Many of today's most extraordinary Christian women communicators join together to impart the wisdom God has given them--and to help women realize all God intended for them.
What caught the attention of my Christian women's book club about this book was the familiar author, Beth Moore. She rightfully has a popular and positive reputation among Christian readers. We pleasantly discovered that this is actually a collection of related essays by other Christian women (and one man!) who added powerful messages of their own. "A Woman and Her God" felt more personal than other books we've studied. We were each able to take something away from the varied discussions focusing on growing closer to God. The writings from each author were well-written and significant. This is not a deeply theological book; focusing instead on practical applications of Scripture. I would highly recommend this for a personal study, as well as for group study.
A collection of devotional type messages from some really amazing Christian women (and one man). Really enjoyed this read and the format of each message was easy to read and inspired good time with God.
What I liked the most about this study; the variety of writers with encouraging and helpful information. I would recommend this to any Bible Study group of Women.
Very simple, but very helpful in the sense of reminding me about God and His love for me as a woman. I had to read this book for my women's counseling class. I enjoyed it.
What does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. —MICAH 6:8 • Delete this highlight Add a note He loved us. Colossians 3:1–4 says, “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.” • Delete this highlight Add a note may not understand what God is doing in my life right now, but I know He loves me.” • Delete this highlight Add a note you looked for the very heart of God’s Word, you needn’t look any further than David’s words expressed in Psalm 63. This psalm is the heart of an intimate relationship that God initiated in Genesis 1 and finalized at the wedding supper of the Lamb in Revelation 19. O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. They who seek my life will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth. They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals. But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God’s name will praise him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced. (Psalm 63) • Delete this highlight Add a note On a daily basis, however, our heart should yearn to be with Him, as well as our soul. • Delete this highlight Add a note “Give me a thirst and a hunger for You, God. Not just a discipline. Give me an ache and a longing to know You, to be with You, to abide in You always.” • Delete this highlight Add a note “You are so far above and beyond every other thing in my life, every other love in my life, every other experience in my life, every other purpose or goal in my life. You are my life. Not just the most important thing in my life—You are my life. And Your love, God, is better than life. In fact, Lord, I lay down my life today to see You face to face because You are better than life.” We were meant to utterly devote ourselves to Him. • Delete this highlight Add a note God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives. • Delete this highlight Add a note If we subsist on the alms of others, our heart is just a vacuum; we’re needy people because we were created that way. We need to be loved. We need to be affirmed. Those are not weaknesses. We were created with those needs, and we are like beggars when our soul is not satisfied by God. • Delete this highlight Add a note Isaiah 44:20: “He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him.” • Delete this highlight Add a note When our heart is not fully given to Christ, we can’t even trust what we’re feeling or what our heart is telling us. • Delete this highlight Add a note Scripture admonishes us, “A deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, ‘Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?’” (Isaiah 44:20). What is “a lie”? It’s anything we hold onto for strength, might, comfort, or security. • Delete this highlight Add a note Any attempted identity outside of Christ is a lie. Our cravings are a good indication of what a lie is. To crave something outside of God and never feel like we have enough is a deluded heart misleading us. If • Delete this highlight Note: The need for approval Edit Psalm 90:14 says, “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.” • Delete this highlight Add a note Our needs are a daily concern. We wake up every day and have new ones. We need to feel like we’re significant to someone. Most importantly, we need to feel like we are loved that day. Long before my family wakes up in my house and before I expect them to meet a need I might have, God has taught me to go to Him. • Delete this highlight Add a note Psalm 62 tells us that we can pour out our heart to God. He is a refuge for us. This is a good opportunity to remove from our “cup” anything that is a false comfort. For example, a problem arises—maybe someone close to us has mishandled a situation—we tattle to God. Or somebody hurts us and we simply need to turn the other cheek. We go to God first and say, “I want You to know something. That person really hurt my