What a blessed Easter week! I absolutely LOVE this time of year. Easter is my favorite! I love celebrating our risen Savior! Hallelujah!! I pray that each of us are spending some precious time with the Savior this week reflecting on all that HE has done on our behalf. God is so good.

I am also blessed that my son is home from college this week for spring break! It has been so good to spend time with my boy! I am so blessed to be his Momma! He brings a smile to my heart and joy to my soul. Thank you LORD for this special time! God is so good.

I hope that you have been able to keep up with your reading with all the craziness of life. We have gotten to the core of this study and it is awesome! Don't get discouraged if you are behind, but continue to press on! Don't let the enemy get a foothold. This part of the study is where we are learning how to respond differently and not to let anyone or anything threaten our security. We are clothed with strength and dignity. Remember? (Proverbs 31:25) I love what Beth Moore wrote in this week's reading. "Wear your God-given strength. Throw on your God-given dignity. Walk with your head up in your God-given security." (pg. 258). So in other words, let's get our God-given security on girlfriends!

Okay, I hope you are doing your homework. The following are my answers to this week's assignment.

1) My "I already knew that moment" was that men were on to us and our insecurities. My "That's new to me moment" was the fact that men thought that women show their insecurity by how they dress. I was surprised at the comment from the 29 year old man on page 233. This was very interesting to me.
2) I believe a weak will definitely plays into our insecurity. When we allow the enemy to have a foothold with us emotionally, it feeds our insecurity. Praise God, we have a right to choose! Because we have the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, we can refuse to give way to insecurity! We can choose to react differently and to have a new attitude!

I love Psalm 29:11 (NET). It says, "The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD grants His people security." We can hold our heads high and know that we are children of the Most High! We can have our feelings hurt, we can be criticized and wronged, we can be embarrassed, intimidated and even threatened; but we can also refuse to hand over our security. It is ours to keep! God gave us our security and crowned us with dignity. It is by His strength that we are able to hold our heads high. He is the lifter of our heads. (Psalm 3:3). "The enemy of your soul will never have to worry about what kind of damage you could do the kingdom of darkness if he can get you to buy the lie that you are incompetent, weak, and inadequate." (pg. 259). Sisters in Christ, remember, we ALL need God and He is our strength and shield. Whenever you are "struck down," remember that you are not "destroyed!" (2 Corinthians 4:9). YOU are not incompetent, weak or inadequate! YOU are a child of GOD!

Enjoy this Easter week and hold your head high! The LORD has done great things for us! He created us and He crowned us with strength and dignity. I love each of you and you are in my daily prayers. Have a blessed week!

Clinging to Christ,
Elisabeth

I just want each of you to know how very proud I am that you are continuing with me on this journey! God is so good and He is our security! He has great things in store for each of us this week. Please do not give up! If you are behind in this study. . . continue on at your own pace, but keep going! I am praying for you!

Week Seven of So Long Insecurity! Your assignment this week is to read CHAPTERS 12 and 13 and answer the following questions. (You will NOT want to miss Chapter 12. It's what the guys on the survey had to say about women's insecurities. Don't wait too long in the week to read Chapter 13 either. It's a little lengthier.)

1. Based on Chapter 12, name one "I already knew that" moment and one "that's new to me" moment, if either applies.

2. Based on Chapter 13, how does a weak will play into our insecurity?

"Let's recommit to our journey together even if you've already read the whole book. In the spirit of 2 Corinthians 8:11, "Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it." Translation? Let's finish strong!" ~ Beth Moore

Let's finish strong fellow Sojourners!

You are loved,
Elisabeth :)

Good Afternoon! I hope you girls are having a great week in the LORD!! I am loving this sunshine & having a glorious week. My boy comes home for spring break on Friday, so needless to say, I have been SUPER excited!! :)

Here are my answers to this week's assignment. I hope that you are all continuing on with this study. You are in my prayers & I love you so very much!

1) I don't think that I have ever viewed men as being gods or devils. I have always admired the men in my life. I was raised by an awesome Christian Daddy & married an amazing man of God! I am blessed with an incredible son and have a wonderful brother. They mean the world to me, however they are not perfect and would be the first ones to admit that fact. I am truly a blessed woman!

2) I believe that the main difference between men and women's insecurities is that women tend to have more insecurity about their physical appearance than men. While some men may have issues in this area, I feel that this is primarily a female issue. We have it plastered all over the media and the pressure of looking a certain way is very pressing for women.

