✅ MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE LESSMANS!
✅ SPECIAL 99¢ CHRISTMAS SALE ON MY NEW DEVO!
✅ A TRUE CHRISTMAS SHORT STORY FROM MY LIFE!
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🌲 Merry Christmas!
Mary, did you know
That your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you’ve delivered
Will soon deliver you.
Yes, Mary knew it — “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,” Luke 1:46 — and I rejoice in my soul that ALL of us know it too!
Though I have never met most of you, I want you to know how much I love and appreciate each and every one. Some of you have written me in the past, many of you have prayed for me, but ALL of you have blessed me more than I can say.
So I wanted to take this opportunity to thank God for the gift of you in my life, and I ask Him to bless you and yours abundantly, exceedingly more than you hope, think, or pray … in this year and the next.
♥️ Hugs and more hugs, and from my family to yours …
🌲Special 99¢ Christmas Sale on my New Devotional!
Now, why did I put my brand-new, quirky 5-⭐️ memoir devotional, WHAT’S THE STORY, MORNING GLORY? on e-sale for only 99¢?
Well, because it’s a ministry, not a money-maker, with a lifetime of hard-earned Biblically-based spiritual life lessons that this 70+ drama queen wants to pass on, so it’s more important to me that people read it than anything else.
And apparently others agree, because check out these reviews!
🌲 “An inspirational masterpiece …” –Abba’s Prayer Warrior Princes Blog
🌲 “I read this book as a favor. Never in a million years did I think it would affect me so much! This truly amazing book got me to pray again, wanting to rekindle my relationship with God. It’s a book I will read again.” –Amazon Reviewer
🌲 “I have yet to read a devotional that has moved me and drawn me closer to God like hers has …” – LiteraryScape Blog
🌲 “I’ve never read anything quite like it before … I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. –For Him and My Family Blog
🌲 “What’s The Story Morning Glory has changed my perspective on many topics in my life.” –Sadie Pillion
🌲 “Couldn’t put it down! Excellent book … got Kindle version, then purchased the book itself. It is awesome … love it!” – Amazon reviewer
So … there you have it! Proof positive why you should check this book out, because I promise you, it’s a deal you will thank me for because it’s chock-full of spiritual nuggets as you will see from the Table of Contents that follows. AND … if you like it and post a review, please let me know so I can personally thank you with a free e-book.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Application of God’s Precepts (His Word) in Everyday Life
Dedication: Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter One: The Plight of Windowsill Jesus: My Background
Chapter Two: From Dark to Light: My Testimony
Chapter Three: From Fury to Faith: Overcoming Obstacles to our Faith: Anger, Bitterness, Self-Pity, Worry
Chapter Four: From Hot Mess to Healing: Inner Healing, Deep Dive into Heart and Soul
Chapter Five: To Heal an Achille’s Heel: Tempering a Temper
Chapter Six: From Hurt to Healed: The Footpath to Forgiveness
Chapter Seven: Herb Therapy: Application of God’s Precepts in the Workplace
Chapter Eight: From Promiscuity to Purity: Being Single in an Amoral World
Chapter Nine: From Single to Married: Marital Boot Camp
—The Gift of Singlehood
—Trusting God for a Mate
—Trusting Your Mate
—Submission vs. Respect
—Priorities
—Perspective: Taking a Spouse for Granted
—The Seeds of Adultery
—The Seeds of Divorce
—Anger and Forgiveness
—Do Not Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger
Chapter Ten: Clean Heart, Dirty Diapers: My Struggle with Infertility
Chapter Eleven: Preventing Parenting Pitfalls: Tips for “Training Up a Child in the Way He Should Go”
Chapter Twelve: From Loss to Hope: Trusting God Through Tests and Trials
Chapter Thirteen: Writer’s Conference CPR—Cry, Pray, Repent: Attitude of Gratitude
Chapter Fourteen: My Career: Slaying the Dragons of
Rejection, Bitterness, Jealousy, and Idol Worship in Our Dreams
and Desires
Chapter Fifteen: From Sibling Rivalry to Restoration:
Healing Sibling Sorrow
Chapter Sixteen: The Abraham Factor: True Surrender—Turning Control Over to God
Chapter Seventeen: Eternal Perspective vs. Earthly
Perspective; Eternal Speech vs. Earthly Speech—The Key to a
Successful Life Story
Chapter Eighteen: From Ailing to Haling: Physical
and Spiritual Healing
Chapter Nineteen: Spiritual Warfare: Wielding Power
in the Name of Christ
A Note to My Readers
About the Author
Other Books by Julie Lessman
Notes
🌲 A True Christmas Story From my Life!
Did you know we can pray for a heart of gratitude and God answers that prayer? You bet, and the following (true) Christmas short story that happened to me years ago is absolute proof. I call it, When God Wraps a Present …
When God Wraps a Present
We’ve all heard the adage “it’s better to give than receive,” but never have I agreed more than the year I was engaged to the love of my life.
It was truly a Christmas to remember—spiced egg nog and snickerdoodles and shimmering presents unwrapped in a circle of love. Of course, we all ooohed and ahhhed over each gift opened, one at a time, reveling in the glow of excitement for giver and recipient alike.
And then it was my turn. Everyone waited while I tore into a small box, anticipation fairly shimmering in my fiancé’s eyes.
“Do you like it?” Keith asked, grinning like a little boy when I unearthed a very pretty silver watch.
Uh … no.
“It’s beautiful,” I said with a shaky giggle, slipping it on and holding it up for everyone to admire. I quickly gave him a sweet kiss on the lips. “Thank you so much, babe—what a perfect gift!”
Perfectly awful, that is. You see, when you are a twenty-eight-year-old, Type-A career woman who is very set in her ways, there are just some things you have to buy for herself—books, costume jewelry, purses … a watch.
All right, yes, I’ll admit it—“high maintenance” is my middle name because heaven knows I’m one of the most particular people on the planet, especially when it comes to watches. They have to be digital, waterproof, have a day and date window, an alarm, chronograph, second hand, both silver and gold metal to wear with either silver or gold jewelry, stretch band skinny enough to fit my wrist . . . and a GPS.
Okay, I’m pulling your watch chain on the last one, but you get the picture—NOT easy to find, especially with numbers big enough for someone as blind as a bat.
So, yes, I faked it, of course, thanking my soon-to-be husband for the “prettiest watch I had ever owned,” because it was—I just didn’t like it.
But did I “fake it” with God? Nope. I went straight to His throne in prayer and begged Him to help me love this watch because the man I loved gave it to me and I just flat-out didn’t want to hurt his feelings. I even went so far as to write the prayer request on a piece of paper and put it in my Bible so I could “wrap” it in prayer every single day, which I did.
Until the fateful moment years later when Keith used my Bible one day and found the note.
“You don’t like your watch??” he said, confronting me with hurt in his tone while his eyes flicked to the pretty watch on my wrist.
“What are you talking about?” I asked, somewhat confused.
He held up the note. “You told God you hated it in this note I found in your Bible.”
Uh-oh . . . BUSTED!
“Oh, babe,” I said with my brightest smile and a quick kiss on the lips. “That was then and this is now. It’s perfect for me, just like you, and I absolutely love it.
And you know what? I did!
🌲 I wish you and yours a happy, healthy, and holy holiday season!
