Wise As a Serpent, Harmless As a Dove: A Woman's Manual

By Shadaria Allison

In "Wise As A Serpent, Harmless As A Dove" Shadaria Allison takes women on a journey to know themselves, address real issues, and know the God who defines their identities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781329859302

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Wise As a Serpent, Harmless As a Dove: A Woman's Manual

Wise as a Serpent Harmless as a Dove: A Woman’s Manual

Shadaria Allison

Copyright

Copyright © 2016 by Shadaria Allison

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2016

ISBN 978-1-329-85930-2

Greater Works Publishing

A Division of Greater Works International, LLC

Website:www.jpministries.org

Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

Scripture taken from the Amplified Bible, Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified® Bible, Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org)

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked (ESV) from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Dedication

I’d like to dedicate this book to all the people who have helped me along my way.

To all the people who extended their homes, sofas, and hearts to me.

To those who stitched up my wounds in trauma.

To my mother, Shandra Allison who has taught me so much about life.

To my father, Maverick Gaither

To my son whom I love more than life.

To Nakeda. Who called me the Lords author.

To broken spirits. And women everywhere. This is for you.

Introduction

I want you to be confident in this. That you are not alone. You are not the first woman to be abused. You are not the first woman to be rejected. You are not the first woman who has made it their life’s obsession to be with a man. You are not the first woman whose pillows are more like water beds from the amounts of tears you’ve cried because you just wanted to be loved.

I invite you right from this very place to establish a connection to your own vulnerability while reading this. I mean it. From this very moment. Take your make up off. Cry it off. Pull your tissues out. Grab your journal. If you don’t get anything else from this read, I want you to finally get this fact plan and clear. THERE IS SOMEONE OUT HERE WHO KNOWS YOUR PAIN, AND IS EQUATED WITH YOUR STRUGGLE.

You don’t have to know me. I don’t have any degrees or pedigrees. I have not been schooled professionally in literature. I don’t have Joyce Meyer writing my forwards…yet... But what I do have is experience. I have a me too in my spirit, and sometimes that’s enough.  Sometimes you just need someone to have been where you’ve been. Walked where you have walked, and consequently may have done some of the stupid things we can subject ourselves to when we think we are in love.

Wise as a Serpent, Harmless as a Dove is a judgement free zone. This book is but a mirror. A mirror of one’s poor decisions turned redeemed by the only one able to fix it. Jesus.This book will give you the blueprints on what not to do, and a clear understanding of how we operate when our minds are held captive by idolatry. Burdened by rebellion, and casted away by false hopes in the expectation that any man can fill the perpetual voids left only for the skillset of God.

So again, feel free to be free. Clear your mind. I won’t be before you long. Just enough for it to count.  Feeling used…me too... Feeling broken. Me too. Tired of running in circles and chasing your own tail... Me too.  Pull up a seat. Get real comfortable. Let’s see if we can figure this thing out together with the help of the Lord.  I LOVE YOU.

Chapter 1 – Our First Mistake

Genesis 3:1-6 Amplified Bible (AMP)

Now the serpent