3) Yes. Omnipotence is the divine attribute that I am particularly taken with. Unfortunately, if you ask my husband or son, they would both tell you that I have "control" issues! They actually joke about my son being the "bubble boy!" I have had to learn to let go and let God in many areas of my life, but this has been a huge one for me.

Okay, now it's your turn! :) If you need to review this week's questions, you can view the previous blog post or check out Beth Moore's site.

The main thing that the LORD impressed upon me as I read and studied His Word this week was to be a better encourager to my husband. I don't want to be critical and sometimes I can be the biggest critic to those that I love the most! I am praying and striving through the Holy Spirit to be an encourager and to continue to be a prayer warrior on my husband's behalf.

I encourage each of you to do the same. Send your husband a text, email or leave him a note letting him know how much he means to you and how thankful you are for him. Let's encourage our men and pray for them daily! As we learned this week, they battle insecurity just like we do. Let's be their biggest cheerleaders and prayer warriors! Pray for wisdom and knowledge in Christ! Pray for God to teach you to encourage others! I am praying for each of you and love you girls so much!

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." ~ Colossians 2:2-3

Praising God and Praying for my Man,
Elisabeth

Okay girls, we are half way through our book study and God is revealing some awesome truths in His Word! I pray that you are staying with this study. God desires for us to live a Spirit-filled life of freedom in Him. He desires for us to be rid of insecurity once and for all!

In this next part of our study, Beth Moore will share insights from her surveys of men. Please read each chapter, even if you do not have a male influence in your life. It is important for us to read each part of this study so that we might gain better understanding into our gender related insecurities.

Our assignment from Beth this week is to read CHAPTERS 10 AND 11 and answer the following questions:


1. Based on Chapter 10, in all truthfulness, has your historical tendency been to view men (generally speaking) as gods? Or devils?

2. Based on Chapter 10 and your own day-to-day observances, what differences do you see between men’s insecurities and women’s?

3. On p.208 in Chapter 11, I suggest that women who struggle with insecurity tend to be particularly taken with 2 divine attributes: omnipotence and omniscience. Did either of these resonate with you? If so, how?

I hope that you will begin to share what God is doing in and through you as we study together. I also hope that you are keeping a personal journal that you can reflect back on whenever needed. Our times of sharing will make our journey more meaningful and help to hold us accountable. I love each of you and I am keeping you in my prayers. Enjoy your reading this week!

Love you girls,
Elisabeth

Good Morning sweet friends! I pray you are doing well and having an awesome week with the Lord! I am posting later this week. My husband and I have been travelling. We are in Kentucky right now and I must say. . . it feels so good to be "home." We have spent our best years of ministry here and most of our married life. Kentucky holds some wonderful memories and it is nice to be back in the Bluegrass! :)

I don't know about you, but I absolutely loved our reading this week. Chapter 9 of "So Long Insecurity" has been my favorite chapter thus far in our study. What a blessing to pray God's Word and spend some precious time with our Savior! Beth had asked us to write down five Scriptures that spoke powerfully to us right now. I had trouble choosing only five. Oh, how I love the Word of God!

The Scripture that the Lord spoke most powerfully to me this week was Deuteronomy 33:12. I placed my name in the verse and allowed the Lord to speak directly to me. Place your name in the blank below and allow the Lord to speak to your soul.

"About ______________ He said:  Let the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him, for He shields him all day long, and the one the LORD loves rests between His shoulders." (Deuteronomy 33:12)

What a blessed assurance that we can rest secure in the LORD. I remember when Andrew (my son) was a little boy and my husband would carry him on his shoulders. What a sweet memory!  He could see better up there. He was right by his Daddy’s face. He could hear him and cling to him. He felt safe and secure! Beloved, just imagine our Daddy, Abba, carrying us on His shoulders.We can see clearer when we seek His face. We can hear God speak. He loves us so much and we can rest in Him as He carries us.

I think of a shepherd carrying his sheep. He would always place the sheep across his shoulders and protect him. The Shepherd of our souls does this for us. He shields us all day long and protects us. Pour your heart and soul out to Him and allow God to bring healing and restoration. The Lord knows you better than you know yourself. Ask Him to speak to your heart and reveal Himself to you! Ask Him for His protection and allow Him to be your shield.

