Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World by Lisa Bevere

Lioness Arising: Wake Up and Change Your World by Lisa Bevere is a passionate and powerful declaration of faith, empowering women to awaken their strength and find their courage to rise above the expectations and opinions that hold them back.

Bevere’s book provides readers with the opportunity to consider why they are called to stand firm in their faith and how they can become a force of change in their own lives. In Lioness Arising, Bevere reminds us that true, lasting confidence and strength comes from within.

At its heart, Lioness Arising is about inspiring women to wake up and reconnect with the spirit of a lioness: the fierce strength and courage to break cycles of oppression and instead, create a generations-spanning legacy of grace and champion.

Bevere writes about the relevance of female leadership in Christian faith communities and shows how women can embrace their leadership roles unapologetically and maximize their potentials. She emphasizes the importance of rejecting the “easy way”, redefining definitions and capturing the courage of a lioness, no matter what it takes.

Throughout the book, Bevere covers a variety of topics, including feelings of low self-confidence, lack of motivation, the power of disappointments, confronting fear, the healing power of forgiveness and building a life of spiritual discipline.

Bevere uses stories and experiences from her own life as well as from other women to illustrate the importance of believing in and aligning with the truth from which everything else follows. Her stories portray how living in God’s will, pursuing passions and cultivating authentic relationships can awaken the lioness within.

In addition to stories, Lioness Arising features more than 100 Scriptures and practical exercises and tools to help readers apply the insights they've gained and make them ambassadors of change.

Overall, Lioness Arising is an invigorating look at how women can embrace their uniqueness, aiming to empower and equip them to reclaim the personal power, joy and significance they were meant to have. It is a wake-up call to the courage that lies within all women, calling them to embrace their femininity and grace and to stand up and be a champion. It provides a blueprint for fully coming alive and challenging the world, replacing fear and long-standing cycles of abuse with freedom, justice and healing.