So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,
you will receive what he has promised.Hebrews 10:35-36
Today we have a short video message based on our key verse. I recorded this message to encourage and equip you as we begin our Confident Heart journey! In my video message I share how we can stop throwing away our confidence and start throwing away our doubts instead! I also show you how to replace your uncertainties with the certainty and security of God’s promises – every day! Please click the arrow below to watch. [If you’re reading this via email, CLICK HEREto find the video on my website.]
- Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence PRINTABLE (click here)
- Message Notes: Although the bideo and message notes say Segment 3, I decided to make this Segment 1 for us, so just ignore that little detail. You can download my video “Message Notes” in a PDF format here or in a MSWord doc here. I encourage you to watch the message once and let God just speak to your heart. Then watch it again and follow along with the message notes (if you want to) which include parts of the message, verses and blanks to fill in. 🙂
- This Week’s Assignments: Please watch today’s video today and finish reading (or start reviewing) Chapter One. Then when you have time, answer the questions at the end of the chapter. I’ll post a PDF to download with our word and verse of the week here later today. (Heading out the door to a Dr appt this morning.) Then on Friday we’ll have another post where we’ll share/discuss our answers and get to know each other a little better.
- Connecting in Community: Ok friends, let’s talk. What are your thoughts about today’s video message? Are you going to take the 7-day challenge and actually write down your doubts? What about printing the download? Where will you put a copy or two so that you have it with you to help you identify your doubts and replace them with God’s truth?
{Remember, if you’re reading this via email, CLICK HERE to find the video and share your thoughts on my website.}
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What a wonderful way to start the book! I have read the first chapter and already been blessed numerous times. But the video message hit me in a completely different way from just reading the book. And the added challenge of throwing away my doubts brought me to a whole different level. Thank you, Renee, for taking the time to do the videos and for your commitment to us! I can’t wait to continue the study and see what God does in my life and others.
I am so in need of confidence it has something i hve struggled w/ . I speak alot out of my emotions and b/c i hve had a so many struggles to face and i hve to say trying to keep on going and learning and changing at time is overwheling to me. My life as a child and growing up had no Jesus. I am at point that the only way thorough this is confidence how much more can i do. I don’t know why but w/o Jesus i am nuttin i don’t know how some can succeed w/o HIm. I feel like everthing i put my hands on i miss up or never goes right. I am hoping for some great things from this study. Plz keep me in prayer i am still wating on my book. Hope to get it soon.
Lord Jesus, I pray for Lupe right now. Please get that book to her quickly so she can continue to pursue your plan for her study time. Help her know that we are all in the same boat as humans. Without You, Lord, we can do nothing. But with You, we can do all things. Amen.
Phil 4:13 Lupe! 🙂 Blessings to you!!
This message has really reflected a lot of what I went on this week…had lots of challenges both professionally and personally…and the negative thoughts came back..didn’t do so well on a job interview….still feeling stuck in the same situation, no husband, boyfriend, underemployed, ..feeling defeated…and hoping things would change…but then I felt a sense of peace and joy come over me on my way back from work…a joy I haven’t felt in a long time despite my feelings, and my circumstance…I heard my self saying…”feelings are just feelings” they don’t reflect reality or who I am….and felt joy.and I believe this was the Holy Spirit talking to me comforting me and saying “I can’t do all things through Christ who strengthened me….
God Bless, all.
Thanks for your comment! Keep coming back to share what God is teaching you. This is fabulous! You CAN do all things through Christ who strengthens you. :0)
I love that: “feeling are just feelings, they don’t reflect reality or who I am”….
I absolutely loved the video! I’ll be honest with you all, as soon as I have started this Confident Heart Study, guess what’s been being tested since?… my confidence in God. I just want you to know Renee that I am praying for you as you give us the wisdom that God has given you. Yesterday was a rough day in general, and as soon as I got home from work I just cried. It’s easy to have confidence in God when your days go great, or even okay, or when you feel good; but it’s on those hard/trying days when I just don’t “feel” like being confident. I’m amazed how God always shows up and just loves on us when needed. I don’t want my feelings to control my confidence in God. I may have not felt like praising the Lord during a hard day at work yesterday, but I need to raise my hands up and praise God. Greater is he that is in me, then he that is in the world. I’ll pray and believe by the end of this study that I will have the wisdom and confidence to not be moved by how I feel no longer. I’m ready to see what all God’s going to teach me in and through this study! I love the throwing the doubts literally away… I believe a lot of us will be throwing a lot of paper away… It’s a challenge I want to do no matter how I may feel.
I love the idea of throwing away my doubts…such a simple exercise with such a big reward.
I posted yesterday that the idea of moving from just believing in Him to really believing Him by relying on the power of His word was resonating in my heart. I read further in Hebrews today and found in The Message Heb 11: 1-2 ” The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see…” Further on in Heb. 11: 11-12, in talking about Sarah bearing a child in old age, it says, “…she believed the one who made a promise would do what He said.”
She believed the one who made a promise would do what He said….
I love this and I think it is a good excersice to write the LIES we women so often believe and look at it call it a lie from the pit of Hell and throw it out thank you for that and thank you God for your Grace shower us with Your truth and guard us from the lies we often get entangled by!!!
