Today is another day where I can’t just write what I want to say – I need to “show and tell” you. In today’s short video message below I share how God walked me through a process of looking back with courage – so I could move forward with hope. He helped me identify things I didn’t even know were affecting me and gently led my heart on a journey towards freedom – showing me how to of let go of the pain from my yesterdays so I could live with confident hope in my todays… and tomorrows.
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Anna, I want to give testimony of how CHIFE OGWA brought back my divorce husband back to me,were married for 9 years then we break up, due to the fact that he never love me again.i have many felling for this my ex because we have gotten 2 kids together and i will want us to come back again. but all way i tried for us to come back all went in vain. i was confused and sad because i needed him back into my life, so i divided to contact CHIFE OGWA, i never believe in spell casting i just decide to make an effort and see if something can come out of it. i contacted them and they told me that they needed to cast return back of love to him, they did the spell and after 2 week my ex called that he still love me and wanted us to be together again,what surprise me most was that he was married to another woman, and after the spell casting he divorce the woman for me that same week. it was the spell i cast on him that brought him back again. we later got married again and now the kids are happy that their father is back to their mother again, i telly thank this CHIFE OGWA for bringing back my ex husband to me. i want you my fellow women who want back their divorce husband to contact CHIFE OGWA for his return, do not lose hope you can make this great step as i did then your ex husband will come back to you. and also your ex wife too okay, his email address id is [email protected], i want you to contact him and he will solve your problem for you and also he can do any kind of spell you want to cast
Hello Renee
this is the only way that was possible for me to contact you. your website is great, I will spend the whole day reading, in particular that it fit with the topic I am presenting on the 16th of June 2012 at 12pm EST. it is an educational, interactive and engaging teleseminar online, and I wanted to invite you to it. Unfortunately, this was the only way for me to reach you. My face book name is maggie.pimm, my fanpage is ‘unlock your potential’ and my webinar name is “confident you”
I’d really would love to have you with us at this webinar, it is free. If anybody else from your contacts would like to attend, feel free to register, it is FREE.
I look forward to hearing from you
maggie
Hi Renee,
Thanks for speaking to the hearts of so many women. I appreciate you sharing a piece of your past. It shows that we can pick up the pieces of our broken past and hurts. I too have had adultry and pornography in my marriage. It almost ruined my marriage. My husband came home but still struggles with his sinful choices and desires. He is a backslidden Christian who stopped going to church a decade ago.. I do want to feel loved again by my husband and have a confident heart and good self esteem. I am hurt from the past. Struggling with the present and fearful for the future. Jeremiah 29:11 reminds me that God has a plan and I should not worry and be afraid. God will work on my husbands heart and in his timing our future will be full of hope. Keep up the good work. You touch many womens hearts. Kelly
Very lovely. Thank you for sharing your story with us.
This was a difficult chapter for me as well. Not because I wanted to throw the book away but because I had a hard time reading through my tears. I had an abortion a few months ago from an extramarital affair and have yet to really deal with it. Thank you for your words of encouragement!
Hi, Renee Thank you for the encourageing video! Thank you for making me realize I need to let go of my past hurts if I’m ever going to enjoy the blessings God has for me! and the awsom plans he has for me! Thank you Renee you are so encourageng!
Again a powerful message! I can’t seem to let go of those past hurts, my desire for approval from others, my need for reassurance. I am going through this study for the 2nd time, this time on-line., I am praying that I can’ give God all of my hurts and pain and move past them, that my heart can heal. My husband is awsome, but doesn’t understand my past, he sure trys though! Thank you for a safe place to open up and be myself. I pray that all you you would pray for me as I pray for you for this healing to appear in my heart AND my head!
Thank you again for this study!
Ellen
Thank you Renee, for this video and for being so transparent – so that you can help other women who are going through trials and challenges of this life. We know that God promises to be with us, to never leave us, and that He does have a great plan for each of us, to give us “hope and a future”. Today you reminded me once again, to never doubt God…He always has our best interests at heart, and loves us more than we will ever know…
May He continue to bless you abundantly!
Thank you!
Susan G
This is the second time I’ve done this study so it’s the second time I’ve read chapter 4 and see this video. For me it hasn’t really gotten easier to ask God to show me my wounds so that He may heal them. I know it is what I need to do though. I will remember to stop in each situation and seek God’s perspective.
