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"Secrets of an Irresistible Woman is required reading for any woman who wants to know how to capture a man's heart for keeps--and enjoy a full life in the meantime...."Today's Christian WomanNow with a brand-new cover, Secrets of an Irresistible Woman (more than 185,000 copies sold) can reach even more women with its time-tested strategies for living full, complete lives and becoming more captivating. Michelle McKinney Hammond calls on Scripture, her own experiences, and the wisdom of others to help every reader become the woman God created her to be--beautiful, gracious, loving, and desirable. Women will discover...what true love really looks likeways to enhance their natural beauty and strengthen weak areaswhat to look for and what to avoid when datingIncludes an insightful study guide readers can use to better understand themselves and how they relate to God and others.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2007
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736936491
Langue	English

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Verses marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible , New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
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Cover photo by Tom Henry, Koechel Peterson and Associates
Cover by Koechel Peterson and Associates, Minneapolis, Minnesota
SECRETS OF AN IRRESISTIBLE WOMAN
Copyright 1998 by Michelle McKinney-Hammond
Published by Harvest House Publishers.
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 13: 978-0-7369-1683-7
ISBN 10: 0-7369-1683-0
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McKinney-Hammond, Michelle, 1957-
Secrets of an irresistible woman / Michelle McKinney-Hammond.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-56507-843-8
1. Mate selection. 2. Man-woman relationships. 3. Women-Conduct
of life. I. Title.
HQ801.M4879 1998
646.7 7-DC21 97-29011
CIP
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any for or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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To God, my heavenly Father, who lovingly designed all of the rules for my own good.
To my parents who followed suit:
George and Charity Hammond and William and Norma McKinney
To my uncles and aunts who, to me, personified the rules:
Stanley and Eglantine White Kow and Marion Aarkah Ernesta Branker What wonderful examples you have been to me!
To my pastor s wife, Wanda Eckhardt, a truly irresistible woman.
I m watching, learning, and taking notes!
To two of the most special young ladies I know:
Elsie and Nicole Duncan-Williams.
You ll always be my girls, and you re never too young to learn the rules.
Acknowledgments
To my sisters Nicole, Ayodele, Annette, Jacqueline, Karen, Yaaba, Anna, Myma, and Ama-perhaps if we stick together we can master this thing called being a woman of God. (smile)
To my sisters in Christ, too many to name, but some have louder voices than others (listed in alphabetical order, not in order of importance)-Cindy Bastounes, Brenda Blonski, Charlot Fortier, Sheila Frazier, Lydia Garlington, Theresa Hayden, Charlotte Kroot, Karen McDonald, Terri McFadden, Alda Denise Mitchell, Nancy Roberts, Dorothy Ross, Sylvia Sausedo, Susan Sharpe, Jan Shurtz, Michelle Taylor, Sunday Williams, Theresa Williams, Lorraine Williamson, and Philomina Bunny Wilson. Hey ladies, thanks for getting in my Kool-aid and holding me accountable! Couldn t do it without you.
To the entire Harvest House family-your enthusiasm is contagious and motivating. Thank you for all of your support; it has been truly nurturing.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 All Rules Are Made to Be Broken?
I Don t Think So, Girlfriend!
Chapter 2 So Who Wrote the Rules Anyway?
Chapter 3 A Woman of Spiritual Principle
Principle 1 Take Art Appreciation
Principle 2 Stop Playing with Daisies!
Principle 3 Get a Life!
Principle 4 Mind Your Own Business
Principle 5 Develop Good Shopping Skills
Principle 6 Avoid the Mission Field
Principle 7 Protect Your Jewels
Principle 8 Use a Lot of Seasoning
Principle 9 Know How to Take Advice
Principle 10 Learn How to Dress
Principle 11 Master the Art of Cooking
Principle 12 Know How to Sow
Principle 13 Get into Gardening
Principle 14 Learn How to Dance
Principle 15 Know Who Loves Ya, Baby!
