Sold To The Highest Bidder is the true story of God’s relentless love for a young girl who hitchhiked across two countries with her father and was sold on the black market after his incarceration.  With no mother and a father who was a career criminal, she faced many challenges but none so great as a childhood riddled with abuse and the loss of her daughter to a sudden illness.  This little girl who had been buried in heartache with a lifetime of suffering, began to emerge and rise from the ashes as the woman God created her to be all along.  Her story includes glimpses she was given through dreams and visions that revealed the very real spiritual war being fought over her since birth.  However, what the enemy meant for harm, God would ultimately use for good.  Her personal testimony to the goodness of God would be used as a message of hope to the lost and the broken, so they could find the deliverance and restoration she found in Christ.  Out of the darkness emerged a butterfly.

Book Reviews:

4/26/2021

By Rev. Dan Patman

Lisa Leigh Miller has recently written the story of her personal journey in a book titled “Sold To The Highest Bidder…A Father’s Relentless Love.”

Lisa’s journey includes homelessness, trafficking, abuse, bullying, poverty, dysfunction in the home, drugs, alcohol, divorce, the loss of a child and more. She opens her heart with brutal honesty, and sometimes chilling transparency, to share her personal experience of living in a “hell on earth.” She also offers real statistics and percentages that may shock the reader.

After finding herself homeless on the streets of Mexico City at the age of two and then “sold to the highest bidder” by a child trafficker, Lisa was miraculously rescued. But these horrifying events were only the first of repeated horrors she suffered throughout her growing-up years.

I found the book compelling and inspiring from front to finish, but I also found it uncomfortable at times. It tells the real story of how children are prepared or conditioned for aberrant sex and keeping secrets with testimony and teaching.

Yes, the book will make you uncomfortable. It will bring you to tears. It will make you angry. But it will also make you want to go out and do something about it. It will make you know that there is hope for anyone who has been battered, bruised, and abused by life.

The author uses plain language in describing the scenes from her life that are, frankly, indescribable. The reader never has to guess what Lisa is feeling or thinking. Her story is fast-paced and filled with heart-wrenching drama in the battle for her soul and for her very survival. She was victimized by almost everyone in her life and, sometimes, by her own wrong choices.

But, from the time of her conversion at the age of eight, Miller recognized God’s hand in her life. Through dreams and visions God spoke to her. Her story is filled with helplessness and heartache, forgiveness and healing, and the relentless love of a Father that would never let her go.

The author begins and ends each chapter, respectively, with a focus scripture and an all-inclusive healing prayer, together with two letters to her abuser at the end of the book.

The book is a must-read for pastors, counselors, teachers, and those who work with children, but also for those who have been abused or who have experienced dysfunction in the home. Men and women alike, as well as most youth, will find help, hope, healing, and the hand of God in Miller’s inspirational story.  https://www.okumc.org/newsdetail/book-review

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2021