Nothing to Prove
Why We Can Stop Trying So Hard
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The visionary author of Get Out of Your Head challenges Christian women to discover what it means to do life with God rather than always striving to impress him in this perspective-shifting work.
“These pages are what your soul is begging for. Jennie Allen reminds us that when we drive ourselves mad chasing perfection, we miss the beautiful grace God designed us to live in.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Gift
Are you trying your best to measure up—yet still feel as if you’re losing ground?
You are not alone.
Many of us are weary, weighted down with the daily struggle of keeping up and the fear that no matter how hard we try, we are still not enough. In Nothing to Prove, Jennie invites us into a different experience, one in which our souls overflow with contentment and joy and calls us to...
• Find freedom from self-induced pressure by admitting we’re not enough—but Jesus is.
• Admit our greatest needs and watch them be filled by the only One who can meet them.
• Make it our goal to know and love Jesus, then watch what He does in and through us.
Leave behind a life of striving and settle into the refreshing truth of the more-than-enough life Jesus offers. When you do, you’ll experience the joyous freedom that comes to those who are determined to discover what God can do through a soul completely living for Him.
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Allen (Anything and Restless), founder of If:Gathering, writes on a theme many women will recognize: a feeling of never measuring up to unrealistic standards of happiness and serenity. She shares her own lifelong struggles of feeling never quite enough for whatever challenge or task is set before her and uses biblical paradoxes to explain how natural and common such emotions are. Allen implores readers to understand that, of course, no one can handle all challenges in life alone, and that Jesus is more than enough for faithful readers to lean on during tough times. Rather than live in angst, anxiety, and a perpetual state of inadequacy, Allen exhorts Christ-followers to embrace their various lacks and lean all the more heavily upon Jesus to make up the difference. Readers will enjoy the lively stories Allen shares from her own life, including a car trip with friends that ended with Allen spilling everything about her inadequacies to them over burgers. In the second section of the book she dips into biblical accounts while offering takeaway thoughts, challenges, and a brief prayer. Accessible and candid, Allen s work is sure to find an audience far beyond the many If:Gathering faithful.
