Author: Vivi Monroe Congress

ISBN: 097480200X

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Is your heart-fund empty?

Vivi Monroe Congress’s debut book, The Bankrupt Spirit: Principles for Turning Setbacks into Comebacks, is based on Jeremiah 1:10, ¹⁰ See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."

It is a tool for women, and men, to refill their bankrupt spirits.

This small book is power-packed with truth and the step-by-step instructions describing how to discern the state of one’s spirit, and the fill it to the max. It is an excellent study guide and leaves space for notes by the reader as she goes through each step to discover, and heal, her personal state of bankruptcy.

Just as a lack of funds and overspending of dollars can lead to financial bankruptcy, so can the lack of a personal relationship with God lead to a spiritual deficit.

Bankrupt(cy), as defined by the author, is being in a state of brokenness and unable to draw effectively from our faith account.

She conceived the idea for this book for her own experiences as she sought God’s purpose for her life.

The Bankrupt Spirit explores the different types of bondage one can find herself in; for example, grief and misery create a cumulative deficit account, especially when the circumstances behind these feelings are not resolved.

Bondage, with a capital “B,” blinds us to personal healing, and can be recognized by any of these: guilt, low or no self-esteem, generational curses, depression, perversion, financial devastation and idolatry, or the desire for someone or something that overrides the desire for God.

Congress is a gifted wordsmith and immediately places a picture in the reader’s mind of how Bondage moves in and steals our joy.

The format of The Bankrupt Spirit leads the reader through the steps to determine:

• How much damage is already done

• How to proclaim victory

• How to exercise the body and spirit

• How to harness the power of Scripture

• How to look to God as His “Child and gather the full inheritance of your rights as His child.

Congress encourages readers to come clean and admit bad habits and thoughts and name whatever issue we might have.

She is also wise in pointing out how to prepare for increased trials and tribulations, because the harder God’s children try, the harder the devil attacks.

Highly recommended for readers of both sexes and the subject matter is explained very well and can easily be understood by young adults through senior citizens.