Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright, co-authors of God Won't Leave You There, came to Joseph's story the hard way. Anne survived breast cancer, lost her husband of 49 years after finding him unresponsive in their pool, and has walked through decades of suffering with a faith anchored in God's promises. Rachel-Ruth survived two rare SCAD heart attacks that should have killed her, spent three years in and out of the ER, and carried a nine-out-of-ten PTSD diagnosis while clinging to the Psalms in the middle of the night. Together they wrote this book because they had no choice but to.

God's promises, the story of Joseph, and what it looks like to trust God when the suffering will not stop: Anne and Rachel-Ruth unpack how Joseph's journey from the pit to Potiphar's house to prison to the palace was never accidental, how God was teaching him at every stage even when it looked like abandonment, and why every hard thing in their own lives carried the same fingerprints. They also share what it was like to write this book together across two very different personalities, why Anne's father Billy Graham kept telling her for years that Joseph was the book she needed to write, and why they both believe this message is for such a time as this.

Highlights

• How two rare SCAD heart attacks that should have killed Rachel-Ruth became the spark for this book
• Why Ann's father Billy Graham repeatedly told her Joseph was the book she needed to write, and why she waited
• The "Jesus in the Shadows" feature at the end of each chapter, where mother and daughter trace Christ in Joseph's story
• How Joseph chose to trust God and learn at every stage of suffering rather than wallowing in his pain
• What Anne learned about blessing during chemotherapy treatments that became like mission trips with her daughters
• How Rachel-Ruth clung to a specific promise God gave her after the heart attacks, and why it carried her through three years of pain
• Why Anne believes the key to surviving suffering is shifting your focus off your pain and onto the blessings along the way

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• 🌐 Anne Graham Lotz website: https://www.annegrahamlotz.org
• 📱 Instagram Anne Graham Lotz: https://www.instagram.com/annegrahamlotz
• 📱 Instagram Rachel-Ruth Wright: https://www.instagram.com/rachelruthlotzwright
• 📖 Book: God Won't Leave You There
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