"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart."
This is God's promise to you in Psalm 37:4. But many believers quietly assume it's just a poetic suggestion, or it doesn't really work here on earth.
In Awaken Delight, Stephanie Rousselle invites you to rediscover what Scripture actually means by delight in God. It's not emotional hype or religious performance, but a steady satisfaction rooted in who God is.
Through biblical theology and practical rhythms, you'll learn how delighting in God:
- reshapes suffering
- quiets restless striving
- anchors your identity in God's unshakable delight of you
Learning to delight in God is the quiet revolution that reshapes how we endure pain, love others, and understand our own hearts.
Awaken Delight is a theologically grounded spiritual formation book for thoughtful believers who feel spiritually fatigued and are ready to embrace the reality of Psalm 37:4.
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Kind words from Jennifer Rothschild
Bible teacher, Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, Founder, Fresh Grounded Faith
“Stephanie helps us awaken to and experience true delight. It is a rich mix of God’s delight in you and your delight in him. This is the life you were made for, the life your soul deeply longs for. So, the table is set. Pull up a chair and let your heart sit alongside Stephanie. As your delight in God wakes up and becomes fully realized, you’ll find a satisfaction in Christ that makes you want more and more.”
Let’s be completely honest. Are you…
- Exhausted by trying to “feel” spiritual?
- Performing faith without real joy?
- Feeling unworthy despite consistent effort?
- Wondering if Psalm 37:4 really works?
What if the problem isn’t your faith, but the way you’ve been pursuing God? Delight isn’t about effort; it's about learning how to receive God as your deepest joy.
This isn’t extra joy on Sundays. It’s the foundation for deep delight in God which will:
- strengthen your prayer life
- experience resilient peace,
- reframe your pain and suffering,
- transform your obedience into soul-satisfying joy.
Awaken Delight is a theologically grounded, Scripture-centered spiritual formation book that helps believers recover a resilient, Christ-centered spiritual life. In short, it's practice for heaven.
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Kind words from Amanda Jenkins
Lead creator of THE CHOSEN's literary content
"I have yet to meet another person quite as eager to intimately know Jesus as Stephanie is. Her enthusiasm for the beauty found inside a thriving relationship with her Savior is downright contagious. Indeed, Stephanie’s joy and faith and commitment to growth—along with her love for really good food!—will implant themselves in the hearts of readers. Lucky readers."
Through Awaken Delight, you will...
Learn why spiritual dryness isn’t a failure of faith — and how Scripture reframes your expectations of joy.
See, through the gospel, how God’s delight in you reshapes shame, performance, and identity.
Practice specific rhythms — rooted in historic Christian faith — that cultivate steady satisfaction in Christ, even in suffering.
Engage in guided conversations designed to deepen trust in God within your church, small group, or friendships.
What you will (re)discover as you journey with God through Awaken Delight:
- Delight in God is identity-shaping, not emotion-driven. Delight in God is not fleeting emotion but resilient identity.
- Delight in God is altogether trust, satisfaction in God, relational intimacy with Him. Delight in God is often expressed and grown through resilient joy under suffering.
- Delight in God is the missing engine behind resilience. It’s the antidote to burnout. It’s even the foundation for sustainable ministry.
- God’s delight in you is secure, not performance-dependent. God’s delight in you frees you from striving! That’s the beginning of delight.
- Jesus is the center of every endeavor to delight in God.
- You can build a delight-centered spiritual life. Awaken Delight invites you to follow Scriptural truths and spiritual practices that cultivate daily joy in God.
Kind words from Os Guinness
Theologian, Social critic, Author, The Call
"Stephanie addresses one of the greatest needs of Christians today. Knowing God is not knowing about God, but knowing Him genuinely and with desire and delight. She does so practically and helpfully, and in a style that sparkles with a verve and joy that is distinctively French."
Preorder Awaken Delight and receive gifts!
Preorder Awaken Delight today, and receive SO MANY gifts from Gospel Spice – see the list below, including our best-selling Gospel Spice full-length Bible Course, French Faith, which is tied to the book!
You will also be invited to our online book club so we can read together, and meet with Stephanie regularly.
Your preorder also qualifies you to enter for a chance to win a giveaway bundle valued at $1,000, including a $50 Amazon gift card, several exclusive pieces of jewelry and accessories, a one-one-one Zoom call with Stephanie, Gospel Spice merch, and our full library of online Bible courses!
