Charlotte Gambill - Dare to Be: God Is Able. Are You Willing?

We often want to know the behind-the-scenes to some of our favorite events and the lives of some of our favorite people. That is exactly what Dare to Be offers, but it also gives more. After reading this book, you will walk away inspired, challenged, and ready to do the thing youve been wanting to do. Its a page-after-page reminder that God is faithful.

A NNIE F. D OWNS ,New York Times bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

This book is such a beautiful overflow of what God has done in Charlottes and Natalies lives. I have no doubt its going to encourage you as its encouraged me and challenge you to step out in faith, no matter how crazy it seems.

K ARI J OBE , Grammy-nominated worship artist

Dare to Be rekindles that fire dwelling inside you, reminding you that no matter what life throws at you, if you dont dare to be, youll never know what could have been.

S ADIE R OBERTSON H UFF , author, speaker, and founder of Live Original

Encouraging. Hope-filled. Captivating. Charlotte and Natalie are the Jesus-focused big sisters we all need to navigate the uncharted territory God is welcoming us to step into. In this impactful, relatable, and truth-filled book, they equip us to disempower doubt from defining our decisions and allow faith to write our futures. She who dares, wins. Give this book to every woman you know!

S HELLEY G IGLIO , Passion City Church

A book about dreaming, daring, and believing that God can do more than we can imagine!

B OB G OFF ,New York Times bestselling author

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Dare to Be

Copyright 2021 by Charlotte Gambill and Natalie Grant

Published by Harvest House Publishers

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To our children:

Hope Cherish and Noah Brave
Grace Ana, Bella Noelle, and Sadie Rose

This is our story.

Your willingness to release is why we can dare to be.

This adventure is one that we all have had to take together.

From the moments our families collided, your hearts and lives also connected.

From doing bus life together to allowing us to kiss each of you goodbye for a moment so we could be obedient to go and help others in their moments of need.

Every salvation, transformation, and breakthrough we have witnessed are ones we all share.

No words can express how much we love and cherish the most daring of all adventuresraising such incredible world changers.

Our prayer is that you each would discover your own God-filled journey, dare to make a difference, dare to dream for something greater, and trust the One who holds your future.

Keep being true, kind, compassionate, and crazy. You are our joy, and the best reward is coming home to you.

We love you always.

I dare you. Do you remember the first time you heard those words? We have all been dared by someone at some time. Perhaps someone at school dared you to be mischievous. Or maybe someone dared you to push beyond your previous achievements in a physical challenge.

We all respond differently to a dare. Some see it as an opportunity to prove themselves; others hear it as a challenge to their competence. Yet its often the I dare you moments that push us beyond where comfort could keep us and the familiar would fence us in.

Such moments seem to appear more frequently when we are young, as part of our regular interactions with friends. As we get older, these conversations become less common; we become too mature to entertain something that seems so childish. But what if discarding the I dare you moments means we are keeping our potential hidden away within us? Perhaps the very thing we thought to be immature is what we need for our life to mature. What if the presence of the dare could open new doors for you?

When we read the Bible, we get a front-row seat to many I dare you moments of the past. Gods Word is the record of those who went before us, the ones whom God used to forge the future through acts that were not for the fainthearted. The consistent theme of these accounts is a willingness to dare to go beyond the usual or normal: Moses before Pharaoh; Daniel in the lions den; the disciples leaving behind all they knew to follow a man they had only just met.

Our present faith was shaped by those who dared in the past. Now it is our turn to dare to go farther and shape the future.

Perhaps its time we all got back to the place of daring. A journey awaits those who, with courage and willingness, take the first steps on an uncharted path. For so long weve been safely managing our destinies, but its time to make friends with the discomfort that comes when we choose to make Gods words our security. The farther we go on the