We’re celebrating the release of my NEW Confident Heart Devotional book!
- If you’re ready to live the life of faith God’s designed for you and become all He’s created you to be, this book is for you!
- If you have read the book but need daily encouragement to refresh your heart and continue in your confident heart journey, this book is for you.
- If you’re looking for a gift of enoucragement to give a friend who needs to know about God’s unfailing love and grace, this book is the perfect gift.
- If you know someone who has walked away from God, this book is for them.
Here’s a peek inside:
“I can’t do it all! I am not cut out to be a wife, a mom, a daughter, a speaker, a writer and all the other things God has called me to.” I had barely opened my eyes, yet I already felt beat up by feelings of inadequacy. My thoughts were against me, and my feelings were too. About that time, my radio alarm came on and my thoughts were interrupted by Twila Paris. With confident assurance, she sang truth to my soul, telling me it was not a time for fear, but a time for faith and determination. She challenged me not to lose my vision or be carried away by my emotions, but to hold on to all that I had hidden in my heart, and all I believed to be true. Then she reminded me of the most important truth of all: God is in control.1 As my thoughts aligned with God’s truth, my whole perspective changed. I went from feeling afraid to feeling determined, from feeling out of control to knowing God is in control.
Every day we have a choice – to either to let doubt beat us up or to let God’s truth build us up.
In the same way a radio has AM and FM frequencies, our thoughts do too. They are either AM (against me) or FM (for me) thoughts. Honestly, we are often our worst critics and have a lot of AM thoughts. And if our thoughts are against us, our feelings will be too. The next time you get feelings of inadequacy, stop and identify what you are thinking that is making you feel that way. Then compare your thoughts to God’s thoughts found in the Bible. Do they match? If not, find a promise in God’s Word to replace the lie that has filled your heart with doubt and start thinking about that promise. Even say it out loud and pray the words, asking God to make them true for you in that moment.
For instance, when doubt comes against you, telling you that you’re weak and all alone, focus on the truth that God is for you! You can be strong and courageous because the Lord your God is with you. He promises to never leave you nor forsake you. (Deuteronomy 31:6, NIV)
Then why not turn that truth into a prayer – claiming how much God is for you: God I’m so thankful You are for me. Because You are for me and with me, I can be strong and courageous in this situation. You promise You will never leave me nor forsake me. I’m choosing to think Your words that are for me instead of listening to the doubts that so easily come against me. You have full access to God’s power and His promises to live with a confident heart. But it won’t just happen because it’s possible. You have to take action! Just like I tuned into a Christian music station the night before, let’s be intentional about tuning our thoughts into God’s thoughts toward us, today and every day! Lord, help me remember today that You are with me to fight for me against my enemies of insecurity and feelings of inadequacy. In all these things, I am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
When I say: Everything and everyone is against me. God says: I am for you! “What, then, shall [you] say in response to these things? If God is for [you], who can be against [you]?” Romans 8:31 (NIV)
Today’s Giveaway! Leave a comment today sharing why you’d like to win a NEW Confident Heart Devotional book for you and a friend! Simply click “share your thoughts” below. You’ll be entered to win 2 devotional books, plus my new Book and DVD bundle! Entry with Purchase When you purchase “A Confident Heart Devotional” book you will be entered into our series of giveaways that include more books, DVDs, a Skype encouragement andcoaching session with me and the grand prize $200 Visa Gift Card. {EMAIL your receipt to –> [email protected] 
When you purchase “A Confident Heart Devotional” book you will also receive a link to download FREE BONUS RESOURCES – including 18 beautifully designed “When I say…God says” promise cards like this one to the left and “Confident Heart Prayer Journal” pages to download and print. After you leave a comment, scroll down to the next post to see samples. 🙂 HOW TO ENTER
Leave a comment today and… Email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] {Contest ends midnight, November 10th. Winners will be announced on my blog Monday, November 11th.} BE SURE TO SIGN UP for EMAIL UPDATES in my sidebar —> That way you’ll know about every opportunity to enter and WIN! We have more coming!
A devotional can be the first step to the rest of your day. I would love to make it a great one. This devotional seems to be geared toward Women with a lot going on and that shoe fits my foot! Thank you for all you do! I work with several women and we share with each other so frequently that I am hoping to do that with this one!
One thing I find interesting is that when you are really down. I mean $10 a week food budget. Always looking for work. You can get tools to help no how to listen, get help, pray, or ask God for help or even ask for prayers because you DO NOT have the money. I do not believe this is what would please God.
Renee’s book is very helpful. There is a strong need for devotionals in a Christian’s life. Of course reading the Bible is paramount but we can use these as helps. Thanks for being so transparent in all of your books….we can all relate!
Confidence is something that is so neccessary for all. I would love to win & share with my sister.
I would love to win this devotional and share it with my best friend who, as a widow, is raising 3 little boys alone.
