Winning the Worry Battle by Barb Roose is a book I highly recommend. She has taken stories from Joshua’s life from the book of Joshua in the Bible.
Barb has added stories from her life and other people she knows to correlate to our times. However the best thing for me was her practical and doable tips for winning the battle. It is a battle. I don’t know that we are ever totally cured of it. From my experience it can be seasonal.
She provides research that supports her tips. She shares specific scriptures that she feels will help readers when they have the tendency to worry.
She shares several practical tips. One is the CALM method. I also liked the idea of the tangible reminders.

I would also recommend the Bible study. I am considering it next.


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Winning the Worry Battle was such a great read. I read this at a time in my life when I feel like I really needed it and I found some of the things the author said to be very helpful. The book was easy to read and yet had some thought-provoking moments.

I liked how honest the author was with her worrying struggles and how she said she has had to use the tools she spoke about in her life recently too.

All in all, Winning the Worry Battle was well worth the read and I recommend it.

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This book is absolutely the most helpful on worry! I sound excited because I am! I just finished it and I feel so happy and blessed. Barb Roose does a wonderful job explaining how worry will get to us and cause us to crumble spiritually. She uses the book of Joshua and how he handled things in biblical days after Moses died and after the Israelites made it to the Promised Land, because even though they had made it to the land God promised them there was still more work to do. I love the layout of it. I would recommend this book to anyone! Thank you to #NetGalley and to the publishers, #AbingdonPress for the opportunity to read and review. #WinningtheWorryBattle

Winning the Worry Battle by Barb Roose is a comprehensive guide to worry. Taking the book of Joshua, Ms Roose thoroughly examines the problem of worry and how it can consume your life. The author has spent a great deal of time thinking about this subject and she details the many different types of worriers. She then provides Biblical wisdom to help readers cope. I think this is a good read for someone that needs to cope with their tendency to worry. I received a digital copy of this book. These opinions are entirely my own.

If you like down-to-earth, self-effacing non-fiction with a dash of humor, Barb Roose has written a great summer read for you. Worry is a major struggle for many women, and this book will truly give you weapons to fight and win the worry battle in your life.

I grew up in a family of worriers. Until I was an adult, I was plagued with fear and worry. If I had had the principles and practical tools in Barb’s book years ago, I could have overcome worry much sooner. Her book will be a life-changing resource for many who struggle with worry, fear and doubt. She shows how you can be set free from the worry trap with the freedom only God can provide.

Barb offers many practical ideas for dealing with worry, like these:

Carrying a stone that you rub when you feel worried, and saying, “I don’t have to worry; God will help me.”

Using the CALM technique to handle anxiety attacks

Write down your fear at the center of a page, and list all the what-if scenarios like legs of a spider. Then pray over those worry spiders in your life and use God’s power to kill them.

Picture your worries like a train that can come to a stop with Bible study and meditation.

Make a list of the times God has been faithful to you.

She has many other ideas you can apply right away. I enjoyed how she softened hard stories about her anxiety disorder with laughter and encouragement. You’ll enjoy Barb’s friendly tone in this helpful summer read.

Netgalley provided me a free review copy of this book.

Winning The Worry Battle Is a great book that teaches you how to deal with your anxiety and worries. There are so many people who suffer from this disorder and for some that could be debilitating - reading this book could help in being set free from that through CHRIST.

I am no stranger to worry, so when I saw Winning the Worry Battle by Barb Roose on Net Galley to review, I jumped at the opportunity. This book offered advice about being successful in the struggle against worry, and it compared the struggles that we faced to what Joshua faced in the Bible. I enjoyed how the author incorporated the story of Joshua as an example of how to conquer worry today.

Some parts of the book that stuck out for me were:

- the different types of worriers: silent sufferers, busy body, mother hens, control freaks)
-When in the midst of a worry battle, repeat "I don't have to worry, God will help me."
-The Starter Train Set (5 short Bible verses that we can read each morning and evening to replace some of the worry in our minds)
-Three fighting friends: peace, courage, and strength
- One worry = one prayer
-Stop saying that God can't give you more than you can handle. God allows us to have more than we can handle alone so that we can turns towards God, because He can.
-Forgetting what God has done for us leads us to fear.
-The comparison between God taking down the walls of Jericho and the "worry walls" in our own lives
-Being a warrior vs. a worrier
- Background issues in our lives drain our batteries, just like apps in the background draining the batteries on our cell phone.
-Cue and rewards are essential to fighting a long term worry battle.
-"Carefrontation" instead of "confrontation"

Some of the points made weren't as applicable in my life (i.e. fasting), but overall I enjoyed reading the book and gained some helpful pointers about dealing with chronic worry. I would give this book 4 stars.

