Women at War by Jan Greenwood

If you’ve ever been hurt by another woman – this book is for you. If you’ve ever longed for a deep relationship with a friend – this book is for you. If you feel like you were never really mothered well – this book is for you.  If you wonder how to mother your daughters well – this book is for you.  If you believe that God’s heart is for women – this book is for you. If you wonder if God’s heart is for women – this book is for you.

I am one lucky girl. I have 4 amazing sisters and 5 precious daughters.  I am surrounded with girls and I love it!  I see the the beauty in the way that God made them and I know in my gut that God made them all – us all- for greatness. But sometimes I wonder how to shield my girls from relational pain.  How do I keep them from being hurt by other girls?  Girls can be so mean! I’ve heard this said many times before and I’ve witnessed it first hand. And how do I help them to see that their worth and value is in who God says they are and how much He values them? 

I, myself, have suffered painful blows from female relationships. I could tell you story after story of female family and friends who did or said hurtful things as I was growing up and even into my adult years.  My heart has been locked away behind walls built high to prevent further pain. I didn’t even realize how I was keeping women at arms length just to prevent further hurt.

But I LOVE women.  I feel called to serve women.  I’m passionate about showing women God’s heart for them… I just couldn’t let women close enough to let them know the real me – the vulnerable, doesn’t have it all together Kristin.

I thought I was reading Women at War just because it would be good and God put it on my heart to help promote it, but it was for more than that. God knew that I needed to read this book and have my eyes opened to the truth and now I believe strongly that every woman needs to read this book!

Health female relationships aren’t just possible – They’re powerful!

You see, I needed a heart healing. I needed someone, a friend, to take me by the hand and show me what was really going on.  Jan Greenwood is that friend and Women at War is the guide book.

As I read I found myself on a journey with Jan and her own stories of relationships with women.  I felt angry as she pulled back the curtain on the enemy’s tactics against women, who we are and our relationships with one another.  I felt comfort in Jan’s assurance of who God says we are and what our relationship can and should be.   I felt courage rise up in me as she shared her own stories of overcoming hurt in her life.  I felt hope as she searched through God’s Word and shared many stories of women in the Bible, their relationships with the women around them, and what God did in their lives.

“Satan knows that Eve heard the curse spoken over him, and he realizes that her offspring can crush his head. Therefore, he is terrified of you, and he will do anything to kill your ability to produce life.” -Jan Greenwood in Women at War

This book is a call to action to change a desperate situation.  We are the walking wounded and we wound others as a result.  God doesn’t call us to live like this.  He longs to set us free, heal our hurts and restore what was broken and lost.  Women at War is a powerful tool for the journey towards finding and understanding the truth and overcoming the lies.

“If your first female relationship is lacking in nurture, it will produce a wound in your spirit that will critically shape your development, your character and how you feel about yourself and other women … Negative mothering can establish a pattern of mistrust for the rest of our lives. We learn to hide our needs, or try to meet them on our own or through inappropriate measures. We become vulnerable. We don’t feel safe or accepted.” -Jan Greenwood in Women at War

This book has not only offered me the hope of deep and meaningful relationships with women but shines a powerful light on how I can be a mother who teaches my children the truth from the lies of the enemy and builds up a new generation of daughters who can be vulnerable and love women well. 

“Many women are born into generational cycles and situations that are in exact opposition to God’s perfect plan. We can no longer hang back in the battle for their destinies. We have been assigned to make disciples who are strong, whole and clear about their calling.”

“When two women draw together and create a godly rapport—mother to daughter, sister to sister, or friend to friend—there is an innate potential to produce life, to impart love, and to multiply a blessing.” -Jan Greenwood in Women at War

If you are a woman, are a mother, have a mother, are daughter, have a daughter, have a sister, have or want to have friends, then I cannot urge you enough to get Jan’s book Women at War. Invest the time into reading it.  Take time to dig deep and answer the questions at the end of each chapter. Let God do a work in your heart, heal you from your wounds, and raise you up to be a woman who fights in the battle against the true enemy and no longer against one another.

“If we pull together, sow together and reap together, we will set in motion a movement of love, acceptance and peace that will change the generations that follow us. Our daughters and granddaughters will walk strong and whole, free of our past, empowered to bring hope and healing to others.” -Jan Greenwood in Women at War

Join me again in two weeks as we dig into this amazing book and study it chapter by chapter with Jan.  We’ll start here and visit other blogs on our journey toward becoming whole women who help heal women. Will you join us?

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