Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?: Hope & Healing When You Feel Discouraged

This book has many chapters with something to meet your need daily. I have it in my library as an essential source of comfort and peace of mind that God is in control and all will be well and fall in place. Be encouraged. The chapters are short and a daily good choice of daily inspiration to press on and never doubt or give up.

This book is filled with many of life lessons. It is well written, and it is straight from the heart of the author. Is genuine and a book that you will use for a lifetime. Particularly when you are going through stressful and difficult situations in life. This is my second copy is I purchased the original copy back in the early 1980s. This is a keeper and one of my favorite go to books when I am looking for wisdom.

First of all I want to say Ive bought 4 of these books at the time of this review. 1 for myself and 3 others for my brothers/sisters in Christ.When I first read this book for 2 years I had been "straddling" the fence so to speak. I loved the Lord but I had lost that passion, fire and desire to really get in there for the Lord. I rememember just after reading the first few pages of this book I was literally crying.I wanted to be close to the Lord but I was hurting from personal issues. Its easier to say or quote scripture when you are on the mountain.As I said in the title this book tell it like it is...We as a body in Christ need to learn when to be a lion and when to be a lamb. There alot of people hurting for various reason...some reasons you may not understand and may seem insignifigant but to the person going through the trial its a very serious and very real battle.This book will give you insight into a true man of Gods heart on this subject and he even shares moments of his own life to where you realise hey david wilkerson a man Of God is a person just like me.Ultimatly our healing will not be found in this book or any book except the Holy bible...Only Jesus Christ can heal us of our wounds.This is a good read though and it was an encouragment.

I bought one for myself and several other family members. I have always loved and trusted the ministry of David Wilkerson. If you need encouragement I highly recommend this little book!

I have not finished reading the book, but far as I have read, makes me think that if we are away from GOD'S path, nothing is possible and nothing fills up in case you feel heartbroken or empty unless you have GOD in your heart.

When I discovered this book, I was feeling overwhelmed by the thought of all the work the I should be doing as the new chair of our Provincial Council for Women. We were preparing for the culmination of the 18 days Campaign to End Violence Against Women and our installation of officers. Being used to a competent staff that executed everything that we planned to do in another NGO, I did not have all the working committees needed for a well-organized and meaningful affair. The book's title struck me although I knew I wasn't in such desperate straits. I was feeling overwhelmed because all by myself, I was carrying a burden that should have been shared by the other officers. I didn't have to reflect much to know that for quite a while, I had also been carrying all my other burdens by myself, with an occasional prayer for divine assistance and guidance once in a while. Recognizing the stressful situation as an invitation to abandon myself once again to God's loving care, Dave Wilkerson' s book seemed to have been sent to me just when I needed it. Three weeks later, a person dear to me has abnormally high PSA and an enlarged prostate, my son could have killed himself or been seriously injured while riding his bike yesterday and my little cat who relies on me to take care of him has been vomiting and has blood in wet stools. Now I'm OVERWHELMED in capital letters and what Dave wrote about being called into the storm can't be more relevant.

I bought this book over 20 years ago when I was at my lowest point in life. Nothing could bring me out of it until I read "Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately". David Wilkerson has a powerful way of empathizing with you. No matter how terrible your problems may be, he convinces you that God understands...kind of a "been there, done that" with love. And realizing that you are not alone in your struggles is a great comfort to your hurting heart. David gently and lovingly helps you see your life through God's eyes and the end result is a long term, positive "attitude adjustment".I realized that I pulled this book off my shelf when again at a low point in life, literally 10 and now 20 years later. With this most recent read, I didn't even get through 1/2 the book before I found myself well adjusted again (heh, heh, kind of like chiropractics). This is one book you'll want to hold on to. And it's a much healthier way to pull yourself out of depression and hopelessness then any antidepressant drug!!!

Very encouraging! Would definitely recommend!

So encouraging!

A wonderful book for those who have been discouraged and felt like giving up on the Lord.

I had gone through a period of such intense depression, not only with myself but also with the church and was finding it near impossible to hold on to any positive thought when this book came into my life.To illustrate how good it was I was able to read the book in bed despite having severe OCD with the spine crumbling out and a cornflake in the middle! (anyone who has OCD will know how relevant this is)Everything I had just gone through was covered in the book from 'cure all' prophets, to the church letting us down and where to go from that deep place of desperation.This is not a self-help book but a deep insight into the bible as it applies to our lives today as christians in end times. David Wilkerson does not write from a distant perspective but as one who has undergone intense introspection, one who has made a number of mistakes and judgement errors but also as one who continually lets God into his life.Love this book and don't even think about buying it if the title even grabbed you for one short moment. What would I have done without this book at the time it came? I dread to think.David Wilkerson has the ability to overturn some of the most deepseated religious thinking without deviating from scriptural, Christlike thinking for one moment. I simply loved the book and moved on immediately to one of his other titles after applying the soothing balm of this book.

Met me right where I was at. Wilkerson is in touch with the feelings of the common man. Unlike so many other Christian authors whose self help offerings are filled with formulae that purport to be cure for all your ills, this book acknowledges the shortcomings of such quick fix theology and guides the reader to cheerfully submit and place their suffering spirits under the soverign hand of a loving God.

Great!!