feelings. But in Your name, I’m going to do what You would want me to do here. And I need You to minister to me so that I can handle this properly.” In that way we’re pouring out our heart in order to make room for Him because He wants to fill our heart with His love. You see, if we’re already full of ourselves—full of our own anxieties and concerns— we don’t have very much room for Him. So it’s very important that we start our day by pouring out our needs to the Lord, allowing Him to meet them, rather than looking for others to have to satisfy that need. In that way, we are really ready to start the day with a servant’s heart. • Delete this highlight Note: Empty myself of all that I think I am or should be so that the Holy Spirit can fill me Edit “Lord, You know me. You know my natural personality is given to fear. You know all my insecurities. You know that I have a need to be loved and to feel significant and to feel affirmed. And Father, I’m not going to ask my family to do that for me today. They may or may not, and if they do, that’s wonderful. But Father, You are my sole satisfaction, and I ask You to satisfy me this morning with Your unfailing love.” • Delete this highlight Add a note “Lord, You’re what I want. You are what I long for. You are the great reward. I want the fullness of You in my life. Not just what You can give me. I want You. I want You.” As • Delete this highlight Add a note She allowed her distractions to occupy her thoughts, and she forgot all about being attentive to the Lord. • Delete this highlight Add a note Jesus also had a vision, a passion, and a mission. • Delete this highlight Add a note When we’re intent on doing the will of God and fulfilling His purpose for our lives, then we are going to discover His will. • Delete this highlight Add a note feel inadequate no matter where we are. No matter what we do, it isn’t good enough. We often have a sense of “outsiderliness”; we don’t know how to connect, and we compensate for this by frantically pursuing perfectionism. We are literally driven to be perfect in everything. And that is a painful way to live. • Delete this highlight Add a note With the defensive personality there is an insecurity about belonging. Understandably, this kind of woman has a strong need to earn acceptance and approval. • Delete this highlight Add a note She would no doubt feel unsafe if she received criticism from anyone important in her life. Those who struggle with this often have trouble relaxing when they’re with others, because they work so hard to please everyone around them. Women in general are often interested in pleasing people. We study people and determine exactly what they want from us, and then we try to fulfill their expectations as perfectly as possible. The sense of well-being in women, Christian women in particular, fluctuates as the quality of our relationships fluctuate. If a conflict arises in one of our important relationships, we can’t possibly feel all right about ourselves or about life. We are miserable. • Delete this highlight Add a note next major element in the defensive personality structure is a woman’s emotional life. This is characterized by a great deal of sadness, possibly even depression, anxiety, and/or anger, which she uses to hide her fear of abandonment. • Delete this highlight Add a note Another important verse to consider is Ephesians 3:17, because it captures the key to this entire soul-healing process. “And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love” • Delete this highlight Add a note my book Into Abba’s Arms, • Delete this highlight Add a note Healing in the relational area of a woman’s life involves an increasingly secure sense of belonging, with a growing capacity to tolerate criticism. • Delete this highlight Add a note ask yourself, “What is my purpose for living?” The answer lies in 1 Corinthians 10:31, which says, “Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” I asked God to help me with this career, but I wasn’t seeking His will or looking to glorify Him in the process. • Delete this highlight Add a note our strong, calm sanity comes from the peace of knowing and loving the Lord and being confident of His presence and help. • Delete this highlight Add a note We ask ourselves, “What is my purpose for living at this stage of my life?” But the question you really need to ask is, “What does God want me to accomplish at this time?” • Delete this highlight Add a note Choose to be satisfied with Jesus and have His peace in this moment. • Delete this highlight Add a note Second Corinthians 5:9 says, “We make it our goal to please the Lord.” Our goal should be to please the Lord. Clear your grandstand of all other people. • Delete this highlight Add a note a Christian servant as one who is willing to do less so that God can do more. • Delete this highlight Add a note in order for the Holy Spirit to do His work, we must accept a humble position. • Delete this highlight Add a note Maybe we would point out the error of her ways rather than reach out to her in love. But what did Jesus do? He loved her enough to talk to her— and then listen. He acknowledged her as a person. • Delete this highlight Add a note Whatever the problem, Jesus understands your grief. His arms are open wide, and He wants to touch you with His compassion, His mercy, and His grace. • Delete this