It’s late Wednesday night and you’re on my heart. I’m wondering how you’re doing, and if maybe you are feeling weighed down by self-doubt. God nudged me to pull away from what I was doing (working on preparation for a retreat this weekend) to write a note from my heart. It was totally unplanned, but I wanted to ask if the heaviness of discouragement or a lack of confidence is burdening you ?
If so, I want to invite you to join me on The 7-day Doubt Diet – as we work together to lose the weight of self-doubt – maybe for the first time or maybe a second time for some of you. This is spontaneous too, but I’m really excited about it.
Starting next week, I’ve decided to offer the 7-day Doubt Diet devotions on my website and weave in short stories from my current life circumstances to let you see that I’m on a journey, too. Replacing our lack of self-confidence with lasting God-fidence is a process for each of us, a daily turning towards truth in each and every circumstance that cause us to doubt ourselves or God’s promises in the midst of the unexpected.
And this time, I want us to do the 7-day Doubt Diet – TOGETHER!!
To join me and other women God calls to walk with us, all you need to do is sign up for “Email Updates” so you can receive them each day in your inbox for convenience. There is a small little brown box at the top of my website with a white x in the top right corner. Please sign up there for “email updates” before Sunday – so you will receive the first day’s assignment with everyone else on Sunday. (If you are already signed up, you’ll automatically receive these next week.)
I’m looking forward to really connecting our hearts and praying for each other through this time. If you’re going to join me and sign up, I’d love for you to leave a comment by clicking on “share your thoughts” just below this post. (optional) But, I’d love to know your in, read your name and see your face if you have profile with a headshot (no big deal if you don’t), but this way we can start praying for each other.
Blessings, prayers and big ‘ole hugs,
Renee
Joining you on the journey, Sweet Renee.
Thank you. I’ve been struggling with the heartless words of my non-believing ex-husband again. Usually, it doesn’t bring self doubt, but he’s working on my happiness again as I try to keep moving upward and forward with my life. I know reading your invite was God’s hug.
Thank you for your faithfulness, your timing is perfect!!! God Bless.
I´m in!
Thank you for the invitation. I am so excited to join you and this network of women on this path! May we be reminded and assured that we are the beloved of the God of the universe. We are worthy and lavishly loved and have been chosen for such a time as this.
God’s timing is perfect. Got your email when I was at my lowest. I know God loves me but I am struggling right now to lift up my voice in praise and prayer
Keep lifting up praise even though you don’t feel it! Keep praying! I know it’s hard, but it does matter! I’ll be praying for you!
Lift up your voice Sheila……it is when we pray and praise, in spite of, that God moves miraculously!! I’ve been there….
Thank you so much for walking it out the beauty of the Lord is undeniable with what you share , thank you for being obidient to the Holy Spirit and sent out the email to everyone it met me in just that a battle with myself doubting that i can make a difference cause of the hurt that is being done because of others selfishness or just cause they can hurt you cause they mistake your kindness for weakness, knowing that the Lord will provide lets me keep going ,but on the fleshly side that wants to rise cause of hurt and being taken advantage of being judged and doubted lied on or to …. it is as i am split being like Thomas a twin that is pulled in 2 directions knowing that there is only one way and really believing in that (only) way and the Saviour, i know this sounds oximoron it feels that way from time to time ….thats when i read your mail knowing this is God letting me know that i am not alone and that i am not wrong lost or loosing it that he is seeing and caring about every tear that is shared in His presence ….. I am going to be what God destined me to be with His help HIs Guidance His Love
God sends us exactly what when and how we need it .how we can receive it or what state or stage we are from level to level we get more more in tune woth him ….thank you Lord for being the one and only way there is to live learn and love … God is Love
Thank you Renee i am truly looking forward to go Rock steady :0)
Thank you so much for another 7DD. The first one plus your Confident Heart book really spoke to me!! I’m really looking forward to this next 7 days!! 🙂 God Bless!!
I have to be honest, this is my 2nd go at this. And right now I feel that satan is just winning in our house and I am losing hope that I can turn my heart and truly believe God is out there batteling for us. Thank you for saying a do-over is ok.
Thank you for all this & praise God for letting you be such an amazing vessel & helping us all!!
