Has someone ever said something to you that made you feel valued and loved? Affirmations that gave you a sense of meaning and purpose? In my Encouragement for Today devotion, Just the Right Words, I shared a story of how one woman’s words changed the course of another.
Sadly, many of us don’t have people to speak hope and encouragement into our hearts. However, all of us do have Someone who wants to speak just the right words into our lives – every day. Today I have a power-packed {very short} video message where I share how you can position your thoughts to hear and live in God’s promises – every day. Click on the arrow below and discover how to stop letting doubt and discouragement beat you up, and start letting God words build you up instead!
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Love the bible study and the giveway. Renee, thank you for sharing your life through the ups and downs.
God is constant!
I want to have “for me” thoughts ready the next time the enemy discourages me! Thank you!!!
Learning that the words I speak to myself are powerful is what I’m learning. If I say negative things that’s the way I think but if I speak God’s truth It changes me inside and out.
Praising God that Aster’s appt went well. How is your son’s collar bone (I believe that was what he injured) doing?
Life is not always pleasant and I have days where I feel like I cannot do another thing, but my God is bigger than me and is always there to lift me up. Praying for you that your back gets better. Blessings, Elaine
Thank you Renee for the post. I am having a very hard time with my confidence. I am just a little behind in the study. I have a very hard time letting God Love me. I seem to be pushing him away from me. I try to let him in but I know how to pray for everyong around me but myself. I hope your back feels better some, my husband went through it and it is not easy. God Bless you.
I haven’t been able to keep up with the book study because I’ve had horrible morning sickness – but we are so thrilled to be expecting #3!!! Also, I read your book at a time in my life when I so desperately needed it – while I was in the midst of some hard struggles with depression and anxiety. I am SO thankful for your words!
I have to tell you, I got stuck in chapter 5. Life has been tough the last couple of weeks and the whole timeline thing stopped me dead in my tracks. However, last night I started reading again. I decided to put the timeline thing on hold for a bit. I figure it’s better to at least continue reading and answering questions than to just stop completely. Maybe a little later I can get back to the timeline. I really do love this study. I don’t know how you do it, but it seems like you have read my mind almost every day. I can’t thank you enought for this book and study. It has been such an encouragement…especially the words and pictures you post on facebook. Way cool! Thank you!
Great message, Renee!
I needed to hear this message today. I am so behind in this bible study but its ok as I meditate on what i learn. Thank.-you God for changing my heart and giving more more confident every day,
Sorry to hear about your back injury. I had a ruptured disk about 10 years ago. The pain and agony I went through before having surgery are very vivid. I am praying for you as you seek God’s wisdom and comfort during this time.
…Renee praying for your body!
So glad to her about your little girl..doing well.
I am always so ‘excited’…and challenged to look for your weekly email, so I can be all that HE desires for me..His own.
BLESS YOUR HEART…you dear, dear faithful one..you instruct and encourage each one of us..so well.
I am loving this book:) I must admit chapter 4 was tough for me & I still have to go back & do some of the exercises but am excited to see what the Lord wants to show me. I’m surprisingly on track w this study cuz I was a bit behind cuz chapter 4 almost stopped me…
I don’t really post statements but felt like it today:) I enjoy reading others posts & am amazed & excited to read God working His grace & glory around the world thru this great study:)
Be blessed:)
Thank you, I needed this today. Been a hard couple of weeks filled with self doubt. I like the am/fm message. It is easy to remember. Your P31 message was great too! Please keep speaking for those of us who need to hear!
Wow this was like a refresher from the message our interim pastor gave this past Sunday on forgiveness. The one thing we, as Christians, tend to forget is that “we are once for all saved” and we are then seen thru the eye of the cross as God views Christ through the eye of the cross, we are washed in His blood of our sins and are now righteous, clean, holy just like Christ. We also must remember God sent his son for all to be viewed that way as Christ died for all the sins of the world and we in turn need to remember that point and view all people as God does. Really left me feeling guilty as I am so inclined to consider myself judge of all the others in the world, who don’t accept this free gift. My desire now is to be the woman who encourages another so they can feel they are worthy of God’s love and the forgiveness he so freely offers to everyone, whether they be Muslim or any other religious belief or no belief, murderer, robber, beggar, tax collector, unethical, whatever their source of unbelief, they are still God’s children. Perhaps not believers of Christ, but certainly worthy of God’s neverending love and willingness to forgive once they do come do believe and understand and see it thru our actions, love for them and love of each other. And to not be so quick to believe the AM, but the FM. Thank you Renee, for that reminder and the encouraging words in your Encouragement for Today devotional as well as this lesson from your book.
This is all new to me… Discovering God in an active way after years of doubt and, yes, anger. Thank you Renee for helping me to see who God really is and that the Lord is indeed on my side.
Like several who wrote already, I also needed this video today. The title, “God’s Thoughts Towards Us”, is perfect to remind me that God’s thoughts are not the thoughts I have struggled with today. Feeling fear, worry, knowing God’s thoughts toward me helps for me to find peace, strength, courage, in the midst of my difficult day and difficult thoughts. There were a couple comments about the song in the video, “God’s in control” and that also was a helpful reminder. Yes, He is, and it is so reassuring. I love what you said, Renee, that we can position our thoughts to hear and live in God’s promises every day. I am so thankful for this study, your book, all those participating and sharing your hearts and prayers. I feel blessed and so encouraged to be a part. I’m so glad God led me to “A Confident Heart”.
Thank you for sharing God’s Word…it was an encouragement:)
Renee, you have taught me how to redefine myself according to His Word. A big change in my life ! This change has allowed me to accept His Love. And even bigger change in my life !
Thank you for this message. I know that thoughts are so important. What I’m wondering is, what do you do when you are so exhausted for a long period of time, due to life circumstances, that even trying to adjust your thoughts feels overwhelming? How do you get from feeling overwhelmed to embracing that God is for you? When times get really though, that concept can be hard to hold on to.
Mandy I can understand how you feel, seek God’s word, there are so many positive scriptures you could turn to in order to renew your confidence thru his confidece in you. Psalms are particularly good that way. I have several noted down at home, I am not good at memory but I know where to find my notes. I will get back and make note of them for you. Meditate daily on these as they will give you strength to face the next day and the next. Plaster them all over the house, your office, in your purse anywhere you know they are easily accessible so you can repeat them.
Thank you, Kay!