My Yes Is On The Table by Jennifer Hand | Review

 Amazon - My Yes Is on the Table: Moving from Fear to Faith: Hand, Jennifer: 9780802425584: Books

In this book, Jennifer Hand shares lots of personal stories of times she was afraid, yet trusted God anyway. She uses personal stories and stories from the Bible to show us how saying "no" to fear is saying "yes" to God, and how our lives can be changed because of it. 

The author explains that giving in to fear means saying "no" to God. None of us want that! Instead of letting fear stop us, we need to trust in God to keep moving. Hand refers to these crossroads and choices in our lives as "faith steps" or "fear stops". We can either say yes to God and move forward in faith, or say no and stop in our tracks.

Throughout the book, Hand uses the story of the Israelites to show us what happens when we say yes or no to God. Using these examples, she emphasizes that saying no to God can keep us from reaching our "Promised Land", whatever or wherever that may be. 

Hand uses many personal stories as examples. While some have clearly happy endings, many have not-yet endings, or endings where we are unable to see the hand of God working the situation out for good. That honesty and transparency paired with an unmoving trust in God is great to see. 

Though the message was great, I thought this book was very disorganized and a little too all over the place to really have an impact. 

Overall, I gave this 3/5 stars. 

*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions are my own. 

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