Hey, I’m Shannon.
And I never knew I was a Control Girl. Not until I got married and had kids. That’s when I started having little fights with my husband about silly things (like which parking space to choose). I started feeling unhappy when things didn’t go perfectly (like when he fell asleep at a dinner party). The tension, anger, fear, and anxiety spilling into my life all stemmed from my desire for control.
I was just trying to make everything turn out right. But I was making everyone (myself included) miserable in the process.
That’s when God opened my eyes to the problem of control.
In this nine-week study, we’ll study seven women of the Bible, and consider God’s perspective on control. We’ll look at Eve, who wanted to know instead of trust. Sarah, who rushed ahead and played God. Rebekay, who tried to control her family’s future. Each woman’s story offers us warnings, lessons and insight into our own struggles with control.
Learn how you, too, can lay down your burden of needing to control everything, and find rest in surrendering to the One who truly is in control.
Are you a Control Girl?
This nine-week study invites you to consider the lives of seven controlling women in the Bible. In their stories, you’ll become convinced that God is in control, which means you don’t have to be.
Explore the freedom, security and joy that comes—not from gripping more tightly to control, but from opening your hand and surrendering control to God.
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A Look Inside the Book
Why should you study “Control Girls” of the Bible? I suppose I could have written a book about seven controlling women from our day (there would surely be no shortage!), studying how God’s Word addresses their issues. But studying Bible women gives us two advantages:
First, we get to see how their stories turned out! We can flip forward in our Bibles and see how God settled the things these women were fretting or fuming about. Second, we get to see God’s perspective on their stories. We can listen in on the very conversations they had with God himself, and watch how God responds.
Each Bible woman’s story offers unique warnings, lessons, and insights as we turn to consider our own stories.
Lessons
Each chapter is divided into “lessons”, so that when you’re on a time budget you can complete a full train of thought each time you open your book to study. Each chapter has between 3 and five lessons, depending on how much our woman of that Bible has to say!
The lessons each open with a Bible reading and close with a set of applications questions. You’ll be asked to consider your own life, read additional passages from the Bible, and write out your responses and plans for putting truth into practice.
Meditations
Each lesson also ends with a meditation—an encapsulated truth, verse, and prayer from the lesson.
So often we say God is in control, but live like we are. If you’re serious about inviting God to change you, these meditations will help you replace wrong thinking with right thinking about God, yourself, and others.
As you study, may you find the peace, security and joy which are only available to those who surrender (not those who take control).
Chapters
- PATH OF A CONTROL GIRL
- EVE: It Looked Good to Me
- SARAH: It’s Up to Me
- HAGAR: Out from Under Her Control
- REBEKAH: Standing in for God
- LEAH: Invisible and Unloved
- RACHEL: When She Has More
- MIRIAM: Taking the Lead
- CONTROL GIRL TO JESUS GIRL
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