We are at a turning point in our journey for security and God is doing an amazing work in and through our lives! When you struggle this week, read back through the prayer in Chapter 9. Allow the sweet Savior to place you upon His shoulders and carry you. Give Him your worries, fears and insecurities and rest in His love.

I love you girls and I am praying for you! Continue to stay in God's Word and allow Him to speak to your heart. I am excited to hear what He is speaking to you.

Resting on His Shoulders,
Elisabeth

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen." ~ Ephesians 3:20-21

Well, we have made it half way through our book study and it has been glorious! This week will become intense and I believe that the Holy Spirit is going to do amazing things in and through us as we surrender to Him.

Here is what Beth Moore wrote to us for this week:

"We are reaching the halfway point in our journey and have arrived at a place of utmost importance in our pursuit of wholeness. Your assignment this week is based on only one chapter of the book: CHAPTER 9. As you will soon discover, it is not a chapter you just read. It's a chapter you actually do. A chapter you actually pray. Please take it seriously. Everything ahead of us hinges on this experience. It is placed at this point in the journey prior to the prescriptive and practical phase of the book so that the way is cleared and our dignity restored enough to move forward. It will help place us in a posture God can bless with the rich kind of confidence He wants for His people and activate the power we have within us to think and FEEL differently. That's essentially where the remainder of the book heads.


Here are your very simple assignments this week:

1. Do (don't just read but actually do) Chapter Nine. In your comment to this post, simply reflect back on your time with God and share anything specific that you received from it.

2. Pick five Scriptures that speak most powerfully to you right now - five that you feel like you need the most - and write them on the inside of the back cover of the book. (This should be a lot less intimidating than what I asked you to write inside the front cover at the beginning of our journey!)

And that's it for this week! I want the prayer journey to stand by itself and clear the way for mighty works ahead. We have some of our most eye-opening moments in the second half so stay with it, Girls!"

I love you sweet girls and I am praying for you! Enjoy this week in the Lord and if you are behind in the study, it will be a great week to get "caught up!" Continue to pray for each other and allow the Lord to speak to your heart this week.

Praying with you,
Elisabeth

Hello Sweet Journey Girls! I hope this finds you in the middle of a glorious sunny day with Jesus! It is beautiful here today and I am praising the Lord for the 72 degree weather. Oh, how I have missed the sunshine!! It is wonderful and I pray that you are experiencing a wonderful day too!

Before we get to this past week's assignment, I wanted to post a link to a video clip from Beth Moore that she posted for those doing her "So Long Insecurity" book study. You can click on the link below or on the book to the right of the page. It is a very important personal message from Beth and I hope that each of you will take the time to listen intently to what she has to say.

http://vimeo.com/9861089

Okay, now let's get to the questions for this past week's assignment. I hope that you all read Chapters 7 and 8 in their entirety. It is important to push through so that we can be victorious over insecurity! The Lord desires for us to have freedom in our lives. Galatians 5:1 says, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery." Praise God! Jesus Christ has set us free and we are free indeed!!

The following were questions for this week:

1. What part of Chapter 7 hit home with you most and why?

2. (If you're choosing only two, please include this one.) Based on your journey so far in chapters 1-8, list your own personal top three reasons why it's time to deal with your insecurity. (We're not looking for right answers. We're looking for YOUR answers. Don't copy off your fellow sojourners' papers on this one. Grin.) So that you don't get your numbers confused here, list your 3 reasons under A.B.&C.

3. Based on Chapter 8, briefly describe a recent trigger of insecurity and whether or not it got a rise out of you.

4. Also based on Chapter 8, what does dignity mean to you?


I pray that you will answer one or all in the comment section below. Feel free to comment on what the study has meant to you thus far, even if you feel as though you do not wish to answer the other questions on this site. I would love to hear how God is working in and through your life!

Here are my answers to the questions this week:

1. I think that the thing that impressed me the most from Chapter 7 was the fact that so many women have battled insecurity! It was astounding to see how the enemy can work to deceive and destroy. It made me angry! I want women of all ages to have freedom in Jesus Christ!! I was also struck with a sense of, "I've been there," in some of these writings. Oh, how insecurity can wreak havoc. I am sick and tired of the enemy making me and others feel this way!

2. My top three reasons why it's time to deal with my insecurity:
    a) I am sick and tired of the enemy working me over in this area of my life!
    b) I want to believe that I am who God says I am.
    c) I want to help other women to have victory and healing in this area of their lives.

