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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. What a sweet message to be reminded of…that I am absolutely loved by my Father, no matter what!
    The apple of His eye!

  2. As always a perfect message; I needed to hear that tonight. I know that I often look for acceptance and validation in the wrong places. Thank you for the reminder to look up and not down when life gets a little rough.

  4. Thank you for your encouragement. The mother’s love example you gave really helps. Knowing that God loves me and delights in me completes me, and completes everything. I pray that we will always remember this truth.

  5. I too like Jennifer found myself today feeling somewhat low. I am struggling with weight loss and no matter how hard I follow the diet plan my weight will not come off. I have come to the point that the weight consumes me and strips me of my confidence and joy. This message reminds me that I have to fill myself with Christ and his love and until I can get past replacing other things for him there will continue to be that struggle. Jesus is the living water and he is also the bread of life. We often replace “the bread” for other entrees accepting “the bread’ as an appetizer when in actuality “the bread’ should be the main course…… Jesus “the bread of Life”.In Bibilical times bread was often the main course unlike our meals today
    (although I could make it my main course) in which bread is an appetizer or a side dish. Jentzen Franklin recently had an excellent sermon on this. Just like our meals today our spiritiual lives have taken the bread of life and turned him into a side dish, an appetizer when he should be the main course of our lives. I pray that we each can reach out and accept him for all he has to offer and allow him to fill us instead of looking to food, others or things to bring fullfillment and having a little of Jesus on the side, May he become our Main Course…the selected entree of our lives!

    Happy Valentine’s Day to all!

  6. My verse for the day is I John 3:16a “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us.” That is so profound and eloquent there is nothing I have to add. Thank you, Jesus, for showing us what love is!!

  7. I fully believe that once we realize, experience, believe and understand how loved we are it begins to change everything in our lives.

    • Amen Amy! Today my 16 year old daughter posted on her facebook….”Spent another great Valentines with my main man…..Jesus” Just like falling in love changes us falling in love with Jesus and realizing he is our main man brings life changing experiences! His love is awesome!

  8. Renee, I cannot tell you how much you have helped me at this time in my life, my heart, my confidence and my sef esteem has been crushed by my peers. God has lead me out of the wilderness and is healing the wounds of my heart.there are times my mind is flooded with the good things that I have done over the years and I feel that God is reminding me that in spite of what others say or think , that IAM a good person because HEis always there with me and I LOVE HIM so very much HE created me in HIS image and that LIGHT of truth is slowly breaking the darkness of rejection and failures healing the wounds of my heart. For the first time in my life Iam being still for God to speak to me and Heis using you and your ministry to do that. Love Ya Renee and Thank YOu so very much for allowing God to use you in such a wonderfully awesome way.

  10. God’s unfailing love is truly unfailing. I testify today with an aching heart, missing someone so much who already in his eternal home, that God is good because He is Love. Dwelling in that truth sustains me this day and everyday.

  11. I just want to thank you Renee for doing this online study. We do not have a woman’s ministry in our Church and I miss the fellowship of Women! I do not have your book but I have gotten a lot from your videos and from the comments that have been left. I can hardly grasp that God chose me (I still struggle with always being picked last for the baseball teams in school!) Loved by God..I am looking forward to the day when I can be as confident as John who referred to himself as “the disciple that Jesus loved” Not because he was more important than the others but because he had such assurance of that love…thanks again for all the reminders of his Love!

  12. I am so thankful for what God is doing in my life right now. This book is really helping me!

  13. Zeph. 3:17 is one of my most favorite verses!! Its been a tough day for me personally, but I loved receiving the encouraging reminder that “we are loved!” It is so true, so wonderful, the love of the Father. Blessings to each of you 🙂

  14. I have to admit that even though I am doing the Confident Heart study and trying to fill myself daily with His promises, today being Valentines Day I woke up with expectations about what my husband might do today and felt myself feeling disappointed when things weren’t exactly as I had seen them in my mind. Why do I (we) do this?
    Thank you for the reminder that our source for happiness, fulfillment and the greatest love of all is found in God and the precious gift of Jesus.

    Blessings to all and Happy Valentine’s Day!

  15. It’s a good reinforcement on a day like today that the world is celebrating as Valentine’s (love) Day. Oh how He loves me so. Thank you Father for loving me the way you do. Nothing or no one can fill your shoes.

  16. As the old song goes, we often are ‘looking for love in all the wrong places’. Earlier today, before I viewed this video, I was wrestling with this exact thing. God does indeed work in mysterious ways and I do so love it!

  17. Thank you Rene – Valentine’s day is never my favorite day of the year, but you’re reminded me of so much with those promises from God. Just what I needed today.

  18. I read my verses from this study this morning, what a wonderful reminder of how much God love me. I wish I always felt I was worthy of His love. I have already decided it will be necessary to reread this encouraging book over and over.