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
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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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Thank you for this wonderful reminder! I have been unhappy with my job for about 4 years & have failed in the search for another job. Sometimes I really feel like giving up. Thanks for helping me remember that through the Lord’s strength I can get back up & persevere.
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I shared today’s devotion via Twitter.
There were two things in today’s devotion that spoke directly to my heart. The first was the picture that you painted when you wrote, “Perhaps you have also allowed failure to…, tie you up with the ropes of regret…” That one made me pause because I really saw myself in that. I have allowed regret – could have, should have, would have – to consume my thoughts. It has tied up my thoughts to the point that it was incapacitating me to do much else. Thank you! I was somewhat aware before but now I clearly see. I’m very visual and I was able to see how much it was affecting me. I say was because now that I am fully aware I am going to be vigilant about it.
The second thing was the scripture with the blanks to insert my name. That was powerful! It’s not just the steps of “a good man” are established by the Lord; it’s the steps of Felicia are established by the Lord!! That hit home.
I am participating in the Bible Study starting April 23rd and I cant wait!
I am already receiving your emails every day. Love them!!
I shared it on my facebook page 🙂
I am trying not to let my failures define me, thanks for the encouragement
Renee,
Thank you so much for your heartfelt and inspirational messages. They really speak to me. I am encouraged when you share about your everyday stuggles within your family and how you let God carry you through them. I, too, can be very hard on myself when I feel like I have failed to be all God created me to be. I love when you said, “I think God wants us to remember that following Him is not about avoiding failures and being perfect. It’s about accepting our weaknesses and becoming more dependent on His perfect love and power at work in us.” Thank you again for your encouragement. I would really love it if I could win a copy of your book. God bless you and this ministry.
As I read this today I realize that at times I fail to pray for things (such as releasing my doubts and fears to God) because I, of course, am yet again afraid I will not actually allow myself to release these things and put my trust in God…which will again make me feel like a failure. WOW! What a vicious circle that is. But today is the first time I have actually realized and/or admitted that am afraid to let go of things and afraid to pray about it it. I will start praying for these things TODAY and will start putting my trust in God and will take one day at a time. Thank you for sharing this today!!! Just what I needed!!
So far in Chapter 10, one of my favorite things I’ve read is: “Because of God’s mercy and forgiveness, my guilt-induced doubt is replaced by grace-induced confidence.” I’m one who let’s guilt get the best of me so often, I hope to call upon this quote to remind me to ask for God’s mercy and forgiveness when I mess up.
What a marvelous message — our God is always there to pick us up. The part about Him using our weaknesses and failings to cause us to draw closer to Him is so freeing! Thank you so much for sharing these words of comfort and encouragement.
Your book goes right along with what my counselor is telling me I need to do. She says I need to “pat myself” on the back more for the things I am doing right and not feel bad about myself. Your book is helping me with good things to think about myself. Thank you!
Thank you Renee for this devotion today. As I read all the comments above and pray for each person there, I feel the Lord moving though me and I know I am not perfect and I have done and will continue to do things that will disappoint the Lord, but as you say, I can and always will “get back up”. I agree with Nancy above and it is so true, the chorus of Toby Mac’s song,
“We lose our way, we get back up again.
One day your gonna “shine” again.
It’s never too late to get back up again.
You may be knocked down but not out forever.”
Thank you Renee for all you do to bring us all closer to our Savior! ~Hugs~
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Great reminder that we CAN get up again! We will rise again! Also that we can truly know God for who He is and what his names mean to us! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for this devotional today. I beat myself up on a daily basis thinking I’ve said something I should not have said, worrying what someone else might say and on and on. The scripture comes to mind if God is for us, then who can be against us. It is so easy to say the words and not to doubt. Thank you Lord for giving this special women Your insights and touching other women in need. The Lord has blessed us all.
I shared last night one of the things I highlighted. Just wanted to share this morning that the ending prayer thoughts from the video are indeed my prayer. Thank you Renee for letting God use you with this book and study!
“Lord, I want to know you,” in a personal way too! I want to listen to you Lord and to trust You with Your direction for my life. I have walked through that open door this week from being focused on myself and afraid I would fail/fall or someone might think to focused and trusting God. When God opens your eyes, it is amazing how bound up satan really has us. Renee, God is using you to touch lives and open hearts, thank you for allowing Him to use you in such a powerful way. I don’t want the book to end so I guess you must write another, maybe how God can use those Confident Hearts. Whether or not you do, I do know that God will be holding my hand and picking me up, and that I need those difficult times to grow in Him so He can mold me into that person I need to be.
I am looking forward to reading your book and doing the study of it with you. I just came across your site today while I was doing devotions on Crosswalk.com. I so needed this message from you because I need to have surgery done to remove my gallbladder and I am very scared. I feel very unworthy of God to answer any prayers of mine. I am trying to drown myself in His word. I have been saved since I was 13 (I’m now 42) but I have been in and out of church for awhile. I have treated God more lke my servant over the years then as my Lord. Thank you sooo much for your devotion today, I truly needed it!!!
I have been intrigued by the names of God for many years and have several books relating to that. Somehow, just knowing what each one of them implies about God lifts my spirit and as I pray using them I know He hears. I believe it pleases Him when His children know about who He is and what He wants to be personally for each of us. I continue to try to learn more and teach others that God is not only pre-existing, eternal but also desiring fellowship with me. What a wonderful thought!!! We all will fall, of course, but the future with my heavenly Father in charge of my life will continue to be promising.