Zip It By Karen Ehman is the 40 day challenge supplement to Karen Ehman’s book Keep It Shut. This 40 day challenge focuses directly on taming your tongue and focuses not only on the negative impacts of our speech but also encourages us to use our speech to lift up others. Karen weaves her real life stories and struggles within her writing and challenges often not to make the same mistakes as she has but rather take the mistakes she has made and learn from them and apply the truths from God’s Word in how we react to other people, including ourselves. each day is complete with take aways, and challenges to implement into our everyday lives and even journaling prompts and a Prayer to change our hearts in the direction that God’s Word directs that day. Some of the challenges are as simple as printing out a verse and posting it where you will see it often OR as challenging as hard heart work in changing or apologizing for hurt that you have spoken into someones life!
I must confess that going into this book review I had not yet read Keep It shut, but it was on the reading list for this year. SOOOOO I read it at the same time as Zip it and it was encouraging. I finished Keep it Shut after I read Zip and I can honestly say that if you have not read Keep It shut yet, you most certainly could read Zip It without reading Keep It Shut. It can stand on it’s own. Though I would recommend also reading Keep It Shut!
As I read Zip itI loved the short daily readings that were rich in Scripture and saturated with truth and raw transparency of how Karen struggled with her mouth. I am looking forward to working through the challenges at the end of every day! There is pretty much nothing I view as a Con. I do have a personal preference but it’s not a downfall of the book. Im just not a fan of the canned written out prayer BUT I can totally see the benefit as a direction in which to go. Again that is just a personal preference and DOES NOT affect my review of this book!
I really enjoyed reading this book and I gleaned so much from it even though I have yet to work through the challenges! I highly recommend this book if you struggle with taming your tongue…and even if you don’t
I give it 5 stars!
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