When I first saw the title “Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants” I wasn’t so sure I wanted my girl to be “magnetic”. She’s on a college campus! I don’t want her attracting the wrong attention.
That was before I started reading Lynn Cowell’s new book for young women, Magnetic: Becoming the Girl He Wants”. I began to understand the true meaning of Magnetic when I read this excerpt.
“How I wish I had known sooner that I was created to be loved perfectly and unconditionally, made to have my heart filled each and every day with love from the perfect Man – Jesus.
Then I could have spent my time, energy, and emotions, not on a guy I didn’t have, but on the One I did. I could have moved from obsessing over why I wasn’t wanted to becoming the type of girl a godly guy would want. Not just someone to date but someone he’d want to spend the rest of his life with.
I remember making the list, a gargantuan description of everything I was looking for in the guy I would marry one day. The more powerful list would have described the woman I wanted to become, the woman he couldn’t resist!
What would happen if you made the switch now? Shifted your focus off a guy and onto the Guy?
What if, together, we discovered an irresistible beauty deeper than designer clothes, jean sizes, and flaw-free skin? A confidence so attractive, nothing could cause us to lose it? A glamour simply magnetic?
In my quest to discover true beauty, I began to see gorgeous as much more than the face in my mirror. Gorgeous is not skin-deep but heart-deep, a beauty that develops as my heart discovers and returns True Love.
This beauty, this attractiveness, is found in the girl who has what I call “captivating characteristics”—what the Bible calls “the fruit of the Spirit.” These heart traits are described in Galatians 5:22–23: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”
Now I can’t wait to give it to Peyton!
Today, I’ve asked Lynn to join me and answer a few questions that came to my mind as I was reading Magnetic.
Why is this age group so important to you?
Like me, I would guess if you could go back to your life when you were a young woman, you would teach yourself a thing or two! My heart is to invest in girls today, pour God’s truth into their hearts, helping them to make wise choices and change the trajectory of life many have already started.
You’ve just written a new book, Magnetic. What does it mean to be “magnetic?”
Magnetic: a young woman who has switch her focus from what this world calls “beautiful” to God’s definition which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
3.) How can a young women become “magnetic” in a world that calls her to simply fit in?
I think it begins with making a choice; pre-deciding she will choose to reach her fullest potential. She can do that when she partners with God to be best version of herself He made her to be.
4.) I’ve noticed girls base their identity on whether or not they have a boyfriend. Is this true?
Unfortunately, our culture teaches all women “Guy + Me = Valuable”. It is true – the Guy is Jesus. Jesus + Me = Unconditional Love
5.) Where should a girl’s identity come from?
We need to build our identity not on someone, someplace or something – we can loose all of those things. We need to build our identity and confidence on the One we can never loose – Jesus! (Graphic on blogger site)
6.) Why is important for girls to chase after God instead of a boy? (Graphic on blogger site)
Do you remember how unpredictable a boy can be? When a girl basis her joy and happiness on that boy, she never knows what she’ll get. God is the same yesterday, today and forever! Secure and stable.
7.) How can a young woman break free from all the girl drama that dictates who she is and what she needs?
Recognize that much of drama has it’s foundation in jealousy and insecurity. If she builds her life on God’s truth, she doesn’t need to be a part of girl drama to “fit in”. She’s already in!
I would love to win this for my three daughters. They are 10, 16, and 17. I want them to gain so much that I missed.
I’d love for my 14 year old niece to be able to read this book. I know I could use it too, but she could use it more since she’s at the age where she’s more impressionable.
I wish I had understood this in college and would love for my daughter to know this.
As youth director at my church, I would love to have this book to use as a resource with our teen girls.
As youth director at my church, I believe this book would be an excellent resource to use with our teen girls.
I really wish I would have known this growing up. I will end up reading it myself first 🙂 .. Maybe it will teach me a thing or two then pass it off to my friends daughter I am really close to.
This is my heart as well. I have a Bible Study now with two young girls: 17 & 13 and we are reading “Spoken For” by Alyssa Bethke & Robin Gunn and last weekend we were talkinv about which book we would do next and I believe I just found it!!! Yay God!
As a mother of a 12 year old, I would love to have this book. Congratulations to the author for taking the time to write such an important subject nowadays.
I would love to win this for my granddaughter. She just turned thirteen with no mom in her life, and myself being that mom figure, it sounds like it would be an excellent resource for the two of us. Thank you for the chance to win.
What a great giveaway. Having two teen girls(16) and a handful of other teen and tween young women who hang around I can so see this for them. Either just having them read it, or somehow as a group study. Oooh…I am thinking that perhaps this could work at our local women’s mission. A lot of the women profess to know Christ but they are coming from lifestyles that truly haven’t focussed on The Guy ( like most of us I think). Perhaps this would draw them into and nearer to Christ and hopefully allow themselves the empowerment to not go back or to break free from whatever circumstances led them to take shelter at the mission in the first,second or third place. 🙂
I would love to win a copy as I have two daughters and teach a Sunday School class of 7th grade girls. I would LOVE to start this study with them!
I hope to win for my 12 year old. I want her to understand her value through God’s eyes.
I would love to read this book. I’m single and most of my friends are married. It would be so helpful to have a better understanding of how God views me and His love for me and also learning to become the kind of woman a godly guy would want to marry. Thank so much for doing this great giveaway!
This sounds like a book that would encourage ALL women at whatever stage in life we are at to feel lovable.
I would have loved to have known this when I was growing up. I know my daughter would be blessed by reading this.
I would love to win this for our youth leaders for the girls in our church.
Micca, this book “Magnetic” would be perfect for a young single mom I know. She is trying to find herself. I have been gently leading her to Jesus, which is challenging as her father committed suicide just over a year ago and he was pretty much her only family. (A restraining order is in effect to keep her alcoholic mom away.) I am going to print out this post with you and Lynn and give her a copy…maybe it will lead her to this blog post. She would not be upset that I named her family issues because she knows I have been praying for spiritual and emotional healing for her from our Divine Healer…our Father God and our Jesus! Through the Holy Spirit!