I need this desperately. I’ve been struggling not only with self doubt but with trusting that God’s plan for me is as beautiful as he says and that I will experience it. Please pray for me. I never want to live my life without Jesus again, but I’m struggling to hold on.
I lost my husband of 16 years 5months ago to a two year fight with cancer. I am now trying to find myself and get my 5 year old son and I reaquainted with our family confidence. I was just about in tears when I read this email because I am so in need of the confidence that only Christ can give. Thank you for sharing this with us again. God bless!!
Thank you Renee for this opportunity yet again. I’m in. Blessings and peace.
I want to be courageous for God!
Thanks Renee i will be joining you on this 7DD. I’ve been praying for you dear sister with all you;ve been going through. Do you ever have times when you wonder if you’re really saved? I know i am saved but, then i start to wonder am i really? I’ve been struggling a lot lately so this will be good for me. You are always a blessing to my heart and an encouragement. Do i have to have a book? If i have to have a book i can’t do it.
Hello Renee,
I have felt self doubt since 9th grade! I think God sent you and this email just for me because I have struggled so much lately with my past. Thank you for asking me to be apart of this!
Thanks so much for the invitation…looking forward with great expectation for what the Lord has in store. Blessings,
Hi Renee. Thank you so much, i just love God’s timing, and I believe God wants me to get rid of doubts and heaviness once and for all in my life, so I’m looking forward to joining you again on the 7DD. God bless.
Hi Renee – joining you again, as I have been attacked BIG TIME by doubt and insecurity. Thank you for your heart for us women. 🙂
Thank you for your ministry…I look at my job as a school nurse as a ministry too but tonight i just feel sick and tired myself…physically, emotionally, spiritually…so your message was like a little miracle…I have been praying for my dad’s soul for 50 years, my husband’s for 35 years, and for my mom’s since I realized that just because she was going to church every sunday, it didn’t mean that she had put her trust in Christ…but no prayers of salvation from any of them…can’t help but feel like I’m doing something wrong…looking forward to your messages…
Thank you for another invitation to join your 7DD. I bombed out of it the first time you ran it, but in the last month have been plugging through each chapter of ACH. Love it! I will join you again for another 7DD…thanks for thinking of me. 🙂
I signed up for the emails. I am currently in a Made to Crave bible study and I think this will compliment that study. God is grooming me and it is good.
Your email update came just in time; not sure why I keep doubting. I am looking forward joining you again for the 7DD.
Hi Renee, I will be joining you on the ‘7 day doubt diet’.
Renee, Wow I almost thought I was reading a personal letter from you. God sure has a way of using some people. I was just let go from my job last week and I’ve been struggling to not let my mind go down dark alleys. I saw a sign a few months back that I copied in to my phone. “Failure is an event, not a person.” I’ve repeating that to myself, and recently been getting back in to God’s word. Psalm 50 in the Message hit home over the weekend.
Renee,
The brokenness and pain of an unwanted divorce has just poured more self doubt than ever before into my heart. Forced to move into another house, start working again, and daily provide the love & security that my two young children so desperately need, has taken a toll on this girl. And so I cling to my Father, and with a heart desperate for hope, believe that He will bless you through this . And in this I know that you will bless each of us, just waiting…
What a joy to open my inbox and find your email. I love God’s perfect timing. I cannot wait to get started!
Thanks for inviting me I need this so bad, gotta love Gods timing!!
Renee, obviously I’m not the first that needed your message tonight. Thank you so much for your love and willingness to listen even when you are busy. I am so desperately needing this confidence again. I can’t wait to go through the 7DD with you.
very excited about walking this out!
Thank you for this invitation. I am usually upbeat and happy, but lately I have been so discouraged. My husband and I are working on a new ministry and we both feel that this is what God wants us to do. It has just taken a long time to get it started. I pray that God will give us both the confidence that we need. I am looking forward to participating in your 7DD again.
Thanks!
Wow. I’ve read just a few comments of people who said your note was written just for them, but I’m curious how that can be when I’m certain it was written directly to me. 🙂 Just tonight, some heath troubles I really haven’t had to deal with in a year crept up again, and I am feeling like I don’t have the strength to face a flair-up. I’ll definitely be joining you in trashing doubts and trusting God together.
Thank you so much for your email. I will be glad to join the seven day doubt diet again.
This came at a great time. Thank you so much.
