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Created to Be His Help Meet: Discover How God Can Make Your Marriage Glorious | 
 enlarge | Author: Debi Pearl
Publisher: No Greater Joy Ministries
Category: Book
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Rating:  238 reviews
Sales Rank: 4069
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 297
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1892112604
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.8435
EAN: 9781892112606
ASIN: 1892112604
Publication Date: December 1, 2004
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Somewhere over the passing years and changing culture, women have lost their way. This book was written to lead them bck home. Regardless of how you began your marriage or how dark and lonely the path that has brought you to where you are now.
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 Created to be a Help Meet December 26, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book should be read by all married women and any woman who plans on marrying. CAUTION: Attention should be paid to the exceptions...this won't fix an abusive spouse...GET OUT.
Changed my life, age old wisdom that REALLY works December 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Somebody gave this book to me two months after i got married. It was entirely divine. It has changed my whole world view and become one of my favorites ever. "You get more with honey than you do with vinegar." Unveil the goodness the devil would like to keep from us all and enter into sweet marriage with some old fashion wisdom. ps Your man will love you for following the advice in this book! Trust me!
Give it a chance December 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a book for the woman who questions God's wisdom in commanding us to submit to our husbands. Debi Pearl explains from every angle this difficult and controversial subject, all the while calling her readers to trust our loving God who created us and wants the very best for us. If you are not prepared to read this book to the very end you WILL misunderstand her views! I have read and spoken to several women who made this mistake. They quit too early because they read something that "rubbed them wrong" and formed opinions of Debi Pearl that were incorrect. Keep reading and she will explain herself further- many times bringing the balance to statements that seem to overly simplify difficulties in marriage.
For me personally this book has been a help beyond explanation. Although I wanted to throw it across the room several times, in the end I left encouraged to trust God and hopeful that no matter what obstacles I face in my marriage, He can work miracles to get me and my husband through them. And not just through them- better because of them.
One last note to those who have said this book puts all of the responsibility on women: Debi makes it clear that this is a book for women only. She is writing as though your husband will do nothing on his end to help solve your marriage troubles. I feel this is extremely wise, and, more often than not, true to life. Most marriages I see in extreme turmoil are not there because both partners are trying to work on things. Usually one person has completely given up and the other is barely hanging on. This book gives hope to that woman- the one whose husband doesn't care anymore. She calls to that desparate woman, "Hang on! God can still turn your marriage around!"
She hit my issues right on the head and every principle I have applied from this book has worked and blessed my husband AND myself. Give it a chance- if it doesn't work you can always go back to doing things your old way...
 Good book - a thought to keep in mind Ladies December 4, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
I read this book and really enjoyed it for all the good advice that I found. I have also read many of the reviews, both good and bad.
First of all, there is some excellent advice in this book. You can argue that it is or is not Biblical but when it comes down to it - is it in the Bible or not? You can only change your perspective of a verse so much based on context - some of it just is the way it is no matter how you look at it. Just a thought!
Also, I struggled with the fact that it seemed Debi was putting all the blame on the wives. It took me a while to figure out that Debi is talking ONLY to the women! She is not talking to the husbands - just the wives! If a women goes around and refuses to change anything or adjust anything until her husband changes first then there may be no change at all. I don't thing the Pearls are advocating that the husband is always right and wife always wrong. However, when talking only to the wives, what good would it do to spend time highlighting the faults of the husbands? Wouldn't that give wives freedom to say "well, I don't want to change myself until he changes too because he..." Debi did talk about this briefly saying something about the different things her husband would be saying if he were talking to men. If you read the book with this perspective, I think you will get much more out of it! It is pretty sad if we all go around hating the book because it doesn't punish the men while we hang on for dear life to the things we do wrong.
Wisely cautious November 29, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I would caution anyone writing a negative review of this book to check their own temperature and ask why am I so worked up??? I personally am wisely cautious about some of the advice that is somewhat based more in doctrinal interpretation than actual biblical interpretation. If you have to go to the KJV in order to get the right wording than perhaps you should be careful on your personal interpretation of old english.
That said the proof is in the pudding now isn't it. Is she and her husband happily married and are their children??? Are people who follow their advice happier as a result. Is your way currently serving you well and is your husband happy, or constantly walking on eggshells to not set you off. I think most women and most marriages would be well served to take a look at this book.
And I am sorry Ladies but if truth be known most divorces were birthed in our own bad additudes. Yes, there are some men out there that are just plain evil and that is addressed in this book to a very small degree. They have even advised women to turn their husbands in to the authorities.
If you or your husband are less than happy in your marriage or even with life in general do read this. It is more about positive thinking, gratitude, and understanding the way God made men. A Marriage run as a 50/50 partnership is not very happy. A woman who cheerfully gives a decent man 100% is likely to get 150% in return. These are the biblical principals addressed and as with anything use common sense try it out and pray about it.
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