I know you sometimes feel ordinary but you’re not.
You are one of a kind ~ a unique and beautiful blend of all God wants you to be.
You are God’s prized possession, a valued treasure of great worth.
You may feel invisible…like you are just one of millions of others.
But God sees you.
And when God sees you, He sees someone He loves.
In Isaiah 43:4, God says, “You are precious and honored in my sight …. and I love you.”
He sees someone He knows.
David said in Psalm 139:1, “You have searched me, LORD, and you know me.” God knows you, too.
Since God knows you, has a purpose for you and loves you just the way He made you, I have no doubt He wants you to feel the same way.
He’ll do whatever it takes to help you get to a place of accepting and embracing your His heart for you so you can become the woman HE created you to be!
Here is the song I feel like God chose for you this week. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch, listen and let Him tell you just how beautiful you are! {If you are reading this via email, click here to watch it since it’s not viewable thru email.}
You really are…
Beautiful
Loved
Cherished
Chosen
Treasured
Sacred
You are His!
May God’s sweet affirmations replace all those comparisons. As you identify, understand and embrace who HE created you to be, I’m praying that, like the psalmist, you’re learning to say with confidence, “Lord, You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb, I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well” (Ps. 139:13-14)
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To celebrate God’s heart for you — my friends at DaySpring have graciously given me 5 sets of “God’s Heart For You” giveaways to share with 5 of you!! {{so excited!!}}
To enter the “God’s Heart for You” GiveAway share your answer to one or more of the questions at the end of the chapter 8. OR if you haven’t read that far yet, share your thoughts about today’s music video or blog post. Can’t want to hear from your heart :-).
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It’s sooo easy to forget that there is someone who always thinks I’m beautiful and sees all there is that is good in me. And that someone is the most important someone of all – GOD! Thank you for the reminder. I wish I didn’t have to be reminded…but your book and this study are definitely helping!
I don’t have the book but I love this post!
I love the song and am so grateful for this book study, the blog and today’s discussion… I was able to share today’s blog with my mother and the video… I pray that she will be at the point where she will allow God to reveal to her how important she is and that she can break free from the bondage that has attacked her for so long. I am so grateful every day that we can go directly to God and he can work in our lives through his abundant grace if we seek him… He is always there…
I do wish I could see myself as God sees me, I pray that so much. The song is beautiful, I enjoyed listening to it so much. Thank you for all you are doing for us women, you are a special woman of God. I so enjoy reading your blog, and anything that you write….Thanks so much, Lisa
This video is awesome. This study is awesome. Your book is awesome. You are awesome Renee! I have spent my entire life thinking I’m not good enough, 53 years. Lived in physical and verbal abuse most of my life. Conceived out of hate and an entire life of lies. No idea who I am or my “nationality” or who my blood relatives are, and only found this out a few years ago. All lies, my whole life a lie. But God is good! It took this study, this book, and God speaking through you Renee for me to finally get I am LOVED by the King of Kings. I am beautiful, His masterpiece, chosen, known and blessed. Jesus loves ME! How cool is that? I always thought he loved everyone else but not me. I’ve been saved since 2001 and it is now just sinking in. Jesus loves ME! I can’t tell you how freeing that is. Your constant posts to facebook, and the constant emails is what finally made me realize it. That’s what made it sink in. Thank you so very much! I am LOVED and I am FREE! How great is our God?! Blessings to you!
First of all, I want to say how AWESOME this song is!!! Every time I hear it, it is like God is right there singing it to me!!! Really makes me stop the whole negative thinking of who I think I am and really focus on God’s thinking of me.
Second, I just want to say that I love chapter 8! It has really opened my eyes to a lot…For so long and still from time to time I compare myself to others of this world, and I dont measure up. I am 30, have yet to finish my college education (really don’t know what to do) and I just recently lost my job because the owner shut down the business, no warning, just sent an email and said I no longer have a job. I am not married, not even dating….and to me, I look at my life and wonder what God has placed me in this world for….I get depressed because I dont have anything to offer….then I stop….God has me right where He wants me, and I can do great things for Him because it is THROUGH Him that I get my strength…
Still a work in progress!
