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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Lysa, God has gifted you and I thank Him for having you share and write these words of encouragement. I love lists, checklists, Am I for God!!! Thank you and many blessings!!
Praying for relief and healing from your back pain – I have been there and know how crippling it can be to have constant pain and not get relief. God is for you and your healing!
Thanks for the am/fm thoughts video – what a great way to apply God’s word to our everyday situations.
Blessings to you and your family!
Hello! This was such an excellent talk! What a clever play on AM/FM. i will definitely use these to keep my mind stayed on Him. i love to take some verses or passages in the Bible and re-write them with loved ones names in them and give them as gifts. it’s beautiful to read the Bible with ‘your name in it’ and see God’s loving care for you. i will do it for myself as well so that God can be my friend who comes beside me and encourages and lifts me up with His word. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Hello Renee,
I will be praying for heaing for your back. I sufer from back problems too so I can totally relate to what you’re going through. I just want to thank you and God for this study. I have and am getting so much more out of it than I ever thought possible. I didn’t really feel like I had a problem with confidence, but as it turns out God is revealing things to me in a new way. And I am so grateful! I feel stretched and so loved by God. So much so that as I was watching one of your videos I heard God say this would be a good bible study for the ladies at church. So I immediately agreed, but now I fear He wants me to lead it…
So please pray tha if this is what I am suppose to do He will give me the confidence to do it!
Thank you Renee!
I LOVE these acronyms. What another easy way for us to remember how to control our thoughts. I especially appreciate the handout to start us out on bible verses for the FM. Now it is time for me to work on concurring those AM thoughts.
I am really loving reading this book but I especially love these video segments. Thank you for taking the time to give these messages Renee. They are powerful and I am encouraged by them. I have not had the opportunity to connect with a women’s Bible study in a long time and I feel like I have that here.
Praying for your back to fully heal, Renee!!
I love this Renee. My heart is singing the old song, Turn Your Radio On!
Replacing that fuzzy static from the enemy and fine tuning my heart to hear His Truth.
Your word pictures and visual lessons really help me.
LOVE the AM and PM illustration.
Praying for strength and healing in your back. So glad your little girl’s oral surgery went well.
Thank you for being obedient to write this book. I have given away 4 copies. Hope to get a group
together for a Bible study and fellowship group with this tool.
God bless.
Dearest Renee,
I’ve never blogged before but was lead to this study through your P31 Devotions that a friend shared with me some time ago. God is using you to speak the right words into my life at the right time, not just in todays video message but with each and every weeks message and chapter of your book!!! I am so thankful for you and how God brought you to a place where He could use you and your story to change my life as well! Thank you for living proof that God can not only change our lives but how He has a purpose and use for us in transforming others lives as well. Without a doubt, He is slowly transforming my life one week at a time through this study. I love you and thank you for your servants heart!
God is in control!
I do really appreciate AM/FM thoughts. What a great encouragement
I have been saving each study so I can start it on Spring Break. I sort of lost the month of January and February do/the my Dad’s illness and death. I was able to read a few of the devotions during that time and they were a great help. Thank you. I am looking forward to doing the whole study though.
I hope you feel better. Massage therapy is always a good start. Always helps my back.. God bless.
Thank you for the encouraging words today. Three years ago this Sat. I lost my husband and now I am raising two small children by myself. There are days that I wounder if I am doing the right things for my children. I am trying to remember who God says I am. Your words are helping me to do that. Thank you so much. God Bless
I struggle with ‘not good enough’ thoughts, bouncing between ‘second best’ and ‘complete failure’. These are so natural to me I don’t even know when I am thinking them! The healing words this morning have alerted me to this and focused me on what to do about it. Glad I checked in! 🙂
Thanks for your encouragement. I really needed that reminder today! Thanks, Renee, your book and you leading has been good! Thanks!!!
