Daily Reading
December 2, 2022
Most of us are probably still laboring under the impression that freedom comes first in our circumstances, and then we can experience love, joy, peace, patience, and all the other wonderful fruits of the Spirit. Not so. God usually begins first with ...
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November 19, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Freedom is good; freedom is what you are made for. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be b...
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November 13, 2022
Most Americans (80 percent) say they don’t have any dreams, and we can imagine why. Life can suck the dreaming right out of you. The living God wants to pour those dreams back in. Sixteen percent of Americans say they do have dreams, but they don’t w...
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October 29, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be.I was driving last summer with some gals, all of whom are really pretty and slender and smart and have a lot of friends. (So, yeah, intimidating gals...
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October 9, 2022
One of the best ways to help us remember who our God is and who we are to him is to worship him. In worship, when we turn the gaze of our hearts away from ourselves and our needs and onto Jesus, a divine shift happens that brings a great good to our ...
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September 19, 2022
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." (2 Cor. 3:18)I know, I know — most days it sure doesn’t feel like ever-i...
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September 1, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Your mother is your primary role model. How she feels, what she thinks, and what she believes has a direct effect on you. What our mom feels about ...
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August 29, 2022
Part of our healing comes with forgiveness (of ourselves and others), and part of it comes with repentance. But first, we have to begin with how God sees us. How he sees you. Do you know? You are deeply and completely loved (Rom. 8:38–39) You are tot...
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August 23, 2022
We have fears below the surface that we don’t consciously know we have. God wants us to be free of them. How can we be? Well, he has made a way for us. It is the way of his love. His perfect love for us casts out all fear."And so we know and rely on ...
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August 20, 2022
There is a reason you have the desires you do. Some desires you share with many others. Many people want the same core, good things: a community, a relationship, a deeper walk with God. But many of your dreams and desires are yours alone. They have b...
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August 8, 2022
As a result of the wounds we receive growing up, we come to believe that some part of us, maybe every part of us, is marred. Shame enters in and makes its crippling home deep within our hearts. Shame is what makes us look away, so we avoid eye contac...
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July 24, 2022
In order for us to live in freedom and become the women we are to become, we need to receive God’s love even in our lowest places. Spiritual warfare is designed to separate you from the love of God. Its goal is to keep you from living in the freedom ...
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July 13, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book, "Free to Be Me", helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. In order to have a life worth living, you need to be you. Not the parental, or friend, or boy-dictated version. Not the Internet-updated version....
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June 29, 2022
When Jesus came onto the scene he turned misogyny (hatred of women) on its head. A rabbi at that time wouldn’t speak to a woman in public, not even his own wife (this is still true for orthodox rabbis). Even today, an orthodox Jewish man is forbidden...
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May 21, 2022
I know I am not alone in this nagging sense of failing to measure up, a feeling of not being good enough as a woman. Every woman I've ever met feels it — something deeper than just the sense of failing at what she does. An underlying, gut feeling of ...
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May 19, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. My experiences with the opposite sex in middle school and high school weren’t so great. When I was fifteen, I was thrilled when a young man noticed...
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May 12, 2022
God has given each of us an inheritance in Christ. Jesus came that we might have life and life to the full. When we get into relationships with people or institutions or into patterns of behavior or addictions that are not God’s highest for us, they ...
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May 8, 2022
Now for one of the most beautiful mysteries of the feminine heart: women minister something to the heart of God that men do not. Look at the record. There was an event that took place in the life of Jesus that he said should be told whenever the gosp...
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April 21, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. To be a girl is a glorious thing. Yes, we bear a suffering that guys do not know. This is not a reason to envy them or to curse ourselves. (By the ...
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April 5, 2022
Friendship is risky, costly. Friendship is meant to provide a refuge from loneliness, and a respite from self-criticism and the critique of a never-satisfied world. Friendship is a relationship of mutual enjoyment. It is a place where our hearts don’...
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March 24, 2022
Things are not what they were meant to be. East of Eden, we have kept moving east and come all the way ’round, finding the garden utterly lost and cruelly unrecognizable. We were all born into this world. We came in gasping for air, and we are gaspin...
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March 14, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. I encourage you to risk dreaming and writing your dreams down. Once you get started, you’ll find there are things you want. And if you can’t get st...
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March 12, 2022
God is rewriting my story. My story is his story, really, and one day he will tell it in all of its hidden splendor. I will get to hear his take on my days, his perception on what was going on underneath and behind the scenes. He will share with me t...
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March 10, 2022
The man possessed by many demons asked Jesus, “Why are You interfering with me?” You know the answer. It’s the same one He has for you. Because He loved him. And He loves you. If we are to find healing and true joy, we need to lean into His interfere...
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February 27, 2022
We live in a larger story. This is not the land of the white picket fences with a chicken in every pot. We don’t live in Oz or the Kansas of its wizard. There is an incredibly good ending to our story, but it often isn’t on this side of eternity. Joy...
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February 22, 2022
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes t...
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February 17, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Most little girls at some point dream of living in a fairy tale. The big surprise when we grow up is not that the fairy tale was a myth but that it...
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February 16, 2022
In order to recognize a lie, we need to know the truth. Experts in counterfeit money don’t spend their time studying counterfeits. They study the real currency. In the same way, to engage in the spiritual battle raging around us, we don’t shift our f...
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January 20, 2022
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. It can be hard to be happy with how God made you at any particular time but especially in the teen years. We feel we are too flat or too curvy, too...
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January 5, 2022
We are more keenly aware of our own shortcomings than anyone else. Remembering the glory that was once ours awakens my heart to an ache that has long gone unfulfilled. It’s almost too much to hope for, too much to have lost. You see, every little gir...