3. I laughed when I thought about this answer. The last trigger recently that I remember was when I met someone I really admire and said something stupid! It was actually when I met BETH MOORE at a book signing last month! (haha!) I had anticipated this moment for so long and I was sooo ecstatic that I blubbered all over her and myself! I can't even remember what I said. (Nothing that I had planned.) I was talking so fast and trying to tell her so much in such a few brief moments! I know I must have sounded so stupid. My sweet husband had driven me all the way down to Tennessee for a Valentine's gift to meet her. We both laughed all the way home at how "silly" I acted. You would have thought I was a little girl! I felt so stupid and thought, "I can't imagine how goofy she thought I was. . . how stupid!"

4. I absolutely LOVED Chapter 8. I looked up the meaning of dignity in Webster's dictionary. It said,
"The quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed." To me, after reading this chapter, dignity means a crown of honor that Jesus Christ has placed upon my head deeming me worthy of respect and high esteem. Thank you LORD!

I pray that each of you have a glorious day and enjoy your reading! I will post our reading and assignment for next week in the morning. I am praying for each of you and love you so much!

Crowned with Dignity,
Elisabeth

Sweet sisters, I apologize for not writing yesterday. I have been feeling a bit under the weather with a cold, but praise God, I am feeling much better today. I am really enjoying our book study together. I feel like each week, I am learning more and becoming a more secure woman of God! :) I absolutely have LOVED our reading this week. If you have not gotten to chapters 7 and 8 yet, please don't stop now! Journey on, dear ones, it is worth it. . . . I promise!

I will answer my questions for this week and post them tomorrow. I will also be posting next week's assignment on Thursday. Today, however, I just wanted to bask in the wonderful treasure that the Lord has spoken to my heart recently. I love how our Daddy continues to reiterate something until we finally take it in and allow it to resonate in our hearts!

Chapter 8 has been my favorite chapter in "So Long Insecurity," to this point of our study. I absolutely enjoyed every word. I have read and reread this portion and learned something new and refreshing! God is so good!! Thank you LORD for how You have continued to reveal Yourself to me through Your written Word. Thank you for giving Beth Moore insight and speaking truth through this book.

This chapter was so timely, because just recently I had a young lady ask me about my interpretation of the Proverbs 31 woman. I gave her a brief response and told her that I would do some more in depth study and get back to her. As I had been praying and asking the Lord to help me to understand portions of this scripture, I reached chapter 8 of our study. I have to admit that I had not thought about Proverbs 31:25 in this way before. I have always loved verses 25-30 and they are my favorite part of this passage of Scripture. I now love this passage even more!

Beth talked about how insecurity relates to losing our God-given dignity. (pg. 148) The enemy loves for us to give in to this issue. He knows that insecure people who don't value themselves will begin to believe that they do not deserve dignity. First of all, let's define the word dignity. Webster states that dignity is: the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed. Beloved, I have wonderful news for you! YOU are worthy of respect and high esteem! YOU are honored! GOD gave dignity to us. We are His prized possession and created in his image! If He resides in you, then His divine power is yours. When we are weak, He is strong! Praise God! He crowns us with glory and honor (dignity). (Psalm 8:5b) The Hebrew word for "honor" is derived from the same Hebrew term as "dignity." (pg. 158).

Beth writes, "If we knew who we were and what God has conferred upon us, what everybody else thought of us would grow less and less significant." (pg. 159). Beloved, you are a child of the Most High! You are worthy of respect and dignity! You are honored and loved by the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Claim back your dignity and believe God! You are who He says you are and you are clothed with strength and dignity!

Finally, I love that Beth emphasizes that God places a crown of honor/dignity on our head and not in our hands. (pg. 159). He places it where we need it the most. He places it around our minds. How many times do we let our minds run away with us and try to tell us something that is untrue? How many times do we imagine the worst instead of God's BEST? We can KNOW that we are the Lord's prized possession. We can know that He loves us and values us! We can hold our heads high, not from pride, but from the knowledge that we are a child of the King and He deems us worthy!

Dear ones, whenever the enemy tries to deceive you or lie to you, remember to "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ!" (2 Corinthians 10:5). Allow Him to remind you of the crown of honor/dignity that He has placed upon your sweet head.