Preorder on AmazonThe gifts you'll receive when you preorder:
As soon as you send us your proof of purchase (a screenshot of your online preorder), you'll receive the following gifts, as our thanks to you. Once you've pre-ordered, make sure to return to this page and click this button to submit your proof of purchase:
Submit your proof of purchase hereNOTE | You can also email us a screenshot of your proof of purchase at contact@gospelspice.com to receive our Preorder bonuses.
As soon as you submit your proof of purchase, you’ll receive a 3-day email devotional with exclusive content from Stephanie to start awakening delight in God.
You'll receive access to your full-length Gospel Spice Bible Course, “French Faith”, valued at $19. This course is a wonderful primer for the book!
Between now and the day the book releases (July 28, 2026), you will receive a new gift each month: printable verses and recipes, digital wallpapers for your phone, and more.
You'll automatically be entered for a chance to win our amazing giveaway, worth over $1,000 (see below for details)
Once you receive your book in the mail, we’ll send you an original art print and a bookmark to tuck into your book! Expect it in the mail early August (you must provide your physical address for this).
You will be invited to join our online Book Reading Club, starting in August and led by Stephanie and other Gospel Spice team members! Let’s read Awaken Delight together.
Don't forget! To receive these amazing gifts, which we pray will awaken delight in you, you must complete the proof of purchase form.
NOTE | You can also email us a screenshot of your proof of purchase at contact@gospelspice.com to enroll in our Preorder bonuses.
Kind words from Pippa Gumbel
Pioneer, The Alpha Course; Author, The Bible in one year with husband Nicky
"Stephanie’s love of God is inspiring and infectious. Her book is an invitation to share in that delight and to come to know God in new and wonderful ways."
Did we mention?
As soon as you preorder, you will be entered for a chance to win our extraordinary GIVEAWAY BUNDLE, valued at $1,000 and including the following:
A $50 Amazon Gift Card
2 necklaces and a clutch bag from The Starfish Project, one of our favorite stores that promotes the fight against human trafficking (valued at $124)
A scarf and earrings from Trades of Hope, another one of our favorite stores that promotes the fight against human trafficking (valued at $85)
A 30-minute one-on-one Zoom call with Stephanie for your very own personal coaching session! Use this time as you need (valued at $75).
Gospel Spice merch (several items valued at over $100)
Unlimited access to ALL Gospel Spice online Bible courses for one full year (valued at over $600).
That’s more than $1,000 worth!
We will draw a winner at random from the preorder entries we have received by July 27, 2028. The winner will be announced on Launch Day, July 28, 2026!
Kind words from Dr. Saundra Dalton Smith
Author of Sacred Rest and Being Fully Known
"Awaken Delight is a refreshing invitation to rediscover delighting in God. Stephanie Rousselle beautifully addressed hard realities like suffering and discouragement while guiding you beyond a duty-driven response into an intimate relationship marked by joy and worship. This book nourishes weary hearts, settles distracted minds, and reignites lukewarm spirituality. Awaken Delight is a gift to anyone longing to experience faith not as duty, but as a sacred connection."
Kind words from Christopher A. Hall
Renovaré ministry team member and author of A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Jesus
"Stephanie Rousselle has helped me to discern the connection and relationship between French food, culture, and language, and Jesus' life and teaching. So, grab this book and settle down for a slow, delightful meal. No rush. Rousselle is a wise, discerning writer and her insights will feed your mind and soul. Bon Appetit!"
Interested in becoming a part of the story God is weaving?
Join the Awaken Delight Launch Team!
Joining the launch team is a powerful way to come alongside the gospel message of grace and hope in Christ Jesus that is etched across the pages of Awaken Delight.
Together, let's invite your loved ones to awaken their delight in God and to grow in their faith!
Find out more about the Launch TeamA weekend of awakening delight
Stephanie personally invites you to join her for an entire weekend of awakening delight in God, on September 19-20, 2026, in Paoli, located in beautiful South Eastern Pennsylvania!
Learn MoreJoin us for a double celebration!
On September 19, 2026, we will celebrate God's goodness and faithfulness in the release of Stephanie's book, Awaken Delight, as well as the 7th anniversary of Gospel Spice.
Os Guinness and his wife, Jenny, will be our keynote speakers. The event will also feature other speakers, as well as food, book signing, valuable giveaways, a live podcast recording, and much more! We would love for you to join us on this special occasion.
