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    Praying Grace for Women: 55 Meditations and Declarations for Beloved Daughters of God
    Praying Grace for Women: 55 Meditations and Declarations for Beloved Daughters of God
    Praying Grace for Women: 55 Meditations and Declarations for Beloved Daughters of God
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    Praying Grace for Women: 55 Meditations and Declarations for Beloved Daughters of God

    By David A. Holland

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    Find Rest, Peace, Strength, and Fresh Intimacy with God.


    Far too many beloved daughters of God are spread thin, exhausted, stressed out, burned out, or living with chronic anxiety. For many, prayer has become a fruitless, frustrating, joyless exercise. Another box to check. Another duty to perform.


    Here's extraordinary news for the weary feminine soul. There is a more effective way to pray that produces a life-giving connection with God's love, grace, and power. Praying Grace for Women is a 55-day journey of discovery and hope created to

    - lead you to a deep revelation of God's goodness and faithfulness,
    - help your heart absorb the full implications of Jesus' finished work on the cross, 
    - ground your identity in who God says you are, and 
    - teach a form of praying that proclaims rather than pleads.  Get ready to discover grace for rest, intimacy, peace, and breakthrough, as well as the keys to praying from strength rather than struggling for it.


     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
    Release dateApr 5, 2022
    ISBN9781424564156
    Praying Grace for Women: 55 Meditations and Declarations for Beloved Daughters of God

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      Praying Grace for Women - David A. Holland

      I

      GRACE FOR REST

      Breathe

      So we conclude that there is still a full and complete Sabbath-rest waiting for believers to experience.

      HEBREWS 4:9

      The relentless striving for perfection. The never-ending struggle to meet everyone’s expectations. Heaven forbid you let anyone down or disappoint any of the multitude of people who are counting on you. Then there’s your most brutal critic of all— your own inner voice. It’s exhausting, isn’t it?

      What’s worse, we often carry that same frantic dynamic right into our relationship with God. In fact, we often think of Him as if He’s the fussiest, most demanding person in our lives. Too many daughters of God relate to Him as if He is a harsh, perfectionist father who simply can’t be pleased. The dad you love and admire but who you’re always disappointing. The one whose approval always seems just out of reach.

      That is a false perception that the enemy of your soul is more than happy to help perpetuate. Here’s the truth that destroys that lie. Hebrews chapter four describes salvation as an invitation to enter into an ongoing, never-ending Sabbath rest.

      The Sabbath was a designated day under the Old Covenant in which no one was to work or strive. It was created to be a blessing, but the Israelites ultimately turned it into another religious box to check, as we humans so often do. Another achievement to be proud of.

      That’s what religion does. It takes things God designed to bless and help us and drains them of all joy—turning them into yet another obligation to meet, rule to follow, or yardstick for measuring yourself against others.

      Living life in this fallen, twisted world will always require effort. But God’s invitation to Sabbath rest means that your relationship with Him shouldn’t. In Jesus, the striving to please Him is over. Jesus pleased Him on your behalf. Daughter of God, you can lay down the struggle to qualify. Jesus was and is your complete qualification.

      What’s left is simply enjoying what Adam and Eve forfeited: enjoying God. Never again having to worry whether you’ve done enough to make Him happy. Never again fretting about measuring up to some impossible standard. Jesus measured up on your behalf.

      Rest. Breathe.

      GRACE DECLARATION:

      Father, You have invited me to join You in an ongoing, never-ending Sabbath rest. I will not keep You waiting. Beginning today, I cease struggling to qualify for or earn Your love and acceptance. Jesus, You are my qualification. You measured up on my behalf. So, I rest in You. I breathe.

      Discover the Faith-Rest Life

      God’s works have all been completed from the foundation of the world, for it says in the Scriptures, And on the seventh day God rested from all his works.… As we enter into God’s faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them.

      HEBREWS 4:3B,4,10

      The title of a 2017 article in Psychology Today magazine asked, Why are Women so Exhausted?¹ In it, the author, a clinical psychologist, pointed to the way women invariably end up being the default cultivators and keepers of relationships—family, friends, work, church, and community. If they don’t do it, it often doesn’t get done. Sadly, it’s easy for your relationship with God to become just one more stressor in that juggling act.

