RISE UP TAKE CONTROL BE WHO YOU WERE CREATED TO BE For those of us who have experienced life through the lens of despair and hopelessness, these statements carry with them the air of impossibility, bordering on cruelty. How can we, who have been used, abused, and discarded as no more than yesterday's trash, ever hope to rise above what we have come to know as just surviving one more day? Help I'm Locked Up...and Created for So Much More peers into the lives of two such men, Alex Hudson and Samuel (Hillbilly) Cartwright. Their story of victory over despair and hopelessness will encourage you to consider that freedom from these two silent killers is part of your God-ordained destiny. Are you stuck in a physical, emotional, or spiritual prison, drowning in an ocean of despair and hopelessness? Take COURAGE You have not been forgotten. You have not been left alone to drown. There is Someone waiting for you to reach out, receive your deliverance, and pursue your destiny Come explore this incredible possibility for yourself Enter the lives of Alex and Hillbilly, who are caught up in their own separate prisons. Find out what happens to them to change the course of their lives and enable them to pursue their destinies. Walk with them, learn from them, cry and laugh with them. And, in the end, celebrate with them. This book is about destiny, about finding the God of our destiny and following Him until we reach the potential we were created to reach. Alex and Hillbilly will guide you through their circumstances and provide you with tools to embrace the God of your destiny and the destiny He has ordained for you. May you find hope and healing for yourself and the ability to pursue your own destiny as you journal through this workbook. Where you are right now does not have to be where you are tomorrow