Learn MoreMeet Stephanie Rousselle
Stephanie Rousselle is the founder of Gospel Spice Ministries and author of Awaken Delight. With a passion for biblical theology and a heart for spiritual formation, she helps believers rediscover delight in God through Christ-centered truth. Her work is devoted to one central aim: helping believers experience the deep, steady joy that flows from knowing God through His Word. She writes and speaks at the intersection of doctrine and joy, convinced that right belief about God fuels lasting satisfaction in Him.
Born and raised in France and now living in the United States, Stephanie brings a cross-cultural and linguistic lens to Scripture. Drawing from the nuances of French and English language and thought, she invites readers to encounter the New Testament with fresh clarity and deeper affection for Christ. Her work reflects a distinctly French attentiveness to beauty, precision, and interior transformation — all grounded in historic Christian theology.
Her message centers on a gospel foundation: God’s glory and our delight are not competing pursuits, but inseparably joined in Christ. She believes that delight in God is not sentimental optimism but a resilient satisfaction grounded in the gospel — the truth that nothing can make God love us more, and nothing can make Him love us less in Christ.
Through her podcast, writing, and public teaching, she calls believers to move beyond spiritual striving and into the steady joy of knowing God, and to anchor their identity in the unchanging love of God — a love that neither performance nor failure can increase or diminish.
Awaken Delight, published by IVP, embodies her lifelong passion expressed in Philippians 3:10 — to know Christ in both the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.
Amazing Christ-followers have kinds words about Awaken Delight...
Andi Ashworth and Charlie Peacock, coauthors of Why Everything that Doesn't Matter, Matters so Much
"Stephanie Rousselle invites readers to explore the delicate interplay between faith and culture. With the thoughtful curiosity of a native French speaker and the depth of a seasoned Bible teacher, Stephanie opens Scripture like the bloom of a rose—always patient, timely, and beautiful. If you desire transformation over information, this is a book for you. It artfully engages all the senses in pursuit of divine intimacy. In short, it is delicious in the most divine way."
Lina AbuJamra, author of All Your Life: What It Really Means To Live For Jesus
"You can't read Awaken Delight without sensing Stephanie Rousselle's deep affection for God. Her words flow from a heart that genuinely delights in him and longs for others to do the same. This book will stir your love and renew your awe for the Lord."
Geof Morin, CEO, Biblica
"Stephanie Rousselle has a rare gift for opening Scripture and awakening a deeper love for Jesus. In Awaken Delight, the gospel shimmers with fresh wonder through the beauty of the French language. This is a compelling debut and a journey of discovery I wholeheartedly recommend."
Carol Kent, executive director of Speak Up Ministries, speaker, and author of When I Lay My Isaac Down and He Holds My Hand
"If you aren't yet acquainted with the writings of Stephanie Rousselle, prepare yourself for a verbal feast. In Awaken Delight, this extraordinary wordsmith will introduce you to spiritual delights that will transform your life. With impeccable research, meticulous study, and exquisite wording, she will make you hungry to experience biblical truth in a more personal way than ever before. You can read this book on your own, or better yet, invite a group of friends to study it together, chapter-by-chapter. You'll be glad you did."
Christie Purifoy, author of A House to Call Home
"I am privileged to know Stephanie Rousselle as a friend and as a writer. Her French accent is as delightful in person as it is on the page. Her French cooking is as delicious as her Bible teaching. She is authentically French and authentically wise, and I can't wait to introduce her to everyone I know through this book. As someone who has grown up in the Christian faith, I know firsthand how hard it can be to find fresh inspiration for our study of Scripture. Awaken Delight is so unique, so compelling, and so eye-opening. Thanks to Stephanie's French flair, I am once again drinking deeply in Scripture and finding more of that living water which is Jesus Christ. Merci beaucoup, Stephanie!"
Erica Wiggenhorn, Bible teacher and author of An Unexpected Revival
"I find the faith of someone who first experiences Christ later in life marvelously refreshing. Toss that in with some French flair, and you have a recipe for fresh faith. Stephanie grew up an atheist in France, lived all over the world, and brings a fresh fusion of faith to those of us who find ourselves munching on the stale bread of familiarity. Awaken Delight invites you to experience Christ in all of his fullness, transforming your relationship with him into something truly beautiful."
Ron Moore, senior pastor of The Bible Chapel and president of The Journey Ministry
"If anyone knows how to relate the French culture with the never-changing Word of God, it's Stephanie Rousselle. I first met Stephanie as an exchange student in the US and watched her grow in her faith and love for God's Word. She has an incredible ability and gift to take the reader deep into Scripture with a French flair; it's both a fun and enriching experience. I pray that Stephanie's work impacts your life as it has mine.”
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