Dont Settle for Safe, Sarah Jakes Roberts
Dont Settle for Safe, Sarah Jakes Roberts
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Don't Settle for Safe
Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable

Author: Sarah Jakes Roberts, Lisa Bevere

Narrator: Sisi Johnson

Unabridged: 5 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 04/18/2017


Synopsis

Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Woman Evolve, Sarah Jakes Roberts shows women they are not disqualified by their pain and failures and offers encouragement and strength to believe God’s best is still possible.Everyone has experiences in their lives that stop them in their tracks and become burdens they carry with them everywhere they go. No one knows this better than Sarah Jakes Roberts.Pregnant at fourteen, married by nineteen, divorced by twenty-two, and all while under the intense spotlight of being Bishop T.D. Jakes’s daughter, Sarah knows what it is to feel buried by failure and aching pain.But when her journey brought her to faith’s fork in the road, Sarah found she had to choose between staying in the comfort of the pain she knew or daring to make new wounds and move forward.Now Sarah shares the numerous life lessons she’s learned along the way with other women also struggling to believe they’re not disqualified by their pain and past mistakes. She delves into topics such as allowing the past to empower the present, choosing to step forward while still being afraid, facing struggles in the midst of community, finding intimacy with God outside of preconceived notions of what it should look like, and learning to focus on others.In Don’t Settle for Safe, Sarah will help you:View your history with positivityDemolish destructive patternsConnect with true intimacyRepurpose your passion into to your purposeRealize your true callingWith deeply personal stories of her own, Sarah helps readers find their way to the right perspective and the confidence to walk toward the best God has for them.

About Sarah Jakes Roberts

Sarah Jakes Roberts is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the founder of Woman Evolve, a multi-media platform that provides women with the tools, support, and encouragement necessary to make positive and lasting changes. Through various resources such as digital and live events, books, podcasts, and online content, Woman Evolve seeks to address the holistic needs of women and empower them to lead fulfilling and impactful lives. Alongside her husband, Touré Roberts, she serves as an Assistant Pastor at The Potter’s House Dallas. Her messages spread throughout the world, defying cultural, religious, gender, and socioeconomic boundaries. With her down-to-earth personality, contemporary style, and revelatory messages, there’s no question why Time100 Next named her an emerging thought leader for this generation.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aurora

Sarah Jakes Roberts is a woman with a past. The one reason I'm able to relate to her writing and spiritual journey is because she stays open about past mistakes that she has made. The woman that she was before led her to the changes in her life that she needed to make in order to fully walk God's pl......more

Goodreads review by Reyve

Incredible, real read! This book is what every young, seasoned and in-between woman should read if she truly wants to confront her hurts, pains, mistakes and GROW from them. This book allows one to purposely allow God to be the head of your life. It is a graceful, raw truth of what so many of us have......more

Goodreads review by Meg

It took me six months to process this book as I read bits and pieces of it. There were many ways that it impacted me and gave me a different perspective on every area of my life. It has given me greater clarity. It got me to investigate the patterns of my family history for the first time. I started......more

Goodreads review by Sieara

I’m hurt because I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I really wanted to. It was filled with a lot of quotable gems that are true. Though there is some good knowledge in it, the format of the book really confused me and made the book difficult to get through. The order of the stories were just not it......more