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Reviewer:  Shirley Roe
Allbooks Review

Divinely Framed is a book of empowerment: empowerment of the most divine - the empowerment of GOD’s LOVE. This book reads like a very powerful sermon, a sermon you can hear in your mind and your heart as you turn the pages. A sermon that will reach deep into your subconscious, make you face your own fears and come out with the power of GOD.

Any woman that has ever been verbally or physically abused, put down or told she ‘can’t,’ needs to pick up this book and read it from cover to cover, not once but every day. You will learn who you really are and more importantly who you are not.

The chapter of Prophetic Declarations and Divine Affirmations will provide the daily affirmations that each woman needs to repeat over and over again until she truly believes. Scripture is quoted in very strategic locations throughout as readers are guided on their journey to empowerment. This is a book that will give you daily inspirations and encouragement, a book that you will use often.

The pages of the book are a pale rose, imprinted with butterflies and flowers. The cover is attractively framed and shows a pair of hands reaching out of a picture frame. An excellent representation of the ‘helping hand’ this book extends to readers. The vocabulary is easy to understand and written using slang and modern day terms to express certain emotions and situations. Readers will easily identify with the text.

Ora Stearns Smith is the founder of Ora International, a ministry committed to spreading the Good News around the world. She is multi-talented and writes not only books but plays and and songs as well. She is married to Pastor Leemann Smith and resides in Southern California.

Recommended as a must read for women needing empowerment and those who need reaffirmation of who they are. Although it is geared to women of faith, all women can benefit from this book.

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Reviewer: Vicki Landes
for Reader Views

Who are you anyway? This is the question Ora Stearns Smith wants every woman to ask herself – and to be able to answer without hesitation by the last page. Her inspirational book “Divinely Framed’ is a message of love, empowerment, and hope for those women looking to take their lives to a new, heavenly level.  She wants her readers to see themselves as worthy of God’s love, no matter what their background or prior behaviors. She notes that “the darkness of your past cannot extinguish the light of your future’, leaving no one in a fruitless, unpromising life.

Stearns Smith writes “Divinely Framed’ with a sermon-like, gospel reunion feel. As you read, you can almost hear her strong, thunderous voice echoing off the walls in a spacious hall of worship.

Her contagious enthusiasm and excitement jump off of every page as she urges her fellow women to acknowledge where they’ve been and to leave it all behind for a life with Christ. “Oh yes I hear you, my sister, Oh, how I hear you!’ “My sistah! My sweet sistah!’ Stearns Smith successfully gets her positively beautiful points across in her book where even the page backgrounds ooze with femininity.

Unlike many other self-help books, “Divinely Framed’ wouldn’t have the reader feeling besieged with thoughts of inadequacy. Instead, the reader comes away ‘framed’ in a much lighter spirit and a radiant outlook on her new life. With a backbone of Biblical scripture, Stearns Smith’s message weaves her energizing personality throughout as she praises her Lord and praises all women. “You are empowered to soar in spite of all the turmoil and confusion and devastation and threats of annihilation.’ By the end of the book, she’s got her readers cheerfully shouting, ‘I am that I AM says I am!’

“Divinely Framed‘ is picture-perfect for adult women needing some motivation to make positive changes in their lives. Witty, electrifying, and overflowing with unadulterated joy, Stearns Smith really knows how to get her readers off their feet and yelling, ‘hallelujah!’ Can you hear the choir singing ‘O Happy Day’ in the background? I can! It’s time to testify!

Reviewer: Regina Baker
Houston, Texas USA

This is the type of book that you don’t put on the shelf! I refer back to it time and time again because of the encouraging messages of who we are as Women but more importantly, ‘who’s’ we are! So many Women have lost sight of self preservation, who we are created to be and that we are not alone. Ora’s message is a confirmation of the scriptures that we are ‘Divinely Framed!’ Awesome message for Women!

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Reviewer: Taffy W. Wagner

Author/Publisher/Counselor
(Denver, CO)

This is such a beautiful book filled with life changing information. Reverend Smith has given us valuable and powerful truth that will set you free from low self-esteem, being a people pleaser and even dealing with negativity. Once you understand and get the truth into your spirit who God says you are, you will become the person that God intended for you to be. As a woman who already knew who she was in Christ, this book was confirmation and stirred up my excitement for God’s plan and purpose for my life.

