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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I printed the download and have it hanging on my cubicle wall right where I can see it to remind me of how God feels about me.
I am really going to try to do the 7-day Challenge.
Wow what a week, I started Chapter 1 and stopped, thinking that this is going to be too hard and dig too deep to raw wounds. But I continued and finished question 7 today. Then I read Lysa’s message today on the Proverbs site and what was she talking about but Q. 7! Boy that really helped me know that their are other Godly ladies that thow things or slam doors.
I am renewed to contune on the Chapter 2 and dig deeper through I will need a new box of tissues.
Hugs and blessings to all, J
This is the study I have needed for years! I don’t think I have ever felt like I was good enough, parents had us young ( and I’m a twin). My mother told me to get the heck out at 15 and never come back and I never understood why I wasn’t enough, it was all because my parents had divorced and I wanted to stay with my dad, those words wounded me more deeply then I knew. I then had a baby at 17, got married at 18 and went through alot of rejection, he cheated, and I don’t think ever really loved me, after 5 years and 2 more babies together we divorced. He remarried 4 months later. To make this story short I am now on marriage #4, but have spent my life feeling worthless and alone. I have 6 amazing children and within the last 6months have started counseling , I did not realize how wounded I was and the baggage I had carried into this marriage. I have issues with trusting my husband and just knowing he loves me. I am ready to become the woman God created me to be and to do his plans for my life. I want to walk in his confidence and know I am special! I am his masterpiece. I am his princess. I am ready to start replacing all the lies of satan with God’s truth and learn to walk in his light! I will write all my doubts down and throw them in the trash and replace them with what God tells me. I am going to hang a printout on my mirror and read it daily, and carry one i my purse so when those doubts arise and can read and say his truths and start hiding those away in my heart. Thank you so much for sharing your heart and writing this book! 🙂
My 13 year old daughter and I are doing this book and study together. Today was a great beginning to learning how to have a more confident heart. She and I both struggle with weight issues and right now our family is doing the 10 day Cleanse America with eating only fruits and veggies for healing and rebooting our bodies. This study came at the most perfect time for us as now we can cleanse our minds of such negative doubts. We are on day 4 of the cleanse and it has been fairly easy for me so far, but its been very hard for her as she does not like veggies at all. This Chapter 1 and message from your video today really helped her to believe that she can complete this 10 days and that the words “I can’t do this” are words of doubt that she can now throw away in the trash. Its really amazing to hear her share her thoughts about this Cleanse and even more amazing to see her be encouraged through this chapter and video today to the point that she is actually setting some goals to continue good eating habits past the 10 days. I am excited to continue to Chapter 2 with her. Thank you for sharing such encouragement today and we look forward to the rest of the study. I am hoping and praying at the end of this study….She and I will truly have a more Confident Heart, we will be well on our way to a healthy mind and body, and we will draw even more closer to God!!!
What a great journey to share with your daughter- to learn confidence in Christ. My baby girl is only one, but I’m hoping to be able to model such confidence for her by the time she is thirteen! (Thankfully I have a few years to figure it out). I think it’s great that you are open with your daughter, that you are real with her- it will encourage her to be real with you in the future!
Going now to fill up that trash can!!! Confidence in Christ… my new motto!!! 🙂
Great Video today!! This message really hit home for me. The last 2 days or so I have been pretty hard on myself, words of my life is never going to change have been running around through my head. Other thoughts such as i am not good enough to do those things are there are well. I love the idea of writing those silly words out on paper and then having the strength to crumble up that paper and throw the words in the trash. What a great way to gain the confidence over our thoughts that can hinder us from moving forward with things in life.
Putting all of our faith in God and knowing that by trashing our insecurities rather than our confidence is what He wants from us has been an amazing eye opener for me. I am getting ready to print the notes and watch the video one more time. Great message and I am looking forward to gaining my confidence and throwing out all the insecure messages I send myself!
Amazing. I am SO excited about this study. I so need it right now. I constantly battle with my confidence.
This is the first time I’ve done and online Bible study. Can’t wait to see all God has in store for me through Renee and this study!
