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!
I am currently doing the online bible study and would love the devotional book. I have two close friends that we do devotional and other books together for accountability. This would be awesome for us to do together.
I tried to go out and purchase the devotional and the website said it was SOLD OUT.
Thanks for making this offer available. Thank you for being obedient to God’s lead.
I would love to win this book!! I have been looking for a good devotion book and this really speaks to me. Working on my walk with Jesus!!
I just came across this and this just what my friend & I need! She has just left an abusive relationship and this book & study would help me to help her put her confidence back on God so her relationship with Him may be restored. It would also help me to remind me that i am able to be used by God because it’s thru His strength and word I can be courageous. Thank you for this opportunity. -blessings
I’d like to win a NEW Confident Heart Devotional book for me and a friend because I am ready to live the life of faith God’s designed forme and become all He’s created me to be. I’d love to experience this with a friend or several friends who are also ready to stop letting doubt, fear, and insecurity control them. I’m ready to step out the boat and walk on water.
I have been enjoying getting the Proverbs 31 online devotionals and just recently purchased Lysa Terkuerst’s book, Unglued and the devotional that goes along with it. I would love to read a Confident Heart. I too struggle with feelings of inadequacy at times and need to learn to lean on Our Heavenly Father more. I know he is our strength, but it is easy to forget sometimes and we try to go it alone.
I have recently discovered the Proverbs site and enjoy each of the various blogs from the ladies who
write their messages. So many times they fit me exactly or a friend who I pass them along too.
I would love to win the book.
I would love to read this book as well as give a copy to my friend. We have both come from very difficult backgrounds and have had to deal with many trials and tribulations, but by the grace of God we have had each other to get through the difficult times. We both have trouble with confidence and letting go of past fear and anger, and I believe this book will help us with that.
I would love to have a copy of the devotional, but they are sold out ! When can we possibly order in the future? This looks like a wonderful tool for relieving anxiety.
I think to myself, yes I’m confident and strong… but then I read the “peek inside” portion and it brings me to reality: those are my exact thoughts. Recently my job was eliminated and I hold insurance for our family so feel a big burden there. We look at it as a blessing in disguise as I wanted to spend more time at home with my young boys. My husband is very supportive but I still have those “can’t do it all” thoughts that come creeping back. My husband farms so has been away from home for weeks and I’ve got two boys ages 3 and 1 and dealing with work issues. Everything seems to be adding up and am stuck in a rut. This book would be so helpful for me to gain perspective and keep constant confidence.
I know life isn’t always easy, but I thought what was happening to you would at least have some purpose or make some sense. Two years of underemployment living off relatives, no home, no full time jobs, no benefits, over fifty, unpaid school loan, we are hopeless about ever being on our own again. I’m glad I joined OBS and have found encouragement but it’s hard to get beyond myself and this situation to see God’s purpose in a all this. I know other people have it much worse than I do and I feel like I’m whining, but this is real and personal and I can’t find God in it. I know all the platitudes, “Wait on The Lord, Be still and listen, Do something for someone else, FROG (fully rely on God)”, etc, etc, etc. My hearts just not in it anymore.
I would really love to win this devotional book because I am a Sophomore college student and it’s so hard to be confident in my personality, my grades, my body image, a lot! I think that this book could help me calm some of these unnecessary worries that I can’t seem to make my mind forget. My friend that I would give the other devotional to was just talking to me the other day how she too struggles with her self image and would love to just forget about it and tell her self that it’s okay. We are both single too and it’s hard to feel good about yourself because so many people at my school have significant others and there is even this pressure quota of “ring by spring”, where each girl is to be proposed to by spring of their senior year. Don’t get me wrong though, because I am so blessed and thankful to be at the college I am. It’s just hard sometimes to see me as the valuable girl God sees me as.
Your ministry and book have been the water to quench my desperate thirst to grow in The Lord. When I spend time with you, your blog or book I realize I am not alone in the desert dying of thirst but thriving in the Word with my sisters in faith!
Thank you Renee!
I am in the middle of reading the book and I have gotten so much out of it. God has really spoken to me through it. I would love to have the devotional book to go along with it. I am very excited about this!
