{"id":1918,"date":"2012-10-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T00:03:53","slug":"a-daughters-worth-week-1-finding-a-lasting-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/01\/a-daughters-worth-week-1-finding-a-lasting-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Daughter’s Worth Week 1: Finding A Lasting Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding A Lasting Joy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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This is it!\u00a0 The first official blog post starting the first official day of our Bible Study, A Daughter\u2019s Worth<\/em>.\u00a0 I am so excited, are you?\u00a0 There is so much I want you to hear, so much that God has laid on my heart to share with you.\u00a0 It is my prayer that you find one thing in this post that will stick with you, that will make you think, and that will encourage you. \u00a0Ok, let\u2019s officially get started!<\/p>\n

When I was in high school I worked at an assisted living facility, as a server.\u00a0 It was my favorite job to this date.\u00a0 One of the things I liked best about this job was getting to know a lady named Mary Jane.\u00a0 Anytime I was feeling bad about myself, God brought her along my path.\u00a0 Her words made me smile.\u00a0 She repeated them over and over again, only because she lost her short term memory, so she had no idea she was saying the same thing over and over again.\u00a0 I still, to this day, remember those sweet words that brought so much joy to my heart, \u201cWow, look at you, you are so pretty, dear, you really are so beautiful, look at your face, look at your smile, look at you, oh you are so special.\u201d\u00a0 It was some sort of magic, those words alone had the power to take my feeling badly about myself and turn it into me feeling really good about who I was.\u00a0 Her words had never been said to me before or about me before.\u00a0 I always kind of thought I was pretty or special, but without ever having validation from anyone else in my life, I just did not believe those thoughts.<\/em>\u00a0 Mary Jane was one of the only people who had ever told me that before and there was something about her way of telling me that made me really believe she meant every word.\u00a0 I think it has to do with the repetitiveness, which is something that she did totally on accident.<\/p>\n

Who is speaking truth into your heart?\u00a0 Do you have a Mary Jane in life?\u00a0 Do you believe the truth of who you really are?\u00a0 Looking back, I learned why Mary Jane\u2019s role in my life was so important.\u00a0 When I was no longer hearing her powerful words in my life, I craved them from someone else, anyone else.\u00a0 After trying every remedy imaginable; the right outfit, the right hand of a man in mine, just to name a few, I finally realized the only lasting remedy we can ever turn to is God alone.\u00a0 I learned the only thing that will ever satisfy my heart for good, the only thing that will bring me lasting joy are the words that God speaks to my heart through his Word each and every day.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is when I started embracing the truth about who I am in Christ.<\/p>\n

God\u2019s way is the only lasting way to make you feel better about whom you are<\/em>!<\/p>\n

WHEN NO ONE ELSE IS SPEAKING TRUTH TO YOU, YOU MUST SPEAK IT TO YOURSELF.\u00a0<\/strong> No matter what your current remedy may be for making yourself feel better; you must get rid of it and start repeating what God says about you.\u00a0 You must replay what God says about you over and over and over again until you believe it, until you know God is being honest with you always!<\/p>\n

Whenever you feel down and out about YOU, please remember who you really are.\u00a0 You are a precious child of God.\u00a0 You are His princess.\u00a0 You are cherished, loved, forgiven, beautiful, chosen, and the list goes on and on.\u00a0 I encourage you to learn the truths that make up who you are in Christ.\u00a0 Repeat these truths until you have them memorized in your heart!<\/p>\n

I had to do this; I have an entire list of truths that have become my identity.\u00a0 I used to have to repeat them over and over and over again with my words.\u00a0 Now that I am confident in Christ, when I repeat them over and over again it is not only in my words but it is now in my actions.\u00a0 Those truths are so much a part of me that I do not need to go seeking for anyone else to comfort my soul.\u00a0 Knowing who I am in Christ, makes me feel the best feeling in the world, it is indescribable.\u00a0 Do you desire that feeling? \u00a0Let your heart ache for Jesus\u2019 truths.<\/strong>\u00a0 If you want to feel good about you, learn who you really are, not to this world, but to God.<\/p>\n

Below is a list of truths followed by verses in the Bible that support that truth.\u00a0 These verses describe who you are!\u00a0 When you are feeling badly about yourself, go to this list!\u00a0\u00a0 I encourage you to memorize the ones that you do not so strongly believe in.\u00a0 Live by these truths.\u00a0 Never let anyone convince you of anything else.\u00a0 Speak these truths over and over again.<\/p>\n