I have been walking in a valley since June and as of right now, there is no end in sight. My husband was a worship pastor at a local church until he was asked to leave in June. There was no legitimate reason for a small group of people to ask him to leave but made up reasons and then attacked his character with their lies. They even broke NC employment laws but nobody seems to care. The severance package ended a month ago and now money is scarce. During all this, comments were made about me that has left me doubting myself and my talents. I could use some encouragement and some good news.
I would love to receive this. I am a mother of three boys. I have always struggled with my own self esteem and depression. I am finding this is not helping making life easier with children who have social, behavioral, and physical issues. My marriage is also suffering. I am having trouble being the role model I know I have in me and am trying to find myself as God sees me and not as I do.
Please enter my name to win!
This devotional sounds great and I would love to win it!
knowing I grew up in a household that felt unsecure in the love from my father, has made me seek god more in my life. I have always longed for more. Not knowing what that longing was, I always asked jesus for help. when I was a teen I went through a lot of unsatisfying relationships, always longing for love, with the wrong men. I felt unsecure. I felt I always had to be with a man, not matter how bad it was. Now being married for twenty three years w a husband that has been through a lot with me. I have been in an out of physch wards on an off for about 10 years.I always tried to turn to jesus
My boys grew up with a haRD TIME WITH THIER MOTHER BEING THE WAY SHE WAS PUT ALOT ON THEM. I PRAY FOR THIER S safety an health every day. I know that they can handle different situations with women but one son doesn’t TRUST WOMEN, HE WAS HURT bad. I pray for him so much.
I pray that we can be closer from what we have been through and I hope that jesus bless us on this journey.
I would love to be able to use this resource with my 10 year old daughter. She is struggling with major self confidence problems. I know that Jesus is the only one that can make her feel full & confident. This would be a great tool to help her accomplish that.
I have the book and I keep reading it over and over again and still learn something new every time! I would love to have the devotional! It would give me an extra boost to having confidence.
I like to pour into others encouragement and share Gods love just like I so appreciate when its poured into me. I usually forward Proverbs 31 emails to friends and family or text people the prayer or scripture. There are many woman in my life that would benefit from a devotional.
I have struggled most if my life with pleasing people and what they thought of me. I have in turn become a nervous eater and struggled with weight most of my life as well. I have laid this burden down and felt healed and an overcome only to hit an obstacle and those old feigns and questions of acceptance arose…I am looking forward to the day of complete healing and I feel this devotional could be an aid to help me rely on a God and overcome this completely. I know that several women may have the same struggle as well. I want to me the confident heart so that I can impart that to my family, my children, my grandchildren even. I enjoy the Proverbs 31 devotional a daily but this would be an awesome tool that my best friend and I could share and overcome together, while her needs are different we could be overcomes together!!!
Am currently working through the Unglued Devotional and enjoying it, so will look at this one next. Would like to win a copy to have ready to go. 🙂 Always interested in ways to build my faith and walk in the Lord.
I have been a subscriber of the Proverbs 31 daily devotionals for many years. On more than one occasion, the day’s topic has been exactly what I needed – some of them get saved off onto my hard drive or printed out to share with my girlfriends. Thank you all for all that you do!
I would love to win this so that I can give the copies to two of my friends for their birthdays that are coming up! I’m certain that God sent each one of them into mine and my daughter’s lives. It was because of each one of these ladies that I was able to come back and resume my walk with Christ and that my daughter has love and seeks him now. It seems that whenever I am especially struggling, I will get a call or a text or a visit from one of them. I don’t need the book for me. God has given me and my daughter these two wonderful ladies to fellowship with. However, it sure would make a perfect gift. I know the message(s) that is/are for me and my daughter in the book will received through fellowship with them.
I would love to have this devotional. I am going through somes changes at this time in my life and think this would be a wonderful tool to have.
I would love to have such an awesome devotional to read daily!
I really need a new morning devotional. This one looks perfect for me! Searching for a new church and need some encouragement!
Insecurity and self doubt are my two biggest areas of struggle. These two things have effected every area of my life in some way. I have dealt with this since childhood so many of my choices and circumstances have been a result of my insecurity. I have been seeking God for years in this area. I know all of God’s truths from an intellectual level but for some reason I can’t get into my heart. I believe that not until I can get all of God’s truths to seep into my heart will I ever be truly free.
I loved A Confident Heart Book, if I do not win the devotional I will need to buy one. I loved meeting you Renee in person on The Girls Get Away Cruise. You are an amazing women.
I know God promises never to leave us or forsake us, but what do you do when you feel like he has completely abandoned you? My life has been in turmoil for 15 months. I’ve been trying to escape a domestic violent relationship. I’ve endured so much loss and hardship, it’s hard to feel like God is still there. I’m losing confidence in myself and in who He is.
I would very much appreciate an opportunity to read A CONFIDENT HEART.
Thank you for reading!
This is exciting!! Loved the book and can’t wait to get the Devotional Book. Please enter me in the contest !! Love all you do for us!
