Brokenness Produces Pearls

"In spite of your past and current situation, your brokenness can produce a pearl..". In BROKENNESS PRODUCES PEARLS Vance and Rana persuasively and passionately, articulate a powerful, experienced-based message targeted to help you embrace the intrusions that have made a mark on you and your life. START the journey of creating the person God intended you to be. IDENTIFY the "parasites" within you that destroy and suffocate healthy thoughts, words and actions. BEGIN recognizing who "dropped" you. You're not who they say you are. SNAP THE CHAIN of everything and anything that has you chained down. GET UP, GET THROUGH AND GET ON... VANCE and RANA SIMMS are candid, caring and convincing. The courageous couple share a vision to see broken lives mended through the hope and Grace of God.

Take Back Stolen Treasure From the Enemy!

Pearl was born into a very wealthy family. All her life she was given only the very best. Born with more than a silver spoon in her mouth, Pearl was raised to get what she wanted when she wanted it, no matter the cost. Raised in a household of wealth and fantasy, Pearl lives through the harsh realities of dealing with an alcoholic mother and an adulterous father. With all the wealth surrounding her, it becomes easier and easier to mask her feelings of disconnection and pain within her own world. One night in a mere chance meeting Pearl's life is turned upside down. Soon faced with the realities of her own life, Pearl is forced to deal with the broken girl inside who has been desperately crying out for help. A delicate journey of brokenness, forgiveness, and freedom, Pearl is a young girl who yearns to find her true self and who she really was created to be by God.

The Broken Leaf invites you to explore the beauty and gospel images found in Japanese art and culture. Through ten short meditations, discover for yourself just how God might be revealing his story in the everyday objects of your life whenever and wherever you may be.

Knowing the Word of God is a key for our spiritual growth and maturity. "Pearls of Wisdom" is a collection of messages and bible studies of some main characters of the Bible. The messages of this book concern our daily Christian life; from the problems of Loneliness, Anger, Rejection, Fear that everyday Christian may face, we will learn through the biblical stories how God taught us eternal lessons. From the story of Ruth to the story of Joseph you will learn about love, endurance and how God build the character of his children before using them. The wisdom of God is immeasurable, in this book, we are receiving some Pearls of His Wisdom to perfect and mature in our walk in Christ. Paulette Mpouma is a Christian mother of four children. She had her first Miracle when she was 9 years old and since then she has never stopped asking God to use her to serve Him. Paulette is a Minister of Reconciliation and Deliverance in her local Church, Bethel world outreach ministries, where she serves. The Lord blesses her with a gift of revelation that she is using in her writings. "Pearls of Wisdom" is her second book where she reveals different messages received through fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

"Broken to Restore" is a book designed for anyone: men, women, adults, young people, teenagers and the elderly. In life we go through many stages, but we come to certain moments that we particularly feel we broke; we feel completely broken. That's when we need to understand that we're still vessels in the hands of the potter par excellence and being there we're restored. This process is allowed in your life to be perfected, but above all so that you can help restore those around you. This is like pearls; these are formed in a very particular way. Pearl is the product of pain, the result of the entry of a foreign or undesirable substance into the oyster, such as a parasite or a grain of sand. The inside of an oyster shell contains a lustrous substance called mother-of-pearl. When a grain of sand penetrates, mother-of-pearl cells begin to work and cover the grain of sand with layers and more layers to protect the helpless body of the oyster. As a result, the cute pearl is formed. An oyster that has not been injured, in some way, does not produce pearls, because the pearl is a scared wound. You and I cannot avoid being hurt in some way, but we can choose what to do with those wounds. My desire is that you turn each wound into something as valuable as a pearl... or even more. As you progress through this book you will understand four points that God taught me strongly away from my country, and therefore away from my comfort zone, and that will help you whether you are a recent Christian, a veteran or you are not.

"Broken into Wholeness" is a profoundly moving memoir of healing and restoration. With raw honesty, the author shares her own journey of pain and brokenness, sharing the miraculous power of God's healing touch. Addressing the urgent need for healing in our hurting world, she offers hope and freedom to those imprisoned in their brokenness. Through prayer and unwavering faith, readers are led on a transformative journey, learning to confront pain, embrace their identity in Christ, and find solace in the midst of broken relationships. This captivating memoir is a testimony to the faithfulness of God and the promise of profound healing and restoration for all who seek it. Overflowing with compassion for those who are wounded, the author ignites a passion within readers to become vessels of comfort, healing, and prayer for others. She teaches them the vital importance of confronting the deep-rooted sources of pain, entrusting their healing to the Lord, and embracing their true identity in Christ. Driven by a divine calling, the author pours her heart into these pages, offering a lifeline of hope and freedom to those who have felt trapped in the prisons of their own suffering. With each prayer and heartfelt plea, she beckons readers to experience the overwhelming power of God's love and be set free from the shackles of their past traumas. Ultimately, "Broken into Wholeness" is a testimony to the faithfulness of God and His ability to turn brokenness into beauty. It serves as a powerful reminder that no matter how deep the wounds may be, there is hope for healing, restoration, and a life of wholeness in Christ.

