Thursday, November 2, 2023

About the Book

Book: FearLESS: God is calling you to be fearless and to FearLESS

Authors: Marta E Greenman and Maureen H Maldonado

Genre: Christian Devotional

Release Date: April, 2023

What makes you afraid? Does your fear keep you from obeying God or living a free life in Christ?

Explore God’s remedies for overcoming your fears in this thirty-day devotional that gives an in-depth scriptural look at facing your fears and God’s ways of living a life free from fear.

LEARN:

How the reverential fear of the Lord erases earthly fears and gives boldness to lead a victorious life in Christ.
The difference between healthy fear and unhealthy fear.
The individual Hebrew and Greek meanings of fear in Scripture.
How to apply God’s strategies for living a life free of fear.

Old Testament and New Testament accounts of fears faced and overcome are interspersed with personal stories and examples from everyday living from two veteran Bible teachers. Thoughtful reflection questions provide a jumping-off point for personal or group study.

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About the Authors

Marta left corporate America in 1998 to become a staff missionary with a church-planting organization known today as e3Partners. She led American churches in planting new ones with international church partners. During this period, Marta spent much of her time in the field on evangelism and discipleship, traveling to Colombia, Mexico, Moldova, Peru, Romania, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. She also had the privilege of leading women’s conferences in biblical training.

Marta began teaching inductive Bible studies in 1997 at her home church, where she taught faithfully for fifteen years. Debbie Stuart, the former women’s ministry director, said, “Marta Greenman is a master teacher, weaving biblical principles, personal stories, and clear application with every lesson. She walks in truth, loves the Word, and has dedicated her life to teaching that truth to women.”

After seven years on the mission field in Romania, Marta began to write Bible study curriculum. Her first study, Bound to Be Free, was published in 2011. Marta founded Words of Grace & Truth in May 2011, a ministry devoted to teaching God’s Word to the nations and teaching others to do the same, using curriculum God birthed through her teaching ministry. Since then, Leaders, Nations, and God and ACTs420NOW have been published. Her fourth book is a thirty-day devotional entitled FearLESS, co-authored with Maureen H. Maldonado. LoveMORE: Your 30-Day Devotional to learn to love like Jesus is also co-authored with Maureen H. Maldonado. She continues to write additional biblically-based materials.

Marta’s latest ministry venture is GraceAndTruthRadio.World (GTRW), a global radio station outreach with God’s message of grace and truth. Her program Under God, with co-host Maureen Maldonado, airs on GTRW Mondays at 3:30 p.m. CST. Marta’s passion, regardless of the nation where she may be, is teaching God’s Word and equipping others to teach. She is a gifted teacher, speaker, and expositor of God’s Word. Marta lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas with her husband of almost thirty years.

Maureen is the second of seven children. Growing up in a home where worldly wealth was a foreign concept, she always felt treasured by her parents and knew she was rich in love. Maureen married young and raised two amazing daughters. Her grandchildren are a blessing beyond anything she could imagine. Recently, she was able to add a granddaughter-in-love who adds joy

to the mix.

Maureen has a master’s degree in education from California State University and spent her career as a teacher, vice-principal, and principal in elementary education. Maureen never planned to leave California or the education system, but God had other plans. After Maureen’s husband was transferred to Arizona in 2006 and then to Texas in 2011, she spent several years teaching Just Moved, a Christian-based ministry program developed by Susan Miller for women who are moving home due to life changes (https://justmoved.org). God used her teaching education and experience as a training ground to begin teaching for Him. Involved in Bible studies in California, Arizona, and Texas, Maureen grew exponentially in her faith, love of God, and His Word. The culmination of these experiences led her to co-host the radio program Under God on GraceAndTruthRadio.World, where God’s Word is taught to the nations. Maureen’s first book FearLESS was co-authored with Marta E. Greenman. LoveMORE is Maureen’s second book, also co-authored with Marta.

Today Maureen is using her new-to-her method of studying the Bible and her long-applied teaching methods to teach the next generation of believers. Her prayer is for others to gain as much insight into God’s transformational Word as she has received. She describes it as “opening the shades and letting in all the sunlight on a gloomy day.” Maureen feels honored and humbled to be a part of Words of Grace & Truth and asks others to join in prayer for this needed ministry and for the church, our country, and our world. Maureen and her husband, Raymond, reside in Texas, where they have transplanted almost their entire family from California.

More from Marta

For years I wanted to write a devotional on Fear. God’s Word teaches us to Fear NOT! Since my original thought was a 365 Day devotional, I knew I needed at least one writing partner to accomplish the devotional in a reasonable time frame. Years would come and go, I would ask people, but nothing ever materialized. Finally, God brought the right person, my friend, my ministry partner, my co-host of Under God radio show, and my co-author Maureen H Maldonado. A woman whom God has uniquely designed to be my co-laborer in the Lord. Of course, God’s timing was perfect, FearLESS was published at a time when the world was in a fearful place, but God wanted and wants His children to be FearLESS.

MY FEARLESS

I decided to look up in the dictionary what the definition of fearless is. Now I know what it means but I wanted to see what the dictionary said. Fearless, “ free from fear, oblivious of danger and perils.” Well that was an easy to understand definition. However that word shakes me to my core . I want to be fearless at all times, but there is that doubt that creeps in which zaps my ability to trust. This book is something I was ready to sit down and let God pour into me.

I took my time going through this study because I didn’t want to miss anything. I wanted to learn how to be fearless and know how to fight fear when it started to come over me. The authors give great Biblical examples where people were fearless. Think about David and Goliath shall we? Here is this small shepherd boy, ready to take on this giant with just a sling and rocks. But he had no fear because he trusted God to overcome what was facing him. Now let’s apply this to our own lives.

Everyday we have trials that can seem overwhelming. Like David, “we can have this same FearLESS attitude when we come upon life’s inevitable valleys of the shadow of death. “We need to trust in our Savior’s rod and staff for our protection.” Each day we need to pick up our armor of God, go out into the world and be FearLESS.

It is important to remember that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” We don’t need to fear man, because God is with us. In simple terms we need to remember that God is in control. I loved it when one of the questions in our study was, “How is God teaching you to be a God pleaser instead of a people pleaser?” That question had me thinking for awhile. I do tend to try to please people because I want to be liked, accepted and not rejected. Then it hit me. I shouldn’t be worrying about people as much as I should God. He loves me unconditionally and accepts me just as I am. That should make me FearLESS!

As you can tell I really gained a lot from this study. It was very well written and provided many scriptures that led me to see the truth about living in fear of people. I pray that I will be set free from my fear and anxiety and become FearLESS. Without God, I am nothing. In John 14:27, Jesus says, “ Peace I leave you; My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful.”

I received a copy of this book from Celebrate Lit. The review is my own opinion.