Do you share ideas and
such with your girlfriends or do you keep them to yourself?
This mascara is so different than any other mascara that I
have ever used…it actually comes off in tubes…rather than smudging into the
crevices around your eyes. I never used
to be able to get my mascara off completely and would have remnants of it on my
pillowcase often.
As I was washing my face last night and the wet wash cloth
warmed my face, I heard God whisper a cleansing message to my heart. “You have walked this week in freedom.”
I later saw these words in His Word as I read in Psalm 119
the following morning!
When I was washing my face, I glanced at the wash cloth and
saw all the black tubes of mascara in the cloth and glanced at the mirror to
see my eye lashes were clean –you’ve got to try it if you haven’t…check it out
online here.
Apparently, this beauty tip that has me jazzed this month
isn’t so new—but maybe you haven’t heard yet either—so I feel compelled to share. God did the same for my heart. He didn’t speak anything new—but He felt
compelled to share this soul-deep beauty tip…and He encouraged me, and
let my heart know that He noticed and nudged me to see for myself!
God noticed that I did not allow the hurtful, wearisome acts
of my week to hold me back and because I clung to Him and the truth of whom I
am in Him… I walked in freedom…holding onto my confidence! (Rather than
throwing away my confidence for the day, which I have often done in the past
(Heb 10:35-36).
I’ve mentioned on my Princess
Path Facebook Page, that I am partaking in Renee Swope’s “Confident Heart Online Bible
Study.” And this past week she asked
us to think about and describe a woman with a confident heart; I wish I could
say that I have felt confident this week.
A lot of new projects and new challenges of the heart have come upon me
these past couple of weeks; and looking
back, I believe God allowed these along with a series of hurtful situations to
come my way just so I could see that—yep…with Him I’m strong enough to stand…strong
enough to stand in His love, not matter what life throws at me.
God showed me in the midst of my tubes mascara that by allowing His Living Water to continually wash away the junk of the world I lived confidently in Him...even during painful moments that made me feel less than secure. The key was He alone was my
source of Loving Water. I didn't rely on the comments of girlfriends or family to cheer me up this week, nor did I allow the hurtful moments to bring me down--at least not far enough down, where God could not nudge me back up.
For a confident woman plants herself by the Water. She does not fear or worry when heat from the
world comes. She just keeps going…knowing
and relying on Love…the love God has for her.
(Jer 17:7, 1 John 4:16)
Have you struggled with standing confident lately? Confidence can be a fleeting feeling if we are not tapped into the One True Source. We as fellow princesses must keep pointing each other to Him as the One True Source.
Have you struggled with standing confident lately? Confidence can be a fleeting feeling if we are not tapped into the One True Source. We as fellow princesses must keep pointing each other to Him as the One True Source.
Turn your heart towards God…Turn your eyes away from
worthless things…He will preserve your life according to His Word! (Psalm
119:36-37)
And don't forget to go check out that mascara, girlfriend, and come back to tell me what you think!
And don't forget to go check out that mascara, girlfriend, and come back to tell me what you think!
2 comments:
wow Julie, I have had similar hurtful circumstances this last week. Through it God is teaching me thatHe is enough. It doesn't matter what the world thinks...we perform for an audience of One.
Thank you Kimberly for posting, you are so right, and my heart resonates with your words, "...we perform for an audience of One." Praising God for giving us strength :)
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