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A Woman of Strength and Purpose: Directing Your Strong Will to Improve Relationships, Expand Influence, and HonorGod
Your Strong Will Is God’s Will!
As a strong-willed woman, you meet the world head-on, undeterred by those who say something can’t be done. When applied in the right ways, your God-given passion produces clear-eyed purpose, deep compassion, and a bold spirit that can change the world. But sometimes your determination leads to misunderstandings and fractured relationships.
Cynthia Tobias knows firsthand the positive potential of a strong will channeled appropriately. In A Woman of Strength and Purpose, she offers practical strategies for applying your confidence and drive to enrich your friendships, career, ministry, marriage, and parenting. You’ll also hear from hundreds of other women who share your strong will and the desire to use it for God.
You don’t need to silence your strengths. Instead, let God use them to impact your world for good.
As a strong-willed woman, you meet the world head-on, undeterred by those who say something can’t be done. When applied in the right ways, your God-given passion produces clear-eyed purpose, deep compassion, and a bold spirit that can change the world. But sometimes your determination leads to misunderstandings and fractured relationships.
Cynthia Tobias knows firsthand the positive potential of a strong will channeled appropriately. In A Woman of Strength and Purpose, she offers practical strategies for applying your confidence and drive to enrich your friendships, career, ministry, marriage, and parenting. You’ll also hear from hundreds of other women who share your strong will and the desire to use it for God.
You don’t need to silence your strengths. Instead, let God use them to impact your world for good.
208 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2016
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About the author
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
25 books81 followersCynthia Tobias received her Master’s Degree from Seattle Pacific University. Her successful background includes 25 years of private practice, 8 years of teaching public high school, and 6 years in law enforcement. She is a best-selling author of 9 books, a featured guest on radio and television, a popular presenter for business, government agencies, churches and schools throughout the U.S. and the world and is the busy mother of twin sons, now in college. Cynthia and her husband live in the Seattle, WA area.
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March 27, 2018
***easy-to-understand guidance about positive & negative effects of a strong will***
“A Woman of Strength and Purpose,” by author, teacher and well-known Seattle speaker, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias concerns strong-willed women. After thirty years’ experience as a strong-willed woman she describes the positive and negative aspects of a strong will and encourages women to channel their strong wills appropriately. Otherwise, she writes a woman with a strong will, is a force for “great destruction” as well as “great good”
She begins with why such women are often described as determined, domineering, self-sufficient, tenacious and difficult to deal with. Yet, she writes, the quality of a “strong-will, in and of itself, is a positive trait.” In addition, “strong-willed” is not a neutral term and women with strong wills often invite extreme positive and negative reactions.
Cynthia writes from the perspective of a woman who has learned the positive and negative effects of a strong will. After she chose to submit to God and add godly inspiration to her strong will learned to “harness the gift of a strong will” and go on to powerfully influence and “impact the world for good.”
She also believes strong-willed women are unique and there isn’t a typical characteristic or profile to describe them, other than they are generally bold and unwilling to take no for an answer. However, when strong wills aren’t kept “in check,” she warns, they become a “destructive force” that results in a “struggle between their dark and light sides.”
Her target audience is strong-willed Christian women and her arguments are supported with extensive use of Scripture. Chapters include surveys, discussion questions and practical tips to identify strong wills strengths and weaknesses and even a checklist to determine “How Strong Your Will Is.”
Chapters end with “Profiles in Perseverance,” which are stories of strong-willed women who learned to submit to God and allowed Him to work in their lives. Their stories illustrate Cynthia’s wise counsel on how to overcome “Three Stumbling Blocks to Surrender:” decision making, discipline and committment.
Filled with real-life examples Cynthia’s practical advice inspires women to surrender their wills to God and live for Him. She teaches how to be with God instead of without God because; she writes, “your strong will is God’s will!” for you. Written in an easy-to-understand conversational style Cynthia’s guidance is well-done, practical and applicable.
‘A Woman of Strength and Purpose,’ by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, WaterBrook, 2016, 208 Pages, 978-1601428981, $15.
“Gail’s Bookshelf” Midwest Book Reviews: "January 2018"
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“A Woman of Strength and Purpose,” by author, teacher and well-known Seattle speaker, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias concerns strong-willed women. After thirty years’ experience as a strong-willed woman she describes the positive and negative aspects of a strong will and encourages women to channel their strong wills appropriately. Otherwise, she writes a woman with a strong will, is a force for “great destruction” as well as “great good”
She begins with why such women are often described as determined, domineering, self-sufficient, tenacious and difficult to deal with. Yet, she writes, the quality of a “strong-will, in and of itself, is a positive trait.” In addition, “strong-willed” is not a neutral term and women with strong wills often invite extreme positive and negative reactions.
