Welcome Encouragement for Today friends! If you hopped over from my P31 devotion “He Cares About You,” Im so glad you’re here. I pray today’s post pours assurance into those places in your heart that just need to know you are not alone. You are deeply loved, pursued and cared for! Also, you can find details about the $40 in FREE Confident Heart Resources at the bottom of this post!
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 criticism of others can cause us to forget that we are – chosen, loved, valued and called! “You are a chosen [woman], a royal priesthood, a holy [daughter], a [woman] belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of HIM who has CALLED you out of darkness into His wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9, NIV I have a song for you today! Please take time to listen and let your heart respond to these truths. Let these words remind you that you are CHOSEN and CALLED – your heart is spoken for. Oh sweet friend, please let these words soak deep into your heart. Watch it again and again until your soul knows it’s true!! Our Word for the week: Chosen Download our word for the week in a PDF or in MSWord. Be sure to print it and post it all over your house or office so you can remember you are chosen and loved. Let’s live loved in His PROMISE for us this week: “But you are a chosen [woman], a royal priesthood, a holy [daughter], God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9, NIV Let’s Connect: Is there anything about today’s song that your hearts needed to hear? Click “share your thoughts” below this post and do just that.
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Wow! The song is beautiful… Lord I thank You for choosing me and blessing me with enough cognition to know it too! Hallelujah! You’ve set me free to serve, love, be compassionate & graceful. Let every thought i have and every response I utter today reflect my awareness of Your choosing me.
This song is beautiful. We each just have to believe it! That we are chosen, and special and are His beloved – because we are!
There are so many needs and hurts and challenges and trials in us ladies in just this one bible study – but God can heal them all – and what’s more important, He wants to! I know in my own life, the closer I stick to Him, the better my life goes…and even if it isn’t going well – He’s there to hear all my prayers and to give me strength during the hard times. I couldn’t do life without Jesus!
This has been a great bible study and I pray I will remember much from this book to change the way I think and live.
God bless Renee for being obedient at writing this book!
God bless you all my sisters in Christ!
It’s not that other people make me feel “less than”, it’s ME! I mess up so bad every day and sit around at night (like I’m doing right now) and get frustrated that I can’t do anything right. I’m trying to lose weight, but all I did was eat my way through today. I’m dealing with some real “head” issues right now, but all I did was fail again miserably today. I reflect on my day and see what a failure I am. So here I am. Reading Chapter 1 of A Confident Heart, feeling like such a disappointment to God and to myself. I know God is truth, and God says that He chose me. So why can’t I just get it through my head? I can trust that sun is going to shine, even though I don’t know how. But yet I can’t trust that God chose me even though He tells me in His Word. What’s up with that? It’s like not believing that 1+1=2. Everybody else gets it, so why can’t I? Wow. What a whiny rant I just went on! Somebody slap me back into reality, please!
I’m here with you Colleen. God knows we try and fail. He created us and loves us just the way we are. His mercies are new every morning and He will never leave you or me. Lean on His word, Colleen. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares The Lord, “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11. Memorize this and keep it in your arsenal.
Thanks for the kind words Gloria! I guess my new mantra should be “Get behind me satan!” whenever I start feeling frustrated and defeated. Then slap him down with Jeremiah 29:11!
You are cute, Colleen ~ there is a song by Toby Mac that I love – it is called Get Back Up
We lose our way,
We get back up again
It’s never too late to get back up again,
One day you will shine again,
You may be knocked down,
But not out forever……….
I love that one! Thank you for reminding me! I’m getting out my mp3 player right now!
Hi Colleen… sometime getting it isn’t enough. The enemy uses our thoughts against us. I get I am CHOSEN. I question why everyday of my life, especially at times I fail. We have too break that habit. He tells us He loves us everyday… we just have to start feeling it in our hearts to then believe in our heads… it’s a process but know you’re not alone…
Oh yeah! I know satan is out to get me! He attacks me the second I get up in the morning and won’t leave me alone all day long, no matter how much I rebuke him! I hope I don’t offend anyone, but I am glad that I am not the only one going through this. I don’t feel so “alone”. Plus, it let’s me know that if someone else can do it, I guess I can too. Thank you!
Such a God thing…this is exactly the message that God has been impressing on my heart all weekend. I have shed many tears today but they have felt healing and liberating as I am beginning to realize how special I am to God. Little by little, I am shedding an old skin of fear, doubt and mistrust that does not fit me any more. At the same time, I am a work in progress. This is so new to me and I know there is a lot more healing to go. I am keeping all of you ladies in my prayers. Please pray for me too as you are able. Renee, thank you for this study. I love the idea of doing a follow-up study on listening to God.
