Renee Swope > Quotes

“Take me beyond the shadows of my doubts and teach me how to rely on the power of Your promises. When doubt overshadows my thoughts, help me shift my focus back to You, remembering that the mind fixed on the flesh is death, but the mind fixed on the Spirit is life and peace.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Until our hearts find complete security and significance in God's unconditional love, we will never be satisfied.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Live in the Security of God s Promises

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. Harold Thurman Whitman”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“God’s plans for us are found when we surrender ours and seek His each day.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Live in the Security of God s Promises

“Every time I compare myself with someone else, I can never measure up because I am comparing my insides with their outsides.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“If we want to be free from fear so we can walk in faith, we have to hold on to what God is teaching us, replacing our natural ways with His. We will only overcome our fears by walking through them, holding God’s hand, and trusting His heart to lead, protect, and preserve us.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you’ll have a head-on collision with your calling.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Hope is at the core of our faith in Christ. As we allow His hope to flow into us, it will flow through us even in the most difficult circumstances. If you are struggling today, take heart.”
― Renee Swope, Encouragement for Today: Devotions for Everyday Living

“Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. John Eldredge and Brent Curtis”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Satan intends to deceive us by getting us to take our eyes off of who we are in Christ and focus on our flaws—and then spend our days figuring out how we can hide them.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“I used to feel so far from God, like I had to work my way back to Him after periods of inconsistency...it's not about trying harder. it's about turning sooner. It's about confessing sin and turning back to God's gift of grace. Grace is God's "undeserved favor." We don't have to earn it, and we cannot lose it when we act undeserving.”
― Renee Swope

“God has put a divine magnet within each of us that is intended to attract us to the people, function or causes where he intends us to minister. This is not an afterthought on God’s part. Our passion is built in to us so that we will conform ourselves to His purpose for our lives.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“You and I have the choice to either let doubt beat us up or let God’s truth build us up. If we have Christ in us, we have full access to God’s power and His promises to live with a confident heart.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“God will call you beyond your limitations to do something that requires faith. It’s not so much about what He wants you to do as what He wants to do in you, as you depend on Him.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself and Live in the Security of God s Promises

“You can only see the shadow because you have turned away from the light. Turn back toward the light.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Your past has not come full circle to its complete redemption until you allow Christ to not only defuse it, but also to use it.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“men are developed the same way gold is mined. When gold is mined, several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold, but one doesn’t go into the mine looking for dirt, one goes in looking for gold, and the more he looks for the more he finds.”[9] Zig Ziglar used this story as an illustration,”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves when we offer it to others.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“Sometimes God answers our prayers by calling us to be part of the solution to our problems. Instead of changing our circumstances, often God uses our circumstances to change us by bringing us closer to Him, making us more like Him, and helping us find our confidence in Him.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“Could we take off the mask that we live the “fairy tale,” especially as Christians? We are certainly blessed, in every circumstance guarded by the Father, but honestly, in the deepest parts, sometimes we aren’t fine.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“Our broken cisterns leak because the wells of our hearts were created to be filled by God alone. The deepest thirst of our souls can only be quenched by Him. Although the people and things I’ve listed are gifts, so many times we look to the gifts instead of the Giver to fill us and fulfill us with lasting contentment and significance.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“When we allow Jesus to search our hearts and bring His perspective into our pain, redemption comes. Whether it is the pain from our yesterdays or hurts from our todays, when we give Jesus time to pour His truth into our wounds, His love flows”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“Dear Lord, please forgive me for harboring anger. Equip me with a supernatural ability to forgive those who have hurt me. Guard my heart when old emotions threaten to surface. Strip my heart of anger and replace it with joy. In Jesus’ name, Amen. REMEMBER Anger only worsens any situation, but selfless forgiveness brings freedom. We are all called to forgive even when wronged, just as God forgives us.”
― Renee Swope, Encouragement for Today: Devotions for Everyday Living

“Lord, I pray that You would give me a confident heart in Christ. Take me beyond believing in You to truly believing You. Help me rely on the power of Your promises and live like they are true. You say blessed is the one who trusts in You and whose hope and confidence are found in You. Those who hope in You will not be disappointed, because You work all things together for good for those who love You and are called according to Your purpose. When self-doubt tells me I can’t overcome my insecurities, I will believe Your promise that all things are possible to whoever believes. I will not throw away my confidence, because You say it will be richly rewarded. I will persevere so that when I have done the will of God, I will receive what You have promised. My confidence is in Christ and I am no longer one who shrinks back and is destroyed, but one who believes and is saved! In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart

“As you courageously trust God’s heart, ask Him to reveal Himself to you and then let Him reveal Himself through you. Hold your dreams and plans up to Jesus in surrender, and watch your life become a display of His splendor.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself

“God understands what we’re going through. His Word promises He will help us in times of trouble. When adversity strikes, God offers Himself as our refuge and His strength to weather life’s storms. No matter the problems tossing us about, we don’t have to feel like we’re simply hanging on. Instead, we can trust the One who offers us peace and carries us through until we get to calmer shores. Dear Lord, I feel beaten down by the storms of life, drowning in a sea of adversity and stress. I commit to depend on You as my refuge and I place my trust in You. In Jesus’ name, Amen.”
― Renee Swope, Encouragement for Today: Devotions for Everyday Living

“The only way we’ll break free from the comparison trap is by embracing who we are instead of trying to be who we’re not. So how do we start? First, trust that God made you just as He wanted you to be, and then be the best YOU. Discover and offer the unique personality traits God gave you to impact those around you.”
― Renee Swope, A Confident Heart Devotional: 60 Days to Stop Doubting Yourself