{"id":667,"date":"2012-07-16T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2013-01-24T17:24:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:24:35","slug":"the-resolution-for-women-intelligent-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/16\/the-resolution-for-women-intelligent-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resolution for Women &#8211; Intelligent Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUeCdq2PxWk\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> for a Quick Message From Christi<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">________________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 align=\"center\">Memory Verse:<\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><em>You did not choose Me, but I chose you.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><em>I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><strong>John 15:16<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I have to be honest and tell you that today\u2019s chapter really spoke to me in so many ways!\u00a0 I can\u2019t even tell you what an impact it has had on me!\u00a0 I struggle with my value, like many of you do.\u00a0 I always have.\u00a0 It\u2019s like I know in my head that I am valuable, but it just hasn\u2019t reached my heart yet.\u00a0 I can tell you how worthy you are, to God, and I do mean it.\u00a0 I just need to take my own medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I was on the phone with my Life Coach.\u00a0 We discussed this very issue:\u00a0 the feeling of no value.\u00a0 Just after that call, I opened this book and read today&#8217;s chapter, and just about fell over!\u00a0 I said, \u201cWow, God!\u00a0 You know just how to get Your message across, don\u2019t You!!?\u201d\u00a0 It was amazing!\u00a0 But that really shouldn\u2019t surprise me because God is always listening, and He is always ready to talk to us, when we are willing to actually sit down and listen!!<\/p>\n<p>Today, I want to show you who you are in Him.\u00a0 I am taking my own medicine in this lesson, also.\u00a0 I pray that this scripture speaks to you, as it did to me when I read it.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1 Peter 2: 9-10 (MSG) <\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God&#8217;s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you\u2014from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s look at those two scriptures just a little bit closer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are chosen by God<\/li>\n<li>You are chosen for the high calling to do God\u2019s will<\/li>\n<li>You are chosen to be holy, set apart, sanctified<\/li>\n<li>You are His instruments to speak for Him<\/li>\n<li>You are to tell others what God has done in your life<\/li>\n<li>You have been changed from being a nothing, into being a \u201csomething!<\/li>\n<li>You have gone from being rejected, to being accepted!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Did you see that?\u00a0 We have such a high calling on our lives because HE CHOSE US!\u00a0 He chose US because He knew we would do what He called us to do!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He did not reject us!\u00a0 He accepted us!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">He turned us from being a nothing, into being a something!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Wow, Ladies!\u00a0 What more do we need to see here!?!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We should never allow others, or things, to control our thoughts about who we are, and what our value is!\u00a0 God says it right here\u2026.WE ARE CHOSEN TO DO HIS WORK!\u00a0 That is <em><strong>VALUE<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0 He would never choose us if He didn\u2019t think we couldn\u2019t do what He is calling us to do!<\/p>\n<p>Whether your job is as a homemaker, a nurse, a doctor, a teacher, or a \u2026.. the list could go on and on\u2026..\u00a0 <em><strong>HE CHOSE YOU<\/strong><\/em> to be that person!\u00a0 He chose you.\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore, He will equip you.\u00a0 If He will equip you, He will be with you all the way\u2026.\u00a0 All the way, my dear Girlfriend!\u00a0 He sees your worth to do His work; to spread His word; to spread His love!\u00a0 And if He has chosen you, this means He thinks you are worthy and valuable enough to do what He needs you to do!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know about YOU, but I am about to jump up and down and shout, \u201cHallelujah!!!\u201d\u00a0 Can I get an AMEN out there???!!!<\/p>\n<p>As Priscilla said on page 53, \u201cthis resolution is important \u2013 this commitment to assign genuine value to who we are based on our God-given worth, talents, gifts, and abilities.\u00a0 Because once we\u2019ve settled this issue (<em>in our own hearts \u2026 my emphasis here<\/em>), everything else can begin falling appropriately into place.\u00a0 We\u2019ll have the freedom to build our lives on what really matters, discarding all the things that don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about you, but I am ready to discard my stinkin\u2019 thinkin\u2019 and start focusing on what God\u2019s word says about me!\u00a0 I\u2019m ready to stop owning those negative thoughts, and start taking back my life, and my value, for God!!<\/p>\n<p>Remember, \u201cThe life you are renovating has far too much God-given potential for you to plant its roots in something so menial.\u00a0 Dig deep and lean in to the truth \u2013 the truth of who you are and what He\u2019s created you to offer to the world \u2013 and then orbit your life around that steadfast knowledge.\u201d\u00a0 That steadfast knowledge!\u00a0 That knowledge that will never let you down, no matter what!\u00a0 AMEN?<\/p>\n<p>_________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s Pray:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Oh Father, we come to You today with open arms, and tears of repentance for the times we have doubted our worth; for the times we have not chosen to believe Your word, and allowed our stinkin\u2019 thinkin\u2019 to take first place over You.\u00a0 Lord, please forgive us!\u00a0 Cleanse us of all that junk that keeps us so bottled up inside.\u00a0 Cleanse us from the pity-parties that we throw for ourselves!\u00a0 Cleanse us from all the lies that we have told ourselves, and have allowed ourselves to believe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Lord, I give You praise for all that You have shown us in this chapter today!\u00a0 Thank You for opening our eyes to see who we truly are, in You Lord!\u00a0 May we stand in that knowledge today, and allow it to sink down deep into our hearts, so that we know that we know, that we know!\u00a0 Thank You Lord for revelation knowledge!\u00a0 May we never go back to that stinkin\u2019 thinkin\u2019 again!\u00a0\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 Name, AMEN!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s blog assignment:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Name some things in your life that you have allowed to shape your self-worth or self-image?\u00a0 When you have completed this assignment here on the blog, return to your Facebook Online Bible Study Group for today\u2019s FUN Activity!!\u00a0 You just never know what we have in store for you!!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are not a member of our OBS Facebook Group, and would like to be, please send us an email and we\u2019ll be happy to place you!!\u00a0\u00a0 Our email address is:\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:GirlfriendsCoffeeHour@gmail.com\">GirlfriendsCoffeeHour@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BE BLESSED!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.171\/~girlfrk8\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/christi-signature.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-670\" title=\"Christi Signature\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/69.89.31.171\/~girlfrk8\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/christi-signature.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click HERE for a Quick Message From Christi ________________________________ Memory Verse: You did not choose Me, but I chose you. 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