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
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I love Renee! I have enjoyed what I have read of A confident heart. I look forward to her devotional!! Great Job Renee
Renee, I read A Confident Heart and your Bible study last spring was my first OBS. I LEARNED SO MUCH about myself and God’s promises to me, THAT I SIGNED UP again to do the Proverbs31 OBS. IN THE MEANTIME, HAD A FRIEND THAT JUST NEEDED THE BOOK MORE, so I gave her mine. Still following the P31 OBS by using my detailed journal from when I did yours! Would love to read your devotional and share it with that same friend, who by the way is Loving your book! 🙂
I would love to be entered into the contest.
Thank you,
Lori
I would love to have this devotional because it would be a wonderful companion piece to the current OBS that I am enrolled in right now. It would be a great joy to share this devotional with my friend whom I call Sissy because she is not able to participate in this study and we could share this wonderful journey and grow confident together in our relationship with the Lord. I truly hope that I am chosen as the winner because my dear sweet Sissy needs some encouragement and words of hope that will refresh and revitalize her spirit and her soul. She is such a special and wonderful person and I would love to be a blessing to her in this way.
I have a friend who I love very dearly and consider her as my sister. She is going through so many trials and her faith is somewhat weakening. As for me I also have gone through trials but even though, my faith has gotten stronger, I know that God nor leave us, nor forsakes us. We have to be strong in our faith and know that God is always in control and he answers our prayers, on His time nor on ours. Be patience, keep on praying and we will see His answer. Getting a copy for my friend and for myself, will be a blessing.
I would love to get this book for myself and for my friends who no longer are in church. So many times we allow for our circumstances to weigh us down and we forget that God is always there.
I would love to win a copy of this devotional book to enjoy myself and have something to share with another woman. I’m all about continuing to grow in our walk with the Lord.
I’d like to win a copy of this book because I struggle so much with my thoughts and my mind! Its a constant battle for me, but the Lord has continued to set me free, layer by layer. I have such a big heart to help others in this area.
My sister isn’t saved, but the Lord has drawn her closer. She struggles a lot in the same way I have in the past and think this book would help set her free!
Leslie,
Praying for you as you minister to your sister and praying alongside you that God will draw her to Himself. Praying for God to fill you with His peace.
Praying,
Donna
Renee Swope’s Ministry Team
I would like to lead a small group based on “A Confident Heart”. That will be the first one for me. I feel that I need to step out in faith and do it! I feel that God has finally equipped me to the point where I can start sharing all I know about Him with others. I am excited!
Ana,
Yay God for prompting you to lead a study! Way to say “Yes” to Him! He has equipped you!!
Blessings and prayers,
Blessings,
Donna
Renee Swope’s Ministry Team
I am loving this series! I finished reading Unglued (which is amazing) and then listened in September and got a friend on watching Renee’s videos. We both had to sign up for this and I was able to get my local library to order the books so we could do it together. Love the encouragement, the example and the testimonies!
I would love to win this give to a loved one who is struggling to be all that God has called her to be. Plus. I would be Blessed to win too! That’s just Awesome!
I am so excited! 🙂
I would love to win this book! How quickly Satan likes to creep in and tell us we can’t do it all or we aren’t good enough, not in God’s eyes! I need a constant reminder!
I’d love to give a copy of this book to my mom who was recently diagnosed with uterian cancer. She has had surgery and is in the middle of her chemo treatments. I believe this book would encourage and uplift her spirits. She is a beautiful woman inside and out and the very best friend a daughter could ask for. In addition, I ask for prayers of complete healing for her. I know God still performs miracles. 🙂
Confident, strong, and free…. You know, I feel all those things separately, but I’d really love to learn to feel them all at the same time and to show my daughter how to be a confident, strong, and free female!
What wonderful timing! A gift from God to have inspiration when life seems too much.
My mom and I have both struggled with self esteem issues for many years. For me this led to a very deep depression, and I know that my mom is pretty depressed as well. More recently, God healed me of that depression and I thank Him tremendously for that. I bought my mom the book ‘A Confident Heart’ and I would love to be able to add to it and give her the devotional so that she could add to the book with a daily devotion. I recently started college, so I am unable to buy her one.
I purchased “A Confident Heart” when it first came out. It is still a blessing to me. It is exciting to know about the devotional. I am mentoring a new christian and this would be a good study for her and a way to witness to one of my sisters that struggles with insecurities and anxiety. This study is so wonderful in helping us take captive our negative thought life and replace it with what God’s Word says about our identity.
My daughter is 16 and recently started struggling with depression and anxiety. She then stopped going to church and didn’t want to hear about God. A month ago she tried to kill herself and was hospitalized and quickly released as our insurance denied her treatment. Now she is home and I’ve been doing my bible studies, just as I started the confident heart book she wanted me to read to her from it. It talks about God and she doesn’t care. She doesn’t say too much some times and other times she talks to me about it. I’d love to have more to share with her. I also meet with 5 people while their children are at AWANA’s and now 1 is doing the online study. One doesn’t have money for a book so we share, and the other 2 gain from and add to our discussions. This book allows me a mom drowning in medical debt to share with all these people. I’d love to see what more God would like to do through me, a tired special education teacher who stuggles with feeling inadequate and overwhelmed by life as a single mom to two 16 year olds with chronic medical needs.
God bless you Renee, and Proverbs 31 Ministries, for inspiring me to grow beyond self doubt boundaries, set aside unhealthy destructive choices, and reap the ripe harvest of God’s bountiful blessings!! Far too many years of my life were spent existing, unsure how to truly live, within destructive and abusive relationships and choices until I opened the door of my heart fully to Jesus. Am richly blessed to now reach out to youth, teens and young adults with the glorious hope we have wrapped within God’s extraordinary gift of love found in Jesus. Your devotional would richly bless and strengthen me within my outreach ministry!!
God bless you, and all you do in the Lord, to help set captives free!!
Hugs, joy and love,
Kimberly <3