- ISBN13: 9781439100110
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Your best days are in front of you.In challenging times, it may be hard to see better days ahead. You may feel as though your struggles will never end, that things won’t ever turn around for you.This is exactly the moment to put your faith into action and expect God’s blessings.It’s your time to declare your faith, to look for God’s favor, and to give control of your life to Him so that you can find fulfillment in His plans for you!It’s Your Time to believe.It’s not easy to always be optimistic. Life can be difficult, and in hard economic times it’s not just your finances that suffer. Your relationships can be strained. Your health can be stressed. Bad habits c… More >>
It’s Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Achieve Your Dreams, and Increase in God’s Favor
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Can anyone please tell me what is Christian about Joel? He almost never mentions Jesus, and never , never never THE BLOOD OF JESUS. He like Rick Warren is a FRAUD!!!! Jerry Falwell we miss you!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This kind of “health and wealth” religion is not a Christianity. Christianity is much more than what we can get in this earthly life. This book is another self-hypnotism. We are not going to be well just murmuring “good and positive words.” This is totally deceit!
Rating: 1 / 5
This is basically recycled Olsteen anchored in the current economic crisis.
Olsteen leads people away from Scripture as the sure guide, away from Christ as the sure Savior, and away from heaven as the sure hope. Instead he leads people to trust in their dreams, be their own savior, and make this heaven. Our desires are inerrant and our potential is unbinding. The amount of subjective hot air that this guy blows into each sentence is amazing.
In terms of Jesus, there is little difference between what he does and Oprah. Oprah denies Christ’s claims to be the only Savior, Sovereign, and Sufficient One. Olsteen sends Jesus to the bench and then drops the subjective Olsteen eclipse on him as he prances around with his flowing mullet and detached subjective platitudes that weigh in at a combined 3 ounces.
One of the most biblically indefensible and frankly, staggering issues here is that he actually subtitles the book as a manual for ‘increasing in God’s favor.’
Um…I thought that was Jesus’ job.
The Bible makes it clear that we have neither the means nor the inclination to achieve God’s favor. We all are categorized as rebels and sinners by the God of the Bible (Rom. 3.10-13; Rom. 5.10; Eph. 2.1). The BEST we could do amounts to an unmentionable sanitary rag (Is. 64.6).
Instead it was Jesus’ job to earn, provide, and keep God’s favor. It is Jesus who is the substitute who lived and died for sinners. He is the one who makes an angry God propitious or favorable (Rom. 3.25). There is no other way to experience the favor of a holy, just, righteous, good God apart from Jesus (Acts 4.12; 1 Tim. 2.5).
Olsteen’s shtick is nothing more than good old legalism. Earn and keep God’s favor by what you do and think. We should all feel somewhat empowered and important, we are now our own Savior! We should also feel the weight of God’s displeasure since this creed is actually anathamitized in the Bible (Gal. 1.6, 9). Ironically this actually undermines Olsteen’s book.
The title is fitting: It’s Your Time. Right now it is my time to give it a thumbs down. And Mr Olsteen, It’s Your Time to go away. And take your Jesus denying, legalistic, hopeless, broken, tired, Oprah-cloning message with you.
Rating: 1 / 5
Well worth the purchase. With his down-to-earth, common sense approach Joel Osteen yet again delivers a truly uplifting and inspiring work.
Rating: 5 / 5
I really look foward to watching Joel Osteen on TV and read his books. I find them VERY helpful in teaching me and my family how to face life, how to pray, and how to ask for God’s favor. We used to watch his father every week and enjoyed that also. I would highly recommend this book. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to experience the Osteen Ministry.
Rating: 5 / 5