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    Beautiful Me: Believing God's Truth about You
    Beautiful Me: Believing God's Truth about You
    Beautiful Me: Believing God's Truth about You
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    Beautiful Me: Believing God's Truth about You

    By Stasi Eldredge

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    God loves who you are!
    In this 90-day devotional for young women, Stasi Eldredge takes excerpts from her book Free to Be Me and combines them with prayers, scriptures, and positive declarations. Day by day, she turns you back to the truth that God sees you as beautiful beyond measure—and he delights in dreaming big dreams with you for your life!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid C Cook
    Release dateJan 1, 2016
    ISBN9781434710123
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    Stasi Eldredge

    Stasi Eldredge is a New York Times bestselling author, and her books have sold nearly 3 million copies and changed women's lives all over the world. A teacher and conference speaker, Stasi is the director of the women's ministry at Ransomed Heart, a ministry devoted to helping people discover the heart of God, recover their own hearts in God's love, and learn to live in God's kingdom. Her passion is to see lives transformed by the beauty of the gospel. She and her husband, John, make their home in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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      Beautiful Me - Stasi Eldredge

      BEAUTIFUL ME

      Published by David C Cook

      4050 Lee Vance View

      Colorado Springs, CO 80918 U.S.A.

      David C Cook Distribution Canada

      55 Woodslee Avenue, Paris, Ontario, Canada N3L 3E5

      David C Cook U.K., Kingsway Communications

      Eastbourne, East Sussex BN23 6NT, England

      The graphic circle C logo is a registered trademark of David C Cook.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 2011 by Biblica, Inc®. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. Scripture quotations marked

      ESV

      are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved;

      KJV

      are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. (Public Domain.);

      MSG

      are taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group;

      NLT

      are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved;

      RSV

      are taken from The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version. Copyright 1946, 1973 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

      LCCN 2015944608

      ISBN 978-1-4347-0994-3

      eISBN 978-1-4347-1012-3

      © 2016 Stasi Eldredge

      Published in association with Yates & Yates, www.yates2.com

      The Team: Alice Crider, Elisa Stanford, Amy Konyndyk, Helen Macdonald, Susan Murdock

      Cover Design: Nick Lee

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      To Abigail, Gracelyn Rose, and Hartley Faye

      With love, joy, faith, and true hope from your auntie.

      contents

      welcome!

      1 beautiful you!

      2 God made you you

      3 well on your way

      4 pictures in the clouds

      5 your most important journey

      6 where Christ dwells

      7 loving yourself

      8 the heart of the matter

      9 wonder years?

      10 the secret

      11 an inside-out process

      12 what God has promised

      13 looking back

      14 desperate for God

      15 the stories that shape us

      16 created in the image of God

      17 more than conquerors

      18 coheirs with Christ

      19 beautiful girl

      20 a quiet soul

      21 the only reflection that matters

      22 measuring up

      23 God’s gift

      24 worth caring for

      25 God dreams big

      26 what can God not do?

      27 a heart awake

      28 squeezing ourselves into beauty 79

      29 true beauty

      30 Jesus can

      31 our artist God

      32 free to be ourselves

      33 who do you think you are?

      34 agreeing with God

      35 spiritual warfare

      36 take that!

      37 in the name of Jesus

      38 stumbling into grace

      39 far from eden

      40 victory!

      41 invite Jesus in

      42 beauty from ashes

      43 the doorway of suffering

      44 acquainted with grief

      45 leaning into God

      46 the work of suffering

      47 giving thanks

      48 beautiful scars

      49 shake off your dust

      50 the fight of faith

      51 free to fail

      52 the greatest freedom of all

      53 fitting in

      54 standing out

      55 bff

      56 surrendering

      57 our biggest cheerleaders

      58 jealousy and envy

      59 let it go

      60 the power of words

      61 honestly

      62 unholy bonds

      63 friend me

      64 male and female he created them

      65 a safe place

      66 boys, boys, boys

      67 God’s treasure

      68 created to love

      69 the greatest commandment

      70 sitting at Jesus’s feet

      71 when God lingers

      72 lavish love

      73 you are chosen

      74 a divine exchange

      75 she was with Jesus

      76 choose to believe

      77 what the world needs now

      78 daughter of the king

      79 never forget who you are

      80 what do you call yourself?

