It's Not Supposed to Be This Way

By: Lysa TerKeurst

Narrated by: Lysa TerKeurst, Jolene Barto

READ BY THE AUTHOR | Also includes exclusive interview with Lysa!

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, his lack of intervention hurtful, and his promises doubtful? Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances, inviting you to live assured when life doesn't turn out like you expected.

Life often looks so very different than we hoped or expected. Some events may simply catch us off guard for a season, but others shatter us completely. We feel disappointed and disillusioned at best and overwhelmed and hopeless at worst. We quietly start to wonder about the reality of God’s goodness and why he allows us to suffer and experience grief and loss.

Lysa TerKeurst understands this deeply. But after many tears, godly counseling, and prayerful seeking, she's also discovered that our disappointments can be the divine appointments our souls need to radically encounter God. In It's Not Supposed to Be This Way, Lysa invites us into her own journey of faith and, with grit, vulnerability, and honest humor, helps us to:

• Stop being pulled into the anxiety of disappointment by discovering how to better process unmet expectations and other painful situations.
• Train ourselves to recognize the three strategies of the enemy, so we can stand strong and persevere through unsettling relationships and uncertain outcomes.
• Discover the secret of being steadfast and not panicking when God actually does give us more than we can handle.
• Shift our suspicion that God is cruel or unfair to the biblical assurance that God is protecting and preparing us.
• Know how to encourage a friend and help her navigate hard realities with real help from God's truth, the Bible.

Look for additional biblically based resources and devotionals from Lysa:

• Good Boundaries and Goodbyes
• Forgiving What You Can't Forget
• Uninvited
• You're Going to Make It
• Embraced
• Seeing Beautiful Again

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2018 Lysa TerKeurst (P)2018 Thomas Nelson

A book that speaks the words we wish we could say.

Great Book! It made me cry at points when it felt it talking to my heart. It is a great book and makes you realize that disappointments is part of our story but not the entire story.

Encouraging and uplifting

this is a great book for anyone. It is an encouragement in any situation a person could face. She did a great job!

Good Feels

I enjoyed listening to the audio version of this book. I listened while at work which helped me to get through the day and help the hours to go faster.

Thanks for blessing me!!

Right on time. Did you know Kathie Lee Gifford 12/31 gave you a shout out and I was like..yes!!!

Yeah, but

This book would have been more compelling if more detail of her particular struggles were given . I kept wanting ti say yeah, but to many of her declarations. It was refreshing to voice the existence of doubt and worry. Voice seemed hurried throughout the narration.

⭐ Incredible and Moving⭐

I know I will listen to this book again, and again, I had to stop my car so I could cry "with" her. I love Lisa's work and I have shared this book with all of my friends and kindred readers who have audible. Absolutely in your heart and soul. Always praying for you Lisa!

Healing in this book!

Loved and appreciated this book. Appreciated that Lysa is the narrator. Appreciated that she shared her private story of heart ache and betrayal.
Appreciated immensely how she shows us how to rethink our own story and walk closely with God.
One take away I'm focusing on the most is what we stare at is what we will stear towards. Thank you Lysa.

Heartfelt and encouraging

Awesome book with such rawness of emotions yet the kind of encouragement through Christ that you need because life even for the best of us isn't perfect or great at times. It's a good reminder that God is there for us always and His will for us is always better than our own. I enjoyed this book tremendously!

raw, real

honest, raw, real. life isn't always pretty. lysa gives readers a look at a time when life is really hard, but God is still faithful.

worth listening to over and over. Great insight

Great insight in how to view our disappointments and how we live with them gaining a fresh perspective