Claiming Truth and Loving my Lord,
Elisabeth

Well, we have made it through another week and PRAISE JESUS we are learning more and more each day! God is SO good! I hope that you are continuing with your reading and journaling your questions. I so want each of you to experience sweet blessings from Jesus and freedom from insecurity! I have been so blessed as I continue in this study. Thank you Beth Moore! I praise the Lord for giving her the wisdom to write on this subject. I believe that it is going to forever change the lives of many women.

Okay, here is our assignment for week four: Read Chapters 7 and 8 and answer the following questions. Since (Beth) is giving us four this time around, she says, "you're welcome, if you prefer, to pick two of them to answer in your comment:"


1. What part of Chapter 7 hit home with you most and why?

2. (If you're choosing only two, please include this one.) Based on your journey so far in chapters 1-8, list your own personal top three reasons why it's time to deal with your insecurity. (We're not looking for right answers. We're looking for YOUR answers. Don't copy off your fellow sojourners' papers on this one. Grin.) So that you don't get your numbers confused here, list your 3 reasons under A.B.&C.

3. Based on Chapter 8, briefly describe a recent trigger of insecurity and whether or not it got a rise out of you.

4. Also based on Chapter 8, what does dignity mean to you?

I cannot wait to get into this week's reading and assignment. Please know that I love each of you and you are in my prayers. Read Psalm 139 today and know that YOU are fearfully and wonderfully made! I love verse 5 that says, "You hem me in - behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me." Our Daddy has us in His hands. He loves us so much and He made us wonderful! I love what Beth wrote on pg 103 of our reading this past week. "In the radiance of His greatness, we are made great. Our search is over and our egos silenced. We no longer need pride to drive us, because we've found something infinitely more fulfilling: purpose. He is the reason we are here." Sweet ones, He is the reason we are here! Let's think on that each morning this week when we wake up and start our day. Lord, help us to remember the reason why we are here. Help us not to take one single moment for granted. Help us to glorify YOU in all we say and do this week. We love you Jesus! Amen.

Praising Him for You,
Elisabeth

I am so happy to report to you that the LORD has made Himself known to me in a powerful way this week! GOD is SO good!! He continues to refine me and confirm through His Word and others the things that He desires for me to learn through this study. I don't know about you, but this week of getting down in the dirt and digging up roots was not very easy. I felt like every point Beth made was screaming out my name!! Have you ever felt this way? It's kind of like when the preacher preaches on Sundays and you feel as though he has been a fly on the wall of your house the week before! LOL! (For me, the preacher actually had lived with me all week long!!)  :) Praise God for His Spirit and His love. He loves us so much that His Spirit convicts our hearts when there is something that we need to change. He also helps us when there is something that we need to learn through His Word. Many times, He brings the same point up over and over until we realize that He is speaking directly to us! I'm so thankful that He doesn't give up on us.

Okay, let's get to our questions for this week. Please do not feel hesitant about answering. It is awesome to learn and study together. Many times what the Lord lays upon your heart will be a blessing to someone else. Let's not worry about if we are the best spellers or articulators, but just speak from your heart. It blesses me to hear from you!

Our questions this week, after reading Chapters 5 & 6, were the following:

1. After reading these two chapters, what do you believe to be the TWO primary roots of your struggle with insecurity? Keep in mind that more may apply but try to lock in on two that you believe to be most impactful.

2. What, if any, insight did you gain about the roots of insecurity and did you sense that God was trying to speak to you in any specific way through it? (This answer does not need to be limited to the two roots you identified in the previous response.)

My answers:

1. I believe that my two primary roots of my struggle with insecurity, at this stage of my life are dramatic change and rejection. As most of you know from our previous 40 day journey, this past few years has been one of dramatic change for me. I have had a hysterectomy, moved twice, seen my only child off to college and turned the big "40"!! This period of dramatic change has definitely been a root of my struggle with insecurity. I love what Beth said in Chapter 5. "The truth is, God uses change to change us. He doesn't use it to destroy us or to distract us but to coax us to the next level of character, experience, compassion, and destiny."  I also loved the fact that she used mine and Tom's life verse, Philippians 1:6! What a blessed confirmation! God is committed to finishing what He started in us!

