Dannah Gresh - Get Lost: Your Guide to Finding True Love

So many girls who are longing to be loved are looking in all the wrong places to be filled. Get Lost reaches into those searching hearts, pulls out deepest longings, and whispers brave truths about a feminine hearts inherent search for love. Dannah Gresh tenderly reveals how to discover faith-filled contentment that will last a lifetime. Get Lost is a generational game changer!

T RACEY E YSTER, author of Be the Mom and founder of momlifetoday.com

Confusing our desire for Gods love with a desire for a mans love is easy to do. Dannah helps us understand Gods created design for this love craving, how we should respond, and what a true God-honoring relationship looks like. Her refreshing honesty and transparency reflect an authentic desire for Him. Dannah is wise and a worthy guide to follow.

B ARBARA R AINEY , cofounder of FamilyLife Today

For every girl who has been in relationship after relationship and lost herself somewhere along the way For every girl who has lost hope that Gods best is really out there when it comes to love For every girl who has lost something precious and found heartbreak, hurt, and disappointment Get Lost is for you. So much more than a Christian how- to guide for love, this book will change the trajectory of your heart by moving you from boy crazy to God crazy. Every girl needs to grab a copy and get lost in the wise guidance and biblical love story Dannah weaves so well.

E RIN D AVIS , author of the One Girl series

This is not just another find your man book for young women. In this compelling read, Dannah Gresh effectively shows young women how to be lost in God first, so that if God then calls them to relationship, they will be far more able to love their man well. Dannah, you are a treasure, and so is this book!

S HAUNTI F ELDHAHN , best-selling author of For Women Only and For Young Women Only

With transparency, winsome imagery, and wisdom, Dannah Gresh tells it as it is. We want boys more than we want God, yet only when we focus on His love, His life, do we find the fulfillment we seek. I got lost in the pages, and I cant wait to share this book with the young women in my life. Getting lost in God is a message worth proclaiming!

T RICIA G OYER , best-selling author of Life Interrupted: The Scoop on Being a Young Mom

I cant wait to get this book in the hands of every young woman I know. Dannah not only points out the dead end of trusting in a guy for fulfillment; she practically shows you how make Jesus the One your heart adores.

J ULI S LATTERY , psychologist, author, and cofounder of Authentic Intimacy

This is one of those books that I learned from as I read but feel like Ill return to and learn from over and over as the truths continue to digest into my soul. Dannah is easy to read and feeds like a trusted friend.

A NNIE D OWNS , author of Perfectly Unique

B OOKS BY D ANNAH G RESH

What Are You Waiting For?

And the Bride Wore White

Secret Keeper

Lies Young Women Believe
(co-authored with Nancy Leigh DeMoss)

Six Ways to Keep the Good in Your Boy

Six Ways to Keep the Little in Your Girl

G ET L OST
P UBLISHED BY W ATER B ROOK P RESS
12265 Oracle Boulevard, Suite 200
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80921

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( AKJV ) are taken from the American King James Version. Scripture quotations marked (Darby) have been taken from the Darby Translation by John Nelson Darby, copyright 1890. Scripture quotations marked ( KJV ) are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked ( MSG ) are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NASB ) are taken from the New American Standard Bible. Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( NIV ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica Inc.TM Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. Scripture quotations marked ( NKJV ) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NLT ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Details in some anecdotes and stories have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved.

Trade Paperback ISBN 978-0-307-73063-3
eBook ISBN 978-0-307-73064-0

Copyright 2013 by Dannah Gresh

Cover design by James Hall; cover photography by Joel Knepper, J&A Photography

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gresh, Dannah.
Get lost : your guide to finding true love / Dannah Gresh.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Christian womenReligious life. 2. Mate selectionReligious aspectsChristianity. I. Title.
BV4527.G748 2013
241.66dc23
2012045113

v3.1

To a young woman who got lost with me while I was writing this:

Heather Bullock

7 Get Lost in His Presence
Surrendering to Agape

8 Get Lost in His Pursuit
Returning His Love

9 Get Lost in His Words
Letting Him Cleanse and Restore You

10 Get Lost in His Intimacy
Seeing Yourself as He Does

11 Get Lost in His Strength
Trusting Him to Take Care of You

12 Get Lost in His Friendship
Delighting Yourself in His Desires

13 Get Lost in Exclusive Love for Him
Embracing the Peace of Faithfulness

14 Get Lost in His Story
Joining in the Work of His Heart

15 Get Lost in His Sacrifice
Submitting to His Cross

16 Get Lost in His Proposal
Inviting Others to the Feast

18 What a Guy Lost in God Looks Like
(or, How Do I Know If Hes the One?)

19 What a Girl Lost in God Looks Like
(or, How Do I Know When Im Ready?)