God's Trophy Women: You Are Blessed and Highly Favored [Hardcover]

Jacqueline Jakes (Author), T. D. Jakes (Foreword)

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Publication Date: May 2, 2006

The sister of Bishop T.D. Jakes inspires women to see their trials as the furnace that molds them into living examples of God's handiwork.

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The sister of Bishop T.D. Jakes and author of Sister Wit turns her own life experiences into the backbone of this book designed to offer Christian women more than jelly-sweet platitudes about the trials of life. She encourages women to use their struggles to become "trophy" women—"women of extraordinary substance who possess huge value and distinction." The very troubles that threaten to crush women are instead God's way of making them shine, Jakes argues. She offers several examples of trophy women—from quadriplegic artist and speaker Joni Eareckson Tada and evangelist Juanita Sapp to her own grandmother, who repeatedly made a way out of no way. Their stories are woven briefly into chapters that focus on topics such as aging, walking through adversity and living without bitterness about the past. The bottom line, according to Jakes, is to take the worst suffering and turn it into something precious, a trophy that turns out to be us. Each chapter is accompanied by a poem (surprisingly beautiful and original), reflection questions and a prayer. Despite some repetition and convoluted arguments, this is a down-to-earth look at suffering and its possibly beneficial results. (May 2)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: FaithWords (May 2, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446577820
• ISBN-13: 978-0446577823
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,455 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A way out of no way, June 28, 2006

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In order to successfully get to your chosen path, you must know where you're coming from. Jacqueline Jakes takes from her own life troubles and courageously encourages other women to use their inflictions in order to press forth and become TROPHIES.

GOD'S TROPHY WOMEN: YOU ARE BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED is exceptional! Every chapter is packaged perfectly with a poem, prayer and questions. Jacqueline takes it a step further as she shows you through the lives of others how despite their tragedies they continued to be strong and relied on their faith in God and not dwell on what previously happened to them.

Every aspect from pampering yourself to self esteem is covered. Amazingly, a lot of us may not even recognize we have been through so much and became victorious in the end. After reading GOD'S TROPHY WOMEN: YOU ARE BLESSED AND HIGHLY FAVORED we now realize that WE ARE ALL KEPT WOMEN ... GOD'S KEPT WOMEN.

Not only inspirational, but a delight. It shows us (women) how our FAITH can bring us through anything.

Reviewed by: Carmen

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5.0 out of 5 stars God's Trophy Women: You Are Blessed and Highly Favored, April 13, 2009

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