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Renee Swope

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

Your Heart Is Spoken For

Chosen…I love that word. I don’t know a heart that doesn’t long to be chosen?

Yet the disappointments of life and the deep pain of broken relationships can cause us to forget that we are – chosen, loved, and sought after.

“You are a chosen [woman], a royal priesthood, a holy [daughter], a [woman] belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of HIM who has called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.” 1 Peter 2:9, NIV

Yet, broken hearts and broken circumstances can make us doubt we are valuable, that our future relationships can be healthy, or that anyone would ever want us. Without even realizing it, we begin to see ourselves as disposable. Easily replaced. Not good enough.

As I shared in Chapter 6, this happened to me after my fiance broke our engagement  – twice.

I had always believed I wasn’t good enough and now I had proof.

But God…used it to show me a deep place in my soul that would only be complete when I realized that in His eyes, I was just right. Forever loves and chosen.

“It wasn’t until He was all I had that I realized He was all I needed (really needed). Recovering from the heartbreak of being unwanted and rejected, I started to discover my identity and permanent value in who I was in Christ for the first time. The promise of God’s nearness and the fact that He chose me as His own was the only assurance I could hold on to.” (Chapter 6)

{I have a song that I know without a doubt God picked for me to share with you…and then He led me to this version of the music video. How do I know? Because there are photos in it that I’ve used in different ways over the years, but I didn’t know they were in this video until I watched it. Please take time to listen and let your heart respond to these truths – let this words remind your heart that you are secure, significant and accepted. You are CHOSEN and your heart is spoken for.

Oh sweet friends, I pray you would let these words soak deep into your heart. Watch it again and again until your soul knows it’s true!!

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Today’s Giveaway: Click here for my Chapter 6 – AM/FM Thoughts Download to print and post, and also share with a friend!

And the winners are:

  1. Kimmie – who will receive a year’s subscription to the P31 Woman magazine
  2. Stephanie – who will receive an exclusive P31 radio CD with 40 0f our favorite shows
  3. Kathy – who will receive a $10 gift card to Target or Starbucks {you choose!}

PS> I know it’s disappointing to not win, and I think it might be as disappointing for me to not to be able to choose every single one of you!! That is why I take forever choosing a winner.  But I also know you’ll be thrilled for each other ’cause that’s just the kind of women you are.  I love that about you {and I”m telling you – Iam seriously enjoying reading our roll call!! It’s so amazing to see where we are all from. In fact, I’m compiling a list to share with you all next week :-).

Time to Connect: Ok, let’s all share our answer to #7 in the questions at end of Chapter 6. And any others you feel comfortable sharing, too. {I now know you all know how to leave a comment 🙂 – after 885+ of you participated in our “roll call” here! What a blast I’m having reading all of them!!}

Click  “share your thoughts”  right below this post and do just that. I’ll be here reading and praying and commenting too.  LOVE you guys!!!

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  1. My AM it is so very hard to find patience.
    My FM I am confident God will complete the good work He started in me. Philippians 1:6

    The song is so reassuring!!!!!!!

  2. I’m so thankful for the power of this book and study. They are speaking to all the issues I’ve struggled with for so many years. I know God is using these words to reinforce the truth that He alone is my judge. Other people’s opinions, no matter how close they may be to me, are not what’s most important; God’s is. He is my “audience of one” and he loves me regardless of how many times I stumble. I am His beloved daughter and I am so grateful.

  3. What a great video! Not only the words but the pictures as well. Really need to work on the AM & FM thoughts. However this is one I definitely need: When doubt comes against me, saying I shouldn’t get my hopes up because I’ll only be disappointed, I’ll remember God is for me! He has plans for my life that are filled with purpose and hope (Jer. 29:11).

    • Holly I feel the same way!! I go day by day wanting to believe that when things are going well and I feel I have finally reached a place where there is no going back, I know now who I am in Christ, doubt comes and life happens and I feel alone and the evil one whispers it will never change, it will never be that you feel that love all the time. I claimed Jeremiah 29:11 as a life verse over 20 years ago as a new Christian…I keep saying it and I have to believe it! Then that doubt comes…Lord help us to know that we can believe your promises, that we can trust your love for us never changes like our emotions do…God Bless you my sweet sister…

  4. The song is perfect for this chapter. The pictures are beautiful and go perfectly with the song. It was so peaceful to listen to and watch good way to end a day at work. Thanks for sharing it.

  5. I love the song! Thanks for choosing it!!
    #7 AM – I will never measure up. FM – John 1:12 I am God’s child!
    AM – I cannot please my husband.
    FM – Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

    Now to truly claim these and live them.

