Oh how I am LOVING reading so much about each of you. Gosh I wish we could all meet!! What an amazing group of women of all ages and from all places God has gathered here in HIS name! Makes me just about burst with joy! And now, I’m so glad today is here. Some days my written words come easily. Other days I just have to show and tell you what’s on my heart. Today is one of those days.
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Wow! Thank you for the wonderful demonstration. Seeing this reminds me that it doesn’t matter how much we fill our jars up, if we spend time filling it with the wrong things then it’s never really full. It also reminded me how often I’ve done this as well.
I need to focus on the Giver and not the gift! I also need for God to show me what is I continually look for. I know all I need is in Him (my head); now my heart needs to know the same.
Wow! I just watched this video. It is so true! I need Him to show me what his plan is for me. I have tried so hard to achieve my dream of being an RN but hit roadblock and failure over and over. In June, I am trying one last time and if I don’t pass this time; I know that I need to find another calling. I need to quit looking for others to fulfil me and know that HIS LOVE does. Thank you so much for this study. It is incredible!!
Renee, thank you for this reminder. Several years ago, God showed me that I was seeking the gifts far more than I was seeking the Giver. I made it my prayer that I would want God more than what He could give me. That worked for awhile. I had some difficult, yet precious years, where he brought me through some hard times with joy and passion for Him. Not sure how that changed. But, I realize how empty my life it now. I was caught up in seeking fulfillment through my marriage and family and even health. My marriage ended, my kids grew up and left home, I lost my health…and I’m empty. I’ve only just begun seeking Him with more passion and giving Him the priority He deserves. I’m so far from arriving in this area. But, it is good to see progress. I NEED Him. I NEED to experience His grace, love and healing. So thankful for this study!
I could not play the video at all since it would not load. bumbed. But I look foward gleaning some of the lesson from the other comments.
If I’m honest with myself, I’m filling in those places and I need to pull back and just come into quiet time with God and just ask him to fill me up because He already wants what’s best for me and has an amazing plan that’s for me and my family! So I’m not losing ANYTHING, just gaining my heavenly Father’s security and love and joy and then so much more than the other ‘stuff’ would ever.
So true! 🙂 Well said! If we let Him fill us, it is more fulfilling then any amount of stuff we could ever have.
Thank you for the video message. It made me think about my life and what I am filling my heart with…..I have been working at a job that I hate for 6 years. I truly don’t understand why the Lord has put me here in this place. I struggle with it daily….My prayer is that I will let the Lord fill the void of my job and that I would be a light to those around me.
Thanks for sharing what a awesome reminder. Only God can fill the void in our lives.
Thank-you for a great reminder!
I really love this video, the illustration, the message which GOD want to shows us personally…It really remind me again of his unfailing love. I have been experienced this 10years ago (when i still in high school) when he spoke personally to me said that even i never feel my earthly father’s love(because im from a broken family, my father and mother was divorced since i was 5yrs old) but JESUS really love me and his love is enough for me. I really touched again by this message today…GOD LOVE is just enough for everyone of us..thank you for sharing this video 🙂 GOD BLESS
I loved the visual demonstration of the empty places in our lives. This chapter on significance in Christ alone has been very powerful for me. I am newly retired from teaching, and while I am enjoying my free time so much with my family, I have come to realize how much significance I drew from my job and in being a financial contributor to our household. This study has really helped me see the power of praying scripture. I love the “When…..then” examples in the chapter.
I also love reading all the responses of the women. It’s wonderful to see healing take place as women share their suffering and how they are OVERCOMING! Yes Lord!
You are so right I struggle with trying to fill my life with everything but God himself and I like how you open my eyes to see what I need to see. Thankyou again!!
Love that illustrated message. This is so true. It took me a while to realize this truth and sometimes I forget and have to be humbled. I remember pursuing education and a position to define me. When I came to the end of myself, I cried out to the Lord. He as lone filled me and knew what I was created for.This h as s taken me ona long journey of discovering who I am in Him, His Word and His vision for my life. As, I have drawn closer to Him, he has shown me His vision for me that is much bigger than me. It stirs my heart. As Mother Teresa said she could do nothing without God and is an instrument in His hands, so I must become. God defines me he created me sand knows more about me than I know about myself. Thank you, so much Renee, for allowing God to use you. When God fills us, WOW!!!! That is about all I can say is, WOW!!!!
