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Embraced: 100 Devotions to Know God Is Holding You Close – A Daily Devotional for Comfort and Confidence
God doesn't pull back from your sharp edges. He pulls you close. In Embraced, beloved Bible teacher and bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst offers 100 devotions that will resonate with women in all stages of life by giving you a godly perspective on the issues you face each day.
A real embrace indicates an intimate level of closeness. It's not a high five or a casual handshake. The best kind of embrace is when someone we know deeply loves us, flings their arms wide open, and pulls us in close.
Through these 100 devotions, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts, you will be equipped
Begin finding freedom from the struggles that have held you hostage by learning new ways to experience God's love.Surrender your deepest hurts by processing them in a godly way with Lysa, a friend who understands your pain.Hear the Lord speak intimately to your heart by learning how to seek His direction.Release the tension of wondering, If God is near why does He sometimes feel far away? by spending guided time with Him each day.Embraced will be a treasured keepsake for you, and a meaningful gift for those you love,
An exquisite cloth cover you'll want to leave out for others to see and for easy accessHighly designed interior with Scripture, call-outs, and quotesRibbon marker to keep your placeOur hearts were made for this kind of love and security, but for many of us, we know more about the pain of heartbreak and fear than the unconditional love for which we were created. In Embraced, Lysa shares her own struggles, doubts, and heartbreaks while pointing to the ultimate God opening His arms wide on Calvary through Jesus so that He could pull us close for all of eternity, welcoming us into the safety and hope of His grace, love, and embrace.
Look for additional bestselling books from Lysa
Forgiving What You Can't Forget It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Uninvited The Best Yes
A real embrace indicates an intimate level of closeness. It's not a high five or a casual handshake. The best kind of embrace is when someone we know deeply loves us, flings their arms wide open, and pulls us in close.
Through these 100 devotions, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts, you will be equipped
Begin finding freedom from the struggles that have held you hostage by learning new ways to experience God's love.Surrender your deepest hurts by processing them in a godly way with Lysa, a friend who understands your pain.Hear the Lord speak intimately to your heart by learning how to seek His direction.Release the tension of wondering, If God is near why does He sometimes feel far away? by spending guided time with Him each day.Embraced will be a treasured keepsake for you, and a meaningful gift for those you love,
An exquisite cloth cover you'll want to leave out for others to see and for easy accessHighly designed interior with Scripture, call-outs, and quotesRibbon marker to keep your placeOur hearts were made for this kind of love and security, but for many of us, we know more about the pain of heartbreak and fear than the unconditional love for which we were created. In Embraced, Lysa shares her own struggles, doubts, and heartbreaks while pointing to the ultimate God opening His arms wide on Calvary through Jesus so that He could pull us close for all of eternity, welcoming us into the safety and hope of His grace, love, and embrace.
Look for additional bestselling books from Lysa
Forgiving What You Can't Forget It's Not Supposed to Be This Way Uninvited The Best Yes
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About the author
Lysa TerKeurst
143 books32.8k followersLysa TerKeurst is president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times best-selling author of Univited, The Best Yes, Unglued, Made to Crave, and 18 other books. Her newest book, It’s Not Supposed to be This Way, is scheduled for release in November of 2018. Lysa was recently awarded the Champions of Faith Author Award and has been published in multiple publications such as CNN and Fox News online. Additionally, she has appeared on the Today Show as one of the leading voices in the Christian community.
Each year, Lysa is a featured keynote presenter at more than 40 events across North America, including the Women of Joy Conferences and the Catalyst Leadership Conference. She has a passion for equipping women to share their stories for God's glory through Proverbs 31 Ministries' annual She Speaks Conference and writer training program, COMPEL: Words That Move People.
Connect with Lysa on social media @lysaterkeurst or at http://lysaterkeurst.com/.
Each year, Lysa is a featured keynote presenter at more than 40 events across North America, including the Women of Joy Conferences and the Catalyst Leadership Conference. She has a passion for equipping women to share their stories for God's glory through Proverbs 31 Ministries' annual She Speaks Conference and writer training program, COMPEL: Words That Move People.
Connect with Lysa on social media @lysaterkeurst or at http://lysaterkeurst.com/.
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November 24, 2021Excellent daily devotional. I love her writing so much.
December 25, 2018
I think this is the best devotional I’ve seen, and the only one I’ve truly wanted to keep reading! It pushes me to deepen my relationship with God in both big and small ways—really, in every way. I have begun praying much more frequently, reading through the Bible, and attending church more. I’m more motivated to help others, too, and seek out volunteer opportunities and give of my financial resources. It was just the push I needed to get moving and deepen my relationship with Jesus. Would highly recommend!
