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
Renee,
I opened your email this morning and started crying, boy did I need this from you. Thank you so much and I will be joining you in this journey. Thank you for having this opportunity for all of us to have.
Hey Renee!
Thanks for the invite. I did the doubt diet the 1st time around while doing the Hidden Joy Bible study. I definitely can use it again! Praying for you and thankful for you and the Proverbs 31 Ministry. Yall have been just what I needed when I decided to make a commitment to seek God daily and get encouragement from other christian women. Looking forward to diet again 🙂
Renee, Thanks for this invitation. It was so personal and felt like it was meant just for me. I am struggling with depression and discerning God’s plan for my life. I have your book and have read bits and pieces, but I don’t have clarity in my mind right now and am having a hard time processing this beyond a surface level. I am thankful for this second opportunity to do the 7DD and pray God will renew my mind and give me clear purpose, focus, and his direct intentions for serving Him.
God’s Blessings,
Gina
How did you know? I really know the answer to that question. I’m always amazed at HIS orchestration of my life using just the right person at just the right time. I’m looking forward to walking this journey with you and continuing to learn how to kick self-doubt out when it persistently tries to creep in. Thank you for being willing to be transparent in sharing your own personal struggles. A beautiful picture of HIS strength being made perfect in our weakness!
Sweet Blessings,
Pam
Hi Renae – I’m ready to leave doubting behind. Thank you for sharing timeless treasures with us.
I will be joining you. I have two teenage sons who at one time were really on fire for God and wanted to be in the ministry and now they are both running from their call and from God. There has also been a delay in the promise of God concerning my ministry. Although I know delay is not denial, there are seasons where doubt creeps in and tries to convince me otherwise. As everyone else has already said the timing of this is perfect for me!! Thank you!
Renee,
I know that your email was sent for me. I have been having doubts on the job hunt. People telling me they will let me know either way, telling me they will return my calls and emails. Nothing is happening. I got so frustrated last night, that I decided to give up my job hunt, I had someone tell me that I wasn’t good enough to be in my field even though I have been teaching for ten years. I started to believe it. Then about 4:30, I decided that I wouldn’t give up even though right now I have applied for everything I can. Then to wake up and see your email…what a relieve, I now know that help is on the way. Thank you very much. I look forward to this.
When I read my Proverbs devotion on Monday, it talked about doing something outside of the box, later that day, I got a call about an interview doing something I haven’t done in a long time. I have that interview tomorrow. It is you and this ministry that keeps me believing that God is doing great things in my life even if I am still having a hard time listening.
this is the 3rd time I’ve tried to post. My dear sweet husband of 41 yrs has been dx with pancreatic cancer. We are trusting God and believing He will heal. Right now we are riding high on His grace and peace, but we know there will be times of doubt and questions(there already have been). I need this study. Praise God for His constant goodness in caring for our always needs.
Renee, thank you for the lovely invitation to join you for the up close and personal 7DD. I am anxious to get started. I have struggled with this for 40+ years. God is leading me into the ministry field of writing and speaking and I know this is an area of weakness. God Bless you and p31. I look forward to the study. Melanie McKinley
Karen says:
I opened up the e-mail to Renee’s website so it must be the Holy Spirit nudging me to do this journey of a confident heart. I am going back to school to get my masters in education with a reading endorsement and life is different than it was 26 years ago. So many responsibilities and circumstances than in my earlier years. With God I am able to accomplish all things in his strength, but seeds of doubt creep in and the overwhelming sense of ” I can’t ” starts to take over. I know God is up to something great in my life and victory in Jesus will be sweet. I want that confident heart so badly! I ordered and will read your book.
Doubt is something that I struggle with daily. Self doubt is my worst enemy sometimes. Thank you for allowing the Lord to use you in such a powerful way!
Thanks for the invitation and for sharing your life. I’m experiencing doubt in just about every area of my life lately. I really want to know what God has for me to learn in each situation. I’ll be listening for Him in your 7DD each day.
how did u know Renee u were spot on i was or am on the verge of giving up so when i saw your email it was like you were here and saw what is going on thank you for your word
I am so excited to join you once again for the 7 -Day Doubt Diet. I am enjoying the online study of your book A Confident Heart.
I am looking forward to the 7DD. Rekindling my love for Jesus and God , thank you!
Very timely email and devotion. I will joining the Confident Heart Study. Looking forward to it.
Joining you again… thank you for the invitation. Can’t wait to get started.
Thanks for the invite. Yesterday I took a big step of surrender and trust in my ‘walk’. Your stories help me (& I am sure many other women) realize that we are not a ‘lone ship’ in the night. We easily relate to your stories and are right there with you in them. I love women ministering to women. Thank you.
I’m am so looking forward to this.
As many of the others this is great timing! I’m doing the Confident Heart study and as with any good study God takes the time to get to the root of our issues down deep in our heart and as one of my previous bible study leaders said It’s like heart surgery when He wants to go deep in our heart. And Satan definately does not want us to heal so he brings it on strong while we are in the weakened state!
Renee, I took your doubt diet the first time around. I would love to do it again in an “up close and personal way” with you. I have been taken back in time to a very painful area in my life while reading only the second chapter of your book. I know that God wants to bring me past this point so I can continue to walk with a confident heart based on who God says I am.
yes, I need this again..I was just thinking this morning about how I needed to read the Confident Heart again., I am feeling very overwhelmed with a lot of responsibilities, from being a mother of 4, to serving
with MOPS, to the dance program I am offering to the children in my community…it is all good, but it
seems like too much and I feel like I’m not doing any of it well, like I’m spinning my wheels…
I wlll look forward to the week!
