Summary: <br> If there’s ever been a clean slate and fresh start to life, here it is! The beginning of a brand new decade. You can step into 2020 with confidence.<br> CONFIDENCE. An area many women struggle with. A determining factor between success and failure. There’s a difference between confidence and self-righteousness. This isn’t arrogance. True confidence comes from four things:<br> 1. Knowing who you are.<br> 2. Knowing whose you are.<br> 3. Knowing there’s a good plan.<br> 4. Knowing you’ve got what it takes to fulfill that plan.<br> WHO ARE YOU?<br> You are a miracle. We often forget that. It’s easy to look at a newborn baby and recognize the miracle in their sheer existence having just been formed and born into this world, but we forget we were once that baby. This is exactly how you were made too. Everything about you is absolutely miraculous. The odds of you even being born were 1 in 400 trillion. That’s a 4 with 14 zeros behind it! It took the exact egg from your mother and the exact sperm from your father to create you. No other 2 human beings could have formed you.<br> Honey, you are no mistake. You are by great design. Every detail of you has been meticulously chosen and crafted together to create life as only you can live it. You are a woman with purpose. A woman specially designed for this very space and time. Walk in confidence knowing you are exactly who you’re supposed to be.<br> WHOSE ARE YOU?<br> You are a real life princess, you know? A daughter of the king of all kings. Girl, straighten your crown! Your Daddy is the owner of everything, the grand director of all, the man in charge and don’t forget, his eye is on you. He carefully watched every detail as you were knit in your mother’s womb. The eyes of God do not look at you with condemnation, they look at you with compassion. He proved his compassion by sacrificing his son to save you.<br> We know a car from Mercedes will cost more than a car from Toyota. A Coach purse will cost more than a Target purse, and a Louis Vuitton purse will cost more than a Coach purse. It’s a matter of the maker. Who designed this car? What label is on this purse? Who made these shoes? Tell me the name and I’ll tell you the value.<br> Girl, your label is above all labels. You have the fingerprints of God on your life. You are valuable beyond measure because of your maker.<br> And he’s not just your maker, he’s your Abba Father. The translation of many words used to describe God in the Bible are that of a Daddy. A sweet Papa. A good good father. And you are his beloved daughter. His chosen one.<br> Snuggle up to that truth. You should find great confidence in knowing you belong to the Almighty.<br> WHAT’S THE PLAN<br> There is a good plan over your life. And while we all must admit in a moment of truth we’ve likely screwed up a few times and halted our own goodness, we are not nearly powerful enough to cancel out God’s good plan. There is absolutely NOTHING he can’t work with and through. There’s nothing he can’t use for good. When scripture says in Romans 8:28 that “ALL THINGS are used for good for those who who love him and are called according to his purpose”, understand that truly means ALL THINGS.<br> This week I witnessed a woman who had almost ruined her marriage with an affair, in turn helping a woman who was hurting from her own husband’s unfaithfulness. In that moment I witnessed God once again using ALL THINGS for good. One woman’s owned mistake became another woman’s guide through the darkness. THAT’S GOD. And it is his good plan.<br> What is “your thing”? Your hurt, your pain, your shame, your mistake, your struggle … will you surrender it to God’s good plan of now using it all for good? Remember, your “thing” was included in the cover of AL...