I have battled alcoholism for a long time and confidence is one of the biggest things it dstole from me. I have conqqoured mt addiction but still struggle. This would be amazing to have! I have a friend in the program that would greatly benefit from it as well 🙂
I’m actually starting the book today! Can’t wait!!
This would be fantastic to win!!
I am doing the A Confident Heart OBS and I know that having the addition of the devotional will be awesome to help my continue Walk with God for and help with Overcoming my Doubts and Insecurities as the OBS is doing reinforcement.
I would love to win this book and share with a friend. We are doing the Confident Study in our Sunday School class along with the online group. It’s an amazing study that I NEED.
I am currently reading the book on my tablet and it is doing wonders for me and my relationship with God. To have a devotional to keep me on track would be wonderful.
God’s timing is just so powerful. I just finished “Brave” by Angela Thomas last night with a wonderful group of women and we all just were not ready to keep seeking God’s word. The I get this email and read about Rene new book/devotional. I think it would be a wonderful way to continue to strive to be Confident and Brave women for Christ! Thank you Rene!
There is nothing like women encouraging women. I totally love the Proverbs31 ministry. The sample of your new devotional sounds wonderful.
The reason I would say that these devotions would be so great to have would be because the book is so wonderful now. It is taking every ounce of me to trust God and it already is showing my identity in him. The brilliant thing is not only is the study good but it is going along with my home church. It has already been effective on my life. The devotions would be so great and just having more of that affirmation from God is so powerful too.
First i would like to just thank God for blessing you with such spiritual wisdom, and your obediance to write. it’s such a life changing inspirational and very empowering way to over come,those deep wounds and insecurities that are such lies that hold some of us in a place of not being able to be who we are called to be in Christ Jesus. God has delivered me from abusive relationships, substances abuse and self destruction and i’m still in so much more need of His Divine healing and deliverence so that i can be able to build relationship with others for the Glory of God. Being a positive and Godly influence to other women and young girls like my daughter and her peers. A mature Christian that has been awakened,by the Glory of God and the Holy Spirit and not have to struggle so much with negative thoughts. Thanks for taking the time to read my cry for God’s help……
May God continue to pour out His Spirit of Blessing to you and you family. Chanel
I would love to have an encouraging devotional to go along with the Confident Heart book I purchased. It is so hard for women to truly know their worth in this life. Words hurt and filling your “thought closet” with God’s word is the best and the only way to truly win the battle of the mind. Thank you so much for all you do and share.
I am doing the online Bible study with A Confident Heart. Having the decotional would be an
awessome addition to this book and study.
The book is wonderful and I would love to read through the devotional as well!
Well, since I’m doing the online Bible study ” A Confident Heart, I really would like to have the devotional to go along with it.
I need the daily reminders as I try to remove the AM thoughts.
Renee,
This devotional is a blessing. I got so excited reading it. Thinking about my past hurt, losses, illness, etc do not define my life ONLY JESUS. I would love to win this new Confident Heart Devotional book for a friend and myself. It would be awesome to read it together or just bless someone with it and allow God to speak in their life. I hope to win this bundle. Thanks for all you do in Chist!
I am currently doing the study of your first book and I think this devotional would help to continue retraining my brain (which I really need!). I would love to share this with a friend because I have several that we keep each other accountable but we have drifted apart lately and what better way to reconnect!!
I could definitely use a confidence boost! Would love to get a copy of your new devotional 🙂
Confident heart changed my life. I went through the oblige bible study and still pick it up to read. Would live the devotional at my bedside Thanks
My husband has entered late stage Alzheimer’s and as a result I am entering a new phase of learning how to navigate my world without his loving presence in my daily life. Gaining the confidence and peace that only God’s Loving Presence can provide is paramount.
I have really enjoyed the encouragement through Proverb’s 31 devotionals and books by many of the author’s I’ve learned about through those devotionals. I have heard A Confident Heart is an amazing book and would love the opportunity to read it and then pass it on to bless someone else. I have been blessed with the opportunity to mentor other ladies and lead a women’s Bible study group and would love to share this with them. Thank you for the encouragement you share with so many women!
Confidence is an area that I have been working on…this book would be a great tool to help me get past my insecurities.
I would LOVE to win this new book. It would be right up my alley! I am a one-parent family and the Lord knows my heart but I am often tired, over worked and lack confidence that I am doing things “right”. It would be a true blessing to have this new resource and build the joy and confidence Jesus wants me to have everyday.
I loved the book but I have not been consistent at applying the scripture to my day. A daily devotional could be just the tool I need to put this into practice and live with confidence.
This is just what I need as I trust God for more strength in this transition of teacher to student… I would love to get the journal nourish my growth in Him at this crucial point…
This would be an awesome follow-up to the P31 study of the book. I’d likely find a group of friends with whom to share it, not just one. I’ve been feeling led to start something at work, and this would be just the thing to kick it off.