A Kept Woman

By Carolyn Chance

Life can sometimes be extremely difficult to maneuver. One day you are queen of your mountain, the next day you are relegated to the lowest pit. Yet through all of life's ups and downs, and amid every emotionally driven good or bad decision made, you've always survived to live another day to tell another story. Ever wonder why? A Kept Woman is unlike any book you have ever read. The story provides some interesting testaments of life situations that have occurred in the life of the author. Told through the eyes of "the Keeper," A Kept Woman answers the age-old question of how a Christian "maintains while going through" life's journey. The book is refreshing and keeps you turning page after page as you soon realize that God, your father, is not looking for perfection""just consistency!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781644924402

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The Keeper

Now unto HIM that is able, to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

—Jude 1:24–25, KJV

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

—Jeremiah 29:11, KJV

A Kept Woman is told through the eyes of the Keeper, one who is intimately acquainted with the thoughts and decisions Carolyn and everyone else have made over the years. Regardless of those decisions, good or bad, know that Jesus has kept his promise to never leave Carolyn, even though she may have chosen something or someone over HIM. Jesus always remains faithful to the end (1 Corinthians 1:9; Hebrews 13:5).

The Keeper could have begun this book by expounding on every negative thing that ever happened in Carolyn’s life. But that would have meant exposing her past nakedness for all to see. I assure you, Carolyn did a pretty good job of exposing her own nakedness. Truthfully, for a long time, Carolyn whined and complained for days on end about how life treated her. But that’s just it—most of it was a part of living, albeit most without spiritual direction. It took a while, but over the years, the Keeper taught Carolyn that in relinquishing control of her life and trusting in the Keeper’s ability to present her faultless to the Father, HE would show her HIS salvation (Psalm 50:23). In the beginning when Carolyn finally began to relinquish come control over her life, she had a pity party and cried every day. Even though she cried often, she was frustrated because things were not turning out as she had planned. In spite of all her tears, she could not see that the Keeper had already started transforming her heart to identify with the true nature of her Father. The more she identified with God’s true nature, the less she cried and the more single-minded she became to please her Father and to arrive at HIS expected end.

According to the Keeper, there is no one who can deliver on the promise of an expected end, except your Heavenly Father (God). Not your friends, spouses, children, colleagues, psychiatrist, clergy, religion, or even church folk—no one can deliver on this promise except God. However, there is nothing worse than a proud, high-minded, self-proclaiming, trash-talking Christian who believes they can present themselves to the Father on their own terms.

They believe they are in control when they are actually out of control and lawless. The Keeper says they are carnal and love to walk the edges of Christendom. They are not totally committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ, only to pleasing their carnal, fleshly nature. When the going gets rough, you can’t tell them apart from the unsaved. I’m sure you remember Peter who cussed and refused to be identified as one of Jesus’s disciples, or the rich young man who wanted to be a disciple but sadly walked away from Jesus because he refused to relinquish that which controlled his heart—money.

The Bible tells us what eventually happened to Apostle Peter when he fully surrendered—people received the gift of salvation and were healed. Peter went on to author part of the New Testament and was eventually crucified upside down for preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. And then there’s the rich young man. The Bible does not give an account of his ending story, only that Jesus was saddened when the young man chose not to follow him because he had acquired great possessions. The Keeper pleads for us not to choose material things (possessions) over eternal life. In Mark 10:29–30, Jesus promises all who forsake going after material things in this life will in this life be compensated and gain eternal life. That’s an excellent return on an investment. And remember, the Keeper says God is able to make good on this