God has made us courageous women. Going back, I am trying with God’s help to discover the roots of my doubt and fear. The Lord has surprised me, reminding me of things I’d long ago pushed down deep within me. Pulling out those roots is making me face emotions, hurts, disappointments that stole my confidence. I am claiming back that territory for Christ! I am his, and he has not given me a spirit of fear. One day at a time, I am growing stronger. He is my strength and my courage, with him, I can do anything.
When I heard about this online study group, I was actually DOUBTING myself to joining. Every time I join a study group, like this, I NEVER finish. I chose to join this last night but for days I was having second thoughts about it. I kept thinking that I was going to start off strong but never complete the book. After reading the first chapter, I sat in awe at how many doubts go through my head and how many imes I actually throw away my confidence every day. This week, God has been revealing to me all the confidence I throw away each day and I finally see how much I need Him to guide me through persevering. Can’t wait to see what else God has in store for me through the next few weeks!!
Julianne, I also struggle with follow through on studies like this. I guess we have to trust that God will speak to us through it as much as we are faithful… and even if for whatever reason we do fall behind, He can use what we do accomplish to change us.
I don’t even remember how I came across Renee’s book. All I can say is God knew what He was doing. I read the book entirely and while doing so came across the first online study earlier in the year. I caught the end of the study. I went back and and read all of Renee’s daily posts in the archives and watched all the videos. Therefore, this time around I can really review and reflect more.
I remember watching this video segment earlier this year and thinking how writing down and actually throwing away the feelings I was having seemed like a good idea. Then, in early March, I broke off a somewhat new relationship. While the relationship ended on good terms, I was shocked to say the least when the guy told me I was a negative person and complained all the time. Wow! That is definitely not what I want ANYONE saying about me. I knew then God wanted me to participate and complete the online study.
I struggle with being still and finding the quiet place where I can actually hear God. Sometimes, I doubt myself and don’t even realize it until later. I am going to put the ideas from the video segment to use. I pray God will give me the strength to learn to be still like Mary and listen to Him and recognize my doubts, fears, negative thinking, etc., and create a habit of replacing it with His promises to me from His word.
I really love the concept of praying His words from the prayers at the end of the chapters. I sometimes doubt my ability to know how to pray, how to study His word, etc. Renee’s concept of praying His word definitely gave my confidence a boost.
I would like to finish by just saying thank you to Renee for all of her hard work. God is sure to bless you beyond measure. Love ya girl!
This video is good. I’m going to keep the sheet posted where i can see it at work. I will probally print out Hebrews 10:35-36 and post it to my computer at work. I let the little things rattle me the most. I’m good about encouraging others and i have a gift for it. Alot of times i let the doubts and insecurities rattle my confidence. I’m hard of hearing and I understood everything Renee was saying!
Thank you for this message. I will definitely be prepared now to throw away my doubts and hold onto my confidence. I struggle with a lack of confidence on a daily basis. I am going to post Hebrews 10:35-36 on walls all over my house. I want to be reminded of God’s promises everywhere I go. I know that if God believes in me, I should believe in myself as well. He knows that I am capable, now it’s my turn. Thank you Renee for writing this book and hosting this study. God Bless.
THANK YOU, Renee!!! Although I haven’t really started my today I look forward to throwing away in doubt that tries to sneak into my thinking and or my heart today. I truly appreciate the download that gives us truths from the Bible…..when I have feelings of doubt I’m not always where I can access a Bible and I will be posting one of these next to my bathroom mirror and cutting up another one to be able to put in on note cards or something like it and put in my purse for easy access when I need to read the truth(s)!
My biggest struggle, especially right, is that “I can’t change” and that “I’m not good enough”! This study is just what I needed.
I loved the statement in the video where you say when need to ask God to help us to stop throwing away our confidence and instead, throw away our insecurities. I have added this to my prayer list. In my line of work I have to give presentations all of the time but I allow fear and doubt to make me a wreck before every presentation. I have a presentation this afternoon and I plan to take the Don’t Throw Away Your Confidence sheet with me and consistently repeat God’s truths over and over again. The statement in Chapter 1 that stuck out to me the most was that my confidence is built when I ask God for what is already in His will for my life. I am working on praying God’s promises out loud over and over. I can’t wait to see how full my trash can gets with all of the devil’s lies about me!