Proverbs 31 has been such an inspiration to me for several years now. I feel like each and every one of these beautiful women of God are my best friends. Thank you all! 🙂
Can’t wait to get this devotional! It sounds like just what I need.
Sounds like a wonderful book to add to my library.
This devotional sounds like it is just what my daughter and I need at this time in our lives.
This would be a great book for myself and a friend because we are both struggling with deep insecurity from some unhealthy past relationships. We are both striving to develop a more confident faith filled heart and I think this book could help guide us on this path.
This last year has been a continuous struggle with trust. I have dove into His word and learned so much but am always ready to learn more. We left the church we had served in and attened for over 30 years and this shook me to the core. I began to doubt all I knew. I hope to use the book for encouragement for my self and others.
Thanks, Debbie
So Excited for this! Love Proverbs 31 Ministries and you are just such an encouragement to me! Even if I don’t win something I still love this!!
I have finally found a church that I feel at home in. I woke up Sunday and so excited that it was Sunday so i can go to church and priase god for al he has done. I have been having nightmares for the past 10 years and went to a prayer groups and the night mares ended. I wake up every morning and thank God for a good night sleep without the nightmare. Its been a week. Its been a long time coming. But Also, through readings, people I get my answers to what God wants me to learn from a situation in my life. I love it. It usually takes 3 or 4 different resources for me to finally get it but I do. We have an AMAZING God there is nothing he can will not due… This devotional would be wonderful to complete my study. I have your book on Confident Woman. Thank you for all you do.
My whole life I have wrestled with my attacking thoughts of not being good enough or worthy enough. I have had great days of choosing to focus on God’s love for me: “My grace is sufficient.” But I’ve had many more days of choosing to let the Enemy drown out God’s voice. As I begin a new chapter in my life, moving into a job that requires every ounce of faith I can muster, I am in an all-out battle with myself about whether I can do this. I could use a book that reminds me that I am a confident, strong woman. I can do all things through Christ!
I’m so excited about the release of the devotional. I saw it online a few weeks ago and couldn’t wait for it to come out. I’m currently doing the online study with a friend of mine and would love to continue on this journey with her through using the devotional.
I have been sharing this book with my son. Also, I have been receiving in my email, the 7 day doubt diet. and sharing those with him as well. AWESOME!!! He is a young Christian man who is struggling with confidence with himself and our Lord. So far, through just the couple weeks of study, I can see HOPE coming back into his eyes!!!!! This devotion book would not only help him now, but later on in his life as a witness to others!!! God bless you ladies!!
I am super excited about reading this book and have so much butterflies to see what it brings after reading the book. My heart, mind, and spirit is open to receive.
Recently my friend lost her husband to cancer, I would like to share this book with her. She needs some encouragement and support from friends.
I would love to have this book! I think all girls/women, of every age, struggle with having confidence in today’s world, After I read it, I would pass it on to my daughter and daughter-in-law, to share the wisdom with them. Thanks!
I am loving the Proverbs 31 online bible study of the book A Confident Heart and would LOVE to get the devotional. I know a friend who would love it as well. Thank you Renee for writing such a wonderful book. I hope you know how much it has blessed so many people.
I have read some of Renee’s other works and love her! I have just the friend whom I would share the book with if I’m chosen.
I am doing the online bible study right now and it is wonderful. I completed a christian abuse recovery program about a year ago after 40 years of abusive relationships that began with my mother and then in relationships with men, and am doing better, but I struggle with depression and feeling not good enough. I want to have a confident heart and know God better. Some day I want to work in womens ministry but I know I have to be confident in who I am in Christ first.
I feel as though my life has been written in the first to chapters of A Confident Heart. It send shivers down my spine when I continue to read that all the terrible times I went through, both emotionally and physically are being brought back to life. I can’t believe someone else GETS IT, knows me, and is helping me come to grips with my locked down emotions. I will value this book for the rest of my life. I can only imagine how wonderful the Devotional would be. If I don’t win it, I’ll definitely be buying it. Thank you Renee for forcing me to bring out everything I’ve hidden for so many years. I love the quote on page 62 A Confident Heart is found in a woman who knows beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is loed no matter what! I hope to feel that love IN FULL, by the time I’m done with this book. God Bless You, and all the woman who are now being renewed by your works.