Take Care, God Bless, and Stay Beautiful!!!
Well I haven’t read as far as chapter 8 yet. Let me say WOW. That music video spoke right to my heart and what a wonderful song. I’m going to see if I can purchase that for my ipod. It’s a great message to share with those we love. Thank you for sharing this with me today! It’s exactly what I needed to hear today. THANK YOU
I just used that song by Mercy Me in a ‘talk’ I presented to a group of Senior High Girls regrading dating relationships and purity within those relationships. If you let God be the one to tell you that you are beautiful and have worth, then you don’t have to look elsewhere…. I wish I had understood that more fully in my younger years, and I thank you Renee for this book that reminds me over and over as I read it that these truths are just as needed for me at this stage in my life as they were years ago. Even though I am now married to a wonderful godly man, we are at a crazy busy time- two children under 3, my husband finishing his Masters degree while in a job with monthly pressure deadlines… He doesn’t always think to tell me that I’m beautiful or appreciated… and it is good to be able to rely on God to meet those needs, which allows me to give my husband grace. I am beautiful, sacred, treasured and loved, by the One who matters most. So thankful!
Hey everyone….I, too, have not had a chance this week to read Chapter 8, but I did take a peek at it. This music video about being so beautiful, treasured by, cherished, loved,etc. by Jesus was what my life needed to hear today. So many times we do go off comparing ourselves to someone or a bunch of someones else….Satan loves to whisper in our ears how we just are not worthy or good enough for….
and sadly, we listen to him rather than running to Jesus to find our worth. The song was a great reminder of what we find and have in the Lord Jesus Christ…so much MORE than what the world is even remotely able to give us…and Jesus has GIFTED us with what we receive from Him. Not just “given” to us, but actually “gifted” us with. And the pictures in their video were so timely with the words and I am going to go listen to it again and be reminded again of whose I am and what I am in HIM!!
I have done the spiritual gifts testing before (sometimes I want to do it just to see if my gift (s) have changed or altered any…usually not! I have found myself throughout my life comparing myself at church to someone else’s gift(s) and asking God “why didn’t I get that gift so that I could do….(whatever that gal is doing),etc. Always seem to want more from Him to satisfy our own desires or wants, don’t we? I need to stop that comparison and start doing the “cooperation with” others–them using their gifts and me using my gifts for His glory. I know that the gift of encouragement is one of my strong gifts and I use it, but I need to be using it even more–so many are so beaten down by the world, I need to reach out and help lift them up.
You know what God has really been imparting on my heart here of late through this book and through another study I am doing? To impart and hold out GRACE to others…that undeserved merit that I have so freely been gifted with by Jesus, I need to be offering that to others…ALL others, not just the ones that I chose to bestow it to either. You know, if God were “fair” to us like we think everyone and life needs to be “fair” to us, we would be down in the dirt right now, still living in sin and darkness…but His fairness is what gives us His forgiveness and sent Jesus to the cross for us. How can I not impart, offer, bestow grace freely on everyone instead of judge and criticize them first? Something along the lines of removing that log out of my own eye rather than seeing the speck in theirs….
Again, I am soooo thankful for the book and writing of our dear leader, Renee….A Confident Heart is a book to be read and reread and shared (as well as put into action in our lives..lived out daily!!).
I say it again, “thank you so much, Father, for Christian authors!!:.
“wondering if you’ll ever be enough” that line fits my heart today. 3 marriages, (2 failures & 1 on the rocks) recovering addict, 4 children, only 2 of which I have a real relationship with, domestic violence, a husband who spent 5 years in jail after cheating, more sin than I care to admit, God still knows me and loves me. I am beautiful. Even after months of chemo and an upcoming surgery to remove a major portion of my digestive system, He loves me and carries me through. Even when I can’t forgive myself, He forgives me, in His eyes I am precious.