And to the above post, whenever I need encouragement
I listen to “Strong Enough”, I love that he sings the scripture ” I can do all things through Christ who gives me Strength”.
Hello Renee,
Thank you for this invitation, I’m looking forward to some encouragement. I am severely visually impaired and I struggle with a debilitating terror of potential crisis with my ongoing eye health issues. It will be good to work through this with you. I’m not too sure how it works, it will be anew experience and I’m looking forward to it.
Ruth.
I’m in! I’m so low I have no where else to look but up; maybe that’s the point?? Anyone heard Matthew West’s song ‘Strong Enough’?
Need a job – I foolishly resigned from mine before having another one. I misjudged how hard it would be to find another one. However, I was so stressed out in the other one, I thought I would explode! Please pray for me to see God’s hand in this; even in my mistakes, despite my misjudgements, having mercy on my selfishness. Lord forgive me!!
Renee,hi! I would love to join you again. I really enjoyed it the last time.
Hi, I have been waiting on God to fulfill a promise He made to me over 29 years ago. He keeps reminding me that He keeps His promises, and I know that, from His Word, He does as He kept promises to countless others; however, it just seems to have taken so long and after all I’ve been through, it just doesn’t look like I heard right. I don’t think it’s so much Him as it is me who has made a mistake, so, I was on he verge of giving up on my dream that I asked from Him this morning. I read my email this morning, and there you are telling me that God gave you a nudge to give encouragement about the burden of discouragement and doubt. I also caught a little segment of a Christian broadcast on tv, and she read a quote that mentioned that God does indeed keep His promises and that we must have faith in Him and not give up. I keep getting this encouragement just as I’m ready to give up. I feel like such a weakling as far as faith goes. It’s hard to have faith in a dream that is so close to your heart, especially when you have never seen your dreams come true. It’s taken so long….. Anyway, thank you for the encouragement. I don’t know where this is going to end up, but I wish it would come to pass soon… i have waited so long and it’s getting harder to believe it will ever happen. Thanks again…..
Thank you for a second chance!
This email hit the inbox just at the right time. I need this 7DD right now! Thank you so much, God has really been using you and your words alot in my life since our first 7DD!
perfect timing! Read this following yet another bout of anxieity-induced insomnia at 4am…. Spurred by my lack of confidence in completing a project. I prayed, yet again, for direction about this project and among several other electronic messages of encouragement was your email invitation to join you on this journey. I hear you, God … I’m in!
Hi Renee, Thanks for the invite. God sure does know when to send someone to touch us in our lives. I’ll post more later as it is time for me to go to work. I am so looking forward to this journey together. God bless!
Thank the sweet precious Lord for His amazing timing. Thank you for being such an obedient and faithful servant. So looking forward to this journey with you once again. Blessings to you.
Hi Renee thanks for the invite to continue on God’s journey with you and others, I am taking my beautiful daughter with us, This is the time for Godly confident women to rie up. Can’t wait to get started. God blessing on all who come along…
I have been praying for a career change…and have received a call for an interview…I’m praying that this is a door that God opened, and for the confidence to “step-out” in faith. I have worked for the same company for 20 yrs and have just been feeling restless and dissatisfied…this topic comes at a very appropriate time for me…I’m never endingly surprised by God’s interest in our daily lives…so often I open a daily devotional and feel it was written to me alone! Blessings to one and all…betzy
Hi Renee thanks for the invite to continue on God’s journey with you n the other women your last diet was extremely instrumental in helping with my battle of self doubt n I am looking forward to gaining increase strength on my continued journey much blessings to everyone
Renee,
I feel that God is calling me to a new ministry. I am on an emotional rollercoaster. At times, I’m so excited and things seem to be going so well. At other times, I can’t hear myself think because of the ugly voices in my head. I look forward to finding ways to stifle those voices and replace them with the positive Power of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for being there.
Ready for this and to see and hear God work miracles in everyones lives and not just change temporarily but forever!!! Thankyou Renee, for your book and how you’ve touched so many lives. God bless you and your ministry. Love you sister and can’t wait 🙂
Joining you on this journey, Renee. Really feel the need for it and looking with anticipation to what the Lord has in store for each of us.
I’m in as well! God’s timing is perfect. Thank you for your ministry.
Count me in!
Thanks for the invite, God has things timed so perfectly. I am praying for him to help me to be committed to this as I am bad at time management!!
thanks again
I’m in!
I’ve been having a week full of self-doubt in my job, my school, and in overall life. Thanks for the invitation. I’m sure it’s coming directly from the Lord!
Renee,
I did the first 7DD and it was great, this is coming at the right time for me. I have been struggling over the last few weeks with parenting and doubting that I am a good mom and not really enjoying being a parent right now. I know God has me in this season of life for a reason but just not sure why right now. Thanks for doing this again.
Until He Comes,
Jen
Looking forward to it!
Thank you for this opportunity…I need to get back to a closer relationship with Christ and this is His way of reaching me! Thank you! 🙂
Thanks Renee for the invitation. Look forward to doing it with you. Love your book, parts of it really speaks to me. Sometimes we think we are the only ones that feel that way about things like self doubts and confidence. It is so helpful to know that others also feel like I do. God Bless
Don’t you LOVE how perfect HIS timing is? I know I do; I also know that your message/invitation couldn’t have arrived at a more perfect time. God bless you for being used by Him.
Can anyone help me? How do I add my picture to my posts?
Just trying to add my picture 🙂
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