ABOUT THE BOOK

You are ”The God Who Sees Me.”

Discover a close relationship with God–no matter the pain or suffering in your life. Witness the depths of God’s compassion through the eyes of Hagar, a runaway slave who meets the living God in a desert of despair, where she gives Him the name El Roi, ”The God Who Sees Me.”

Through this seven-week study, you will find that when you surrender your life into God’s hands, your trials and triumphs serve a magnificent purpose: to draw you into the arms of the faithful God Who Sees Me.

”Deep and packed with surprising insights!” Francine Rivers

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Book: Hagar Shadia Hrichi Author: Shadia Hrichi

Genre: Religion / Bible Study Release Date: October 10, 2017

BOOK REVIEW

I was surprised to have found this to be more of a Bible-Study material than a story. This book launches you into the life of Hagar, who was a servant given to Sarah, the famous one that gave birth to Abraham's first son Ishmael. We see her dealing with loneliness and feeling abandoned. Hagar was an Egyptian slave. It is broken into seven weeks. Part one of the book encourages us to look for God's Presence. Everyone has doubted God at some point in our lives.

Hrichi does a great job of getting into the scriptures and helping the reader dive into Hagar's life with her. I will be honest I had no clue about Hagar in the Bible, but now I do have a great sense of her.

I love books like "Hagar" because it reminds me that God loves me for who I am and is there for me all the time. It is always nice being reminded of that.

I found the way Hrici formatted this book was well done. It is broken up in Two Parts and is broken down to into seven-weeks.

Week Two is about encountering God. With a hostile world we live in we need to trust God knows what he is doing.
Week Three is all about God's promises and count our blessings.
Week Four talks about God's protection.
Week Five talks about surrendering to God's plan.
Week Six talk about God's Passion.
Week Seven talks about God's Purpose. You can read this book in one day or really focus on the material week by week. I read it in full.

This is a great Bible-Study material, especially for a women's Bible-Study group. There are many thought-provoking questions at the end of each week. Hirchi uses examples and stories from her own life to help readers connect with Hagar's story. I highly recommend this book for Bible-Study. I was really hoping this would be in story form until a study material, but it still one very interesting to read.

Thank you to Celebrate Lit and Net Galley for a free copy of this book. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

SHADIA HRICHI is a passionate Bible teacher, author, and speaker who has a heart for seeing lives transformed by the power of God’s Word. She has received a master’s in biblical and theological studies from Western Seminary as well as master’s in criminal justice from the State University of New York. Shadia is the author of several Bible studies, including HAGAR,Worthy of Love, and her latest study, LEGION, comes out in October. Shadia is often invited to speak at churches, conferences, and other events. Her insightful, witty, yet vulnerable teaching style reveals compassion for the hurting, love for Jesus, and uncompromising commitment to the truth of God’s Word.

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More from Shadia

Am I known? Am I loved? Am I home?

Every human heart is searching for the answers to these questions. Yet when pain and heartache enter our lives, we feel betrayed and cry out one question: God, do You see me?

The answer is yes. He is Behind the Seen.

Because we live in a fallen world, each of us will inevitably face hard times, even painful ones. Who among us has never seen or felt the fallout of broken homes, broken lives, or broken dreams? Hagar is a great example of someone who discovered God during a difficult time.

Maybe you have never heard of her. Or perhaps you came across her name in a study of the book of Genesis. But how much do you really know about this young slave girl? We often relegate her to the backstage as a minor character in God’s redemptive story. But was she?

As I explored Hagar’s story for another book I wanted to write, God continually amazed me as we journeyed together from the affluence of Egypt, into a life of slavery, to a desert of despair. It seemed the more I studied her life, the more I discovered about God. What began as a chapter evolved into a study all its own.

Two years and several thousand hours of study and prayer later, HAGAR: Rediscovering the God Who Sees Me came to be. Consider this book as your backstage pass to the life of Hagar.

I have never actually gone backstage during a live event, but I know that much more goes on behind the scenes than meets the eye. I invite you to come backstage with me and explore how God was involved in every detail of Hagar’s life. Her story has all the ingredients of a Hollywood tragedy: betrayal, loss, abuse, crisis pregnancy, abandonment . . . any of that sound painfully familiar?

Thankfully, Hagar’s story does not end in despair. God was working Behind the Seen—just as He has in your life and mine—all along. As a matter of fact, Hagar emerges victorious!

Hagar: an unsung hero if there ever was one.

Beloved, is the enemy using anything in your past to try to derail you from God’s plan, or hold you back from experiencing God’s joy to the fullest? Be assured, that is not how your story will end. Just as God did for Hagar, when He enters your story, victory is already assured.

So strap on your sandals and a grab a bottle of water. We’re heading into the desert. A place where we will rediscover the God Who Sees Me.

“The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
on them has light shone.”
—Isaiah 9:2

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