The other root had to do with rejection. I must agree that when we are rejected in any way, it causes us to question our personal value. These pages resonated within me as I read what Beth had to say about this deep root of insecurity. Sometimes we are outright rejected and sometimes it is a mere perception. When our hearts are wounded and tender, we can often perceive something as a total rejection, even if it is not. I could painfully identify with this truth. During times in our ministry, when we have been rejected, the pain was so great. This definitely causes a hypersensitivity to criticism and often causes you to take everything personal. Trust me; I have been there many times in the past 3 years! I can tell you that this is NO WAY to live!! Beloved, don't allow the enemy to keep you in a state of feeling worthless! Pray for healing and allow God to do some refining in your life. That is what He has been doing in mine! It is such a blessing when we realize that we are worth it! Christ loves us and HE felt that we were worth dying for. Sweet ones, believe this and know it is true!

2. I know and believe that God has been speaking clearly to my heart this week! I had the blessed opportunity to share with a friend some of the truths that God has taught me during this journey. I am so thankful that HE loves us and does not give up on us.  I am the first to admit that I have been a perfect mess! :) I am also the first one to admit that God is doing a new work in my life. He is teaching me to look up to Him first and then to look into my heart. I want to move on and grow deeper with my Savior. I don't want to live in the past and I don't want to live feeling defeated. "We end up looking in to look up instead of looking up to look in. We get fixated on every self-gain and every self-loss until, in our inordinate self-production, we end up licking our wounds to the point that they can't heal." (pg. 105). Lord, search my heart! Help me to look to YOU and allow YOU to look in my heart. Show me the things that need to be changed and change me. YOU are the reason that I am here and YOU made me. I give YOU all the glory, honor and praise! Thank you Lord that I don't have to live with regrets. Thank you Lord that I don't have to live in the past. Thank you Lord that I don't have to live feeling defeated or worthless. I am victorious, chosen, redeemed, blessed, forgiven and loved by YOU, O Lord. I love you Jesus!

Journey Girls,
I just want you to know how very much you are loved! You are worth it! You are such a blessing to me! Thank you for joining me in this quest for security. God is teaching us some wonderful truths in His Word and He loves us so very much! He is not finished with us! Continue to look to Him. He is telling you that you are worth pursuing, loving, fighting for and keeping!

"Being confident of this, that HE who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus!" ~ Philippians 1:6

I love you,
Elisabeth

Journey Girls,

I hope this finds you in the middle of a blessed day with our Lord! I am writing after a long weekend of much prayer and seeking about next steps. God is so faithful and so good! I can hardly wait to see what HE has just around the corner. I am also very anxious to see my boy! Actually, I just purchased plane tickets for him to come home for Spring break! YAY!! I can't wait to hug his neck and give him a big ole "Momma kiss!" (For those of you who are Moms, you know exactly what I mean.) I am thankful for technology though. It has been such a blessing to be able to Skype with Andrew. It does me so much good to see his sweet face each week.

Enough about me, how are you girls doing? How is your reading coming along? How is your time with Jesus? I am really enjoying this book study. If you have just joined us, don't worry, you just follow along at your own pace. Let me just encourage you to be persistent and continue on! This book gets better and better!

This week we are reading Chapters 5 and 6 of Beth Moore's book, "So Long Insecurity." We are looking at some of the deep roots of insecurity. Have you ever tried to dig up roots? It is not an easy task! Sometimes we have to dig very deep to get to the root of a matter! That is exactly what we have been doing this past week. One thing that I discovered is that sometimes these roots are intertwined and they work to threaten or "choke out" our security.

As we continue to study some of these deep seated roots and begin to dig them up together, don't be afraid!  Isaiah 41: 9-10 says, "I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God." Our God is with us and He loves us so very much! He desires to heal us from our deep wounds. I love what Beth wrote in Chapter 5. "God knows exactly what happened and what a toll it took. He knows the number it played on your mind. Let Him bring you peace. Let him tell you you're worth wanting, loving, even liking, pursuing, fighting for, and yes, beloved, keeping. Whatever you do, don't reject the only One wholly incapable of rejecting you." (pg. 77).  God knows us, He knows our circumstances and He loves us! He is the only One who can bring complete healing and wholeness to our lives. Let's allow Him to help us dig up the old roots and plant something new in the soil of our souls. Thank you Abba (Daddy) for what You are teaching us through Your Word and through this study.

I am so excited to hear what He is doing in and through your life! Please continue to comment, even if you are not as far along in the reading. I love hearing from you and it is such an encouragement to me. I love each of you and I am praying for you!

Doing Some Digging with my Daddy,
Elisabeth