God Wants You to Get the Most Out of Life... and Be Blessed!: Let Him Help You Conquer Life's Challenges

By Marty Ritzke

Fasten your seatbelt! The messages in this book will take you for a ride that can be life-changing.

Life's challenges are unavoidable. Sometimes they can get the most out of you. Somehow, amidst your troubles, God is there for you. By understanding you're in God's hands you can trust Him knowing He'll give you the strength to conquer those

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: May 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685562236

Marty Ritzke

Marty Ritzke overcame many health challenges. She's legally blind in her right eye and a three times cancer survivor. She has lived with epilepsy most of her life. After brain surgery, she was blessed and is now seizure-free. Despite these challenges, Marty lives life to the fullest. Her passion for photography, sharing laughter, and helping others prevails as she lives her life's mission, "Do What it Takes to Make People Feel Better!"

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God Wants You to Get the Most Out of Life...and Be Blessed!

Let Him Help You Conquer

Life’s Challenges

Marty Ritzke

Trilogy Christian Publishers

TUSTIN, CA

Trilogy Christian Publishers

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God Wants You To Get The Most Out of Life… And Be Blessed

Trilogy Christian Publishers

A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Trinity Broadcasting Network

2442 Michelle Drive

Tustin, CA 92780

Copyright © 2022 by Marty Ritzke

Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Scripture quotations marked WEB are taken from the World English Bible. Public domain

ALL the photos used in the book were taken by Marty Ritzke

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ISBN: 978-1-68556-222-9

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We treasure the Word of God not only by reading the words of scripture, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

Author and Religious Leader Henry B. Eyring

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

American Poet Ezra Pound

Contents

Introduction vii

I Give Special Thanks x

The Musician’s Prayer 1

The Gift of Life! 2

Rejoice and Be Glad! 6

I’m Serious...Please Humor Me! 10

God Gets Us Through Troublesome Times! 14

God Only Dishes Out What You Can Handle! 18

Faith, It’s a Must Have! 22

God Works Behind the Scenes! 26

You Give Me Strength to Keep Trying! 30

When You Fall Down, Get Right Up! 34

God Wants Us to Pray Without Ceasing! 38

God Listens to Our Prayers! 42

Be Bold in Your Prayers! 46

Call On Me, and I Will Answer! 50

God is Comforting! 54

God Will Renew Your Strength! 58

In Summary 62

So, Fasten Your Seatbelt! 65

Recommended Books to Read 69

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

Introduction

I began this writing journey many years ago. I always enjoyed writing poetry and journalism in school. In 1990 I had a frightening bout of metastatic papillary carcinoma. The cancer originally started in the lymph nodes around the neck. It apparently spread to surrounding areas including parathyroids and thyroid gland. The surgeons preformed a total thyroidectomy. They removed forty-eight lymph nodes, three parathyroids and the entire thyroid gland. Numerous complications occurred during the surgery. Doctors didn’t think I’d make it. Apparently, that was not true. God had a plan, and it wasn’t my time to go.

What happened was I was coming in and out of the anesthesia and overheard a doctor say, Oh my God, is she going to make it? Another doctor answered, I don’t think so, get the ___. I saw something go over my face. It was cold, and most likely pure oxygen. Right after that I