Rough day? Feeling like your life is stuck in neutral while you've got the gas pedal pinned to the floor? Feeling duped by God and defrauded by people? Me too. After serving two churches as senior pastor, earning two degrees, touring several foreign countries, and serving my country in a combat zone, I still felt well, unachieved. I am a privileged husband and a proud father, but approaching middle age, my esteem was riddled with a cancerous thought, ""Have I really made a difference?"" You've had them too, haven't you? Debilitating right? Negative, self-loathing thoughts can pulverize anvil-like esteem into shrapnel of darkness. Happily, you and I are woven from the same fabric as biblical characters. In this book, you will learn from the lives of a bastardly offspring, a red-light district doll, a stammering murderer, a sheepish boy-king, and a band of misfit ragamuffins how God promotes through commonplace tasks like fishing, sheepherding, and teaching to not so ordinary jobs like spying, prostituting, and surrogating. Still reading? Well, flesh and blood did not lead you to this book. Your difficulty or dark times represent God's brooding over you to unleash your potential to fulfill His promises. Stay in the darkness. In His timing, God will comfort your weeping with the brilliance of His glorious joy. Your reading this book is scheduled by the Divine. It is an appointment in the process, preparing you for your promotion