Thank you, Reverend Smith for Divinely Framed.  It is truly one of a kind and needs to be in the hands of every woman.

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Reginald Berry
Founder, S.O.S. Ministries

To God be the glory . . .

I commend my sister-in-Christ, Ora Stearns Smith, for her literary effort entitled, “Divinely Framed’, as well as recommend it to be read, studied, and meditated upon by anyone seeking the keys to true liberation, being set-free from the sinful ways of life that’ll essentially hold one in bondage or far worse, bring about a painful death and the eternal consequences thereof (Romans 6:23 and Revelation 20:12-15).

Having read “Divinely Framed’ myself while incarcerated at Tamms (Illinois’ only super-maximum prison) I found it both inspirational and biblically informative. Sister Ora touched upon truths of life and love, expounding upon how mankind can diminish, both while conveying how through Jesus Christ we can experience life and love more abundantly. Her perspectives being so-o-o-o soul-stirring that the Holy Spirit prompted me to introduce these keys of emancipation to the female-prisoners serving time in the Illinois Department of Corrections who need to understand that despite their current confinement … “they’ too can be set free!! Created anew, being “divinely framed’.

Recognizing this necessity, my soul mate, Denise A. Berry, and I partnered our nascent ministry (Saving Our Sons Ministries) with Sister Ora to donate several of these books to bless the women prisoners by making “Divinely Framed’ available in their prison libraries (Dwight, Lincoln and Decatur Correctional Centers) leading them toward freedom.

Thank you for being a help in others faith, enlightening people with Godly love and wisdom. Sister Ora . . .  To God Be The Glory ! (I Timothy 4:6, 16) .

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Evangelist
Donna Currie

The accuser of the saints has made great inroads into the lives and psyche of God’s jewels - His beloved daughters. The assault has been executed with precision and the effects devastating. The enemy of our souls comes to steal, kill and destroy. He has succeeded in stealing our knowledge of our birthrights in Christ, in killing our vision of the beauty of our wonderful divine nature, and in destroying our awareness of that through the shed Blood of Jesus, we are wholly acceptable to our Holy Father.

satan is liar. satan is a deceiver. satan is an accuser. Why take heed to his lying words? Why give audience to his deceptions? Why take advice from the one who seeks to destroy your soul?

Jesus came that you might have life - Abundant Life. Abundant in joy, abundant in purpose, abundant in faith, abundant in health, abundant in power, abundant in authority, abundant in grace, abundant in mercy, abundant in forgiveness, abundant in love, abundant in peace.

Divinely Framed, I am that I AM says I am will awaken us.

Divinely Framed shakes us from our slumber.

It is time, and indeed the time is NOW for the daughters of The Most High God to rise up. Time to shake off the darkness, the shame, and the lies that have been plastered all over you. Time to awaken to the truth revealed to us by Jesus, the Light of the World. No more darkness, but light. No more lies, but truth. No more bondange, but freedom. Jesus came to set the captives FREE. Rise up in your freedom. In Christ, you have the authority and the power to be free. Free from shame. Free from guilt. Free from condemnation. Free from the lies of the wicked one. Free to love. Free to be loved. You are wonderfully and fearfully created; in fact, you are designed in the very image of God. Shine forth your light! Exercise your authority! Reign in His majesty and power. Let God glorify Himself through you!

Warning! The words you are about to read will change your life for good. God has an amazing plan for you. Plans for good, not evil. You are on the brink of entering a new dimension, a wonderful realm - the heavenlies. Here is where God speaks. The words you are about to read and speak are divinely-inspired. You are about to make a wonderful discovery - you are divinely framed!

God is calling His daughters to realize their spiritual heritage. Your Father in Heaven is an awesome God, and He created you in His image. You are an awesome child of an awesome God. Your ‘defining moment’ is here.

God’s Word about you proceeds you - goes before you (Matthew 4:4). So, silence the voice of the evil one. Allow the Holy Spirit to speak Life to those dead areas in your life.

Jesus said, ‘Come.’

Come all who are weary and heavey laden. Come all who are wounded. Come all who are broken-hearted. Come all who are sick and afflicted in their soul. Come all who have not discovered their purpose for living.

You are cordially invited to come and hear what Thus said I AM. Thus said the Lord - the truth about you!

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