Katie M. Reid - Made Like Martha: Good News for the Woman Who Gets Things Done

Praise for

Made Like Martha

Made Like Martha will infuse your life with a fresh perspective as you learn to embrace your God-given personality and also discover howand whento rest and retreat.

K AREN E HMAN , Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and author of Keep It Shut

For those who long to get off the merry-go-round of striving, Katies words are a welcome invitation to let go of trying harder and instead rest in your identity as a beloved daughter.

H OLLEY G ERTH , author of Youre Already Amazing

Made Like Martha is my new go-to gift for leaders, hard workers, and passionate women who long to listen to Gods voice and know peace when theyre tempted to hustle.

B EKAH J ANE P OGUE , author of Choosing Real

Katie Reid reveals how much God loves doers and longs for them to find their identity in Him while they live out their calling and purpose.

C AROL K ENT , speaker and author of He Holds My Hand

Katie will take you and your weary Martha-self on a journey to abundant freedom. If you are a doer, do yourself a favor and read this book. And all the Marthas sing hallelujah!

J AMI A MERINE , author of Stolen Jesus

I was a doer until I was diagnosed with a serious illness. In Made Like Martha, Katie Reid helped me recalibrate and find strength in service and peace, even when busy and weak.

J AN G REENWOOD , Equip pastor at Gateway Church and author of Women at War

Made Like Martha is the gospel for go-getters. Within these pages, Reid silences the voices that push, Do more. Be more. Achieve more. Those persistent taunts are covered by the glorious blanket of Gods lavish grace and unconditional love.

K ATE M OTAUNG , author of A Place to Land

This book was just what my Martha-heart needed. I felt affirmed in who I am and learned how to find peace and rest in the midst of my busy life.

J ENNIFER D UKES L EE , author of The Happiness Dare and Love Idol

In a world that often praises Mary for pausing to spend time with the Lord, Katie shares the Fathers heart for the women He made to be like Martha. It will bring freedom and rest to all who read it.

B ECKY T HOMPSON , author of Love Unending and Hope Unfolding

If you identify more as Martha than Mary, you will rejoice in learning how to stay calm in the chaos, how to find a balance between striving and slowing down, and how to finally rejoice in the woman God created you to be.

K ATE B ATTISTELLI , author of Growing Great Kids

Reading Made Like Martha was the first time I felt as though someone acknowledged the overachiever parts of my personality as something good and then reminded me that Im also called beloved.

M ARY C ARVER , blogger and coauthor of Choose Joy

Made Like Martha takes you on a gentle, truth-filled journey to the freedom you perhaps dont even realize your soul is craving.

V ANESSA H UNT , coauthor of Life in Season and founder of AtThePicketFence.com

Katie combines poignant storytelling and powerful Scripture teaching into an invitation for us to lay aside our personal expectations and to-do lists and embrace the call of Christnot to do, but to be.

T ERI L YNNE U NDERWOOD , author of Praying for Girls

Doers can finally breathe a sigh of relief and find rest in who God created them to be. Katies words bring freedom to stop striving and start thriving as His beloved daughter.

E RIN H. W ARREN , womens ministry director at First Baptist Orlando

What a beautiful invitation to leave the try-hard life behind and just belong to Jesus! This Martha is grateful.

J OANNA W EAVER , author of Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World

When youre exhausted from the try-hard, dizzy-busy life of striving to accomplish it all, while attempting to do it better than before, this message of hope, truth, and freedom is the rest you need.

J EN S CHMIDT , author of Just Open the Door

For the overwhelmed woman attempting to do it all, this is an invitation to freedom.

W ENDY S PEAKE , coauthor of Triggers, Parenting Scripts, and Life Creative

M ADE L IKE M ARTHA

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the Holy Bible, English Standard Version, ESV Text Edition (2016), copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( AMP ) are taken from the Amplified Bible. Copyright 2015 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked ( MSG ) are taken from The Message. Copyright by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers Inc. Scripture quotations marked ( NASB ) are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( NET ) are from the NET Bible, copyright 19962006 by Biblical Studies Press LLC, http://netbible.com. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NIV ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations marked ( NLT ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked (Voice) are taken from The Voice. Copyright 2008 by Ecclesia Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Trade Paperback ISBN9780735291263

Ebook ISBN:9780735291324

Copyright 2018 by Katie M. Reid

Cover design by Kelly L. Howard

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Reid, Katie, author.

Title: Made like Martha : good news for the woman who gets things done / Katie M. Reid.

Description: First Edition. | Colorado Springs : WaterBrook, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017045448| ISBN 9780735291263 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780735291324 (electronic)

Subjects: LCSH: Martha, Saint. | Christian women--Religious life.

Classification: LCC BS2480.M3 R45 2018 | DDC 248.8/43dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017045448

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To Adam.

Thank you for loving this modern Martha, even when its hard work. Thank you for teaching me about gracewithout using many words. Thank you for sitting with me in a hammock on Wednesday nights at 9:00 p.m.; it is one of the best things we do.