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Renee Swope

Encouraging and equipping moms to parent with God's grace and confidence.

Living Loved (and a give-away!)

 Happy Valentines Day! I hope you know just how much…

You are LOVED

Welcome online study sisters and new friends hopping over from my Encouragement for Today devotion. I’m so glad you are here! In my devotion, Because You are His, I talk about the love of a mom watching over her children – and how God says He watches over us just like that. Not only does He watch over us – HE DELIGHTS IN US!!{ Zeph. 3:17}

And with His love, He calms our concerns, quiets our fears  and speak promises of assurance to our hearts! Scripture says He sings over us, too. I have a feeling the song He sings over you today is written just for YOU, describing the beautiful woman He’s created you to be, while gently leading your heart to know and rely on His love more and more each day.

Oh how I want to know and rely on His love…His unconditional, unfailing, patient and kind Love. How about you? In this short video m message today, I  share one of the most important truths I’ve ever learned about God’s love. I’d love to share it with you. Maybe we can connect over lunch or coffee right here at my kitchen table. 🙂

“Message Notes” are 1to download in a PDF format here or in a MSWord doc here.

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Let these truths sink into your heart today…

You are CHOSEN. You are LOVED. You are ACCEPTED.

(Download His Promises and print them for keeps!?)

Although God may not send His love covered in chocolate or delivered in satin covered boxes, let’s remember today how He left Himself as a Love letter nailed to the cross of Calvary, declaring the depth of HIS unfailing love for us – forever! I pray that you will live in HIS love today today…bringing the empty well of your heart to Jesus –  so He can fill it!

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Comments

  1. Thank you lord for my beautiful heart. My heart that died thousands of years ago nailed to a cross so that I may be forgiven by Gods Grace and your love to know.

    A heart that was tortchured and torn. A heart filled with pain. Thank you lord for my heart nailed to the cross so many thousands of years ago so your love I may know.

    Thank you Lord for my heart nailed to that cross so many thousand years ago. Today Lord I hold my heart so close and near because it is so dear.

    I love my heart that was nailed to that cross so many thousands of years ago. My heart was your heart Lord tortchurd , torn and filled with pain. All this you did for me all those Thousand of years ago.

    Thank you lord for being my heart so many thousands of years ago. Thank you for the grace and forgiveness that came with you my heart so many thousands of years ago.

    I love you now and forever. I am grateful that your heart lives on Now instead of so many thousands of years ago.

  2. All day long the scripture that kept coming to me was ” beloved, let us love one another for love comes from God”. We have to be agents of God’s love so others can experience the light and fill the empty spaces of their hearts.

  5. Happy Valentine’s Day Sisters! Feel the warmth of His embrace as we face our day, night, and each moment. His tender touch reaching the inner most caverns of our soul. We are loved, we are blessed, and we are created in love, to love! Valentine’s Day should be every day in our hearts.

    Blessings

  7. Thankyou Renee for your inspiration for us, yhoung & old who are broken, or in any other state. I am so digging into the truths in this book. Thankyou.

  8. The video was timed perfectly for where I am today. Thanks for the illustration with the water. Thinking of His perfect filling this way helps me to chase away the lies that I’m not good enough today. Praying for all my sisters that you may know the power in God’s amazing love today and every day through the truths shared today.

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you.

  9. Thank you for that wonderful visual…I know this lesson will stick with me for a long time and give me something to aim for, with God’s help!

  10. HE IS LOVE ! …. and His Love is there unconditionally. I had a hard time accepting His Love but He kept pursuing me and with the help of wonderful people writing as Renee has, I have learned in my mind and have and do feel in my heart His Love. And all I can say is Thank you God for bringing this wonderful people in our loves where we can grow deeper and deeper in Your Love ….. and most of all God thank You for loving me.

  14. In August of 2011, my husband of almost 20 years decided he wanted a divorce. We have always had problems…and there are several “issues” that have plagued our relationship (which I prayed for through out our time together). In spite of the “junk” in our marriage…my husband would always do something on Valentine’s Day…but I knew that this year would be different. I knew I would spend this day alone. Which I was really o.k. with. However, God often sends little angels to show me His love for me! I got a knock on my door and I looked out the peep hole wondering who was at my door. (Honestly, I was kind of scared that it was the police showing up with divorce papers). I didn’t see anybody and opened the door. I saw my best friend’s nephew running to her car at the end of the drive way. She had delivered a chocolate heart and a cookie that said “I love you”.

    For the last 20 years I had this idea…this misconception of what I thought was confidence and security. That all came crashing down in the past few months and my world felt like it was falling apart. However, just as I thought that I couldn’t make it…that I couldn’t go on….that my world was completely undone, God began to speak to my heart the word CONFIDENCE! Shortly after I found Renee’s book “A Confident Heart” I am currently on week three (the hardest one so far). I truly believe that God is going to rebuild those places in me that have laid in ruins all these years (even though I didn’t think they were). He is building me back up, laying the foundation of His love for me one day at a time.

    Renee, thank you for writing this book! I can’t say that IT has changed my life….but God is using your book and your story to change my heart! Thank you for being an obedient vessel!!

  15. I struggle every day to be enough, do enough, work out enough, attend to enough, pray enough, be thankful enough, and so on. I find comfort and solace in God’s unfailing love… when I remember to seek it, reach for it, accept it, believe it and share it. I so appreciate your words and encouragement. I am 44 and still most days, feel like a shy, scared little girl that is awkward in her own skin. I get up every morning, breathe in and out, put one foot and then another on the floor and ask God to cover me up in His love and fill my heart with His strength and help me to make the day good. Thank you Renee. I look forward to reading your book.

    • Thanks Renee. I loved the message and the way the living water of Christ filled up the jar. The other’s barely fit in the jar and still left so many gaps. Great imagery.

  16. I have spent my whole life searching for someone to love me. Then I found out the whole time I was searching Jesus was waiting for me.

  17. I am so wanting to grow closer to the Lord,and strengthen my sisterhood with others. This would be such a blessing to me right now. As my boyfriend and i are going to start going to church together this Sunday. Praise God.

  18. We are truly blessed to be a part of this womans drive and desire to show other women that we are God given, blessed and are able to grow in so many ways…I love a great prayer warrior, and I feel that we are all connected to one! 🙂

    I had to smile today, reading your email, I too sneak into my kids’ room to just be totally amazed by the wonders that God has entrusted to me…they are such blessings in our lives…

    May God keep you on track, growing daily. Thanks for your encouragement, prayers. 🙂

    Lisa

  19. I am grateful to be a part of this study…I am learning and realizing new things about myself and the lies I have bought into. On this Valentine’s Day I want to remember to accept that God is the ONE who loves me ost and that I shouold not look to any other to fill me as ONLY He can!

  20. Renee, I do not know how to do those other things however, just what i read today in the “His Promise” sheet was a blessing for me. I pray you have a great turn out of those that know how to do those postings
    Blessings, Tera