I would love to win this package, I need to work through forgiving myself and seeing myself through His eyes, not the eyes of the world. He has a glorious plan for me and my life and I need to get into agreement with His will, not my view that I will never be good enough.
This post. That song.
When will I believe those words from Christ? Those words that tell me I am beautiful, holy, chosen. adopted, redeemed, loved. Today has been a a long one … dealing with grief, guilt, and resentment following the death of my youth pastor from 25 years ago. There was a major hurt and I had plans to go talk to him, ask for forgiveness at the anger I harbored and now it is too late.
I also struggle with depression and hearing the lies that are so loud in my head. So much louder than the truth. Then I read a post like this. Hear a song like ‘Beautiful’ and I wonder if I am. Really truly. As doors are closed and windows slammed shut, I ask God what am I to do? And wonder if he is listening or cares.
How do you learn to believe the truth? How do you really know what the truth is?
I love the words to this song. I could listen to it every morning. Maybe I will make it my theme song to get me pumped up for my day. 🙂
Karen C.
A wonderful video and what an awesome reminder of how special God created each of us to be. Praying for my sisters as we continue our study.
Thank you Renee for your heart felt love to us all.
Blessings….
I haven’t read the chapter yet (I’m off work on Fridays, so that’s when I usually do this study), but, for some reason unknown to me, I had this song stuck in my head when I woke up a few days ago! Amazing how God works. 🙂
That song is such a reminder to me to focus on how God sees me and not on how others see me or how I see myself.
The world is so focused on what they see on the outside that sometimes it feels like the good on the inside of people isn’t given much of a chance.
I received this email from our friend Kay Parrish today:
WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF TORNADO DISASTER . I AM SPENDING MOST OF MY TIME VOLUNTEERING AT OUR CHURCH. PLEASE PRAY FOR SOUTHERN IN IT WAS HIT VERY HARD. WE ARE NEAR HENRYVILLE, IN . I HAVE LITTLE TIME FOR BOOK STUDY BUT I WILL FINISH IT AS SOON AS I CAN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS FOR OUR AREA.
KAY
Lord, we lift up our sweet friend Kay and her whole community. Jesus surround them with resources, help, courage, strength and hope to get through this horrible disaster. Thank you that although we can’t be there physically we can call on You and you will be. I pray she’d feel us lifting her up tonight and in the days to come. Speak to her heart and give her the words You’d want her to share with each person she meets. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
My heart aches for all of those who are walking through the aftermath of the tornadoes. Praying in agreement with you, Renee.
I heard MercyMe’s “Beautiful” on the radio and immediately thought of a friend of mine who was going through hard times. I shared it with her and have been directing others to it, as discouragement is ALL over. I just read a post from a Facebook friend who is wondering what God’s plan is for her life, believing there is none. I think I will share this whole post with her! Thank you!
Sometimes it’s so hard to believe. Sometimes people’s voices are so much louder than His. Sometimes religion frames it so that unless I jump through the hoops just right and look just right, then I’m not really acceptable let alone beautiful. And sometimes it seems like I’m the only one that isn’t good enough. Then I watched the video, and I listened to your words.
Someday I’m going to learn deeply that I am beautiful and that I am good and that I do matter and that I was made for so much more than this. Someday I’m going to know it so well that I can pour it out into others who don’t know it. Someday I’m going to love others like He loves me because I’m going to get it. I’m going to understand that He loves me and how He loves me. Someday….and that someday is going to be soon, because He’s brought me into a sweet spot where there’s nobody to tell me what all I’m not. God is so good. He is so good to me. Thank you for knowing it for you so you could share it with me…and with so many others. God bless you more.
So thankful for this book!!! It reminds me that I am not alone in my struggles. It encourages me to learn more about myself, figure out who God made me to be, and reminds me to stop constantly comparing myself to others (and wonder what is wrong with me?). There is so much I wish I could write, but the words are just not coming out clearly tonight. Blessings!
Love this song! Thanks for sharing! I needed to hear this!