Thank you for the invitation I am looking forward to it. The sevil never sleeps and we need ti be one step of him every step and wirh the 7DD I feel I will have the armor that I need to defeat him in my life.
Struggles of this life bring us down day to day, and through the
Grace of god and his promises, we survive!
We will shake the doubt by joining together with ya Renee
You do have a gift from god and I thank you for him putting you in my life
Have a blessed night! 🙂
So excited to join in on this journey.
Hi Renee,
I’m so glad that you are doing this a second time. I signed up for it the first time, but didn’t actually end up doing it. I thought that I didn’t really need to go through it. I thought that didn’t need to deal with that stuff anymore – that it was all in the past. I sure was wrong. I can’t believe how much I need to deal with my teenage insecurities now again at the age of 40. This is all been coming to the front again at my newer work place. I’ve also had a few very emotional dreams where I am a teen again, and felt all those emotions again like it was happening today. I’m wondering if God is telling me that there is more for me to deal with than I originally thought!
Bless you for being obedient to God. I’m looking forward to hearing more personal stories from you!
Hello Renee,
When I opened your email tonight I felt a rush of peace come over me. It has been such a struggle lately.
I really needed these words of encouragement. Thank you! Satan has been attacking from every direction it seems. I definitely want to replace my lack of self-confidence with lasting God-fidence.
Yes, I do wanna go on the 7 day doubt diet! God is so good and I want to stand confidently in His promises!!!
Blessings, prayers and big ‘ole hugs to you too!
Shelia
I missed this the last time too. I’m so glad you are doing it again. I really need to work on this. I have your book and have been trying to get to read it.
I thought you sent that invitation to receive the 7DD e-mails just to me! It was like you read my mind!! God knows just when we need the encouragement, doesn’ t He? Thank you!
The Lords timing is awesome!! I am experiencing some major discouragement with some family members. I reached out and was hoping for change – I have already forgiven the past but they keep doing the same old things – so it’s discouraging when I’m wanting to be closer to my mom who was never around and my half siblings but it always seems like I’m making the effort all the time – it would be nice if it was a 2 way road instead of one!! Thanks – I’m looking forward to Sunday!!
When I got your e-mail telling me about this opportunity I fell apart in tears and I don’t tend to cry at the drop of a hat. When I felt this invitation was so personal and just for me I read at the comments before me that I’m not the only one this invitation was perfect timing for. YOU CAN COUNT ME IN!!! God’s timing is perfect as this is more than needed in the midst of what is going on in my life right now. I CAN’T WAIT! Next week seems so far away from where I’m sitting right now. The support of walking through a season in life with my sisters in Christ couldn’t come at a more perfect time.
This is just what I need right now! Thanks so much! Looking forward to it!
Doubt….I have a 15th year old son and my husband, his father left us after 27 years of marriage. My boy is hurting so much and he’s so angry at the world…I have doubt about all that I am, a mother, a wife, a woman. I have prayed so much I have run out of words. I am grateful to God for listening and caring for me constantly. I am so tired though, so confused and so unsure and insecure. Help!
DeAnn,
As I read your post I felt led to reply. I know what it is like to feel unsure, insecure and to be so tired that confusion is the order of the day. But, what I also know is that when I call on the name of the Lord…. out of desperation and not necessisarily because it’s my first instinct, He hears me and gives me peace. Give God the problem, leave it there, thank Him for the victory and claim the peace. I wil keep you in prayer.
Needing this again. . . Thank you!
I am going through what I call a Job-season in my life right now. I know that God is taking care of me and my family in the large picture, but I am really struggling with the day to day trusting God to provide the ability to pay bills and even to put food on the table. I want to be able to trust God more than I ever have and I know that this is definitely the time in my life for me to be learning that lesson. He led me to you and your ministry. He will continue to lead me through whatever you have to teach me.
I was reminded of your book on the Proverbs 31 devotion this morning. The timing was perfect. It was my first day of work and I was full of doubt and discouragement. I regretted not doing the 7 Day Doubt Diet before. So glad God prompted you to offer it again.
I believe that God knows what we need at each stage in our life. Your emails came at the right time when I needed a word from God. Thank you for heeding his call.
It has been a day. My faith is not shaken but I must admit I do feel a bit queazy. Thank you for the timing of the e-mail
I am joining you again! I also shared with my friends in hopes that if anyone who needs this will join in too! Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