I Am Rahab
Touched By God, Fully Restored
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- $23.99
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- $23.99
Publisher Description
What do you do when you can relate more to Jezebel, Ahab, or Eve than Esther or Mary?
To her surprise and joy, author Autumn Miles discovered most of the heroes of the Bible were plagued with the same problem. They were ordinary people who sinned, but God's love, mercy, and truth proved greater.
I Am Rahab provides a better understanding of God, with a focus on the breadth of his reach to use and redeem all things for the good of his purposes, and for their benefit as his beloved children.
You will find comfort in relating to Rahab and to Autumn's own raw story of surviving domestic abuse and will be encouraged to know you are not alone in a life disrupted by bad choices, nor are you meant to stay there. You can move forward from your past and have an abundant future.
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In this helpful book, Miles (Appointed), founder and CEO of the Blush Network ministry for Christian women, explores how Rahab became her lodestar and explains how she can be an example for women looking to reframe a negative personal narrative. Rahab, a prostitute who helps the Israelites in the Book of Joshua, provides Miles with a biblical example of someone who wasn't "the ones acing their Bible drills in Sunday school" and whose story proved to Miles that "a life entrenched in the depths of sin didn't remain wicked." She goes on to share her own upbringing in a strict Baptist house run by her preacher father, her adolescent years of lying and rebelling, and her early adult life in an abusive relationship. Soon she realized there was a distinct possibility her husband might kill her; she opened up to her sister and found help. "At the tender age of twenty-two," she writes, "I boasted a new shiny title: divorcee." Miles walks readers through finding a person to trust with one's stories of trauma and provides scriptural prompts meant to encourage reflection. Through weaving Rahab's story into her own, Miles finds a way to get back up and shares the lessons gleaned from that emotional journey.