highlight Add a note healed to serve. • Delete this highlight Add a note the beginning of last year during my usual ritual of checking in with the Lord and asking Him what He wants me to focus on during the coming year. • Delete this highlight Add a note was just standing there, minding my own business, when suddenly the Lord impressed one word on my spirit: unity. • Delete this highlight Add a note He wants us to do—He wants us to find unity within the body of Christ. But • Delete this highlight Add a note unity in the body of Christ cannot be had until we have unity with ourselves and unity in our families. • Delete this highlight Add a note “When we meet people flesh to flesh we meet people mess to mess.” • Delete this highlight Add a note Unity in the body of Christ, unity in your own spirit, and unity in your home can only be experienced through the perfect, indescribable, unconditional love of God. • Delete this highlight Add a note When we know that God is love and that God’s love is unconditional, when we know that God made all of us in His image and filled us with His spirit, then we can see someone “spirit to spirit” rather than just “flesh to flesh.” • Delete this highlight Add a note When we see people, we can accept those people and love those people. Now we don’t necessarily have to love or even like what they do—I know several people who I love but I don’t like what they do. But I look through them and see that God has made each of them a precious person. Then I know I’ve got to love them
Very disappointed in this book!! The title and description led me to believe that this book was a collection of essays, were women were sharing their testimony about their relationship with God. Nothing inspires me more than hearing people recount their personal life hanging encounter with God. But each chapter was more like a cheesy sermon- “here are 5 ways to improve your relationship with the Lord!” Sure, advice is helpful, but I wasn’t looking for advice, I was looking to hear people share their love for God. Also, one of the chapters was written by A MAN! This book is call “A WOMAN AND HER GOD”. Why do we care about a man’s opinion here? Also his chapter was all about how Jesus treated women equally so men should treat women equally… thank you captain obvious, shouldn’t you be sharing that with the MEN not with us?????
3.5⭐️’s with over 7 authors (each writing a chapter) it was hard to just fall in love with the book. But overall I enjoyed it and especially the last chapter.
This was a joint effort from some of today's most extraordinary Christian women communicators including Jill Briscoe, Beth Moore, Sandra D. Wilson, Kathleen Hart, David Hager, Thelma Wells, and Beverly LaHaye. Some of these, I've heard speak before and some, I've read their books. Still, some of these ladies I'd never heard of, but you can bet that I will be keeping an eye out to read more of their work. God definitely used this collection and I know I learned a great deal from it. I'm looking forward to reading more from each of these ladies. The goal of these ladies in this instance, was to use the wisdom that God has imparted in them to help women live up to the potential and realize everything that God has in store for them. Today's society wants us to think that the Bible portrays women as second class or lower citizens than men, but that couldn't be further from the truth!
Since it was an edited work, there were some sections that were excellent (Beth Moore and Sandra Wilson), most were average and I've never been a fan of Jill Briscoe's writing, so I just skimmed that chapter. The best thing about the book was that it introduced me to Sandra Wilson. Her chapter nailed it! So much, that my next book is Into Abba's Arms. Very excited to start it later today.
A collection of messages from inspiring Christian authors. Excellent book - thanks to Penny for leaving it behind. I especially like the chapter written by Jill Briscoe on Jesus and the Woman at the Well. It centers on how Jesus loves and cares for women. I recommend this book.
This was a good read in that it reminded me how special I am to God, and how much He loves me. Females need to hear that from time-to-time... Also provided great insight on a woman's relationship with the Lord
Had to read this book for my counseling women class. I absolutely loved it. There were so many things to apply to my personal life and it greatly enriched my faith. It definitely made me re-evaluate how I look at different things and put things into a very good perspective!
This is not just a book by Beth Moore. Several Christian women contributed to this book, so the topics range in both depth and subject. I enjoyed reading this for a college course on working with women in ministry, but would have enjoyed it even without the requirements of class.
I love this book. So many women giving life lessons through His word. I loved every one I read. A MUST read for any women no matter what stage you are in your walk with God.
Great and enjoyable read. This book was read at the perfect time where I need a reset button to stop and reflect where my heart is. It puts in perspective the important things.
I thought this book was rather shallow. I want deep, meaty, applicable truth, but this was mostly cute anecdotes and feel-good messages with a few deep truths splashed through it.