Make Your Move: Finding Unshakable Confidence Despite Your Fears and Failures (InScribed Collection) - Softcover

Cowell, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310084458 ISBN 13: 9780310084457

Verlag: HarperChristian Resources, 2017

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In this six-session Bible study (DVD/digital video sold separately), author and Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker Lynn Cowell explores how confidence-in-question keeps us from boldly experiencing what God intends for our lives. Dive into six stories in the Bible of not-so-well-known women who found themselves needing confidence to make their move, and how they uncovered the faith to get it. Lynn encourages women to leave behind all the unnecessary insecurity this world induces and find confidence in God alone.

Learn from the Daughters of Zelophehad, the Women of Exodus, Martha & Mary, Rahab, Deborah, Abigail and Michal how to:

• Intentionally build your confidence on the one thing that cannot be taken from you.
• Recover from defeating decisions to move forward toward a strong self-worth.
• Position yourself to not lose your poise—even in the worst circumstances.
• Identify and address the fears that keep you stuck, with practical steps to walk in your calling with confidence.

This study is for any woman who’s ready to dig into God’s Word to find confidence and boldness to do great things. This book includes personal Bible study as well as group discussion questions. The study can be completed by individuals as well as in groups.

Designed for use with the companion Make Your Move Video Study (sold separately).

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Lynn Cowell is a part of the Proverbs 31 Ministries speaking team, speaking to pre-teens, teens, multi-generational and women’s conferences and retreats on a regular basis. Girls often come up to her saying, "How did you know that's what I was going through?" Hearing direction and guidance on critical issues they face, Lynn encourages them to reach their fullest potential by finding the relationship in Christ they were created them for. For the past 18 years, her ministry has helped thousands of girls and their moms:

• Replace loneliness, rejection, and pain with acceptance, affirmation, and approval.
• Make decisions that lead women to reaching their fullest potential, rather than being a victim to emotionally-based decisions.
• Shift faith in Jesus from a parental influence to a personal, growing relationship.
• Develop and stick to boundaries that protect the heart, mind, and body.
• Communicate with guys and other girlfriends in a healthy and positive way.

 In addition to speaking on the national level, Lynn reaches many through her writing as an author of three books, blogger, and devotion writer. As a regular contributor for the Proverbs 31 Ministries’ daily devotions, Encouragement for Today, her devotions reach an audience of over 800,000 subscribers. She has been a regular contributor for The Whatever Girls and The Mom Initiative. Lynn and her husband, Greg, of 30 years, are the parents of three young adults: Zak, Mariah, and Madi. The Cowells reside in North Carolina where they enjoy hiking in the mountains, wearing well-worn sweatshirts and eating anything that combines chocolate and peanut butter.

 

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Make Your Move

Finding Unshakable Confidence Despite Your Fears and Failures

By Lynn Cowell

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2017 Lynn Cowell
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-310-08445-7

Contents

Introduction, xi, 
WEEK ONE: The Women of Exodus: When Your Confidence Faces Adversity, 1, 
WEEK TWO: The Daughters of Zelophehad: When Your Confidence Is Challenged, 43, 
WEEK THREE: Rahab: When Confidence in God Is Elusive, 85, 
WEEK FOUR: Deborah: When Confidence Is Required, 131, 
WEEK FIVE: Abigail and Michal: When Confidence Is in Question in Relationships, 177, 
WEEK SIX: The Sisters of Bethany: When Confidence Is in Doubt, 219, 
Endnotes, 269, 
About the Author, 271, 
Proverbs 31 Ministries, 273, 

CHAPTER 1

WEEK ONE

The Women of Exodus

WHEN YOUR CONFIDENCE FACES ADVERSITY

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PRAYER: Lord, I may be an ordinary, everyday, down-to-earth kind of woman, but I still want to make my move and find confidence in You. Encourage me through the study of the women of Exodus that women like me are exactly the type You love to use. Empower me, Holy Spirit. Arrest my fears so I can move forward. In Jesus's name, Amen.

MEMORY VERSE: "For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught." — Proverbs 3:26 (ESV)

DAY ONE

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More Powerful Than Fear

HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED to do something but lacked the confidence or courage to do it? Go back to college? Give a presentation? Look for a new job? Move to a different city? I've so been there! Not just when it came to skydiving as I shared in the introduction, but also when it has come to pursuing my potential with God.

