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February 17 - July 8, 2023
These are soothing statements that calm and heal, beautiful realities for us to receive from God personally and believe.
Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people’s reactions.
Then make a list of good things you know to be true about that person like I did in chapter 6.
MRI studies show that the same areas of the brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain. This is why rejection hurts so much (neurologically speaking).
even when it seems otherwise, we must remember that sometimes when we feel rejected and passed over for someone else, when God seems busy elsewhere or even purposefully unmoving, the truth is He is at work, maybe doing something entirely beyond what we were thinking.
The Bible reminds us that on the other side of humility we find wisdom (Proverbs 11:2).
We will be lifted up by God Himself in due time (1 Peter 5:6).
“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble”...
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The gift of being made less. When we decrease, God has room to make big things happen. We are reminded of this in John 3:28–31, as John the Baptist is insisting to his followers that he is “not the Anointed One; I am the one who comes before Him….
The gift of being lonely. This will develop in you a deeper sense of compassion for your fellow travelers.
Ecclesiastes tells us, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens … a time to be silent and a time to speak” (3:1, 7).
It was truly a profound secret from God’s heart to mine when, in the silence, He whispered to my soul, You are not set aside, you are set apart.
Have you ever cried over something so much that you run out of tears? Your swollen eyes just give out and dry up while a current of unrest still gushes through your soul. And you look up toward heaven in utter frustration.
We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He’s withholding from us.
Then the seemingly unjust silence from God ushers us from a disturbed heart to weeping with bitterness of soul.
My heart struggles to make peace between God’s ability to change hard things and His apparent decision not to change them for me.
God made us For Giving. God made you For Giving. God made me For Giving.
If we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us—our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.
Stinking thoughts are not only unpleasant, they hint of death and not life.
The apostle Paul wrote about this in 2 Corinthians 2:14: “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place” (NASB).
From our hearts to our thoughts to our words to our actions, we have no business rolling in stink.
It’s easy to scroll and surf through postings—where people upload the beautiful, successful, shiny sides of life—and quickly get a jilted notion that maybe we’re not quite keeping up.
One day I realized I had to stop looking at things spotlighting others’ successes until I had a better way of processing them. Until I could look at others and genuinely celebrate their lives without feeling anything but joy for them. I had to starve my scarcity thinking.
Choose to live loved while you’re in the middle of the journey, and know that what He has in mind for you is so much more than you imagine.
I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. (Lamentations 3:24–26)
What is one good thing I’ve learned from this? What was a downside to this situation that I can be thankful is no longer my burden to carry? What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time? What do I need to do to boost my courage to pursue future opportunities? What is one positive change I could make in my attitude about the future? What are some lingering negative feelings about this situation that I need to pray through and shake off to be better prepared to move forward? What is one thing God has been asking me to do today to make tomorrow easier?
Come my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD. (PSALM 34:11)
Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. (PSALM 34:12–13)
The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. (PSALM 37:23–24)
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” (Luke 6:27–28 NASB)
The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. (PSALM 34:17)
“Lord, give them enough hurts to keep them human and enough failures to keep their hands clenched tightly in Yours.”
not let the heartbreak you have experienced be wasted. God is still with you. His promises still stand.
Married or not, don’t let what breaks your heart destroy your life.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (PSALM 34:18)
God isn’t afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn’t pull back. He pulls you close.
The righteous person may have many troubles, but the LORD delivers him from them all; he protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken.
he can get me so focused on the shallow opinions of others I get completely distracted from deepening my relationship with Christ. And in the process is my masked boasting pulling others into the crazy comparison traps that lures them away from Christ as well?
Nearly half of women report feeling lonely at least occasionally after spending time on social media.
six out of ten women say they feel like they want to change something about their lives at least occasionally after looking at social media. More than 78 percent of Millennials feel that way at least occasionally, with 21 percent saying they usually do.
Lies flee in the presence of truth.
My soul was hand designed to be richly satisfied in deep places by the Word of God. When I go without the nourishment of truth, I will crave filling my spiritual hunger with temporary physical pleasures, thinking they will somehow treat the loneliness inside.
He is always near. His Word is full and fully able to reach those deep places inside us desperate for truth.
“Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name”
What is holding my attention the most is what I’m truly worshipping.
Secret worship is all about something in this world that seems so attractive on the outside but will devour you on the inside.
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (PSALM 73:25–26)
Do not put the LORD your God to the test. (Deuteronomy 6:16)