Debi. I live in Georgia. Love Hiking. I am being blessed by the encouragement a Confident Heart is providing to help me live victoriously in Christ and be filled.
Alma I am so sorry my keyboard froze on me. You are truly blessed with your children. I have no children of my own. Sometimes having a man in our lives brings more trouble. I believe God will provide for you as you try to keep your focus off wanting that relationship. Easy for me to say and so hard to do and apply to our lives but God keeps giving us all we need to press on. I need to trust the Lord more and I have serious trust issues with everyone. God bless. Renee thank you for this class I hope and pray I can apply all the help you are providing for me in my life through this book and your guidance.
Thank you for your kind words Angie!
Alma I know its hard to be alone and we all need someone to share our love with and need someone to love us. And to do the things for us that sometimes require husbands to do but in your prayers ask God to help you to see His Great love for you and you have chi
I so relate to being saved but not feeling satisfied. I wondered if something was truly wrong with me and if God hears my prayers. I don’t feel like I can do anything right and I’m often having a pity party because of what I don’t have and can’t do. I’m in school now and I sometimes feel inadequate compared to other. I think that’s my problem, I’m always comparing myself to others and then I feel worthless. I don’t feel like I can talk to anyone about it but I can encourage other to victory. I am thankful for this study session and for Renee for inviting us to share.
I am struggling with the thought the God’s love is enough. Even though I know in my head he loves me unconditionally, it doesn’t seem to be a comfort to me when I feel rejected or not thought of by friends. God made us to need to be in community with people. I guess it’s the priority that we place on the people that’s the issue. That’s what I’m trying to take to heart…that friends and even all the other things Renee put in that jar are important, but we shouldn’t look to those things to fill us. All those things will disappoint, but God is faithful.
I am very thankful for this book. I just want to cry and thank him for using this book to open my eyes.
I have been living in self-pity for a while now. I was married for 14 to an abusive and controlling man. We have 3 boys together. I am 37 years old. I have now been divorced for 3 years. I did not date anyone for 2 years. I finally met this man who I thought was a God sent and wonderful. He was very good to me and treated me good. He made me feel loved when he was with me. Then after one year of dating he told me that he wanted to end the realtionship because it had already been a year and he had not fallen in love with me. I have been seeking God like never before. I cried out to him and told him I was tired of getting hurt and people using me. I felt used and betrayed by this man. I did not understand how after a year of spending every weekend together he could just end it. There are still a lot of things that I do not understand and I question God. Reading this book has opened my eyes. Jesus is the only one who could bring joy to my soul and he is the only one who could satisfy my soul.
I was longing to have someone in my life that would care for me and take care of me. I still have that feeling but it is not as it used to be thanks to this book. I just long to have a man in my llife that will take care of me, be there for me, and protect me. I just want to feel loved. Todays message has shown me that Jesus is the only one who can satisy the loneliness in my heart.
Thank you for praying for me.
Alma,
I have felt that same way almost all my life. I am 55 and never knew my father and didn’t live with my mother until I was 13. I have felt like I was never wanted as well as unloved and unlovable. I too have been praying for a man just to fill me and fulfill me. With this study session, I am learning that I need to draw closer to God more than I need anything else. So don’t feel like you’re alone. You’re not.
Thanks Victoria! This book is teaching me so much about depending on God and knowing that he is the only one that will ever be able to satisy me wholly.
Hello thank you so much for the video. I long and keep asking Jesus to give me a heart to love Him like Mary Magdalene did. I need that confidence to believe that Jesus hears me and love me even when I disappoint Him. And that He will answer my prayers especially in regards to my fears. I do look to get the a pproval of people only to realize not everyone will like me and I can’t please everyone. I am so blessed for everyone hereand all the pprayers lifted up on everyone’s behalf. I don’t feel so bad cuz I know I am not alone. I live in Pennsylvania just moved here and it has it challenges since I m not good with directions and finding new places fearful of getting lost taking the wrong exit going down a one way street ect. I pray for all the ladies here for Gods love mercy and favor and for Him to keep showing and teaching us His ways and to believe Him. Lots of love.