by Joyce Meyer
First published 2026
Joyce Meyer opens her life story with brutal honesty about growing up in poverty in the rural Midwest during the 1940s. She details the sexual abuse she endured from her father and the rage that defined her childhood home. Meyer traces her path from those traumatic beginnings to becoming the first modern woman to lead a global Christian ministry. She describes how faith transformed her damaged soul and broken heart into something whole and strong. The book follows her struggle to trust God and others after years of bitterness and anger. Meyer shows how divine intervention guided her life toward helping millions of people worldwide. She combines heartbreaking accounts of darkness and shame with stories of redemption and healing. Meyer writes with the same direct honesty and unexpected humor that has marked her five decades of teaching. Her purpose is clear: to show readers who have suffered abuse or trauma that complete transformation remains possible regardless of how severe or prolonged their pain may have been.
Genres: christian, autobiography, biography-memoir, christian-living
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: overcoming-adversity, personal-transformation
Setting: Midwest
Period: 1940s
272 pages · Hardcover · FaithWords
Content warnings: abuse