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Renee Swope

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

Lord, I Want to Know You {and a GiveAway!}

I’ve got so many fun things to share with you today!!  First, I have a special video message – just for you – from Chapter 10 of A Confident Heart.  In it I share about the power of knowing God by His Names and learning to living in the security of who HE is! Praying it will really encourage and inspire you today!

And, we just found out about an amazing deal on my book, (more details after the video) and we’ve got a Contagious Confidence GiveAway you don’t want to miss! {But first, click the arrow for today’s  message.}

Message Notes
Download video “Message Notes” in a notes in a PDF or in a Word doc here.

BIG NEWS
A Confident Heart Ebook for Kindle is on sale for $2.99 through March 25th! And it’s now #1 in Theology and #1 in Women’s studies on Amazon Ebooks! We’re blown away by how God is carrying this message into so many more hearts and lives. We’d love for you to share the news – and guess what? Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a FREE Kindle App on your computer, cell phone and other electronic devices here!

Online Study
I would love for you to join my Confident Heart online Bible/Book study that starts again April 23rd. It’s been incredible to read through the book with thousands of women around the world so I’m going to do it again this  Spring. You can find all the info you need in my right sidebar–>

Knowing God By Name – printable
 Download and print an list of  the Names of God – the ones I shared in the video and more from Chapter 10 in A Confident Heart.

Contagious Confidence Giveaway

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Let the fun begin! I’ll be reading your thoughts and praying for you all day!

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Comments

  1. I really am encouraged by the video today. I need to trust God in a big way. Things are completely out of my hands and there is nothing I can do apart from God and that is what I am really realizing and woke up praying for today.
    Your book has been such an inspiration to my life. I will continue to do the study bc it has so helped me.
    Thank you, Renee:)

  4. I loved it all, but I have been seeking to know God better, specifically in those terms “know God”. Also, yesterday and today, I have been filled with doubt, so those words were very encouraging. Thank you!

    • I have learned so much during this study. I learned almost as much about myself as I learned about the mercies of my LORD. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think I will sign up again for April.

      • I told my Bible study group about this upcoming study in April. We may all study together!!!
        Since I don’t FB or Twitter I had to resort to regular email….

  6. Reading the names of the Lord took me back to She Speaks’ prayer room last year.

  7. I am so thankful you shared about the names of God! I have been very much trying to pray God’s word and share the powerfulness of that with others. I have tried to work on gettings the names of God before but have not stuck with it. This is a great motivator for me to come in and start focusing more on the names and roles the Lord is in my life! Thanks so much!!!!!

  9. I wanted to share something with you all. Last night as I was praying, God spoke to me in a huge way! YEAH! I invisioned myself running around in circles and God is standing there watching me. He’s waiting for me to slow down and stop to see Him there…waiting. Waiting for me. When I finally stop and look at Him, He opens His arms and smiles and holds out His arms and tells me to “TRUST” Him. To put everything else that I am running around in circles about behind me and to put Him first and “TRUST” Him. I think we all go through this. We all get wrapped up in our worries and soon we look like a crazy person running around. God is here for us all! Waiting for us. Wanting us to “TRUST” Him.

    Thank you Renee for the word of the week and this video. I pray for all of us that we will put our “TRUST” in Him and not let our worries take over.

  10. Oh…forgot to leave an “extra” comment about posting to f.b….reposted again today… 🙂

  11. I am loving this journey and learning and growing so much! I have often felt like our Father’s problem child, having to come back again and again for forgiveness, especially about my attitudes. If I were Him, I’d be saying, “Not YOU again!” Along these lines I have listened to Sanctus Real’s song “Forgiven” several times in the last week — so profound! I am loving the feeling of digging my tap root down and getting it connected to God’s word and promises. Thank you for sharing your heart and being real. God has been challenging me to do the same. I have failed in ways that most folks who know me would never imagine and I truly want God to show His power off through my weakness! By the way, I did share this post to facebook. I am meeting with a group of 7 ladies in my house going through this book and would love to get a lot more to join in your next session. I have been praying protection and blessing on you as you minister our Father’s heart to His girls!

  12. “If we want to be free from fear so that we can walk by faith, we HAVE to hold on to what God is teaching us, replacing our ways with His. We will only overcome our fears by walking through them, holding God’s hand and trusting God’s heart to lead, protect and preserve us.” Page 197…This is my truth today, this is what i have to do and I have to remember to do it!! I have fallen short so many times and your video Renee was so convincing of His truth that when we fall we can get back up and God will help us and forgive us….These are hard things for me, trust is hard for me and for so many others women as I read through the different women writing their hearts….I keep getting back up again and I have to trust, I have to believe that God is not mad at me, He will never leave me nor forsake me, that He understands and I can trust that. He already knows the outcome before i even open my eyes in the morning…I am grateful for that…My past few days have been very hard and circumstances have caused so much fear and my lack of faith and trust in Him shows right through that fear….I thank each of you for sharing your hearts and letting this sinner saved by God’s grace and mercy see on paper that i am not alone…Of course we all know that but seeing through all of your hearts has helped me…Thank you and God Bless

  13. I love those fill in the blanks makes scripture so interactive in daily life! You are very encouraging!!

  14. Thank you for sharing God’s promises and reminding us that God is patient. Thank you also for sharing the names of God and encouraging us to pray God’s Names Names and promises. What a difference this makes.

  15. What an encouraging thought that I can get up again, though I falter and fall time after time. To know that God is with me and that He sees all of my struggles, offering to provide the strength that I need for victory as He journeys with me in life… At times, that is the only reason I can continue to press on. Thank you for the reminders of God’s faithful, outstretched hand.

  16. I am 41 year old recently divorced ter 22 years. God is using your book and ministry to change my life dramatically. I hope to meet you one day to give you a hug of appreciation. I share your videos and quotes from book and your status updates all the time. Thank you.

  17. Hi Renee,
    I have just recently discovered your blog, and have so enjoyed it. “A Confident Heart” is definitely something that I have NEVER had. It is not a happy place to always doubt youself. I know that everyone can always be better than they are, but to feel that one is never good enough, able enough, strong enough is discouraging and and has definitely kept me from finding my perfect place of ministry. Thank you for your encouragement! I can’t wait until your next session in April so that I can be with through the entire broadcasts. I am already registered. May God bless you as you follow him.

  18. GOD woke me at 1 am to pray this morning..in the silence of the morning…so many prayers going up to 24/7 JESUS , GOD’s RIGHT HAND MAN….who never sleeps & always is listening, praying about people, situations, family, loved ones..yet I feel refreshed right now as I send you this message at about 5 am. I thank GOD at my remembrance of you & the things the LORD has put in your heart to share with so many through this study. Be encouraged! I am the one who the scriptures says although you fall 7 times…but what about 8 times???? YES…..Yet GOD holds me by HIS HAND and loves a worm such as I!!! GRACE….MERCY AND PEACE from GOD OUR FATHER THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST!! That is the song I hear this morning…..Thanks for your video today!!!! Hope you have a great day….also praying for your beautiful family!

  19. Hi Renee,

    Your encouragement through videos, book reviews, and devotionals have really blessed me. Yesterday’s devotional “Getting Up Again” is a confirmation to a prophetic message from God. I am so glad that I don’t have to stay “down” when I am down. God’s grace covers us when we fall or fail. One of my favorite scriptures to know when this happens is Romans 8:1-There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. I am really inspired by the formula doubt-confidence-victory. I am experiencing victory from a long set back. Didn’t think I could come out, but with God’s help I made it. May God continue to richly bless you. Keep encouraging others. Your ministry is truly God anointed.

    Blessings,
    Doris