One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land

A great study for women of any age. Priscilla Shirer illustrates from her own life the journey for inimate fellowship and direction from God. She challenges her readers to aspire to abundant living with scripture and life experiences. An easy read that WILL keep your attention and give amazing insights to draw from.

Priscilla helps you look at things in a clear light of God's word. Your promised land may be nearer than you think, but there's a price of sacrifice.
Great explanation of the wilderness experience. It's a good read.

This book is a must read for Christians today. God is calling us to a closer walk with Him- from the mundane to a radical experience with Him. We can be that One-in-a-million kind of Christian that consecrates themselves to God and lives by His word just like Joshua. He heard the voice of God and acted upon it- unlike Moses who had a rod in his hand, Joshua had nothing but God's word. We can walk in that type of confidence in God!
An awesome book- would make a great Bible study for small groups.

I had first heard Priscilla Shirer when she was a guest on Enjoying Everyday Life, then I was privileged to see her speak at a Woman's Conference. On both occasions I was inspired by her - so I was really looking forward to reading her book. It did not disappoint! The book provided wonderful insights and examples of lessons that she struggled with which was a great encouragement for me as I am going through the "wilderness".

Wonderful book, that will help you take a look at yourself and recieve what God has for you. Stop mumuring and complaining and know that God is God, and He will never leave me nor forsake me. What I go through is just to make me stronger, wiser and "One In A Million".

Asking around for recommendations of authors, Priscilla Shirer was suggested. I love to read but I struggled through the first 20 percent of this book and gave up. You may like her,but she isn't my style of author. She seems too "girly" for lack of a better description. The title caught my attention but got lost trying to understand where she was going.

I was very disappointed in the fact that there are apparently two books with this title. The difference is that one has workbook pages and the other has a little different text and no workbook pages. I am in a Bible study group that is studying this book and wanted to buy it at a lesser cost for people that couldn't afford the book. However I wasted my money and we all had to purchase the one including the workbook pages. The Christian book store informed us that it was a controlled product and the video had to be purchased with the books to get the correct one. The church Bible study group did purchase the video and the workbooks and that is why they got the one we needed to use. I figured it would cost more in shipping to send the books back. I wish I had known that the text was slightly different and it didn't have questions to answer or video viewing comment sheets.

This book is AWESOME! The author goes between stories of her own life and thought-provoking jabs that really make an emotional impression. Ultimately, she writes to inspire you to go after what God has planned for you, to walk fully in his promises. However, she does not neglect to write about the time when we are desperate or feeling stagnant. She effectively uses Exodus One as a metaphor for our personal walk with God and is able to talk about each unique part- the highs and the lows.

This is a worthy read- something you may think you don't need is something that could forever change your life.

Mrs. Shirer explains and demonstrates in simplicity with encouragement, wisdom, and knowledge of God's Word and compassion for God's people on how to obtain your promised land. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to move from their "wilderness or dry season or spiritual stagnation or complacent place(s) to their promised land (abundant living in Christ, goal, vision and/or mission). I will share this book with others.

This book is AWESOME! The author goes between stories of her own life and thought-provoking jabs that really make an emotional impression. Ultimately, she writes to inspire you to go after what God has planned for you, to walk fully in his promises. However, she does not neglect to write about the time when we are desperate or feeling stagnant. She effectively uses Exodus One as a metaphor for our personal walk with God and is able to talk about each unique part- the highs and the lows.

This is a worthy read- something you may think you don't need is something that could forever change your life.

Mrs. Shirer explains and demonstrates in simplicity with encouragement, wisdom, and knowledge of God's Word and compassion for God's people on how to obtain your promised land. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to move from their "wilderness or dry season or spiritual stagnation or complacent place(s) to their promised land (abundant living in Christ, goal, vision and/or mission). I will share this book with others.

She has some worthwhile goals. She works to the end that the Christian life is not just about knowledge (p. 10) and she wants the Christian faith to leave the pew and be lived out on the street (p. 12). She understands sanctification (p. 18). She emphasizes obedience before experience (p. 142), a theme which is not heard often enough. These are admirable goals.
But it is also disappointing. Shirer's definition of the "abundant life" revolves around the things that God can do for me - answer my prayers and give me neat things (p. 9). She uses the OT metaphorically (the Hebrews had their wilderness, what is your wilderness? rather than typologically or other appropriate method). She reduces the Christian life to the existential and does so at the expense of an intelligent faith (p. 38).

That last point is my biggest concern. It is the way that so much material is framed today - faith v. knowledge. While some, like Sproul, make the mistake of defining faith as knowledge, this represents the opposite error. For Shirer faith exists exclusive of knowledge. So she appeals to the "abundant experiences" for "those who abandon themselves to belief." This represents a dangerous way of thinking.

Now, I'm not a stickler for systematic uniformity. That is, I do not think that all the teachers need to be Calvinists or that everyone's eschatology must be dispensational. But I do think that the pop approach to spirituality that is one step away from word-faith, name-it/claim-it, self-centered theology is dangerous.

So what is missing? It is missing call for functional commitment. Her call for obedience has no legs. There is no commitment to serve. Not to serve each other. Not to serve the local church. Not to serve the advancement of the church in missions and gospel proclamation. It is left mostly at the level of individual calling (p. 193). Women are not challenged to examine the Scriptures as a calling. They are called to experience. And that is not enough.

Oh, and there is really no Bible "study" in the book.