      This means that when many daughters of God think about turning to their heavenly Father, they get a knot in the stomach instead of the anticipation of refreshment, peace, and supernatural help. It need not be this way. Here’s why.

      For six days God was a flurry of creative activity. Day by day, order emerged out of chaos. Wonders of life, beauty, and complexity appeared. Each extraordinary phase of work was pronounced good at its completion. Then, after crafting and commissioning the crowning glory of His six-day masterpiece—mankind in two complementary forms, male and female—God rested.

      That doesn’t mean God entered a long period of total idleness, but only that His flurry of creative effort was finished. God’s sabbath has been complete and ongoing. The fourth chapter of Hebrews makes it clear that God wants the same thing for you. And it is filled with both encouragements to enter that rest and earnest cautions about not having the faith to do so.

      Faith? Yes, as that chapter makes clear, doubt is the primary enemy of your stepping into this faith-rest lifestyle. To our natural minds, God’s offer of rest seems simply too good to be true. It can’t possibly be that effortless, can it? It can. And it is. The good news of the gospel is that God really is ready and willing to accept Jesus’ perfect life as a proxy for your flawed and broken one. If you’ve accepted His offer, God really has imputed Jesus’ pristine righteousness to you and laid every last bit of your brokenness and sin on Him.

      Yes, it’s humbling. But accepting Jesus’ finished work on your behalf means a complete and ongoing end to your efforts to create a pathway back to God. It means a full and forever end to trying to earn or merit your heavenly Father’s acceptance and favor. You may have many difficult people in your life but your heavenly Father is not one of them. He’s easy.

      Oh, weary one, you have been invited into a lifestyle…the faith-rest lifestyle. God rested from His labors. Isn’t it time that you rested from yours?

      GRACE DECLARATION:

      Father, although it seems too good to be true, I believe it. You want nothing from me except relationship. I can bring nothing to this transaction other than a childlike heart of belief in Your astonishing goodness and generosity. Today I rest with You. I rest in You.

      Step Over

      Now the promise of entering into God’s rest is still for us today. So we must be extremely careful to ensure that we all embrace the fullness of that promise and not fail to experience it…So then we must be eager to experience this faith-rest life, so that no one falls short by following the same pattern of doubt and unbelief.

      HEBREWS 4:1,11

      You’re standing in the desert wilderness. But over there, across the river, is the Promised Land. The wilderness has been a harsh, dry place filled with striving and struggle. You’ve needed miracles of provision just to survive.

      But God has led you to this extraordinary place. It’s a green, fertile place promising abundance and rest. It represents an end to both your wandering and wondering where your next drink of life-sustaining water will come. From the throne of heaven, God declared and decreed this land is yours. Now all you need do is believe what He said and act on that faith by stepping over into it.

      Of course, we know how that first generation of Israelites responded to that choice. A fearful bad report by some of the spies sent out to explore the new land filled the entire nation with dread. As a result, they forfeited their opportunity to experience the rest that rightly belonged to them.

      In the key scripture passage above, the author of Hebrews uses those Israelites’ failure to enter Canaan as a metaphor for what many born-again believers do. They let fear and misbelief keep them in a wilderness of striving and struggling to earn what Jesus has already gifted them. And just as the spies planted fear in their hearts, many well-meaning teachers and preachers make them afraid they’re not doing enough to earn God’s blessings or making enough sacrifices to please Him.

      Here’s the truth, daughter of God. A loving Father drew you out of the slavery of sin and separation from Him. He’s patiently led you through the harsh wilderness of pointless, fruitless, self-improvement, self-sufficiency, and self-consciousness. He guided you out of the shame and despair that result from repeatedly trying and failing to do all the things good Christians do.

      With cords of kindness, He’s drawn you to the border of a good land. A place of rest. A place where you know that you know you’re accepted, received, and approved…in Jesus. The only remaining question is: Will you cross over?

      Your Father, through the writer of Hebrews, pleads with you to uproot the fears and doubts sown in you by Religion. He says the only thing you need to be careful about is whether or not you’ve trusted Him enough to rest. Step over. The faith-rest life awaits.

      GRACE DECLARATION:

      Father, I will not make the same mistake that generation of Israelites made. I’m stepping over. I trust the good report that Jesus has met, on my behalf, every requirement for being a resident of this beautiful land.

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