  6. What amazes me is that HE knew my end from my beginning and all the mistakes and twists and turns and lies I would beleive and yet HE STILL CHOSE to walk and wait with me and to PURSUE me with all His heart and love. Praise the Infinte Eternal Loving God!!! I am His daughter!

  7. Loved the video! I loved the words and esp. the cloud heart in the sky.
    My answer to question 7 was When doubt comes against me, saying that I’m not good enough for a certain role or position, I will remember that God is for me! He says I am His masterpiece, created to be new in Christ so that I could do good things He planned long ago. and the other one is When doubt comes against me, saying I can’t do something because it’s too hard, I will cling to the truth that God is for me! He says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

  9. Love Love Love that song! And today it made me cry because I know what he has done for me…I feel his love surround me like loving arms He always know what I need He is so Amazing!

  10. Beautiful reminder that we ARE chosen. Spoken for. Loved. Beyond anything we can imagine. As a mother, I think we learn to some extent what unconditional love means, but we sometimes loose it and don’t deal with things in love. To be loved – absolutely no matter what – is such an amazing thing!

  12. I’m new to the blog and to the website, just purchased your book, and I LOVE IT. I would like to ask that you add me to your prayers, I have just recently lost my son and I have a huge void in my heart, I struggle daily with grief, some days are worse than others, I miss him greatly. I have found great comfort in the Lord and I pray to him daily to help me through this difficult time.

    • Praying esp. for you Lisa, I pray God would wrap you in His loving arms. Know that He still loves you! You are still His child. Read the book of Lamentations in the Bible. it might help you process your grief.
      Blessings,
      Michele S.

  13. Thank you for this song. I need to watch the video, and watch it and watch it! This idea has been in my head for most of my life, but I am having a really hard time getting it into my heart and soul, and I NEED to get it!

  14. Feelings of rejection and feelings of change is a struggle, but I am working on it more each time.
    Remembering 2 Cor. 3:18 transformed into his image with ever-lasting glory
    This is what is in my heart :
    Change me, Lord
    Change me to be more loving and kind
    Change my heart to be a servant’s heart
    Change my attitude to full of worship and praise
    Change my thoughts and help to trust in You
    Take all of me, Lord
    and Help me to change to be more like You. ~joyce

  15. This song…is timed for today….

    “I am my Beloved’s…

    He reaches out to me in His LOVE
    I cringe…and hold my breath, fearing the pain will increase
    But His love is warm and tender
    Not like the love of others

    His is pure and holy
    wanting nothing in return
    Giving
    Caring

    His love washes me
    The grime of the world is rinsed away
    I am clean again
    Cleansed by the Love of God

    My Lord
    My Savior
    My Redeemer
    The One Who Loves me Best

    Jesus Christ.”

    cjs -2*24*12

  16. Thanks Renee! This self doubt plagues all of us everyday…….sometimes making me soooo weary! I find strength in you, Proverbs 31 devotions and the comments left by other women sharing. We are not alone in this daily battle. I had the opportunity to share with a 17 year old girl yesterday that the mind is a powerful thing and satan will use it against us if we don’t focus on God’s truth about us! I soooo want her to see the truth, grasp it, use it, and let it sustain her into womanhood. It is so much harder to do when you are in your 40 somethings! 🙂 Thanks again Renee and thank you God for loving me inspite of myself!

  17. Hallelujah!!! Child of the Risen Lord….tears of joy are flowing here. thank you Renee for sharing this song. I have always loved this song but it seems it means so much more now. Praise God!

  18. “To hear you say, This ones Mine” makes me feel so loved and accepted by my Heavenly Father. I am chosen by Him and by Him I am saved, forgiven, loved and healed. Thank you my Heavenly Father for loving me and for this book and study group. Thank you for your most perfect and wonderful gift. Thank you for chosing me and say that I am yours!!

  19. There are just so many touching comments today that spoke to my heart. Sometimes my head knowledge is out of sync with my heart knowledge but when their together beautiful music is made. Everyone have a great weekend.

  20. Please continue to be in prayer for us. For husband a better paying job and to get bills covered. Thanks so much for praying.

    • Jeanie, I pray just as you have requested and more. Our Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills. (In my area that would translate, “My Daddy is a big cattle rancher”.) I have been where you are for a long time and it is amazing the different ways God has worked this through. Sometimes He has worked through me trying to take the ‘bull by the horns’, and that is the hardest of all.
      I pray for your peace as God works with your husband to supply for his family as God has commanded him to do. A picture of a bird in a nest, in a storm. That is our peace. God has his hand on us and will give us peace as He works through our storms.( I looked on line and this was the only bird in a storm I could find. http://www.biblecartoons.co.uk/free/2302500401.jpg ) Maybe you could find a different one, but know HE cares for you.