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“Your Book Has the Wrong Title” – a Guest Post

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From a dear reader:

I will be honest. When April released her new book, The Peaceful Mom, I didn’t want to read it.

As a mom of a special needs child and 2 other children, I do the “mom” thing all day long. I didn’t want to read about it in my quiet time too. However, I would see a review here and there about the book and the reader would say,

“This book is so much more!”

They would go on to say how much it helped them. I thought maybe this could help me, too, so I decided to read it. 

As I started reading, I realized immediately that this book WAS different than any other mom book. This book was about:

  • How to improve my life.
  • How to draw closer to God.
  • Most of all how to have the peace in my life I had been craving for so long.

I even sent April an email and said this book should be called The Peaceful Woman because it would be helpful to any woman! 

April’s insights and wisdom hit home time after time throughout the entire book because she has been on this journey herself. I highly recommend, “The Peaceful Mom—Building a Healthy Foundation with Christ As Lord,” to any woman, whether you are a wife, mom, or grandmother—or even if you have no children.

If you are on a journey for peace, here is your guidebook.

FROM APRIL:

What will you discover in “The Peaceful Mom” that could bless you whether you are a mom or not?

How to have peace with God first by learning to:

  1. Examine the throne of your heart.
  2. Put your own spiritual oxygen mask on first.
  3. Correct skewed beliefs
  4. Take responsibility for your own spiritual growth.
  5. Find victory over negative emotions and hormone issues.

How to have peace with your children and others in your life by learning to:

  1. Model respect in all areas of life.
  2. Avoid loving others (including your children) “too much.”
  3. Trust God’s will for people you love.
  4. See life through the lens of eternity.
  5. Avoid some common mistakes like – people pleasing, playing the martyr, loving with strings attached, having loose lips, and controlling others. Learn to love in healthy ways, ask for what you need in healthy ways, and model a positive body image.
  6. Count trials as joy.
  7. Live out forgiveness, mercy, and grace and set a godly example for your loved ones and children.

Thanks so much for reading! I encourage you to check out “The Peaceful Mom.” It may just be full of spiritual treasures God wants to use to change your life.

The Peaceful Mom—Building a Firm Foundation with Christ As Lord

If you have read this book, I’d like to invite you to leave a review on Amazon, Christian Book, or Barnes and Noble. <3

You’re also welcome to check out my first book, “The Peaceful Wife—Living in Submission to Christ As Lord.”

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Devotional Give Away by Our Daily Bread!

Share this video on any social media account and leave me a comment about where you shared in order to be entered into a drawing to win one of 10 of Our Daily Bread’s new devotional books, “God Hears Her.” This is a new devotional for women by women to help us grow in our faith in the Lord.
 
I will announce winners in the comment section on Friday, July 20th, 2018.
 
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The Peaceful Mom Is FREE Today Only!

The Peaceful Mom ebook is downloadable for FREE today, April 9, 2018!

  • It is a one day only special. What a wonderful opportunity to receive some encouragement as a Christian woman and mom.
  • If you happen to miss the special today, there will be special pricing on the ebook of The Peaceful Mom from April 10th through the 15th of $2.99.
  • Also, The Peaceful Wife, ebook version, is on special for only $1.99 through April 15!

This promotion is available on Nook, GooglePlay, and Kindle at Amazon.com, Christianbook.com, and BarnesandNoble.com.

MY MISSION

My goals with my books, blogs, and Youtube channel are to:

  1. Share God’s message clearly and point women to Christ Jesus for salvation, hope, healing, power, and wisdom.
  2. Encourage and equip women to serve and honor Christ as Lord that they might experience the greatest intimacy possible with Him and partake of His abundant spiritual Life.
  3. Teach about godly femininity in an authentic, biblical way.
  4. Apply deep theological truths of scripture to our real-world family relationships.
  5. Give women powerful biblical tools and wisdom to use, with the help of God’s Spirit, to cultivate the healthy, beautiful, godly family relationships we all long to experience.
  6. Inspire women to desire to live holy lives and to model Christlikeness for their families and others.
  7. Encourage women to mentor and disciple their children in genuine faith in Jesus.
  8. Share women’s testimonies of the power of Christ in their lives to transform them and to heal them and their relationships.
  •  In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good,  so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered. Titus 2:3-5 
  • Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.  Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matt. 28:18-20 
  • But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Gal. 5:22-23

HERE ARE SOME DIRECT LINKS

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Barnes and Noble

The Peaceful Wife

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Happy reading, my sweet friends!