The song spoke to my heart that I really am chosen by God and that I can be confident in who I am in Jesus and not what anyone thinks or says. God says ” I am chosen ” Thank you for this study and all then neat little things you’ve added to make it good. The song will be played over and over. I have learned so much about who God is and who I am in Him. He really does love me so that I can love others.
What a beautiful song, I loved it, especially when it said “Covered by Your love devine”…..How beautiful to hear that we are “Chosen Daughters Of our God” WOW, and He loves us!!!…….
I also really love Mercy Me. I love the beginning of the song where he talks about being free and not needing the world anymore. I am a real beginner in my walk of faith and I still struggle a lot with having a relationship with God. I feel like this study has helped get started and see things in a little bit different perspective.
God is Good! I grew up without a father and I did not know of a fathers love for his daughter. I would hear pastors say “God loves you” but I could not comprehend His love. God made it so simple and clear to me by saying I love you the way you loves your daughters. God has shown me I was CHOSEN …He is my father. That no matter how bad I am He as my father will show me Grace.
Redeemed
I needed this as I have been under such attack. This one is mine man I love that God says that of me. I have felt so rejected and so alone. I moved away from my church, friends, family an have been in a city after living in extremely rural area. My life is so upside down. I have felt lost and this song mentions lost too. Just needed to hear this as I am a music person, I love praise ad worship music. I do not need this world anymore ahhhh I am free
I need to play the song over and over …thank you Renee you know just the video or song to help us on our journey.
AWESOME!!! Thank you Renee for sharing the word, videos, and encouraging us through trials and failures you have encounter. You are a beautiful and very unique woman of God. May God continue to bless you and your family is my prayer.
I love this song/I miss hearing it on the radio/thanks for sharing/your ministry and “A confident Heart” book are so encouraging to me and have helped to carry me along during a very difficult time of my life-
Thank you to so many faith-filled caring women on this site. I truly believe I am chosen, but I struggle with tears and depression that I can’t seem to shake off. My marriage ended after 23 years and I’m still trying to overcome rejection. I’ve always considered myself self confident and strong and having a strong faith and trust in God, so now I’m dealing with feelings of guilt and sin when my trust is not strong enough. Please pray.
I’m praying for you right now Gloria!!!!
I am so sorry for your loss, Gloria. I am praying for you to regain your strength and confidence.
Awesome video!
It is going to take some time and looking at this video a bunch more, for me to believe i am worth any of what it says. i continue, apparently, to make bad choices I am told, though they seemed appropriate to me. Do I really matter?
You matter a lot Stephanie. One thing I’ve come to know is that God weaves wonderful threads. We are all connected in some mysterious way by a thread and perhaps one thing you say or do can be the thread that impacts another woman’s life. It could be as simple as a smile or a caring touch on the shoulder to someone else, and perhaps you didn’t even realize they needed anything or were hurting, but God knew. And God knew to place YOU in their day. So truly believe you DO matter and He has CHOSEN YOU for his purposes as his child
Gloria, I read this two weeks after you posted it. Thank you for the encouragement. Helped bring me up form a moment of low-self love. Thank you. thank you.Thank you.
I needed to lean on God’s Spirit alone today, and at that exact moment. I felt left out & unlinked today, unwanted, yet the video sang God’s word into my thirsty soul. Thank you!
I am a daughter of the King,. And I am chosen ,..Thank you lord for your grace upon my life!!
My heart is spoken for. This ones mine. Coming from a broken family, a father that tried to kill us, a mom who was abusive to us, a husband only concerned about himself. I’ve struggled hard with feeling loved, or worthy of love. But Christ chose me. My heart maybe broken by people in my life, but no matter what Christ loves me and I am his. Progress not perfection. Mi don’t have to be perfect for him, as I am made perfect through him. Thanks for this great study
You are a beautiful survivor! Much love sent to you,
I love this song! When I was younger, I was the one chosen last (or not at all) for teams, friendships, etc. I was always the misfit in my family and never felt like I belonged. I used to think I was adopted because I’m so different from my siblings and parents, but I know it’s not true. I was teased, bullied, rejected and shamed over and over again. But then God transformed my life! He showed me that I’m not only chosen, but preferred! I’m His favorite (as we all are)! He loves me as if I’m the only one! I love being HIs beloved princess bride and can’t wait to see Him and be with Him forever! All of you can experience this love relationship with Him, dear sisters! He’s waiting for you. Won’t you go to Him? Thank you, Renee, for this study. It has been a wonderful experience and I’ve loved being a part of it and a part of the life of all of you dear sisters. God bless each and every one of you!
I love the part where it says “this ones mine”. I His. Praise God.