April 4, 2024
Such a good devotional for women. All Glory to God for he is the Alpha and Omega. The beginning and the end. So blessed to be a child of God. 🫶🏻
April 1, 2018
Gorgeous! I received my copy of this devotional in the mail today and already I am through several devotions. This is one of those most serene devotionals I have ever seen. It is packed with amazing devotions that get to the heart of God. Lysa doesn't waste time in getting straight to the heart of the matter and I love that. This is a perfect gift for your friends. I already went to Amazon to buy a couple copies because I LOVED Embraced that much!
The cover of this book is a hard, linen cover with a light egg watercolor blue and stained page edges. It has a beautiful ribbon marker and the interior is just gorgeous. This is truly a treasure and a gift for people those who you love.
Lysa uses experiences from her own life to teach, which is something I appreciate. I enjoy that each devotional stirs my spirit and ends with a prayer. It compliments my daily quiet time with the Lord well. I really enjoy this devotional and give it 5/5 stars. A favorable review was not required for this complimentary copy.
The cover of this book is a hard, linen cover with a light egg watercolor blue and stained page edges. It has a beautiful ribbon marker and the interior is just gorgeous. This is truly a treasure and a gift for people those who you love.
Lysa uses experiences from her own life to teach, which is something I appreciate. I enjoy that each devotional stirs my spirit and ends with a prayer. It compliments my daily quiet time with the Lord well. I really enjoy this devotional and give it 5/5 stars. A favorable review was not required for this complimentary copy.
December 4, 2020
While I didn’t really have theological problems with this book, I found it to be mostly a bunch of fluff without much substance.
I was really put off by her attempts at sweetness that came across instead as saccharine overfamiliarity, such as repeatedly referring to the reader as “sweet sister.”
I wouldn’t strongly discourage anyone from reading it, but I would highly recommend somebody like Elizabeth Elliot or Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth or Amy Carmichael over this author.
I was really put off by her attempts at sweetness that came across instead as saccharine overfamiliarity, such as repeatedly referring to the reader as “sweet sister.”
I wouldn’t strongly discourage anyone from reading it, but I would highly recommend somebody like Elizabeth Elliot or Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth or Amy Carmichael over this author.
April 21, 2021
Open, honest and real!
June 17, 2025
This was such a great devotional book to read daily at the start of my mornings! It was very well-written and full of encouragements and life lessons. I highly recommend it to any women or girls looking for a truth-filled devotional to help them in their spiritual lives!
May 24, 2025
Many of these devotions i read on a day I needed them. God’s timing. Lysa Teurkerust’s writing has a way of meeting the average person. God has truly given her a gift.
April 14, 2020
Let me preface this with a couple of disclaimers: first, that I struggle with devotionals, because I don't do trite, and in order to have short daily thoughts, that is often what authors resort to; second, that I have a very unique background and worldview that makes a lot of women's Christian living works hard to get through; and third, I really, really can't stand "Christianese" like "doing life together," "Jesus girl," "come alongside of," "check your heart," or "God thing."
The author makes some decent points with nothing in the way of glaring theological error. If you're using this very pretty book as a supplement to actually reading your Bible, and if you're the kind of white-capri-wearing, hand-raising, hallelujah-praise-Jesus, soccer-mom, vaguely Southern-Baptist woman this is aimed at, I'm confident you'll get a lot out of it.
I was just too busy grinding my teeth at being called "sweet sister" by a total stranger for the hundredth time to really get the takeaway.
The author makes some decent points with nothing in the way of glaring theological error. If you're using this very pretty book as a supplement to actually reading your Bible, and if you're the kind of white-capri-wearing, hand-raising, hallelujah-praise-Jesus, soccer-mom, vaguely Southern-Baptist woman this is aimed at, I'm confident you'll get a lot out of it.
I was just too busy grinding my teeth at being called "sweet sister" by a total stranger for the hundredth time to really get the takeaway.
November 28, 2025
I LOVED this devotional book. It felt like a love letter from a friend. Such loving and practical reminders and applications for life. Definitely going to purchase more of Lysa’s books!
April 11, 2019
It would be 5 stars, but she definitely combined stuff from books and devotionals she had already written for some of the devotions. I knew when I was reading something I had read before. It was awesome stuff and good to be reminded again, but I would have appreciated all new content.
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March 28, 2024I recommend this as a chill devotion for a easy way to get into the word. Either before you start your quiet time in the morning or before you go to bed. It wasn’t deep but biblically sound.
August 17, 2025
Phenomenal devo book, could not recommend enough
November 20, 2019
I chose this book because I like to choose a "word of the year" and this year I chose "Embrace" so this seemed perfect. It has many good devotionals, but if you've read her stuff before a lot of it was repetitive and not new to me. Some of her stuff was overly sweet (I really don't relate to calling myself a Jesus Girl, that's just not my style) but some of it was raw and real and made me think. I did enjoy it, and I do feel like it helped me grow, I just didn't love it like I thought I would. Probably more like 3.5-3.7 stars.
