Just Rise Up

Sarah Francis Martin

About the Book:

Sarah remembers the exact moment when the relationship between her faith and her entire life came into clear focus. Sitting in her favorite red chair with a comfy blanket and a cup of hot tea, she snuggled in with her Bible and a new book. The book was huge, several hundred pages long, and yet it didn’t intimidate her. Written by the beloved Chuck Colson, How Now Shall We Live? focused the lens of Sarah’s life and spelled out a segregation that she had unknowingly been living with—a segregation between her faith and the rest of her life.

She has since come to understand that The Lord designed each and every one of us uniquely and put a dream in our heart that is attached to His agenda for this world. Many of us have felt the stirring in our heart to make a difference with our life, yet we don’t always know how. The key, she found, was to surrender to God’s leading, seek him first, and allow him to do the big things He has planned with our life. In the end, God’s agenda and our dreams and passions will intersect around one very important phrase– a battle cry, if you will – “Make Jesus Famous!”

Based on Psalm 145, this invigorating study motivates women to do life differently by making Jesus famous in all aspects of life. Just RISE UP! is a call to get off the couch of complacency, live a life of praise with a humble posture and Kingdom perspective, and step into a life of true purpose.

Features include:

Verse by verse study of Psalm 145
Snippets of conversations with Sarah’s readers
Journaling prompts to help the reader dig deeper
Conversation guide for small groups

About the Author:

Sarah Francis Martin has a passion to do life and ministry with women and encourage them to RISE UP! and make Jesus famous in every part of life. Sarah is a graduate of Texas A&M University and Charles Colson’s Centurions discipleship program, an intense study of biblical worldview. Read more from Sarah in her book Stress Point: Thriving Through Your Twenties In A Decade Of Drama. (Thomas Nelson 2012) www.liveitoutblog.com

My Review:

Just Rise up is part of the Inscribed collection from Thomas Nelson. “InScribed is a collection of studies by women inspired by Proverbs 3:3, “Stay focused; do not lose sight of mercy and truth; engrave them on a pendant, and hang it around your neck; meditate on them so they are written upon your heart” (The Voice).”

Based on Psalm 145, Sarah is taking us on a journey to put God as the main person in our lives and to make Jesus famous. God has called us to be disciples and to go out into the world and tell everyone about what He has done for us. Just Rise Up is the perfect study to get you up off of the couch of complacency and live a life of praise!!! Teaching us to step into a life of true purpose!! How many of you want that? I know I needed it!!

I loved how Just Rise Up is a verse by verse study of Psalm 145, includes snippets of conversations with the author’s readers, includes journaling prompts to help you dig deeper and it also has a conversation guide for small groups.

I highly recommend you pick this study up today!! You definitely will not be disappointed!

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book for my honest review.