God S Beloved Daughters

Both a daily devotional and an in-depth Bible study, God’s Beloved Daughters is a tool “to strengthen and establish and to exhort and comfort and encourage you in your faith” (I Thessalonians 3:2). Throughout her years serving in the ministry of Christian education, and as friend, mother, and mentor, Merrilynn Grodecki has championed her passion for seeing God’s daughters step into that grace-enhanced, mountain-moving, peace-filled life that is theirs in Him. Now, after decades of studying God’s ways of doing and being right concerning all of life’s issues, she has written this devotional to help each beautiful daughter of God walk in the fullness of life in Christ and discover the eternal truth of God’s promises. Wife, mother, student, teacher, lawyer, doctor, businesswoman, pastor—despite all of these titles, there is one role that takes priority over all others—daughter! Our heavenly identity not only defines and characterizes every other relationship we take part in, it prioritizes our daily motivation. God’s daughters; His ambassadors to the neighborhood, the workplace and the world. Do you see yourself that way? Do you open your door in the morning to step out into the day with that kind of vision? Do your heavenly credentials, your Kingdom citizenship, define for you your determined purpose? Each day offers an opportunity to practice our ambassadorship and extend God’s love. We awake each morning to love God, to serve Him and continue to be loved and known by Him... Walk out in that carefree graciousness that will compel the world to take a closer look at what makes you different. “I don’t know what she’s got,” they will say, “‘but I want it.”

You're not what you do. You're not what you have. You are not what others say about you. You are God's beloved. Are you ever concerned that you don’t deserve to love and be loved because you are continually having to prove yourself? In You Are Beloved, Bobby Schuller shows you how to let go of these fears and put your trust in the One who sees you for who you really are. Here is an easy to follow, proven path to personal dignity for all those who think they are not good enough no matter how much they achieve. This path is illuminated by the truths that it is not about what you accomplish, but what has already been accomplished for you; not about what you have, but what has already been provided; and not about who others say you are, but who God says you are. Know that you are valued, cared for, and embraced. You Are Beloved will help you rebuild your life as a response to that assurance.

It is not uncommon when reading Christian books to infer that Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden translates into a less important role for women in God's economy. The picture of women in the Bible is both beautiful and reassuring. God's relationship with His beloved daughters should be welcomed. This relationship should never be looked at as being less than His highest calling. In God's Relationship with His Beloved Daughters, author Marylou Good illustrates how God's design shows His full love for both women and men. This study follows the lives of several women in both the Old Testament and New Testament and shows how God loved and used them, starting with Eve. Through many scriptural examples, it paints a picture of God's love for women. Marylou Good communicates that God is unchanging and the way He worked with the women written about in the Holy Bible is the same way that He deals with women today. Illuminating the unique attributes of God's relationship with women, this exploration shows how women are a picture of God's church, his grace, and his love toward his creation.

When you think about God the Father, what comes to mind? A faraway king who makes rules? A judge who keeps score? A kind and tender father? God the Father's design is for earthly dads to show their kids what He's like-but many dads have done the opposite-they have distorted their daughter's view of the Father. As a result, many of us struggle in our relationships with our dad and with God, yet are unsure of how to make things better. Daddy's Girl will help you identify your misconceptions about God the Father and discover who He truly is so you can find healing, security, and freedom as God's beloved daughter!

My testimony speaks about rejection. Growing up, I was bound for many years, being consumed with rejection. As a young girl, those feelings and emotions lead me to seek love, acceptance, and approval in the things of the world, leaving me broken, jaded, tainted, and scarred. If I would have only known and understood how greatly loved, cherished, and adored I was in the Lord's eyes, I wouldn't have gone searching for that fulfillment in the world. God's Word is life-changing! It is a chain-breaking kind of power! It's setting the captive free kind of power! It's powerful, and speaking God's Word over our daughters will bring true understanding of whom God created them to be and how greatly loved and cherished they are. In this generation, the pressures of social media trends and the influences of the world are more now than ever. As a Christian parent, speaking God's Word over our children is needed now, more than flesh and blood can bear. It's essential. It's necessary. It is a vital tool in raising our children to truly comprehend their worth and importance, their uniqueness, and the vast magnitude of love the Lord has for His children.

This sixteen-session guide will help women grow in their relationship with God and with one another while deepening their understanding of the Catholic faith. Prayer, mercy, the Eucharist, forgiveness, friendship, emotions, stewardship, and other topics are explored alongside relevant passages from Scripture and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Book jacket.

The book re-centers the conversation back to what I believe anchors our identity and inspires our ways of being, living, and loving. That is, we all are beloved children of the Triune God whose image and likeness we bear—hence, we all are God’s beloved queers primed to flourish in more ways than we can ever dare to imagine for ourselves. I have drawn from a wide range of disciplines—pastoral theology, spirituality, counseling psychology, affective neuroscience, anthropology—to offer a more nuanced description of what it means, as queer folks, to be sacred icons of God like everyone else, offering multifarious windows into the spacious, gratuitous, and transforming love of God. It also explores with penetrating detail the inner psychological and spiritual terrain of our queer lives, along with spiritual practices that will help support our flourishing.