One of our continual struggles, as women, is to believe in our value in spite of our pain and past mistakes. I am a pearl will empower you to accept God¿s love and forgiveness, recognize that no matter what you have done or what you have experienced you were created for a purpose, and that God sees you as a pearl of great value.Based on the parable, of the pearl found in Matthew 13:45-46, I am a Pearl unfolds key principles in overcoming painful pasts, improving the present, and embracing the future. One may ask, ¿Why a pearl and not a diamond?¿ When you study the pearl--the meaning, the value, the symbolism, and the creation process--it is a natural comparison. The pearl is the only gem that emerges from nature requiring no cutting or sculpting to enhance its splendor. Like a pearl, you entered into the world as God created you; man cannot take credit for your magnificence.Prepare yourself for a life changing perspective on your experiences, and confirmation of God¿s unfailing love.

Living Beyond Nightfall – Troy Buckner's real life journey to wholeness... The world is about to read a true story filled with pain, disappointment and one woman's emotional fight for her life and that of her four wonderful sons. Buckner's story will take you to the very depths of despair and show you peace beyond understanding. It will reveal how her belief in the betterment of her community and love for her culture left her struggling to survive through a felonious alleged embezzlement charge which left her determine to put the fragments of her life back together again. Buckner's desire for penning this book is to ensure that the world never forgets the mayhem committed within our own communities by people who claimed their undying love for us. Buckner is force to cling to the most powerful vestige of her childhood--the wisdom she had been endowed with by her father and her southern community. She was raised by a compassionate father who instilled greatness in her life by examples of his own broken struggles of growing up in the Deep South during slavery. Someone once said, 'home isn't just a place where you live... it's a state of the heart'... However, growing up in the Deep South meant so much more for Buckner. Lake Providence may have held a very small place on the map, but it held a bigger place in her heart and soul – something that she have connected to her entire life. Her community believed in hard work and integrity – most of all having the courage not to give up – not to quit. She was encouraged by her community to pursue an education during a time when no one cared enough to see that black youths had a professional career. On Buckner's fifteenth birthday, her father arranged for her to fly to Las Vegas to visit her mom for the first time in eight years. Later that same year, her father roused with a vision to start a general contractors and plumbing business, despite the fact that he couldn't read or write nor could he add or subtract. Recognizing his limitations, he never minimized the importance of education. Her father instilled in her the value of education and that the mind was too valuable to waste by introducing her to the business world at an early age. He inspired her to see that the greatest equalizer is indoctrinating one's mind with wisdom and knowledge, recognizing that ignorance is the only bridge that separates us. He taught her to set realistic goals, and then work harder than anyone else to experience success as a result of her hard work. He asked her to teach him how to read and write. This moment she would cherish for a lifetime. Buckner was elated to see her father signing his checks - and reading his first book, even though it was on a first-grade level, at the age of 50. Buckner had kept a diary since she was eight years old, and eventually acquired a passion for writing. It provided a natural outlet to help her find that perfect peace in the things that she could not understand nor change. She felt somehow God was preparing her for an unknown journey. Buckner and her family went through five of the most implausible years of their life, orphaned penniless and nearly homeless. Buckner unwavering perseverance forced a victorious triumph in her matter of the heart that was swept up in the chaos of deception, lies and cruel intentions. For over five years, the Institution and CPA Firm attempted to strip her of every shred of her dignity, character and integrity. In a climate of systematic abuse where ignorance is power and justification for wrongdoing, Buckner fights for her improbable survival. Buckner's story will give you hope, and it will confirm the power of faith. Her story will take you through many levels of brokenness – gleaning from her journey will lift you up and help you not only survive but transcend suffering, injustice, and loss. Displaying her extraordinary strength and endurance, Living Beyond Nightfall is a brilliant display of individual resilience.

What do you do when you wake up and feel like you're not enough for your life? Or when you look out the kitchen window as dusk falls and wonder how do you live when life keeps breaking your heart? As Ann Voskamp writes, “great grief isn't meant to fit inside your body. It's why your heart breaks.” And each of us holds enough brokenness to overflow—to be given as the greatest story of our lives. In sixty vulnerably soulful stories, The Way of Abundance moves from self-weary brokenness to Christ-focused givenness. Drawing from the critically acclaimed, New York Times bestseller The Broken Way and Ann's online essays, this devotional dares us to embrace brokenness as a gift that moves us to givenness as a way to draw closer to the heart of God. Christ Himself broke like bread, giving Himself to us so we might have a lifelong communion with Him. Could it be that our brokenness is also a gift to the world? This gentle but exquisitely profound book does nothing less than take you on an intimate journey of the soul. As Ann writes, "The wound in His side proves that Jesus is always on the side of the suffering, the wounded, the busted, the broken." Discover how surrendering in unexpected ways is the first step toward receiving what you long for. Discover the good news that your beauty is not in your strength but in your fragility. Discover why your healing shines radiant through your wounds—and how only in brokenness will you ever be whole—and find the way to the abundance you were meant for.