Abilene, TX — Surrendering Certainty challenges a common misconception about hearing God’s voice, urging believers to embrace his guidance without the need for constant reassurance or knowledge of the future. Since the fall in the garden of Eden, humanity has carried the same deception that misled Eve. We think more information will give us more freedom. But if we look at Jesus’s teachings, we know that his direction was never intended to give us a roadmap. Rather than relying on God’s voice to provide a roadmap for tomorrow, the book emphasizes that his words offer peace for today.
Surrendering Certainty explores how to:
- Grow confidence that we can hear from God without second-guessing ourselves.
- Embrace our ability to make decisions as one of the biggest means for growing our faith.
- Release our false sense of security in tomorrow and equip ourselves with promises that are guaranteed.
We can trade the yoke of certainty we carry for a better one: Jesus’s yoke. By focusing on three promises Jesus gave us in John 10, Surrendering Certainty shows a better way to live, empowered by God’s Word. We will be free from a weight we were never intended to carry: the burden of being “like God.”
“Reading Surrendering Certainty helped dispel all my fearful thoughts about taking the wrong next step and ruining my life. Abby invites her reader to ask the right questions and rest in our heavenly Father’s certain faithfulness. Every chapter is grounded in biblical wisdom and provides practical guidance so that even indecisive people like me can make well-informed choices and move forward with confident faith.”
—Lyli Dunbar, Biblical Life Coach, Host of The Wildfire Faith podcast, and Writer for Love God Greatly and Proverbs 31 Ministries’ First 5 app
Abby McDonald is a writing coach, speaker, and the author of Shift: Changing Our Focus to See the Presence of God. Her mission is to empower women to hear God’s voice in their lives and act on it in faith. Abby writes regularly for Proverb 31 Ministries’ daily devotions team, and her work has been featured in numerous publications. Abby lives with her husband, three children, and black lab in the mountains of western Maryland. Connect with her at abbymcdonald.org.
Surrendering Certainty
By Abby McDonald
May 2025, Softcover
208 Pages, $17.99
ISBN: 9781684261833
Media Contact: Kaylin Graves, publicity@leafwoodpublishers.
