Chosen…I love that word. I don’t know a heart that doesn’t long to be chosen? Yet the disappointments of life and the deep pain of broken relationships can cause us to forget that we are – chosen, loved, and sought after. “You are a chosen [woman], a royal priesthood, a holy [daughter], a [woman] belonging […]
Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence
In chapter 5, we talk about Gideon who, like us, doubted his strength and abilities. When God called him to defeat his enemy’s immediately Gideon’s insecurities started shouting excuses, listing all his inadequacies. Yet through his story we see God wasn’t limited by Gideon’s limitations, and He’s not limited by ours either. God could see […]
Finding Hope for Our Future
“We can trust God’s plans as we realize that His story is being written into ours. His power is perfected in the broken places we consider to be our greatest weaknesses – our most vulnerable emotions we don’t want anyone to know about. In those hiding places, God calls us out of captivity. When we’re […]
Letting God Fill the Empty Places in Our Hearts
In chapter 3, I share how “our hearts leak and will always end up empty when we find our worth in anything but who we are in Christ. Our value is not measured by what others think of us—but we surely live like it is, don’t we? It’s almost as though we wake up every […]
A Silly Saturday Video Message
Leah and I took you to Athens, GA with us! Here we are driving back to Charlotte tonight after our Confident Heart conference today. (I apologize for video whiplash when I try to show you the blog comments I’m reading- but after that I stay steady.) If you’re reading this via email, just click on […]