God Wants His Job Back Giveaway
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NOTE: There seems to have been a glitch on the Crosswalk.com site and an old devotion of mine ran instead of the correct one. The correct one is called God Wants His Job Back? Click here to take a peek and so you’ll know what I am referring to in this post. We’ll wait while you do. Be sure to come back for the giveaway!
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Do you too like to call the shots, be in charge, run the show?
Welcome to the control freaks club. :)
If you, like me, struggle with wanting to situate people and manipulate outcomes, here a few quotes taken from my newly released book and 6-week dvd Bible study: LET. IT. GO. How to Stop Running the Show & Start Walking in Faith.
“Where you can get yourself (and your emotions) in a tangled-up mess is when you act before you pray. Leap before you look. Cart before the horse in a race to your own coveted finish. Yes, do what you can — prayerfully and carefully — but leave the results to God. Your job is obedience. God’s job is results.”
“There exists a miniscule line between being conscientious and being controlling. A marker so fine, we women often cross it without even noticing that it’s stretched out right there in front of us, waiting to trip us up. What we must do is determine the difference between being conscientious (our part) and being in control (God’s job).”
And perhaps the whole book is best summed up by my friend Liz’s description of it:
“Especially written for wives and mothers who try to control everyone and everything around them (believe me, I get this!), Let. It. Go.offers solid advice, wise counsel, and a healthy dose of humor. Full of why-to and how-to suggestions, plus helpful tools to measure what needs fixing, Karen Ehman’s book goes right to the heart of the issue: ‘are we trying to be godly or are we trying to be God?’”
Liz Curtis Higgs, author of The Girl’s Still Got It
Through the remainder of November, ALL PRODUCTS purchase through Proverbs 31 Ministries are 25% off! Whoo-hoo! Christmas shopping time! Click here to order.
Speaking of Christmas, would you like to join over 6500 women and get my free resource From Chaos to Calm: The LET. IT. GO. Christmas Challenge? You might just win a Kindle Fire for participating!
Do you often have Norman Rockwell-like expectations about the holidays — the decorations, the food, the gifts, the activity — laden schedule, the family get-togethers?
There are many areas where women want to exert control ensuring the perfect yuletide season. What if we learned instead to let go of unrealistic expectations and embrace an “out-of-control” Christmas this year: relaxing and relating in a peaceful manner while letting others offer input and ultimately allowing God to call the shots?
This five-day challenge will allow Christmas to go from chaos to calm as you learn to control what you should and trust God with what you can’t. The result? Less stressing and more blessing! Click here for the free sign up.
And, as promised in the devotion, here is the giveaway:
It includes a copy of the book, a Cinnamon stick candle from the White barn Company and some Starbucks cinnamon coffee.
And finally, the LET. IT. GO. blog tour continues where we are giving away a second Kindle Fire. Today’s posts are found at my friends’ blogs: Kara Chupp’s Arlene Pellicane’s Goodbye, house. Hello, home! Getting Freedom
To find even more bloggers participating, click here.
Now, to leave a comment to win the giveaway, tell me, which area do you struggle the most with wanting to control, your husband’s behavior, the kids’ behavior, your schedule, the house, or circumstances in general? Or is it something else? Please share.
Today…would be my husband’s behavior.
I struggle with giving God control of everything! I want to put my finger in every pot, and monitor everything. It’s exhausting, especially because I know that’s not what God wants or expects from me.
I struggle with trying to control everyone’s health in my house. If anyone gets sick, I think it’s because I let them eat this or that. I struggle with perfectionism in general. I want to know how to do it all a DO It all PERFECTLY now. I have a picture in my mind if how things should look and am always feeling it’s not that way because I am not doing enough to get it there:(. Excited to read your book!! :)
I struggle with wanting to control life changing circumstances and “hurry” up a decision, when I know that God’s timing is always best!
I struggle with control period! I have expectations and expect all will turn out. Unfortunately, that is never the case…thus depression…so..I could use some help.
The thing I try to control the most is my schedule! Of course, based all on my timing and schedule and I need to allow for interruptions from God, family and others!
My kids behavior and attitudes … I want them to behave and not embares (sp) me, even though it shouldn’t!
I love to control the atmosphere…do I want it quiet? Then it needs to be quiet. Do I want laughter? Then everyone needs to be laughing – yup…it’s all about control.
Most unrealistically I want to control my children’s health, and they both be healed immediately. But I cannot do that, so I keep praying and trying to walk faithfully.
Thank you so much for your devotional today. I thought about it often today as Thanksgiving approaches. I’ve been trying to control my adult children’s lives in wanting them to come to my house for the holiday, when they have made other plans. I think that I just think everyone should be together, but I need to let go of my expectations. I loved your story about decorating with your son. I would love a copy of your book! I was way too controlling when the kids were growing up.
I do struggle with wanting to control the house, but I also struggle with wanting to control situations that happen to my kids and negative influences on their lives. It’s a tough struggle.
At this point it is circumstances in general.
I struggle with trying to control kids behavior AND husband’s behavior. I suffer from the,”I’ve given him (husband) a chance to do (fill in the blank) over and over again and the results are always the same (suffering on my and/or kids part), so, this time I’m going “direct” (results in constant nagging) so that EYE don’t have to suffer the consequences again. It’s so hard to just let go and let the chips fall! So, I’m very much looking for help from your book! Thanks so much for writing it! And, as always, I hope it is someday available on audio! :) I would definitely get that too for constant reinforcement! :)
I meant to say, “I’ve given him a chance…without reminding or nagging, etc.”
I think I want to control everything! I want the house my way, my hubby to do things they way I want. Definitely need this book!
I think the thing I like to control most is how the house looks. And with 4 people in it, all with vastly different ideas of what is “acceptable” this can be a major stress point at this time of year.
This book is so right on the nose and I can’t wait too read it, I’m getting one for a couple of friends..they will definitely enjoy this and get this totally!
I try to control things around the house. Need to let that go!!
Yes, this book is for me! Can’t wait to read it!
I need a tshirt with this on it. God has me in class now for letting go and letting Him. In no less than 11 days i wad diagnosed with breast cancer and started my 1st chemo. I need this book to help me focus on God and letting Him run this show. All things considered He has blessed be abundantly more than i deserve. Good luck all.
I always feel out of control. The laundry, the dog hair, the endless needs of my three kids, my husband, the house – life! I know I probably feel so out of control because I’m trying so hard to stay in control. I have learned to let go in certain areas, but definitely not all!
I seem to struggle with trying to control everything since I can No longer do everything! It is so hard to give that control over to God.
I have an issue with trying to control everything in my life and it can be exhausting.
This sounds like a great book for learning how to release control – Thanks. Colleen G.
I used to try and control absolutely every aspect of my life along with my family. I have learned a lot over the past few years that I am not in control. I sometimes forget this and still try to control things that I should not. Life is way to short and I honestly don’t want to spend my life controlling things that are out of my control…I want to focus on the things that God wants me to have control over. Even if I don’t win the book I will be purchasing “_)
I struggle with every thing you mentioned. However, children & husband are definitely a big area of struggle. I appreciated the devotio
~Blessings~
Oh, Karen! In my life, God SO WANTS HIS JOB BACK! My husband is in the hospital awaiting a donor heart. He has already been there in ICU for 2 weeks. We were praying that His will would be done by Thanksgiving, but then that turned out to be OUR WILL instead! God is using this situation to show us just how much we are not in control, I believe.
PS, I would love to win this book! Thanks in advance!