Thanks Renee! When I saw you were going to do this online group I wasn’t sure if I should join. Then I felt God telling me I need this and this time it will all be okay. I have read chapter 1 and got my downloads. I watched the video and now crying with JOY that I listened to Him. I have very low self esteem and you are God helper in helping me. I will write down and throw away. Being a mom of 5 and wife of 15 yrs it’s time for me to be still and listen so He can change the lies that chain me. Thanks for helping me! I even posted todays verse on my fb wall to see when I get on there. I can change! God bless!
I LUV LUV LUV the PDF today! Do you know I didn’t even know I lacked confidence until I read “I’m not good enough” & “I’m nothing special” with what God says, “You are royalty to me” & “You are a masterpiece”. THANK YOU RENEE!
Just today, a friend posted on her Facebook page the following quote — “God doesn’t call the qualified; he qualifies the called.” I have heard this quote before and skimmed my friend’s status when she posted this, but not until I watched this video and finished chapter 1 did I really take to heart what it meant. God provides me so many gifts — family, friendships, financial and physical health — but He also provides me the abilities, courage and CONFIDENCE to be who I am each day. God is my cheerleader! Who better to cheer me on then my Lord and Saviour!
Amen Melissa!
Love the video. I have the download up on my kitchen cabinet. I am also going to put it into my project notebook and up in my office.
If the small groups come together, please let me know. I would love to participate!
Loved the download. I printed it and am putting it on my desk! Such good truth!
I will take the 7 day challenge of throwing my doubts away. I think catching my doubts this way is a great idea because we are to bring our thoughts captive.
I am going to put the pdf on my refrigerator and carry a copy in my purse so I may have them ready anytime I may need them.
Thank you for the message and showing us how to hold our thoughts captive.
I have so enjoyed the first Chapter, Renee thank you for following the Lord’s direction and bringing this amazing message to my life. When I read your initial Encouragement email a small voice said “look into this” and I am so glad that I did. I have some big decisions to make in the next couple of months and have had a rough few days struggling with self doubt and self criticism. Your strategy in” Don’t throw away your confidence” is awesome and I immediately felt uplifted – what a brilliant idea! I have my print-out on the wall next to my desk where I can turn to look as soon as the shadows start forming and immediately bin them! I love the idea someone had about the photo book – great plan. It is so amazing to read all the posts on your blog and realize that we are all in this together. Sometimes I feel so alone and isolated and wonder if anyone else experiences these doubts and apprehensions to the degree I do – it is so good to know that they are out there and I’m not paddling upstream on my own 🙂
Thank you Renee. I will take the challenge and throw out the trash.
I’m definitely going to take the challenge. Its so funny how we will throw the power buttons away as quickly as our confidence. Usually for me, my confidence is the first thing I chuck. I can get up in the morning, have a good empowering moment, and then get rid of it the second doubt comes out. One way we truly can rid ourselves of it is a physical action to help stop the doubt train from getting on your brain’s track. I love the printable….I’m printing out a few so I will have one with me at all times to remind me of the Truth….because the truth will set me free! Thanks for that uplifting message! And all of the women on here….we can do this together ladies!!!
I have the chart on my bathroom wall from last time. However have not used it like I should. Don’t think I took the challenge last time, but am going to do so this time.
Way to go Holly! 🙂
That was awesome! I printed my chart, taped it into my planner and posted one on the refrigerator door . I will take the challenge of trashing my trash talk!
Hello Everyone!
I pray everyone is having a wonderful afternoon!
The video was a great teaching and really did hit home. I have always struggled with self doubt and it is something that I really dislike. I am one who alwas feels that I cannot get anything done and that I am never going to get anywhere in life. It is reall hard when it comes to my children because alot of the times I feel that I am not doing a good enough job as a mother, a single mother at that. I am going to take that challenge and everytime some self doubt comes to mind, I am going to right it down and throw it away! I am really excited about this Book/Bible Study and am really looking forward to the change that I am going to see in my life. I am ready to have the Confident Heart that I as a woman of God should have! Many blessings to you all and thank you so much Renee for being obedient to the voice of God, and writing this book and doing this study! May your reward be great! I know for sure it will! 🙂
Wow… Please excuse all the typos!
thank you….
I think what I’ll do for this week is record my doubts on a paper, and ‘X’ them out while putting the reference to a corresponding scripture, and at the end of the week I’ll pick my top 3-5 doubts, and start memorizing the scripture to battle them with- including making 3x5s to carry with me wherever I go. And at the end of the week I WILL throw them out!
While watching the video, a couple of other verses came to mind regarding the importance of what Renee has taught us this week:
2 Corinthians 10:5b “…we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” –this is what we are doing when we capture our doubts on paper and rid ourselves of them!
Philippians 4:8 (grossly abridged) “…whatever is true…whatever is right… think about such things.” — our doubts are NOT truth. They are NOT right. What scripture tells us God promises is true and right. This is what we should be dwelling on, although it is so easy to let myself ruminate on the lies.
Thank you for the tool to get me started on finding scripture to battle my doubts with Renee!