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Nothing Matters More Than the One

“Hi everyone. It’s been a blessing to get to know some of you and your beautiful personalities and gifts. I just really desired to have an opportunity before we left to share with you and encourage you. My husband and I met at a young adults Bible study exactly like this when I was 18…
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All Desires But One

This past year, I was left in many wants. This past year, all my desires were heightened because of my lack of them. I found myself consumed, weighed down, and suppressed over my longings and my desires. My yearnings made me feel heavier, lonely, poor, and depressed. I cannot enter this new year with the…
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Heal Our Faithlessness

“Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.” Jeremiah 2:11 ESV Women are bombarded with so many pressures from beauty, to relationships, to career choices. In a worldly perspective, the measure of our worth and success comes from…
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Break Up Your Fallow Ground

“Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the LORD, that He may come and rain righteousness upon you.” Hosea 10:12 After devoting myself to dive in the book of Hosea, one thought came to mind. God’s love for His children is unconditional. He…
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Love is Knocking

To the girl who has had her heart broken to pieces, to the wife who’s husband let her down, to the single girl who is struggling with loneliness, to the woman who longs to be noticed and loved… You are not forgotten, invisible, or unworthy. He who formed you in the womb knows you, remembers…
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Completely Whole

“You are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.” Colossians 2:10 Girl, you and I can wake up in the morning, grab our phones, and see the unending messages that social media brings to our minds. We can see beautiful women, beautiful relationships, beautiful houses, and beautiful stories all on…
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He Will Establish You

“For the Most High Himself will establish her.” Psalm 87:5 If you’re anything like me, many doubts, fears, worries, and regrets can easily overwhelm me and hinder me from becoming who I want to be. Not only that, but I have so many expectations of myself that I become my biggest competitor of my dreams,…
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Gracefully Adorned

Dear Beloved, How do you clothe yourself? In Proverbs 31:25 it says, “Strength and dignity are her clothing” (ESV). For the Proverbs 31 woman to clothe herself in strength and dignity, she must believe that this clothing is hers. She must first believe that her Heavenly Father perfectly knitted and tailored this to fit her.…
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I am what I am

Even though I have walked with God since my early teens, I still have my days where my world is caving in and I need His cradling arms to comfort me. My earthly father raised me to be modest, and in my teenage years, he pounded into my mind that I was beautiful the way…
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If Nobody Has Told You

“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made…” -Psalm 139:14 Ladies, if nobody has told you lately, if voices have altered your self-perception, if the arise of social media has caused more comparison, if lies have caused oppression, and false forms of beauty have caused depression, I feel your pain. It seems like…
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