February 4, 2021
Featuring 100 devotions for women, Lysa TerKeurst's Embraced is a beautiful journey learning to walk with God, to turn to God, despite what the devil tries to do with our flaws. Even though not every day's devotion spoke to me personally, there was always something to take away from it. I made endless highlights and I really enjoyed what it added to my daily quiet time. Would recommend.
March 22, 2021
This devotional changed my life. God really used it in my life. I loved it so much that I passed a copy on to three other people. So grateful for this author and her honest vulnerability that she allows God to use to help so many countless other people.
April 8, 2020
One of the most thought-provoking devotionals I have ever read. Each one it seemed left me with a verse and thought so relatable to different situations in my life, past or current. This author's openness, gift of insight, and application was a special blessing in my heart and life in 2020!
July 19, 2021
I love the way Lysa writes it is so honest and makes me feel like I’m talking to a friend. It took me much longer than 100 days to complete this devotional but I would highly recommend it for any woman, mother etc.
January 18, 2019
Some entries seemed a little repetitive but many seemed representative of the author's marital struggles at the time she wrote them.
November 8, 2020
I forgot to review this one! Read them 1-2 at a time over a long stretch. Very encouraging and she always point me to Jesus.
January 17, 2021
I enjoy this book and pick it up whenever I need a pick upm
April 19, 2018
About the Book:
Embraced is the beautiful new devotional from Lysa TerKeurst, the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times bestselling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Unglued, and Made to Crave. Embraced features 100 devotions that will resonate with women in all stages of life by giving them a godly perspective on the issues they face each day.
A real embrace indicates an intimate level of closeness. It’s not a high five or a casual handshake. The best kind of embrace is when someone we know deeply loves us flings their arms wide open and pulls us in close.
Our hearts were made for this kind of love and security but for many of us, we know more about the pain of heartbreak and fear than the unconditional love for which we were created.In Embraced, Lysa shares her own struggles, doubts, and heartbreaks while pointing to the Ultimate Embrace: God opening His arms wide on Calvary through Jesus so that He could pull us close for all of eternity. Welcoming us into the safety and hope of His grace and His love.
And because we have been fully embraced by Him, we can spend our lives held securely by Him and trust all of His ways.
Through these 100 devotions, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts, readers will be equipped to:
Begin to find freedom from the struggles that have held them hostage by learning new ways to experience God’s love and more authentic ways to trust Him.
Surrender their deepest hurts by processing them in a godly way with Lysa, a friend who understands their pain.
Hear the Lord speak intimately to their heart by learning how to seek His direction.
Release the tension of wondering, If God is near why does He sometimes feel far away? by spending intentional, guided time with Him each day.
With an exquisite cloth cover, highly designed interior, ribbon marker, and stained page edges, Embraced will be a treasured keepsake for you as well as a meaningful gift for those you love.
My Review:
This author is one of my favorites. she feels like my very best friend. She can come down on your level and cry it through with you. I just love her to pieces! Embraced: 100 Devotions to Know God is Holding You Close was for me a long awaited devotion. The author uses things she has learned to take us on a whole other level of intimacy with God.
Just enough devotions to get you through several days or several weeks depending on how you choose to go about it. Each one better than the previous. So many things hit home with my personal life. Like trusting God with our lives. It is a very hard concept to do. I think our main worry is we wont be happy with what God chooses for us. It is daunting especially if you are trying to stay in Gods will.
This devo is a real good one and one I will keep at my bedside for awhile.
**Disclosure** This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
Embraced is the beautiful new devotional from Lysa TerKeurst, the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries and the New York Times bestselling author of Uninvited, The Best Yes, Unglued, and Made to Crave. Embraced features 100 devotions that will resonate with women in all stages of life by giving them a godly perspective on the issues they face each day.
A real embrace indicates an intimate level of closeness. It’s not a high five or a casual handshake. The best kind of embrace is when someone we know deeply loves us flings their arms wide open and pulls us in close.
Our hearts were made for this kind of love and security but for many of us, we know more about the pain of heartbreak and fear than the unconditional love for which we were created.In Embraced, Lysa shares her own struggles, doubts, and heartbreaks while pointing to the Ultimate Embrace: God opening His arms wide on Calvary through Jesus so that He could pull us close for all of eternity. Welcoming us into the safety and hope of His grace and His love.
And because we have been fully embraced by Him, we can spend our lives held securely by Him and trust all of His ways.