Cynthia writes from the perspective of a woman who has learned the positive and negative effects of a strong will. After she chose to submit to God and add godly inspiration to her strong will learned to “harness the gift of a strong will” and go on to powerfully influence and “impact the world for good.”
She also believes strong-willed women are unique and there isn’t a typical characteristic or profile to describe them, other than they are generally bold and unwilling to take no for an answer. However, when strong wills aren’t kept “in check,” she warns, they become a “destructive force” that results in a “struggle between their dark and light sides.”
Her target audience is strong-willed Christian women and her arguments are supported with extensive use of Scripture. Chapters include surveys, discussion questions and practical tips to identify strong wills strengths and weaknesses and even a checklist to determine “How Strong Your Will Is.”
Chapters end with “Profiles in Perseverance,” which are stories of strong-willed women who learned to submit to God and allowed Him to work in their lives. Their stories illustrate Cynthia’s wise counsel on how to overcome “Three Stumbling Blocks to Surrender:” decision making, discipline and committment.
Filled with real-life examples Cynthia’s practical advice inspires women to surrender their wills to God and live for Him. She teaches how to be with God instead of without God because; she writes, “your strong will is God’s will!” for you. Written in an easy-to-understand conversational style Cynthia’s guidance is well-done, practical and applicable.
‘A Woman of Strength and Purpose,’ by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, WaterBrook, 2016, 208 Pages, 978-1601428981, $15.
“Gail’s Bookshelf” Midwest Book Reviews: "January 2018"
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July 8, 2017
This was an excellent read for the woman who doesn't fit the "mold" - for the driven and passionate woman who needs to know that there too is an important place and role for her within the church and Kingdom work. The author does a great job at identifying those traits every strong willed woman finds in herself and the tension in harnessing them to be best used to glorify God. And, "Yes" you can be a strong willed woman and still bring glory to Him! I can't believe wait to r as her book on the stein willed child.
May 5, 2023
Hands down the best applicable book I have read in a long time! The author provides great examples in everyday lives of other SWW and examples in the Bible that causes the read to think and make sure they are grounded in God and His word! I wish I would have read this book as a high school teen as I grew up thinking something was wrong with me. Thank you for your leadership and guidance. I will treasure this book, my notes and highlights until I pass it on to my 2 SWD ( strong willed daughters).
June 12, 2022
I read this mostly for the raising of my girls who are strong willed. It gave me lots of encouragement and ideas for teaching them throughout their lives! Full of practical life tips and stories about other strong willed women, it’s a interesting read from start to finish!
March 21, 2017
I stopped at Cynthia's booth at the Homeschool Convention in Fort Worth this year. I had never heard of her, knew nothing of what she was promoting, and immediately saw this book! The cover screamed "I know who you are! Read ME!" I feel like Cynthia and I are kindred spirits. :) This was a good book to read for this SWW. It would have been wonderful to have read it years ago, before I figured out that my strong will is a blessing from the Lord, but it was a good reminder for me. I will defintely recommend it to other ladies I know who fit the "not-so-much" of a mold of the SWW.
March 7, 2019
I wish I had read this book in my early 20s!! It was so on point and so helpful to better understand myself. If you're an SWW, read this book!
January 21, 2020
Mostly very good, especially for women who struggle with how to use their God given abilities to share ideas, solve problems, and lead in a way that honors God.
August 26, 2016
Are you a strong willed woman, or a SWW? Well, if you are, this is the book for you. It answers a lot of questions you may have had about the way you react or the way you feel about things. Strong willed women are undeterred by people telling them it can’t be done. You have confidence and drive to improve friendships, parenting, ministries, careers, and marriages. Cynthia Tobias will show you strategies to achieve it. There is a questionnaire to test how strong your will is. Strong Willed Women, is this you?
Want to leave the world better than you found it.
Can’t just stand there-you have to do something.
Always ready for a challenge.
Never want to give up.
Sound familiar?
If it does, you should pick up a copy today. It is very enjoyable reading. It shows how your strong will fits in with GOD’s plan. Good Reading!!!
I received a complimentary copy from Blogging For Books for the review.
Want to leave the world better than you found it.
Can’t just stand there-you have to do something.
Always ready for a challenge.
Never want to give up.
Sound familiar?
If it does, you should pick up a copy today. It is very enjoyable reading. It shows how your strong will fits in with GOD’s plan. Good Reading!!!
I received a complimentary copy from Blogging For Books for the review.
February 7, 2017
Mediocre at best
November 21, 2024
This was a pretty good book on how to harness your strong will to work for God, and how to tame it so you can listen to God's will instead of your own. I do wish there was more scriptural support for Cynthia's points, though.
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