Principle 16 Know What You Want
Principle 17 Know If He s the One
Principle 18 Master the Art of Housekeeping
The Pleasure Principle
The Final Principle
The Principle Recap
Recommended Reading
Study Guide
Contact the Author
Other Books by Michelle McKinney Hammond
Introduction
A book titled The Rules set the singles community on its ear. As the book s two female authors made the talk show circuit, I sat eyebrows to scalp, quite intrigued by the effect this simple little book was having on men and women alike. I mean people were downright upset about The Rules! Those who had applied the book s suggestions reported their success while the audience looked on in disgust. The authors themselves seemed befuddled by the insults that were hurled their way by the audience, although I m sure they laughed all the way to the bank afterwards. After all, in spite of people s adverse reactions the book was a bestseller.
After a bit of thought, I realized why so many people were upset by The Rules suggestions. Most women today had too much free time on their hands and lacked the self-esteem to put into practice what the authors advised. It was as if the Ten Commandments had been introduced all over again. Women were overwhelmed by their own inability to live up to what seemed to be difficult standards. I felt as if everyone had missed the real point of the book, including the authors, who seemed to have a difficult time defending their material other than to respond, Well, if you want to get married The point to me was very simple-they were basically saying, Get a life! If a woman had a life, she would automatically do all the things that were suggested in the book.
And why were the men upset? As one well-known talk show hostess concluded, I believe men like women who conduct themselves in this way; they just don t want to know they re following an instruction manual. I was inclined to agree.
After The Rules was released, many people felt compelled to write their own version of the book or respond to what these women had written, including myself. I felt that their premise for writing the book was well-founded. When it came to dating, mating, and relating no one seemed to know what to do anymore. The relationship game had become a free-for-all, with everyone playing it by ear. The results were generally miserable, but no one knew what else to do so they continued playing the same game and blaming any failure on the other person. I believe the entire problem boils down to one simple observation: Women, in their desperation to have someone in their lives, have forfeited their power and have become frustrated victims in affairs of the heart.
A friend of mine once said, God gave men testosterone so that they would make a commitment. But, sadly, many women have short-circuited the commitment process by violating all the safeguards God gave them to heighten their desirability and get them happily married. No longer are women considered tr s cher , as the French would say. Cher means expensive in French; the same word also means dear. Instead of realizing their own worth, many women today have put themselves on sale, lowering their value along with their standards, settling for less than the best for themselves. More often than not, they have embraced the philosophy that anything is better than nothing. This is what happens when a woman has no idea where she is going or what she is entitled to. As the Word says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you (Hosea 4:6 NKJV ). That s deep but true-a lack of knowledge will cause us to lose or suffer rejection every time, in every area of our lives.
I realize this relationship thing is more than just a notion, but it was designed to be a whole lot simpler than we ve made it. I ve bumped around out here for a long time myself and made all the classic mistakes. Fortunately, I ve lived and learned, which is something that could benefit all of us. Don t you think it s time you got it together, too? Your head is too pretty to keep banging it against a wall.
So now is the time to throw out all that self-destructive behavior, and get on with becoming women fully prepared to be blessed with mates who are deserving of our hand. So pull up a chair and let s really talk, girlfriend. I am here to dish up the real lowdown on how this thing called the pursuit of love should go. This is the real nitty-gritty the way God serves it up. That s right, the spiritual 4-1-1 on this romance business for your consideration, and hopefully your consumption. So read, absorb, and practice oh, and when Mr. Man does show up, keep your head, keep the rules, and reap the benefits.
1
All Rules Are Made to Be Broken? I Don t Think So, Girlfriend!
A ll right, already, so you ve heard all the rules before, you say. Girls don t call boys, don t buy them presents, play hard to get, and so on and so on . Your mother crammed them into your head as you headed out the door to high school. You thought they were old-fashioned then, and you most certainly think they are antiquated now. After all, this is the twenty-first century, isn t it? Well, you won t get an amen out of me. By breaking my share of the rules and suffering the miserable consequences that follow, I ve fina