Holly Wagner - Find Your Brave: Courage to Stand Strong When the Waves Crash In

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Find Your Brave

If youve lost the confidence and strength to endure the storms in your life, Find Your Brave is the empowering message your heart needs. With biblical wisdom and personal understanding, Holly will show you what it looks like to fight back against lifes disappointments in the only way that workswith the Lords help. I love this resource.

L YSA T ER K EURST , New York Times best-selling author and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries

Holly Wagner mixes raw honesty and real wisdom as she helps us navigate the storms that come our way. As you turn the pages of Find Your Brave, not only will you learn and be inspired, but at times you will seriously laugh out loud. This book has the potential to be a game changer in the way we respond to the challenges we all face. Why not pick up one for friend?

C HRISTINE C AINE , founder of A21 and Propel

I have known and loved Holly for more than twenty years. Her grasp of the Word of God and her ability to bring it to life is magnificent. She personally has navigated unchartered waters on a number of occasions and always comes through with testimony to the goodness and grace of God. Find Your Brave will inspire courage in your own walk.

B OBBIE H OUSTON , Hillsong Church, author of The Sisterhood

Ive always loved the insightful, practical, loving, and loyal way Holly approaches life. In this book, her honesty, mixed with wisdom coming from personal experiences and biblical teaching, encourages the reader to dig deeper and find your brave when walking through adversity. Holly not only reminds us who we are, but she walks alongside us with great encouragement and more often a sisterly push to keep moving forward!

D ARLENE Z SCHECH , composer, worship leader, and author of Worship Changes Everything

Holly Wagner is one of the most dynamic and faith-filled people we know. Her new book, Find Your Brave, will equip, encourage, and inspire you to take bold steps of faith and stand strong when life gets tough.

C RAIG AND A MY G ROESCHEL , authors of From This Day Forward

Find Your Brave is more than a theory for Holly Wagner. She found her brave as she pioneered a church in Hollywood, journeyed through cancer, and battled with fear. This book positions you to forge through trials and come out radiant on the other side.

L ISA B EVERE , Messenger International, author of Lioness Arising

Holly doesnt write about finding your brave from the sidelines; she writes from the heart of the battle. Because she lives out her message daily, she helps us understand that we too can find our brave. Not only that, the journey is exhilarating, and when we do it together, we are stronger.

S HEILA W ALSH , author of The Longing in Me

We know challenges will come to us all; none are exempt. In Find Your Brave, Holly masterfully maps the way to finding and sourcing inner strength in those trying times. Her humor sets you at ease while her words stir, inspire, and spur you on to a live a life filled with courage and faith.

P ASTORS J UDAH AND C HELSEA S MITH , lead pastors of The City Church in Seattle, Washington

In Find Your Brave, Holly Wagner empowers women to stand strong as an example to the world. She reminds us that it is in our strength that we find our purpose, and it is only through God that we find our strength. For any woman who has ever faced fear, this book is a must-read!

L ISA Y OUNG , Fellowship Church, coauthor of The Creative Marriage

We all face dark and challenging times. In Find Your Brave, Holly Wagner will show you how to find the courage to rise up, press through your storm, and triumph on the other side.

H OLLY F URTICK , wife of Steven Furtick, pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina

F IND Y OUR B RAVE

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, 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 ( AMP ) are taken from the Amplified Bible. Copyright 2015 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( AMPC ) are taken from the Amplified Bible Classic Edition. Copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by the Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org). Scripture quotations marked ( CEV ) are taken from the Contemporary English Version. Copyright 1991, 1992, 1995 by American Bible Society. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked ( ESV ) are taken from the ESV Bible (the Holy Bible, English Standard Version), copyright 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 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 Tyndale House Publishers Inc. Scripture quotations marked ( NCV ) are taken from the New Century Version. Copyright 2005 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. 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 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

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Trade Paperback ISBN9781601428813

Hardcover ISBN9781601428790

Ebook ISBN9781601428806

Copyright 2016 by Holly Wagner

Cover design by Mark D. Ford

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wagner, Holly, author.

Title: Find your brave : courage to stand strong when the waves crash in / Holly Wagner.

Description: First Edition. | Colorado Springs, Colorado : WaterBrook Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016000204 (print) | LCCN 2016007185 (ebook) | ISBN 9781601428790 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781601428806 (electronic)

Subjects: LCSH: Christian women. | CourageReligious aspectsChristianity. | Fortitude.

Classification: LCC BV4527 .W2965 2016 (print) | LCC BV4527 (ebook) | DDC 248.8/43dc23