Thank you Renee! Your God inspired words are building me back up again and focusing my thoughts and beliefs about myself where they need be and remain, our Lords promises!!! I was beat down and exhausted from loss of dreams, friends, constant change and new situations. I have literally been watching my life sparkle disappear and not finding the energy of joy to do the things i used to love to do. I guess that would be truly clinically depressed. Life was not supposed to be this hard, so I must be doing something wrong. I was supposed to be better than this and so was life. I was craby to my husband all the time because i was in the pit of dark total dispair. Away from family, moving every 1-2 years and finally far enough away that I had to close my business that brought me together with many incredible women who became my friends, for my husbands’career that has required constant change for us. I am grateful he has a job but feel so empty. The moving boxes and financial stress seem to never go away. I am now mistreated at my new job etc… I am sure you have heard enough. I love building women up and suddenly found myself needing it more than anyone else and feeling frightened and shakey. This dark wilderness has seemed to last forever, but i have found new hope and faith again through your website and words of light and truth. I am regaining my strength, confindence and determination. His words, His heart and His promises that you are reminding me of are pulling me out of satan’s total attack of dispair. The fallen angle has no power of disception over us who believe in Christ! Thank you for your bravery and for reaching out.Thank you for your help and for being you! Thank you, thank you, thank you! God bless and have a wonderful day!
Dearest KL, you could be my twin! As I read your words I was awed by how I could have wrote them and I wanted you to know I am praying for you this morning. Encouragers are not supposed to be depressed, right?? Wrong! I believe instead that it is God redeeming where we have gone out of balance by saying ‘sit with Me’, ‘I want to focus attention on you’, ‘I will pour into you just as I have when you poured out into others’! You, my sweet sister, have the eye of The Encourager….just as I do, and He is waiting for us to realize we are sitting still so He can fill us for…..us!!!! Here are hugs just for you ((((((()))))))!
What an awesome bible study! Thanks Renee, for your continuing encouragement and time you have put into this bible study. I just love the AM/FM thoughts and plan to post these throughout my home and car. For the last year and a half, I have been so discouraged and bombarded with those AM thoughts, but now I am DETERMINED to tune into the FM thoughts and start trusting in Him.
Thanks again for all you do. Blessings,
I can’t tell you how much this message meant to me tonight. I have had some rough days lately and have believed the lies of Satan. Insecurity and communication issues have taken a toll and I’ve become over emotional and filled with worry. Thank you for this message, your blog, and amazing book.
Renee and blessed sister of Confidence in the One True God,
Long days, but nothing compared to Renee’s day. I have a High School career fair to work at tomorrow morning at 7:30, which means I should have turned off my lights by now. Teenagers just got in from working at Wednesday night ministries and son ,just handed me the computer after working on homework all evening. I am thankful I have a roof over my head and all my family is in reasonable health. We had hail/rain and 45-60mph winds last night. We live in a older mobile home and this place sounded like a train last night. I rocked and rolled until 4 this morning. We are so blessed. Please pray for a family in the area that lost their man, he was a firefighter who was helping with an accident when another vehicle hit him early this morning. We had 13 accidents in a 20 mile stretch of road. Most not too bad, but this place had many people taken out with helicopters.
Thank you for praying for our little community.
I continue to feel insecure when it comes to my relationship with my dear friend .When I am with her I enjoy her company but the devil puts ideas in my head and heart that she does not care for me like she does for the other friends. Lately I just feel like I am slipping backwards even in my attempts to lose weight. I was doing so well and now I am in a slump. Then it becomes a circle of hateing myself and feeling unloved.
Please pray that I will concentrate on the love of Christ in my life and focus on what He wants me to do .
Chapters 6 and 7 have really tested me. Doubt and fear of failure are things that I struggle with often. The perspective that these are used by the enemy and the knowledge that God wouldn’t condemn me and He will never stop loving me has really hit home. This study has come at a good time, and I’ve really needed the truths that I am learning applied to my life!
Bad day. Feel like I failed. But I really haven’t. Why when you have really done nothing, but maybe get a little too emotional and upset over some things that honestly hurt you but my expectations were not met from the other person — do I feel like I am just the worst person in the world that God ever created. I opened my heart to a counselor for 3 years and he practically blew me off…see ya later…good luck to ya…just because I said “this isn’t working”. Because I said this hurt me, and this hurt me and this hurt me….I get…sorry it didn’t work out….good luck to you. Bad day. Bad week.