When You Are Down To Nothing

Everyone gets "down to nothing" at some point in life, whether in relationships, finances, vision and courage for the future, physical or emotional exhaustion, or disappointment with God--everybody at some time comes to the end of their rope. It's exactly at those points that God does His best work. When we're down to nothing, God is up to something--truths to teach us, answers to satisfy us, assurance to bolster us, resources to supply us, or directions to guide us. In this book, Robert Schuller chronicles a particularly dark period in his life and shares with the reader what he learned God was up to in his relationsips, meeting his needs like health and finances, providing guidance in his emotional life, but most of all, in learning to know and trust God more.

Everyone gets "down to nothing" at some point in life, whether in relationships, finances, vision and courage for the future, physical or emotional exhaustion, or disappointment with God--everybody at some time comes to the end of their rope. It's exactly at those points that God does His best work. When we're down to nothing, God is up to something--truths to teach us, answers to satisfy us, assurance to bolster us, resources to supply us, or directions to guide us. In this book, Robert Schuller chronicles a particularly dark period in his life and shares with the reader what he learned God was up to in his relationsips, meeting his needs like health and finances, providing guidance in his emotional life, but most of all, in learning to know and trust God more.

BARBARA WASHINGTON FRANKLIN helps millions of people enjoy life, manage their problems, and achieve colossal success through the use of biblical principles presented in When You're Down To Nothing, God Is Up To Something. She shows her readers how a time of hardship, pain and suffering is no more than a planned prelude, engineered and orchestrated by God, to develop them into godly men and women. She masterfully persuades her readers to begin to see their down-to-nothing time as designed by God to equip them to handle victoriously the challenges that confront them, and to know for all time that WHEN YOU'RE DOWN TO NOTHING, GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING!

Terry Ryan was poised to take the hockey world by storm when he was selected eighth overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1995 NHL draft, their highest draft pick in a decade. Expected to go on to become a hockey star, Ryan played a total of eight NHL games for the Canadiens, scoring no goals and no assists: not exactly the career he, or anyone else, was expecting. Though Terry's NHL career wasn't long, he experienced a lot and has no shortage of hilarious and fascinating revelations about life in pro hockey on and off the ice. In Tales of a First-Round Nothing, he recounts fighting with Tie Domi, partying with rock stars, and everything in between. Ryan tells it like it is, detailing his rocky relationship with Michel Therrien, head coach of the Canadiens, and explaining what life is like for a man who was unprepared to have his career over so soon.

'I Had a Black Dog says with wit, insight, economy and complete understanding what other books take 300 pages to say. Brilliant and indispensable.' - Stephen Fry 'Finally, a book about depression that isn't a prescriptive self-help manual. Johnston's deftly expresses how lonely and isolating depression can be for sufferers. Poignant and humorous in equal measure.' Sunday Times There are many different breeds of Black Dog affecting millions of people from all walks of life. The Black Dog is an equal opportunity mongrel. It was Winston Churchill who popularized the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life. Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has written and illustrated this moving and uplifting insight into what it is like to have a Black Dog as a companion and how he learned to tame it and bring it to heel.

The Fear of Doing Nothing is a critique of psychotherapy through the lens of a young practitioner training in the field. Hazanov recounts the stories of the most moving, challenging, and memorable patients he worked with during his 6 years of training. This book follows him from the beginning of his training, at the peak of his doubt and skepticism, to its end, where he finally starts to believe in psychotherapy. This is a book for an intelligent and skeptical reader who is not convinced that psychotherapy is a worthwhile endeavor and questions its usefulness and merit. In the book, the author attempts to understand what can and cannot be achieved in psychotherapy and reflects on its place today.

I am not sure why you picked up this book, but it is probably a good educated guess that things are not going as expected in your life. I do not know who you are or what your story is, but I do know that you get to choose how it goes from this point forward. That is the beauty of our testimony. We write it as God is doing it by our choices in how we respond to what is happening. Yet make no mistake about this one fundamental truth, it is all centered on Him, which is why you might be having trouble with your current situation. You are looking at it from your point of view, not God's. Your testimony is more about God working within you to complete the good work He began, rather than working in the world around you. Do not get me wrong, He will use your testimony to peak the curiosity in others and ultimately draw them to Himself, but the reality is that God is always at work in your life. He is at work when you know it and He is most at work when you do not know it.I have a pretty dramatic testimony. If you do not know it, you would probably enjoy watching it because it will give you a greater appreciation for why you can count on the fact that what I share with you in this book is not really my wisdom, but from the Lord. As my testimony would reveal, I was a rebellious, murderous, womanizing, involved in drugs and otherwise a horrific person whom God chose to save and use, and not so much because I am special, but because He knew I would have to be bold. I live life large and have done so on both sides of the track. What happened to me is hard to believe because it is so bizarre, yet it happened. It happened all the while there was no evidence at all in my life that it was happening. That is what this book is about. The fact that when we get down to nothing, God is always up to something.There came a point not too long ago that I was never so thankful for my testimony. After I was shot, stabbed, died and came back to life, one of my best friends in the world died in the act of avenging my death. He was also the one who began to tell me about Jesus. His name was "Red" and the night before I gave the message on which this book is based, his daughter called me up. I had not heard from her since her father's death. She was nine years old at the time and she had been waiting over twenty years to ask me one question and it came that night, "What happened to my father?".... I have thought many times during my life about what would have happened to me if my mom had given up on God because she became discouraged to the point of quitting. I would not have blamed her. How hard it must have been for her because she could not see what God was up to, but was constantly faced with the reality of what I was doing and it just kept getting worse and worse. That is why I decided to teach this message and why I chose it for the content of this book. There just might be someone out there ready to give up and they need to know that when life gets down to nothing, God is up to something!

It's never too late to do the impossible. Meet Ida Keeling, a 104-year-old mother, activist, and world record-holding runner. Her fierce independence and deep faith carried her through the Depression and the civil rights movement--but her greatest trials were yet to come. Miss Ida, as she is known in her community in the Bronx, grew up as a child of immigrants during the Great Depression. She began working to help provide for her family at age twelve. Later, after her husband passed, she raised her four children alone while serving as an active member in the civil rights movement. In 1978 and 1980, Ida's two sons were brutally murdered. Justice was never achieved. Ida felt like she didn't have the strength to carry on, but, encouraged by her daughter, Ida put on her first pair of running shoes at the age of 67 and began to chase the paralyzing sorrow from her heart. Running gave light and new energy to Ida, and since her first race nearly 35 years ago, she's never looked back. Holding the world record for the fastest time in the 60-meter dash for the 95-99 age group, Ida isn't slowing down. Can't Nothing Bring Me Down gives us a clear picture of what it means to: Find new passions, no matter your age Navigate life's obstacles with grace Lean on faith, family, and friends in hard times In Can't Nothing Bring Me Down, Ida offers time-tested truths gathered from a lifetime of watching a nation change--and from a lifelong faith in Jesus. "Every night, I thank him for my many blessings, for his guidance, for his protection," Ida says. "And every night he tells me, 'Miss Ida, you just keep on, because I ain't done with you yet.'"