Daily Reading
August 13, 2021
“Me, a princess?” “You are the legal heir.” “I never lead anyone.” “We will help you to be a princess, to rule. If you refuse to accept the throne then the kingdom will cease to exist as we know it. ” —The Princess Diaries In God’s name, we must fi...
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August 4, 2021
There is something forged in all of us that can only be forged through fire. Perhaps intense periods of struggle, pain, betrayal, persecution, and rejection are the times when the baptism by fire that Jesus talks about occurs. When we cling to Jesus ...
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August 3, 2021
We will never be happy as long as we are trying to live apart from ourselves or in disregard of ourselves, our hearts, our desires, our ache. Though happiness is never the highest goal, it comes to us naturally when the other aspects of our lives are...
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July 30, 2021
You cannot take your Question to Adam. You cannot look to him for the validation of your soul. But so many women do. If I have a man, then I’m okay. Then I’m loved. It happens around adolescence for women too. The time for her father to speak into he...
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July 14, 2021
We women were given a huge capacity and need for relationship. It is our glory and a beautiful way that we bear the image of God, who enjoys perfect, intimate relationship. But our glory has been tainted. Because of human brokenness and sin, there is...
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July 9, 2021
Can there be any doubt that God wants to be sought after? The first and greatest of all commands is to love him (Mark 12:29-30; Matt. 22:36-38). He wants us to love him. To seek him with all our heart. A woman longs to be sought after, too, with the ...
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June 25, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. 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...
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June 23, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book, "Free to Be Me", helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Hi. I’m Stasi and, okay, yes, it’s been a while since I was in middle school or high school, or even was carded while purchasing a bottle of w...
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June 9, 2021
There is a famous passage of Scripture that many people have heard in the context of an invitation to know Christ as Savior. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in (Rev. 3:20 nkjv). He does ...
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June 8, 2021
The stories from our past that shaped us and the words that were spoken over our lives that have crippled us do not stand a chance in the light of the powerful grace and mercy that come to us now in the Person of Jesus. We do not have to remain capti...
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May 28, 2021
Though we don’t have all the control and assurance we may want, we as God’s beloved can be certain of many things… We know that we are more than conquerors through him who loves us. We know that nothing, nothing, nothing will be able to separate us ...
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May 22, 2021
How do you understand your life? Why has it turned out so differently from what you imagined? What do you make of its randomness? The phone rings, and you have no idea what is coming. It could be great news! It could be an old friend getting back in ...
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May 20, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. There’s a reason they made a movie with the title Mean Girls. It’s because girls can be vicious. They can bully. Ann Shoket, editor-in-chief of ...
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May 19, 2021
God wants an intimate relationship with us. He is not a God who is far away; he is the God who has made us his dwelling place. We are the temple of the Lord. When by faith, we confess that Jesus is LORD, he comes and makes his home in us. He couldn’t...
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May 9, 2021
Mothers bestow our self-worth, and they have the ability to withhold it. Intentionally, but more often unintentionally. A mother cannot pass on what she does not possess. And neither can we. Mothers have the ability to withhold acceptance, value, lov...
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May 7, 2021
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters ... Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. (Isaiah 55:1– 2) You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one...
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April 13, 2021
Eve is God’s relational specialist given to the world to keep relationship a priority. Men have a way of letting these things slip. They’ll go months without checking in on the health of their relationships. Years, even. And the World simply uses p...
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April 10, 2021
And he is still doing it. Jesus is alive today and living his life through you. Remember, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). Paul says the whole mystery of the gospel comes down to this: “Chr...
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April 8, 2021
Every woman possesses a captivating beauty. Every woman. But for most of us it has been long buried, wounded, and captive. It takes time for it to emerge into wholeness. It needs to be cultivated, restored, set free. How do we cultivate beauty? How...
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April 6, 2021
Beauty is powerful. It may be the most powerful thing on earth. It is dangerous. Because it matters. Let us try to explain why. First, beauty speaks. Oxford bishop Richard Harries wrote, "It is the beauty of the created order which gives an answer to...
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April 1, 2021
The Evil One had a hand in all that has happened to you. If he didn’t arrange for the assault directly—and certainly human sin has a large enough role to play—then he made sure he drove the message of the wounds home into your heart. He is the one wh...
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March 30, 2021
The assault on femininity — its long history, its utter viciousness — cannot be understood apart from the spiritual forces of evil we are warned against in the Scriptures. This is not to say that men (and women, for they, too, assault women) have no ...
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March 25, 2021
Why did God curse Eve with loneliness and heartache, an emptiness that nothing would be able to fill? Wasn’t her life going to be hard enough out there in the world, banished from the Garden that was her true home, her only home, never able to return...
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March 19, 2021
Have you ever wondered why the Cinderella story keeps haunting us? Not only is it a perennial favorite of little girls, it haunts us as woman. Think of all the movies made along its themes, movies like Pretty Woman and Ever After and A Cinderella Sto...
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March 5, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Embracing ourselves has everything to do with embracing the goodness of God’s creative work in us. It means trusting God, believing that all he ...
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March 3, 2021
The kingdom of God will not advance as it needs to advance without women rising up and playing their role. The transformation and healing of a man requires the presence, strength, and mercy of a woman. Men will not become the men they are meant to be...
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October 1, 2020
There are many things we need to rename in our lives. Our work. Our relationships. Even our life itself. Rename them. Rename your life. It’s good. Because your life belongs to our good God, and he’s got you. Rename yourself. God has. My parents name...
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September 15, 2020
He made you — on purpose. You are the only you — ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God’s intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. God accepts us right at this moment, and he wants us to accept ourselves as...
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August 6, 2020
You are amazing. Well, okay, maybe not every day. Every day the wonder of you is amazing, but many days the wonder of you is buried beneath the rubble of a world gone mad. You were born into a glorious mess, and we all have become something of a glor...
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June 25, 2020
The story of my life and the struggles I have lived with—make that “live with”—have helped to shape me into the woman I am today and the woman I am becoming. My scars, my struggles, my failures, my joys, my private lonely agonies have been forging my...