I think a part of us believes if God nudges us to do something, it won't be that hard. I'm just going to say that has not been my experience in this adventurous journey with Him.

Several years ago, one of my adventures began on the road to publishing. Not knowing just how hard the journey would be, I naively sent out my proposals. One by one, the replies filled my box, each one saying the same thing in a different way: No. It was as if a huge, rubber stamp marked REJECTION were stamped right across my forehead. The stamp got larger and ink darker with each notification.

No-You aren't well known. No-Your writing is not what we are looking for. No-We don't publish books for teens. I felt like my heart could not take another rejection.

Some days, I was brave. I gave myself a little pep talk, "Every no gets you closer to that yes." Other days, I curled up in a ball on my kitchen floor and wept. It all felt so very personal.

Make Your Move

With no college degree, no background in English, and no platform as an author, I didn't offer a publisher the reasons to say yes that they were looking for. Encouragement from friends and family such as "God's timing is best" or "God will take care of it" were no longer working on my wounded heart. After five long years of noes, I received my nineteenth rejection letter. I wanted to quit. My confidence was shot. I felt like a complete failure.

Have you ever heard that you are not good enough over and over again? Are you in the middle of navigating rejection right now? Have you felt a rejection so deep it shook the very core of who you believed you were?

Maybe you can think of a time in your life when the enemy whispered the lie that you couldn't do it, whatever it was. You might be in that place today. You feel like you're not good enough. You're not fun enough. You don't have enough. You're not loved enough. Fear overshadows your confidence.

I wonder if these were some of the feelings of the women we'll meet this week: the women of the book of Exodus. They, too, may have believed they were not courageous enough. Not confident enough. Not brave enough for the task ahead.

And yet, we'll see by their courageous actions, what they may have felt and what they may have believed in the beginning all changed as they found the confidence they needed for the undertaking that lay before them.

I find it so very exciting that this story of women that took place long ago in an ancient land can be exactly what you and I need today to empower us with confidence. Exodus comes from a Greek word exodos plithous meaning "departure." It is the narrative of the deliverance of the children of Israel from slavery in Egypt and their journey toward God's Promised Land of Canaan. Moses, who is believed to have been the author, served as the Israelites' imperfect leader. For years, the Israelites had been able to put their trust and welfare in the hands of the Egyptian Pharaoh. When a new Pharaoh came into power, all that security was stripped away. Completely out of control, they needed a strength and confidence to navigate this new and challenging change.

Maybe you know that feeling. Just when it seemed life had calmed down and you were enjoying a season of serenity, your peace was pulled out from under you. With circumstances spinning out of your control, you were left staring at a choice. Spin out of control with them or turn to the Lord for the strength and courage to face your situation.

Digging Deeper

Please read Exodus 1:8-21 for the foundation for today's study. Write any details that stand out to you below.

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Paranoia whispers to Pharaoh that if Egypt went to war, the Hebrews would side with the enemy, fighting against Egypt and leaving the land. A cold sweat beads up on his forehead just thinking of so many people against him, so Pharaoh devises an evil scheme to combat his building anxiety. First, slave labor. And still the people multiply. So next he determines to stop the Hebrew nation from growing by killing all the newborn Hebrew male babies.

Describe a time when, like the Hebrews, others turned against you and you did nothing to deserve it. As you look back at that situation, how did that experience impact your confidence?

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Pharaoh was fear-filled, but he had reason for concern. When the sons of Jacob came from Canaan to Egypt, they came as a clan of seventy. Now they have increased to number two million (Exodus 1:1-7).

According to Genesis 22:17-18, what had God promised the Israelites as far as their future was concerned?

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Maybe Pharaoh knew of this promise that the Israelite God had made to them. Seeing just how blessed they were, his fear-induced instincts told him he had to bring an end to their prosperity. His plan: intimidation, aimed at two Hebrew women. Meet Shiphrah and Puah.

According to Exodus 1:11-14, how effective was Pharaoh's first attempt to oppress and brutalize the Hebrews to cease their growth?

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According to Exodus 1:15-16, why did Pharaoh pick these two women to carry out his dirty work? Have you ever been in a situation when you were asked to do something illegal or unethical? How did you...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HarperChristian Resources
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0310084458
• ISBN 13: 9780310084457
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: EDITIONS GALLIMARD; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italien