Are you hurting? Do you seek peace? Are you looking for hope? Do you feel stuck? Do you long for success? Renewing? Transformation?

There is a self – help book that will guide you toward peace, transformation, hope, joy, success and other positive aspects for your life. I recommend this for everyone. It works wonders.

Various self–help books have taken their principles from this text. However, many self – help tomes do not work because they are missing an important element:

Jesus - Yeshua

Countless pop psychology books focus on our ego, self, what we can get out of life, how to get it and the list goes on. Putting blame on everyone in our world except ourselves. Focusing on our past hurts, bad parenting relationships, trauma, anxieties and depressions; temporal drama. Making many people believe and live out the false labels they are given. Concentrating inward on themselves, blind to the big picture. Buying more self – help books for a temporary bandage to life. Giving the reader a false sense of self; we can do it on our own.

The self – help book I suggest everyone read is technically not in the self – help/ psychobabble genre. It is the Bible. (Did you think that is the book I’m writing about?)

The Bible is filled with life changing moral wisdom. Historical narratives with principles that stand the test of time. Stories of people going through the same things we deal with in the present. Depicting what happens when we don’t put God first in our lives – and the results when we do put Him first. Truth pointing us to our need of Yahusha and His cleansing sacrifice to free us, restoring our relationship with Abba YHWH.

The Bible draws us to focus on YHWH and the big picture of life. The Bible depicts how we can’t do life on our own. Living for Jesus. Loving Him with all our hearts, minds, soul and strength. Also loving others as ourselves. He doesn’t want us to be the spotlight of our lives, having inward focus.

Success, joy, peace, hope and transformation comes from trusting and obeying Abba. Believing in Yahusha as the way, the truth and the life. This is the option He Who Exists provides – it is your choice. Therefore, I call the Bible a self – help book (loosely), because it’s up to you to make the right choice for your life.

YHWH can’t make you love, obey and trust Him. He gives us the power and ability to think, choose and feel. It is up to us to listen to that still small voice pointing us to drop everything and follow Him.

Following God doesn’t guarantee life is a perpetual party. We live in a broken world connected and affected by everyone’s decisions. However, following Jesus brings hope, peace, joy, riches (not always monetary) and a thriving life. Jesus gives us motivation to live!

 The Bible teaches us these 10 principles that will change your life:

1.      Don’t speak evil.

2.      Keep your lips from telling lies.

3.      Turn away from evil and do good.

4.      Search for peace and work to maintain it.

5.      Take shelter in the YHWH.

6.      Listen to Him.

7.      Pray continually.

8.      Be strong in your faith.

9.      Encourage other believers.

10.  Be humble (give all glory and honor to God. Beware false humility).

I follow these principles and the other guidance the Word gives me, and I experience peace, joy, hope, success, a good life. My life isn’t perfect but I’m happy 90% of the time.

Invest in the Bible as the ultimate self – help/ non self – help book. The whole Bible is a must read!

Do you have any experience with self – help books? Did they really help you?

References: Most of the principle list is compiled from Psalm 34, 1 Corinthian 16:13, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:14

Love,

Christina