I just went to a seminar today about Inner Healing. God revealed to me some things, and I found some peace, but at the same time, unearthed some other things that have left me exhausted and trembling. I know I need to journal some of this, but I just can’t get myself to do it right now.
In the midst of the wake of this seminar, I get your email, urging me to watch your video post. I can only sigh at the thought of more processing and remembering, but I know it will have to happen in order to get more victory.
Thank you for your heart for helping women.
-R
I have always believed in God. I am just now beginning to delve into my faith in Him. I know I need Him to help me through each day. Your thoughts today hit home for me. My past is full of heartbreak. I do not want that to keep me from enjoying my future. I have many decisions to make and know He will help me make the correct ones. Thank you!
Thank you Renee for doing another study. This time deeper roots have been discovered that the Lord is helping me work through. I guess i will always be ‘a work in progress’ (even in my 70’s) going through the caverns of my heart to find those dark areas that the Lord wants to heal in me. I like reading the comments too as there are always different ways hurting women use to push forward, to never give up, to encourage, and scriptures the Lord uses that are unique to each one of His children.
Does anyone see a ministry here to reach the young girls around us to teach them how to avoid some of the pain we have suffered; to let them know they are loved, unconditionally loved, by our Lord, to show them there is a path that leads to victory, that life is about choices.
I too like Jeremiah 29:11-14 that i am planting deep into my soul.
Thanks again, Renee, for being faithful to your Lord and to yourself. Us women need your guidance.
I busted started this yesterday and have only read chapter 1, my book should be here on thursday and I am very excited to read all the chapters. Somehow God directed my to this website because I did not even know it existed. I do know that he wants to heal me and get me going in a forward direction again after all I’ve been thru.
Thanks for being here
I know the scriptures you refer to but after a long period of losses and sadness I wonder how God can restore hope ad happiness. I have two sons, the youngest lost his battle to brain cancer two years ago leavng behind a 4 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. My husbad, who always struggled with his relationshp with God, could not overcome this loss and turned to drinking. He was emotionally and verbally abusive when he drank and after many months I left and moved in with my,now only son, in another state. A few months ago he passed away from hypothermia, leaving me with guilt for leaving him.
My son, wih whom I live, and my daughter-in-law, are wonderful to me and I have the privledge of caring for my 3 year old Grandson. But there are days that I am consumed with grief, guilt and tears. I am close to my other Grandson and Grandaughter whom I love so very much.
I know the Lord’s ways are not our ways but some days hope is diminished, I try not to question why, but my losses it someitmes seems overhelming.
After listening to you today, I am trying to examine my past hurts ad losses and pray I can gain some peace and understanding.
I am thankful for Christian parents, my sons who love and loved the Lord, and my Grandchildren who do bring me great joy!
Renee,
I am truly loving your book, posts and study. So many things are surfacing for me while going through the study with you. Your video today was great and reminded me when I have asked God to reveal where I need healing in my life, he has revealed those things – gracefully and lovingly. Watching your story about your adopted daughter brought tears to my eyes because I was adopted (praise God) and I realized that I have never asked God to reveal my hurts around abandonment. I know these hurts effect my relationship with my husband. Thank you and I am on my knees now. I know God is good and will walk with me/carry me through this process.
Thank you!!
This is my thank you note to you Renee for writing this relevant and God inspired book. It crossed my computer just when I needed it (just turned 50, empty nester, no idea what my purpose was). I couldnt wait to take the study at the prescribed pace, had to keep reading and soaking it all up. I’ve learned some beautiful answers to the questions in my heart. I’m learning to combat Satan’s incessant lying with God’s constant and faithful promises to me. I’m learning to turn my prayers from lists to listening times. I am learning to turn my worries into worship by shifting my focus from “what if” to “what is” – looking for how God is working in my present situation and trusting He is involved in my future situations. I’ve learned that as members of the Body of Christ we are to complete each other, not compete with each other. I think the most powerful thing I took from your book is that my confidence needs to be in God alone, working out His purposes for my life. It cannot be confidence in myself or others – Him alone. In Him I find my value and my courage and my peace. I appreciated your personal email and advice on anxiety and depression issues. God has used you in mighty ways and I have already been used by Him in sharing things you have taught me with others who needed to hear it. Write some more!!!! Thank you.
I once again thank you for the inspiring words that so hit home. I am so in a broken place and to here your message of courage and hope today really helps. I have claimed Jeremiah 29:11 for a long time but never read past that. God used you today to reach me and I praise him so much for that.