This book is enlightening. Find some ways to help when dealing with worry by helping God take your burden away. We can win the worry battle and this book is full of inspiration for the Book of Joshua. God has given us everything we need to help.

As someone who inherited the gift of worrying from her mother, I always feel guilty for not being good at Philippians 4:6 - Don't worry about anything; instead pray about everything. I do pray all the time, and I plead for the worry to go away. Sometimes it does, but not always. I am an anxious person by nature. We're all human. This book helped me so much. I highly recommend it!

Have you ever been told that if you worry or have anxiety that you are just sinning and not trusting God? Have you ever been made to feel guilty if you ever worry about important people and/or events in your life? Have you ever been upset with yourself because you are anxious about something but in your heart you are desperately trying to trust the Lord and seek Him? If you've said "yes" to any of these questions, then this book would be a great resource for you. 
We as people are under intense pressure in this day and age that we need to portray ourselves to the world as if we "have it all together." I've heard people go as far as questioning another's (or even their own) salvation based solely on the fact that they have anxiety. It's encouraging to read something that combats that and gives encouragement from the Bible. Throughout the book the author shares the story of Joshua as he and the Israelites prepare to enter The Promised Land. Along the way she offers wisdom and encouragement to those who may be suffering from worry and anxiety in their lives. She confesses that she herself has suffered from crippling anxiety and panic attacks in her life. Although she is in a much better place in her life currently, she still has to use the tools she used in the book to help her through when worry strikes. 

While the first part of the book was more about worry and anxiety, as the author continues through Joshua's story it becomes more about obeying the Lord, repenting of sin, and appropriately "carefronting" others who are struggling with sin. I personally wish the author would have gone deeper in certain areas, but I believe she touched on a lot of important topics that the church often ignores and/or doesn't handle helpfully. Coming from someone who has suffered with anxiety in their life, it's not helpful to tell someone that their anxiety is sinful and  that they aren't trusting God the way they should be (enough to cause them to question their own salvation). Trust me, they already beat themselves up enough on their own. If you want to reach someone who is suffering with anxiety, reach out and encourage them with God's Word (not show them how badly they are failing), and comfort them with the knowledge that "nothing is a surprise to God" and that we can rest in the fact that God is outside of time and already knows our outcomes. Pray with and for them. You don't have to be silent, but being judgmental won't help anybody.

Simply for the fact that I am a highlighter and note-taker in studies, my recommendation is for the print version of this book if it's possible for you. I myself did a lot of highlighting in this book, but because it wasn't the print version I couldn't add any little notes. It's enough that I intend to re-read the print version of the book later so that I can do just that.

Don't let worry overtake you in this life. Seek the Lord and find rest and comfort in Him! When the enemy attempts to strike, fight back with the truth found in God's Word and don't let Satan keep you down! When you fall, don't beat yourself up but dust yourself off and grab The Father's hand and He will walk you through life's battles. It really is possible to win the worry battle!

*I received a complimentary copy from the publisher and NetGalley in hopes of an honest review. Opinions expressed are mine alone.

Before reading Barb's book I could (and would) spend hours just sitting there thinking about all the things I had to do, all the things I felt I wasn't able to do, and all the things I wish I could change. As someone who struggles with anxiety, I often let my imagination (thinking of all 800 scenarios) get the best of me, and then I would end up having a panic attack freaking out over the possibility that this anxiety attack is never going to end.

In Barb's book she introduces a plenty of small ways to help get your worry under control. While I haven't been able to try all of them in the short time since I've read this book I have tried a couple. One of her suggested methods is what she calls the calm method. The final step in that method is to meditate on the thought "God is with me and for me and I am not alone." Since reading that I have started saying that to myself when my panic attacks start and have noticed a significant improvement in the amount of time it takes me to calm down enough to be able to function.

I am encouraged by reading this book because that is just ONE of the methods she offers and I look forward to incorporating more of her ideas into my life. I am also encouraged by her book because I have often times felt guilty about the depth of my prayer life, and her book also offered a few tips on how to get back into the word. Barb's book gives me hope that I will be able to: win my own personal worry battle, that I will be able to get back on track with my prayer life, and that I can develop a stronger personal relationship with God.