Hope your presentation goes well.
I am already finding that years of practicing doubt and lack of confidence are not easily broken. I was placed in a group of 5 teachers ?to write Task Analysis for a new curriculum. Intimidation? Its like I know I can, but am so reluctant to share ideas, fearing the risk of sounding stupid. I am not stupid. I am a master teacher. I excused myself to the bathroom, took the prayer from our first assignment out of my pocket and prayed it in the restroom. Upon returning, I conciously made myself speak up. ( Its not easy to hide in a room of 5). Well, got a few high fives for my input, then out county leader came in and said that our work was the best she had seen all day and she would be sharing it a regional meetings. Hallelujah! Standing on the Promises of God!
Congrats to you for facing your fear. God is good!!
I tell myself something negitive almost everyday. I am so excited about this study. I have battled with insecurity and self doubt for so long I can not remember a time that I felt confident with who I am and that GOD loves me.
Thank you for such a great video that gives me a visual and concrete way to “throwing away” my insecurities! I will be doing that this week. God has been revealing those insecurities that I havent recognized because it has become such a natural part of my life. I was feeling a bit defeated yesterday, but I am claiming God’s truth in facing those insecurities and lies Satan keeps throwing my way.
Renee, thank you for taking the time to have this online study for your book. It is neat reading through the comments and seeing how God is working through so many lives in this study!
Sherri
Thank you for the video this morning! That verse, or rather, that phrase “throwing away your condfidence” surprisingly hit me at my core when I first read it! So I was so excited that you addressed it! That’s exactly what happens with me… I know God, what His word says, what HIs promises are, who I am in Him; but somedays all it it takes is one word of critcsm or for me to fail at something or to be overwhelmed or not to know what to do or for someone to do it better than me and my confidence is out in the trash like your remote power button! And I’m really tired of it! 🙂 Enough is enough! Ready to toss doubts instead of confidence! Look out now! 🙂
Hi Renee!
I just want to say how glad I am to have found your book and this online study group. I’ve been struggling with self confidence and having hope for so so long and I have been under the shadow throughout. I couldn’t sleep at night and instead stayed up crying of worries and a hopeless future. I was thirteen! I was so hopeless and was struggling with simply having the courage to go to school and live my life normally. But I didn’t turn to God. My problems weren’t that severe: I wasn’t bullied, I had friends and my family wasn’t that bad. Ok, family was a big struggle at the time because my dad wasn’t living with my mom and I, and my friends weren’t the kind that I longed for. I was having horrible, terrifying thoughts of worries about my future , which I assumed will probably be a dark alley. On top of that I was stuffing myself with thoughts from the enemy and telling myself all sorts of ugly stuff, which I still do sometimes now but I try my best to turn to God and let him help me through hard times. Deut. 31:6 tells us “Do not be afraid because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you;” It’s honestly very hard for me to open up my heart to the Lord at school and around people sometimes who I suspect and assume do not love me and want to judge me, but that doesn’t change the fact that God’s there! I’m turning fifteen in the summer and the past year along has been such a roller coaster ride. The really crazy kind! I have wept so so much but those tears were shed with people that love me and I know that God sent them, like angles, to help me when I was down. I’m really thankful for what you’re doing and may God continue to work through you in helping others who are broken and struggling. God bless!! 🙂
Angela, how I wish I had learned these truths and planted them deep in my heart when I was your age! I think it would have saved much heartache. I am so excited for you to be ‘finding’ your confidence at a young age- God will do great things with your life!
Hi Lydia! I love that name! I don’t quite have it all together yet and still have doubts a lot, but I’m trusting God that they’re not true and I can overcome them through time and grace 🙂 Thanks for the encouragement, I smiled and felt a warmth in my heart! I hope you’ll fight for that strength too and remember we’re all in this together!
Renee,
I took your last study and I remember that one theme I shared over and over was how I sensed your prayers for our study. Well, this time is no different. I can see now that God has been preparing my heart for this message since last week. You just put into words what I have been learning and experiencing for the past several days. Thank you for this confirmation and your prayers.
In Christ,
Holly