My friend Kelly Balarie’s second book Battle Ready is on sale TODAY, and I’m so happy to offer you a chance to win the book! Keep reading to learn how you can win a copy of Battle Ready plus a mini notebook to inspire courage.
Retrain Your Mind for Spiritual Battles
If you are held captive by a negative, defeating thought life, Battle Ready is the playbook to help you put on the mind of Christ. It’s a unique read full of bullet points, checklists, infographics and anecdotes to challenge toxic thinking. On her blog, Kelly calls herself a “cheerleader for Christ,” and that phrase perfectly captures her personality and writing voice. She will cheer you on and motivate you as you learn to take your thoughts captive.
She explains that your mind is like a smartphone that is programmable and maintained by you. Your MindPhone holds many different messages, apps and codes that constantly run in the background. We can only have command over our lives with God’s help, and he can help us reprogram our MindPhones with his truth.
Put on the Warrior Mindsets
Kelly gives us twelve warrior mind-sets to put on and gives many practical applications for each of these Battle Ready mind-sets.
For example, Warrior Mind-Set Ten is Positivity. In this chapter, Kelly compares common negative thoughts with the positive thoughts we can have in Christ. She teaches you about the difference between the desert of “not enough” and the abundant banquet table of Jesus’ “more than enough.” She offers a five-point mind-renew to help you put on a positive, Bible-based mind-set. Each chapter is styled like this one–full of practical help.
I enjoyed Kelly’s creative solutions for common thought problems. This book isn’t a fast read and that’s OK, because reprogramming your thought life certainly takes time. It’s a gut-level honest nudge to recognize your toxic thought patterns and enlist God’s help in forming new, healthy thinking patterns.
Most of all, Battle Ready helps me think more as I write my own book about reforming our thought lives, which will be published in 2019. If you aren’t yet a subscriber, I encourage you to sign up to stay informed about the book!
Favorite Battle Ready Quotes
Here are my favorite quotes from Battle Ready:
“As we speak as He speaks–His Word–in our mind and aloud…in practice and in deed…at night and in the morning…entering trials or emerging from them…our mind gains an awareness of God’s power, breathing and living in our lives.”
True #connection with #Jesus is uniting to His #humility, His #love, His life, His covering, and His ways, until we're sure all we want is Him. #battlereadybook Click To Tweet“Speak up for Jesus. Let your voice proclaim the glory of the Lord so it is established within your belief system.”
“Hope breeds more hope. Faith breeds more faith. And the mind harnesses the truth, ‘With God anything is possible.'”
#Fighters see what's coming on the #horizon and proactively get in front of it. #battlereadybook Click To Tweet“If it is God’s kindness that saves and cleanses us, why do we, in haste, keep speaking mean to ourselves? If God is kind, shouldn’t we be that way too?”
“God’s Word reshapes us internally so the external becomes inconsequential.”
Battle Ready has many more power-packed statements that can revolutionize your thinking.
Enter to Win Battle Ready!
I’m happy to offer a copy of Battle Ready for you and a mini notebook featuring the art of Ruth Chou Simons. Follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter giveaway to enter and share on social media for extra entries!
Open to U.S. residents only. No purchase necessary to enter. All entries will be verified. Entries that do not meet verification requirements will be disqualified. One winner will be selected from a random drawing. Books will be mailed via USPS on or before Jul. 12, 2018. This contest is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram or any other social media outlet.
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Thanks goes out to Netgalley for a free review copy of this book.
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