About the Book

Book: Be Held by Him and Companion Guidebook

Author: Karen Brough

Genre: Christian Inspirational

Release date: October, 2021

Seeking light amid a hard journey? Learn ways to take God’s hand and be Encouraged. Are you weighed down by physical or emotional pain? Trying to survive tough times with no end in sight? Told to “walk with God” but don’t know how?

 

Living with various medical issues for over a decade, author and blogger Karen Brough has triumphed despite debilitating challenges by learning to listen to the heart of the Almighty. As if inviting you into her lounge room, Karen, passes you a hot drink, welcoming you into her personal, authentic and vulnerable places. You will be encouraged and have hope seeds planted by experiencing along with her, all that He has done! In the conversations, the events and miracles, you’ll find yourself-finding yourself in her stories.

Be Held By Him – Finding God When Life Knocks You Off Your Feet is an inspiring exploration of the reassurance that can be found in the hardest of places by turning to our Creator. Through Brough’s own accounts, the Lord’s love letters, and prayers, you’ll feel unending comfort. And when you learn to hear our Father’s voice for yourself, you will build a deeper, more satisfying faith to help you persevere.

 

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About the Companion Guidebook

Looking for action steps to help you connect with God? Learn how to build a loving

relationship with Him and get through the hard times with joy.

Are you struggling to find hope through personal challenges? Longing to hear our Heavenly

Father’s voice but don’t know how? Need a guiding hand to show ways you can lean on Him? Feeling dry in your faith and need a fresh injection of LIFE?

In Be Held By Him Companion Guidebook, you’ll discover:

– Applications based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences to provide a learning style that caters to you

– Through inspirational love letters from Father’s heart to you

– Bite-sized wisdom and meditative thought, so you’ll always be encouraged

– Reflective questions that will inspire, encourage and develop healthy life thoughts

– Playlists for each chapter, so you can soak in songs of worship and inspiration that will fill your soul

– Personal blessings, God’s tender care, how He communicates, and much, much more!

 

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My Thoughts:

There are no coincidences with God. Everything we go through, good and bad, is divinely appointed. I believe the same is true for the timing of me reading Karen Brough’s Be Held by Him. I signed up to review this book months ago because I’m always looking for inspirational reads. I thought this was a Bible study, and had I truly looked at the description, I probably wouldn’t have chosen to review it.

But I didn’t, so here I am reviewing it today.

Around the time I started reading Be Held by Him, I had just wrenched my back. I am usually very active and sitting still for long is a challenge for me. But here I was laid up and reading about Ms. Brough’s debilitating illness, and the lessons the Lord taught her in her (very long) season of pain. Maybe if I hadn’t been on my own spiritual journey to begin with, I wouldn’t have been so impacted. However, it’s for readers in just such a place in their lives that she wrote it.

Be Held by Him is broken up into short chapters that walk the reader through Ms. Brough’s journey. Each chapter starts with scripture that coordinates with what she was hearing from God as she sought Him at the deepest level. The end of the chapter has another piece of scripture and a section titled Father’s Heart, followed by a Prayer section.

The Father’s Heart is filled with profound reminders of who our Father is, and how much He truly loves us. Beautifully written, the words drew me in and tended to my own heart in every area throughout the book. A reminder of how the Lord desires to draw us into His rest, or the struggle we have to be still in His presence (this is a hard one for me) or reminding us that we are never alone in our circumstances, but that He is right there with us. If we’re a follower of Jesus Christ and we spend any time in the Word, we know this. But these are eloquent reminders that touched a very deep part of me.

Ms. Brough’s Prayer section after each chapter was just as beautifully written. Reminders of all we have to be thankful for regardless of our circumstances.

I didn’t do a thorough reading of the Companion Guidebook, but from what I read, it follows the same format. And it adds something else that I love—an action plan and a worship playlist for each chapter. So many people are more easily able to praise the Lord when enthralled in a beautiful worship song.

I wasn’t without struggles with this book, however. I cannot imagine how difficult it was for Ms. Brough to suffer as she did through long, frustrating, painful years. But the sections of each chapter that walked the reader through all of this was hard to read. It wasn’t just the emotional component that was difficult, but the overly repetitive nature of her ailments. It seemed as if two people wrote this book—one with clarity and precision for the Father’s Heart and Prayer, and another for the rest of it that was not nearly as well written. Still, if you or someone you know is going through a difficult season, you will be encouraged by Be Held by Him and the Companion Guidebook.

 

About the Author

Karen Brough is an Australian wife, mother, and former Primary School Teacher & has always had a passion for writing. She is the author of ‘Be Held by Him’ Finding God when life knocks you off your feet.

Ten years ago, when hit by a mystery illness, Karen began sharing the encouragement God gave to her, with others. Her heart loves nothing better than to demystifying how and who God is in the everyday and the miraculous.

She loves spending time with her husband and children. In Summer, you’ll find her enjoying the water and offering gelato to anyone who might drop by. In Winter, she makes soups, breads, and muffins. Often hiding vegetables in sweet recipes, much to her children’s dismay (secretly they love it though).

 

More from Karen

I wrote this book because I was given a dream to do it. I’d had my life turned upside down through medical mystery, and yet in it, God revealed His heart of love for me; and for those who are walking through the tough of life.

At every point, God unveiled every detail of the book, through dreams, verses, songs, life events and so much more. This book series is a testament to His miraculous, hope filled and loving hand, which is ready to pick us up, hold us tenderly and show us the next step. He speaks in ways each one of us understands, and I LOVE this about Him.

Download free art declaration cards based on the chapter themes – 16 ways we hear from God. www.karenbrough.com

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Karen is giving away the grand prize package of a $50 Amazon gift card and a copy of the Be Held By Him books!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

Giveaway Link