I know that myself like many women I know deal with the lies we tell ourselves each day about our self worth. It is hard to see ourselves the way He does. Self doubt has always plagued me.
I recently re-kindled a relationship with my x husband and moved from South Carolina to Virginia leaving my job friends and family within the first week I felt unsafe and was told to leave my new home. It was a long drive to my family in MD. and WV then finally back to SC but I am home and safe. Time to emerge myself in my faith with Gods word and heal while I look for a job and home
I would like to win your book so I can use it for a ladies’ class study.
My daughter and I were blessed by the confident heart study when we did it a few months back and it would be wonderful to keep those precepts in our hearts and minds with the new devotional!
I need a devotional desperately and this one even addresses personal struggles right now.
A Confident Heart…I am recently divorced. My ex-husband stated that he loves me, but why am I divorced? Why did he do the things he did? That wasn’t love and he didn’t know Jesus. In order to truly LOVE you must know Jesus because He is LOVE. Well on the same note I feel that I am confident. But not in the sense of God Confident. I want know confidence as God knows confidence; just as God is love. It’s that simple.
I have been struggling with doubt since my husband of 23 years walked out on our marriage. I have trouble moment to moment remembering how much God loves me and that he is for me….I think this giveaway would help me, a lot.
I lost my father to suicide, lost my baby at 20weeks pregnant and last year suffered from depression. I felt I lost my identity and all confidence. I have read the book and thank God I am strong and confident. I would value this devotional book to help other girls/ladies to grasp their confidence is in Christ. Xx
I am currently participating in the Online Bible Study of A Confident Heart and would love to have the Devotional Book for a daily nugget to continue my journey and staying strong. Plus I know just the friend to share the other book with!
I’m a 46 year old woman that has gone through many trials in the last few years.Surgeries, dealing with two substance abusing daughters. Raising my grandson for years. A alcoholic husband whom I got the courage to leave this past August. Most of the people that know me have no clue how I’ve survived these trails. I knew I was strong but never could figure out what kept me going. Until, I opened my heart up to God through Jesus and fond my new church through a cousin. I have become a faithful believer. Since opening the door I’m a work in progress that is for sure learning so much about myself someone I had lost a long time go. I have lived with a “why me” look on life as if a dark cloud followed me everywhere destine for awful things to happen. I never saw any good in any of my trails but I knew I never felt alone either. ODD but true. Even though I never knew it but God was always with me. Never gave up on me and I honestly believe he showed me where to find him. I have become easier going. I’m softer, kinder and most of all easier on myself. I’m learning forgiveness sets me free not the people whom hurt me but me. I would love to win your gift your books. To continue my journey.
I am going through a very difficult time in my life right now and really need this devotional. I read the book and absolutely loved it. I am finishing a bible study in the next week and would love this book to be my next focus.
Every morning I wake up and start my day by getting my kids off to school and getting ready for work. When I get to work is when I can read my Proverbs 31 devotion through my e-mail. It would be a great start to the day if I could have a devotional to start as soon as I wake up. Even if I don’t win one, I still think that this would be the one for me. I have read the book and I have a bible study group that meets on Tuesday nights. We have been discussing starting our next study on a Confident Heart.
Our daughters are both in college now and I have several young moms I’m friends with and try to encourage. One’s having a particular difficult time and this might just be the thing to get more of the Lord into her day and to speak the truth of His love into her life!
I am super excited about this book! I would love to have the daily encouragement from this new book to keep me going from the great information and encouragement I received from the first one.
I think I would be soooo very Blessed as a woman to daily seek this new Devotional. I love listening to Renee Swope on KLove, and her encouraged for being a mother.
God’s Word is my fuel! Being able to read godly encouragement as I walk this difficult journey in life and to not allow the enemy to come in and plant doubt. Daily words of arming myself in God’s ways, this devotional would be a great blessing on the journey!
Thank you for an opportunity to win. I have been wanting to read your book and am looking for a good devotional. I was just put on bed rest at 26 weeks pregnant so this would be perfect timing for me ..
I’ve been so encouraged by the devotionals from proverbs 31 ministries during this stressful time in my life. I would love to have a hard copy of this devotional book.