      81 he will change your name

      82 you are the beloved

      83 focusing on faithfulness

      84 scoreboard.

      85 your truest identity

      86 you make him happy

      87 call it good

      88 what has God named you?

      89 never alone

      90 more joy ahead

      a few final words from stasi

      welcome!

      I’m glad you’re here! I’m Stasi, and it’s true that most people wouldn’t consider me a young woman anymore. I’m in my fifties. We might as well get that out in the open right away. But I’ve learned some things along the way, getting to this age. I’ve learned from the women around me—younger and older. One of the greatest things I’ve learned so far in my life is the value of time spent alone with God.

      Does that sound strange? How do we go about being alone with God?

      The incredible truth is that the God of the universe wants you to talk with him. To turn to him every day. To listen to him through Scripture, silence, and the words of others who know him.

      Each day in this three-month devotional includes a Bible verse, a word of encouragement from me, and then a prayer, question, or declaration for you to use as a starting point for your own intimate time with God.

      A lot of people like to spend their devotional time in the morning, but others prefer that intentional time with God just before bed. You can experiment with what time and place works best for you. A coffee shop? Between classes? Just before you head to your job?

      The important thing to know is that God wants to meet with you even more than you want to meet with him! He wants you to know him and know how much he values you. Wherever and whenever you grab this book, know that God is waiting to speak words of love to you. He is eager to tell you, again and again, that you are beautiful. Right here. Right now. Are you ready?

      1

      beautiful you!

      There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.

      —Philippians 1:6

      MSG

      Did you know you are beautiful? Not just pretty or cute or acceptable, but beautiful. Beyond measure. Beyond anything else God created. I know you don’t always feel beautiful. I struggle with that too. But God sees us as beautiful, radiant, gifted, valued, and loved. I’m excited to think of you receiving that truth in your mind and spirit now, as a young woman, so that you can live out your beauty and your gifts throughout your lifetime!

      That reminds me of a secret I want to share with you: life gets better. No, really. It does. It might feel hard for a while there. Life is kind of like that, but cross my heart, I’m telling you the truth. It gets better.

      You will find your way. You will grow and learn and figure it out and change in the ways you so long to. Because of Jesus. Because of Jesus, change is not only possible but it’s promised.

      You are being transformed into the very image of Jesus. He who has called you is faithful, and what he has begun he will complete. You have a part to play too in God’s work in you, and God will guide you in what that looks like. Jesus wants you to be free to be who you are! Beautiful, beautiful you. And that’s no secret.

      Jesus, you are transforming me into your image. What part do you want me to play in that transformation today? Show me how you want me to see you. Show me how you want me to see myself! In Jesus’s name, amen.

      2

      God made you you

      For you created my inmost being;

      you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

      I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

      your works are wonderful,

      I know that full well.

      —Psalm 139:13–14

      Self-assured is not how anyone would have described me in high school. I may have looked that way. I sure tried hard to appear that way. But if there had been a sign hanging over my heart, it would have read, Just tell me who I’m supposed to be and I’ll be that. My parents had an idea of who I was supposed to be. (Smarter! Thinner! More popular!) My friends were quite willing to tell me, without even speaking, who I was supposed to be. (Funnier! Prettier!) I let my sisters tell me who I was supposed to be. I sure let boys tell me.

      I let other people tell me who I was and who I was not before I even had a clue as to whether or not they were right.

      Maybe we come into this world with a grand sense of self. But then life chips away at our innate sense of unique well-being. Life happens, things happen, words are spoken, and it isn’t very long before we figure out that in order to survive, there is a person we need to be, and she isn’t us. Not truly. Not fully. Not freely.

      Just tell me who I am supposed to be and I’ll be that.

      Big sigh.

      So I bet you can guess what I’m going

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