Through these 100 devotions, daily scriptures, and prayer prompts, readers will be equipped to:
Begin to find freedom from the struggles that have held them hostage by learning new ways to experience God’s love and more authentic ways to trust Him.
Surrender their deepest hurts by processing them in a godly way with Lysa, a friend who understands their pain.
Hear the Lord speak intimately to their heart by learning how to seek His direction.
Release the tension of wondering, If God is near why does He sometimes feel far away? by spending intentional, guided time with Him each day.
With an exquisite cloth cover, highly designed interior, ribbon marker, and stained page edges, Embraced will be a treasured keepsake for you as well as a meaningful gift for those you love.
My Review:
This author is one of my favorites. she feels like my very best friend. She can come down on your level and cry it through with you. I just love her to pieces! Embraced: 100 Devotions to Know God is Holding You Close was for me a long awaited devotion. The author uses things she has learned to take us on a whole other level of intimacy with God.
Just enough devotions to get you through several days or several weeks depending on how you choose to go about it. Each one better than the previous. So many things hit home with my personal life. Like trusting God with our lives. It is a very hard concept to do. I think our main worry is we wont be happy with what God chooses for us. It is daunting especially if you are trying to stay in Gods will.
This devo is a real good one and one I will keep at my bedside for awhile.
**Disclosure** This book was sent to me free of charge for my honest review from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
April 9, 2020
I got this devotion book as a gift and I honestly thought it was going to be cheesy... Mostly because my mom loves Lysa TerKeurst and I judged the book by it's christian-book-cover. BUT-- this devotional book consistently moves me and I find myself reading ahead each day. Lysa is no stranger to pain, confusion, or trauma. She is raw and unafraid.
I have found myself crying/tearing up multiple times this year while reading these before work-- even though it's only 3 pages of pieces of wisdom I thought I already knew, Lysa writes with convicting honesty and leaves you with a sweet prayer. Many times, the devotional was eerily relevant to what my heart needed to hear for the day. You'll begin to feel that she is your mom, writing you letters from afar.
Now, I'm thoroughly humbled by my initial prideful assumption that I wouldn't get anything from this "classic Christian devotional." You just never know what God can use. . . I definitely recommend this for those who are looking for a quick morning devotional to add to their heavier biblically-based books!
I have found myself crying/tearing up multiple times this year while reading these before work-- even though it's only 3 pages of pieces of wisdom I thought I already knew, Lysa writes with convicting honesty and leaves you with a sweet prayer. Many times, the devotional was eerily relevant to what my heart needed to hear for the day. You'll begin to feel that she is your mom, writing you letters from afar.
Now, I'm thoroughly humbled by my initial prideful assumption that I wouldn't get anything from this "classic Christian devotional." You just never know what God can use. . . I definitely recommend this for those who are looking for a quick morning devotional to add to their heavier biblically-based books!
November 9, 2022
Lysa Terkurst's devotional arrived at an oppprtune time. It was around a time when i started seeing a decline in my mental health for no external reason. I had a job i loved, my poetry book was doing well, and i began to make real friends after joining a bowling league. About 4 weeks later i would be couch bound, unable to go anywhere or do anything, and wonder what had happened to me only to find out 8 weeks later that i had become sick with mold toxicity. Yet, Terkurst's devotional reads with such realness it's better than anything written by Joyce Meyer and the devotion entries prompt a healthy curiosity within the reader to further study the Bible.
Just like Jesus himself, these devotions seek to love without fully understanding the person reading them and they help the reader feel confident in their faith to live boldly and proudly before God.
Even though, I've finished initially reading the book Terkurst's authenticity and honesty make this devotional one i will re-read for years to come.
Just like Jesus himself, these devotions seek to love without fully understanding the person reading them and they help the reader feel confident in their faith to live boldly and proudly before God.
Even though, I've finished initially reading the book Terkurst's authenticity and honesty make this devotional one i will re-read for years to come.
December 13, 2022
Lysa TerKeurst gives wise, real, practical, biblical, and convicting devotions each day. Her honesty about her own struggles and faith journey is inspiring. I gained so much from reading this and will probably start it over again one day. Highly recommend!
December 30, 2022
One of my two favorite devotionals I read in 2022, this beautiful book filled with love from God and from the wisdom of the author, is a heart-warming, encouraging devotional. When you finish, there's an end section with personalized scriptures that is wonderful.
September 15, 2018
Absolute perfection. A great way to begin each day. I was sad when I finished it.
June 22, 2019
I loved these devotionals. I took my time reading his book because I really wanted the words to sink in.
Lysa really knows how to speak from the heart. She inspires me.
Lysa really knows how to speak from the heart. She inspires me.
August 30, 2022
Nice and easy to understand devotions.
March 16, 2024
Loved this! Lots of relatable devotions
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