No Matter What: There’s Always Hope

By Tommye Williams and Krysten Tyler

This book is a hope-based interactive devotional for young people who have lost hope or feel hopeless due to childhood trauma or adverse childhood circumstances. It is designed to instill or renew hope and to give the reader tools and strategies to overcome the Terrible Ds (despair, despondency, depression, disappointment, discouragement, disheartenment, and disillusionment.)

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664292611

Tommye Williams

Tommye Williams serves as the Director of Children’s Church at OneLA, a thriving church both locally and globally. One of her greatest passions is for children and youth to know the depths of God’s love for them. This devotional is her second book. Her first book, Not Forsaken, was written for youth who feel rejected, neglected, or abandoned. She is the mother of Touré Roberts, a pastor, author, businessman, and visionary leader in the Body of Christ.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023903447

WestBow Press rev. date: 03/10/2023

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1   My Story

Chapter 2   What Is Hope?

Chapter 3   Hope Carriers from the Bible

Chapter 4   Today’s Hope Carriers

Chapter 5   God’s Word Is Truth

Chapter 6   Becoming a Hope Carrier

In memory of my beloved grandmother,

Mrs. Tommye J. Moore

PREFACE

My dear child, I want you to know that I am with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I am for you. I knew you even before I formed you in your mother’s womb. I took delight in putting all the right pieces together when I formed you: your amazing and unique individuality, your smile, your personality, your gifts and talents … everything about you. You are My creation. You are My handiwork. You are Mine.

Your Heavenly Father

If you are reading this devotional, it is because the Lord wants you to have hope. Oftentimes extremely difficult childhood experiences leave us feeling hopeless or discouraged, and we feel stuck and can’t imagine a future. But God wants you to look up and know that you are His child and you belong to Him. He wants you to know that you are loved and that you are not alone. He wants you to know that although others may have rejected you, He hasn’t rejected you, and He never will reject you. He wants you to know that no matter what it looks like, no matter what you’ve been through, you can make it.

The fact that you were born is no accident. You are God’s creation, and He created you on purpose. Your life has purpose. It’s been said that life’s disappointments can become divine appointments that lead us to God. So keep looking up. God’s got a plan for your life.

Many a time they