 

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Books Were My Mentors When I Began My Journey

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In December of 2008, God used a book, “Love and Respect,” (by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs) to open my eyes to a lot of problems in my attitude and behavior I had never noticed before. I was mortified. I had no idea how blind I was and how much work I had to do spiritually to become the woman God called me to be.

I didn’t have a godly mentoring wife/mom to meet with me once a week or once a month. I didn’t have a female prayer partner or an online teacher. But I was determined that I was going to learn everything God wanted me to know about being a godly woman and wife.

I spent about 3-5 hours per day (7 days per week) immersed in the Bible, books, prayer, and my journal notebook for several years. I begged God:

  • Don’t leave me like this!
  • Change me!
  • Show me what it means to respect my husband. I don’t understand.
  • Show me what godly femininity means.
  • Show me how to be the woman You call me to be to my husband and children.
  • Help me make up for my sin and treat my family well from now on.
  • Help me obey You in everything. I hate my way. I want to do things Your way!

I read over 30 books on godly femininity, biblical womanhood, and being a godly wife during those 3.5 years. Those books and authors were my mentors along with much prayer, and – most importantly – scripture and the Lord.

I could read the books over and over again, and I often did, to help me really drive home the new ways of thinking I wanted to adopt. I often wrote notes and prayers in my prayer journal while I read. And I highlighted the books and made notes in the margins. Of course, I had to be sure to carefully evaluate each statement against the Bible. I only wanted to receive things that align with God’s Word. But books were a way for me to connect with people who understood God’s design for women, marriage, and faith so much more than I did. It was a way for me to have very low cost, high intensity discipleship for many hours each week on my schedule. I didn’t have to bother anyone else. I didn’t have to find child care. I found that books were very thorough and organized. I think, in many ways, they can help even more than having someone with you face-to-face at times.

I used the many hours in the evening that Greg was doing renovations on our house after the children were in bed and just soaked in every drop of God’s truth that I could. I began to really look forward to that time with Him and with my “mentors.” Even when Greg wasn’t working on the house as much, he would be sitting watching TV in bed. I wasn’t really into TV, so I would often sit beside him and cuddle while I read my latest book and communed with the Lord in prayer. What precious times of intimacy with God and of healing and growth for me spiritually!

Since that time, I have read even more books to help me grow in my walk with the Lord and as a wife and mom. God has used so many Christian authors from recent history, and from even the 1800s to help sharpen my faith and trust in Him. I can’t imagine where I would be without the books God has used, along with His Word, to open my eyes to His love, His truth, His transforming power, and His path to peace for me.

My Newest Book, “The Peaceful Mom,” is releasing today, March 27th!

51cXWa6UBDL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_Perhaps The Peaceful Mom – Building a Healthy Foundation with Christ As Lord, might be one of the books God uses to be a great blessing and mentoring resource in your life? Maybe there are some areas where you are struggling as a mom, and this would be just the thing to help you grow and experience more of God’s power and peace in your life.

Check out the quiz on this link to see if it might be right for you.

And, if you are looking for help with your marriage and haven’t read, “The Peaceful Wife – Living in Submission to Christ As Lord,” it’s here for you, as a resource and mentor, too.

Lord,

Thank You for Your Word, Your healing and Your truth. Thank You for the blessing of Christian books with solid biblical teaching. I pray that You might provide godly books to help us grow. Lead us to the ones we need for each stage of our journey. Most of all, help us cling to You and Your Word. Transform us by the power of Your Spirit. Make us be more and more like Jesus. Teach us Your ways and give us the faith, power, and courage to follow and obey You in everything. Your ways are the best!

Amen!

NEXT WEEK:

I plan to share a bit about what God has been doing in my life over the past 6 weeks. <3

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Some of my favorite books – check out the books God used to most impact me on my journey

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Some of My Favorite Books

God used a number of books to help me grow in my faith, my understanding of Himself, and my understanding of godly femininity and being a godly wife. Here are some of the most important ones in my walk:

Books about Becoming a Godly Wife/Woman

Books about Understanding Men

Books about the Impact of Radical Feminism on All of Us (including our faith and marriages) VS. Biblical Femininity

Books about Going Much Deeper with Jesus