting place-right here, right now. Imagine with me that this is your day.
Beep. Beep . The notification of a text message wakes you up before your alarm. It s a friend reminding you to bring money for the school fundraiser and asking if you will make signs during lunch. As you sneak into the kitchen hoping to grab a bagel and glass of cranberry juice without being spoken to, your parents greet you with good-mornings and then insist you walk the dog before school.
You get to school with only a second to wave to friends. You settle into the assigned seat of the first class and do a mental happy dance because you finished your project early. The celebration is squelched because the teacher asks you to help a student who doesn t understand yesterday s assignment.
During lunch you finally get a chance to catch up with your best friend, but she still wants to talk through every event leading to her breakup with her boyfriend-five months ago. You listen for a while and pat her on the back for consolation, but you re thinking, At least you had a boyfriend. My parents won t even let me date .
The list goes on, right? A regular, ordinary day includes a lot of requests from a lot of people in your life. There are expectations. And even when you know the right thing to do, you don t have much joy when you follow through. What s the point? you think. It s all so ordinary and leading nowhere .
Even if people want good things from you and of you, it s tempting to say no. Nope. Uh-uh. No, thank you. I helped yesterday. Ask so-and-so. The dog ate my homework and my backpack and my computer.
There are lots of ways to say no.
When God asks you to do something, it can spark the desire to act as if you didn t hear Him. It s tempting to rattle off your memorized top five excuses for getting out of something that might be challenging, humbling, or out of your comfort zone.
In fact, sometimes God asks us to do things that seem a bit crazy at the time. We can t see the big picture the way He does. We can t imagine how our one yes during an ordinary day can become something extraordinary when He uses it for His purposes.
But, you see, this is where we get confused. When we say yes to God, our days are no longer ordinary or normal. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical day. Once you make the leap of faith to say yes to God, you will discover the power that answer holds in your relationship with Him, others, and yourself. There s nothing ordinary about what s ahead for you. Are you nervous? Are you looking around you and thinking, Maybe normal is okay? What is God going to ask of me when I say yes?
Believe me, I understand this as well as anyone. I can be stubborn. I can be resistant to being told what to do. And I ve had plenty of times when I wanted to do anything but what God was asking me to do. In fact, I was someone who never left home without having my top five excuses list handy. This was me that is, until God opened my eyes to the incredible, blow-my-socks-off power of saying yes to Him.
It all started the day He told me to give away my Bible.
My ministry as a writer and a speaker gives me the chance to visit churches, women s groups, and conferences. On this particular day, I was heading home after a long schedule of speaking and I was wiped out. All I wanted was to get to my assigned seat on the plane and settle in for a nap. Imagine my absolute delight at being the only person seated in my row. I was just about to close my eyes when two last-minute passengers made their way to my row and took their seats.
Reluctantly, I decided to skip my nap. The last thing I wanted was to fall asleep and snore, drool, or, worse yet, wake up with my head resting on the guy s shoulder beside me. I did not need another most embarrassing moment, so I pulled a manuscript out of my bag and started reading.
What are you working on? the guy asked. I told him I was a Christian writer. He smiled and said he thought God was a very interesting topic. I agreed and asked him a few questions about his beliefs. Before long I found myself reaching into my bag and pulling out my Bible, walking him through some key verses that dealt with the issues he was facing. He kept asking questions, and I kept praying God would give me answers.
All of a sudden I felt God tugging at my heart to give this man my Bible. Now, this was not just any Bible. This was my everyday, highl