WOW!!! How time flies! I feel as if I was just toasting to the New Years, blinked, and then it was April. The past two months have been crazy, stressful, and yet rejuvenating in a way that is hard to describe. Over the past three months I have been going through A Confident Heart by Renee Swope with my Biblestudy group. What an incredible book filled with hope to overcome our past mistakes and let God use those mistakes for His glory. I would recommend the book to every woman out there who has ever felt despaired, forgotten, and/or wondered if God really does care.
This book has helped me gain a confidence about myself and a reassurance that God is out there with a plan specifically for my life. I may not know His plan just yet, but I am confident that placing my burdens at His feet will help me eventually become in the loop, so to speak. I am not saying I am a completely confident woman because I read this book, but I can guarantee that I am a growing confident woman in Christ because of this book. One of my favorite parts of this book is Renee challenged us to plan a DATE (Determine A Time Everyday) with God. What I loved about the idea is that I could do something different everyday to spend time with God. I did not have to get up every morning at a specific time and attempt to not fall asleep over my coffee while trying to listen for God to speak to me. Yeah, I have been told that before, but the way she explained her ideas made me feel more confident that I could do the same as well.
So I started reading passages and searching for verses that I felt spoke to my life and circumstances specifically. I stumbled across Psalm 32, a passage suggested by an old professor and mentor of mine when I was going through a tough time a few months back. I had put the passage aside and told myself I would read it later. Well later came, and I was finally ready to hear the words that God had been trying to communicate to me my whole life. I was forgiven! God was my shelter, my strength, and my deliverer from evil. I need not fear with God by my side. And now I have committed my quiet times to reading this passage, searching out how I can specifically use this chapter to help others, and memorizing all eleven verses. I work well with guidelines and tasks that I feel I can accomplish. I believe that this is a good start to a great journey of a wonderful life that God has planned just for me.
No the journey will not be easy. Satan will fight, and is fighting, for me to return to him, but this time I have a weapon that can move the mountains, and I am not afraid. I am more than a conqueror. And with Christ by my side I am certain that no matter the troubles that are waiting ahead I will become the godly, confident woman He destined from the beginning of time I would become.
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