Daily Reading
November 3, 2021
Unveiling our beauty really just means unveiling our hearts. It’s scary, for sure. That is why it is our greatest expression of faith, because we are going to have to trust Jesus—really trust him. We’ll have to trust him that we have a beauty, that...
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October 31, 2021
You probably know what you have been afraid to entrust to God. When we surrender our fear, we are offering it to Jesus. We are saying, “This fear is too much fear for me to bear. I give it to you because I believe you are good and worthy of my trust....
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October 23, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Who do you think you are? Who are you on the road to becoming? Do you have a vision of who you could become? How does God see you? What is his v...
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October 16, 2021
In cases of suffering, you can have understanding or you can have Jesus. If you insist on understanding, you usually lose both. When suffering enters into your life, take a deep breath. The very first thing to do is to invite Jesus into it. Pray, Jes...
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October 6, 2021
The story of Eve holds such rich treasures for us to discover. The essence and purpose of a woman are unveiled here in the story of her creation. These profound, eternal, mythic themes are written not just here in the coming of Eve, but in the soul o...
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September 21, 2021
Here is another startling freedom: we are free to fail. Let me say that again. We are free to fail. Because of Jesus, we can be free from the cages of other people’s expectations, demands, yokes, and judgments — even our own. This isn’t about getting...
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September 12, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. God wants us to name things correctly, including ourselves. It’s vitally important that we do. I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for ...
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September 8, 2021
Honest communication in love is the only way to live and grow in friendships. There are ebbs and flows. There may be too much dependence. There may be real hurt and disappointment. In fact, it’s inevitable in our broken world. But with the grace of G...
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August 30, 2021
The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be the most important thing we ever learn about God — that he yearns for relationship with us...
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August 24, 2021
Stasi Eldredge's book "Free to Be Me" helps teen girls become the young women God created them to be. Life is a journey of becoming the true you. Which means, it is a journey of the heart. Your heart is, in fact, the most important thing about...
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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...