Nancie Carmichael ~ Inspiration and Encouragement for Women

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Selah / se - lah / n. your moment to stop, think, and step into your future

What if all you did and all you are added up to more? Popular speaker and author Nancie Carmichael invites you to come alongside as she examines the lives of people who took defining steps to make a greater difference. Their wisdom can help you live with greater joy and a sense of anticipation. Selah helps you map out the next steps toward a more meaningful life-touching others, making positive changes, and leaving the legacy of a life well spent. With each chapter you'll find yourself living more intentionally.

The Comforting Presence of God: Resting in His Unfailing Love for You

Well–known author and popular speaker Nancie Carmichael explores the life changes we experience and reveals the great constant in our lives—our Father God. Even positive change can be scary, but in every change we can count on God’s Word and His soothing presence to see us through. This book takes readers on a journey through the promises God has given us, including—

He will provide guidance
He will give us strength to persevere
He will lift us up in difficult times

Through personal reflection and biblical insights, Nancie gives people who are hurting the healing balm of God’s love, the joy that comes from a relationship with God, and the calm of knowing Jesus as Savior.

The Deeper Life

This collection of 31 meditations invites readers to "stop their busyness, draw closer to God, and allow Him to lead them to a deeper life." Drawn from well-known author Nancie Carmichael's years of "Deeper Life" columns in Virtue magazine, The Deeper Life offers encouragement and insight drawn from the Mary-Martha story: We need to be learning more from God, not doing more for him.

Your Life, God's Home: Knowing the Joy of His Presence

Genuinely and warmly written, this book is intended to help women understand how to build a life that will withstand the storms of life, and why a foundation fixed on the Word of God is so important.

Desperate for God: How He Meets Us when We Pray

Whether you are new in your faith or have walked with the Lord for years, the cry of your heart for more of Him is one He always longs to answer. By trusting that He is there, desiring to meet your needs, you have reached the place where prayer begins. In these warmly written pages you'll learn what captures your heart and determines how you pray. And with many practical tips for continued growth, you'll discover the power, the peace, and the strength that come from prayer -- from simply being available to the One who longs to care for you.

Praying for Rain: Surrender & Triumph in Life's Desert Experiences

Does your life seem desperately dry today? Everyone encounters "desert" stretches in life-places where pain overwhelms comfort, depression thwarts activity, and stress engulfs the once-serene mind. Such deserts can develop from divorce, a rebellious child, the loss of a job, or from nothing at all. You may just feel that nothing right is happening -- or ever will.

Nancie Carmichael knows exactly how you feel. This super-busy mother of five, co-publisher with her husband of Christian magazines, and popular author has faced her own devastating dry spells: chronic illness, bottled-up grief, a special-needs child, mind-bending stress. In this intensely personal book, Nancie chronicles her own desert wanderings and the "enormous gifts" she has received in them. Each arid patch, she affirms, offers a unique opportunity to hear God's voice, know his care, and experience his rebuilding in the shattered places of the heart.

Praying for Rain is a sensitive manual for coping with desert thirst and despair. Using biblical and contemporary examples, journal entries, and poignant quotations, Nancie offers straightforward strategies for survival. "Although none of us want desert experiences, we need them to process life, to hear what God is saying," she writes. "I believe our response is the key. The paradox of the desert is that if you cultivate it, the desert can become a beautiful, productive garden." And here, in Praying for Rain, are pools of refreshing water to help you to do just that.