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BOOK REVIEW
Stronger
Than I
Thought
by Nancy Ormon
f you are a journaling
person, you will understand
Ihow God can take something
so simple and turn it into a
message that can be profound
and life giving to others. I started
journaling letters to God in 2006.
It became something addicting to
me as an early morning routine.
Little did I know it would be
the foundation of the book I
just released on Amazon called
Stronger Than I Thought.
In late June of 2010, Darrel
Ferguson, a well- known Elder to
the Pentecostal Church of South
Africa, visited our church and sat
beside me. During worship, he
leaned over and whispered to me,
“God says: ‘I will.’” I thanked him
for sharing this information and
prayed under my breath for God
to show me whether He had truly
spoken to this man and, if He
had, what ‘I will’ meant.
A few days later, I went to lunch
with a friend. We ran into this
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• Have you ever had a broken
heart?
• Have you ever had fears of the
unknown? Health? Marriage?
Emotional health?
• Have you ever felt so tired you
didn’t think you could take even
same man, who was having lunch one more step because what you
with another pastor and their were going through was just too
wives. I stopped by and thanked hard?
him again for the information he
had given me and told him I was My story is a story of healing
still praying about it. He pulled and hope. Divorce, diagnosis
up a chair for me and asked me of Multiple Sclerosis, loss of a
to sit for a few minutes. He began child, acute renal failure were
to talk with me about how many only a few things that God took
times God says, “I will” in the me through. I give you great
Bible, and then he started asking life lessons, with some powerful
me questions. He asked me if I acronyms, that you can apply
had a lot of notes written down to your everyday life. It gives
you a way to seek God for your
about my experiences with God,
and I told him I did. He told me I purpose, regardless of age.
needed to start writing and that,
when I did, God would help my
writing flow. This quote truly excites me for
you:
In September 2021, it was time “Even in the worst time of life, if you
to share my story. My dining are still breathing, that means you
room table turned into a plethora are still alive. If you are still here,
of journals, sticky notes, pens, you haven’t accomplished what is
and several Bibles. By October, still to be accomplished. The most
I was ready to send my book to important part of your life is still
an editor for the next steps. It ahead of you.”
happened so fast, it was a blur,
and I KNEW it was God. —Andy Andrews