Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately? [Mass Market Paperback]

David Wilkerson (Author)

Book Description

When grief and depression seem overwhelming, the founder of Teen Challenge and World Challenge recommends a powerful healing process that restores faith and gives lasting peace from God.

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About the Author

David Wilkerson (1931-2011) was the founder of Teen Challenge and World Challenge and longtime senior pastor of Times Square Church. He ministered to people worldwide and authored more than thirty books, including the bestselling The Cross and the Switchblade and Knowing God by Name. On the day of his death he was still ministering. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Revell; Reprinted edition (January 1, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800784812
• ISBN-13: 978-0800784812
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It came at just the right time, July 4, 2000

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Kristen E. Asmus - See all my reviews

This review is from: Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately? (Mass Market Paperback)

The most important thing for me in this book is the reassurance that somewhere inside, I still love God. I was beginning to think I'd lost my faith, I'd even told God "I give up on you." But I really didn't mean it. I felt like I was a failure and not good enough for God any more, because I couldn't hold back my own depression and self-hate. But Wilkerson writes, "If you were running from God, you could probably understand why the testing and severe trials kept coming on... But you are not running, not rejecting Him in any way... You yearn to please God and want only to serve Him with all that is in you. That is why your hurting is so debilitating... From somewhere deep inside you, a voice whispers, 'Maybe I'm defective..."

How did Wilkerson know? I don't cry, but reading that made me cry.

He talks later about the crosses we have to bear. I guess mine is heavy sometimes. I wanted to die. I wanted to remove my darkness from God's light in this world. But this book has helped me to see I am not alone among Christians.

Because I don't understand real love, I often feel separated from God's love. That in turn leads to doubt about whether I'm truly Christian. Wilkerson discusses this also, and says that doubt itself is an insidious enemy. If I can call doubt my enemy, I can fight it with God's help.

I didn't know if I'd read this book because I really was ready to give up. But, it came along at the right time, and had the right title, too.

Thanks, David Wilkerson, and God!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope for hurting times, April 7, 2002

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Stefanie (MI,United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately? (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is my second bible so to speak. I have read it at least 5 times. It gives me hope when I feel so worthless at times. It reasures me that I am free from sins grip even thought I don't usually feel that way. The most important point I got from this book is that God is always there to help me in the fight to do his will and that I need to trust in him and not in my own strength to overcome any temptation that I may encounter. Its a great uplifting book that will get you though many a trial along with your Bible of course.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book hit to the heart of the reality of life, December 18, 1998

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[e-mail] (New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately? (Mass Market Paperback)

I purchased the book, for the simple fact that I did feel like giving up. I brought it home thumbed through it, then put it down; thinking to myself another book about God and I won't read it. Needless to say I began at page one, and went through the entire book. I could not believe the information that the author put in the pages hit home to the reality that God really loves you and is right there waiting to pick you back up now that your down. My recommendation, if you are distressed with life and feeling that God cannot love you because of sin in your life then this book is for you. Take Care.