3 out of 4 stars
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He is With You: Unleash Your Faith and Conquer Your Worst Situations is an inspiring, encouraging and enlightening book written by Ynes Paulino Accilien.
With a foreword by Orlando Moncrieffe, PhD, the book is divided into three parts: Part One: He is with You As You Struggle with Personal Situations; Part Two: He is with You as You Struggle with Social Issues and Part Three: He is with You as You Try to Make Right Choices.
The first part is about personal situations which involve a person’s belief or non-belief in God, his fears, both reasonable and unreasonable, his pain and his loneliness. The second part discusses a person’s issues as he relates with others while the third part is about God’s everlasting love and presence in a person’s life.
Written in engaging narrative, the author passionately talks about how much God loves us despite our sinful nature and that we can rely on his steadfast love for us. The author assures us that we are never alone and that God is with us all the time. All we need is to seek Him and call on Him and treat Him as a friend and accept Him as our savior.
All in all, this is a touching, inspiring and enlightening book. It makes the readers understand their weaknesses as humans and encourage them to trust in God in everything they do. The author shares her own stories, some anecdotes, bible stories and selected biblical verses. By sharing her personal experiences, the author expresses her ardent belief and faith in God and sincerely wants other people to share in that belief and faith so they can experience the same happiness that she, herself, enjoys.
However, there are topics that I believe are put under the wrong part like those under part two but are better put under part one. Moreover, I find the tone of the narration preachy at some points while some explanations are too assuming, therefore, a little subjective (like You already know that I’m right about it). Furthermore, some statements are not backed up by any references like the part about different types of health conditions and various kinds of mental illnesses. Finally, the entire book is teeming with errors, typo errors (like that instead of than), missing words (I tend (to) emphasize), misspelled words (like visceversa instead of vice versa and south instead of sought) and grammatical errors.
This is, basically, a good book about faith and hope in God, and love of God for the humankind. This is an engaging and enlightening book that will touch the hearts of readers. The errors, however, make the book difficult to read, distract the readers and ultimately take away the enjoyment of reading an otherwise very enjoyable book.
I, therefore, rate this book 3 out of 4 stars and I recommend it especially to those who feel alone and afraid as well as those who need reassurance that there is someone out there who loves them and who cares about them, and that someone is God.
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He Is With You
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