Comments on: So Long Insecurity Discussion Group

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:20:16 +0000

This is just the type of detail I was in search of. I wish I’d have found your web site earlier.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:55:16 +0000

Hey Beth,
I’m on chapter 8 in your book and I can’t even begin to tell you all that I’ve learned about insecurity…I wouldn’t know where to start! So I feel like I really get things when I watch skits/videos or hear stories from other people. Maybe it’s the comforting part, but I’ve never been a part of a blog before. I’d like to read and share stories and just be a part of all this. Plus I think it’s a lot easier to be transparent on the internet with people I’ve never met! I guess the fact that they’re being transparent helps too. But where do I start?? Which week would I go to for chapter 8? Or would you suggest I start at the beginning?

By: Terri

Terri — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:52:40 +0000

I found this book completely by God’s own hand. I was waltzing into church the week before Spring Break and needed a good read….but our church library has not been opened in years. You know God and how He works! One of the ladies in church felt that she needed to start opening the library before Sunday School. Well….she had a brand new bag of books that I could look at since I just could not find what I was hungry for, and alas, this book was in the pile. I grabbed it like it was my last meal! (I know I have a security problem, duh) I wagged the book through four states and read and reread pages many times while trying to allow the words to work in my heart and CONVINCE my stubborn mind that I must turn from the old habits of insecurity and grip the new ways of Christ’s security. This book is full of powerful and precious insights that I plan to adopt as my new way of thinking….clothed with strength and dignity.

By: Lori

Lori — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:28:34 +0000

Hi Beth,

I absolutely love your book and truly believe that millions of women have insecurity issues due to unrealistic expectations of the media. Women and men need to complain to companies about how women are portrayed in the media and email corporate executives about the negative impact it has on millions of women and young girls in the U.S.

In regards to the Victoria Secrets fashion in 2002, the FCC Commissioner Michael Copps renewed his calling for stricter indecency standards on broadcast TV, after receiving only 300 complaints about the broadcast. I encourage all women who are tired of being portrayed as sex objects in the media to email Michael Copps at http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/copps/mail.html. Let’s make a difference and start changing the way the culture views women.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:45:06 +0000

This is my first time on the blog, as I just finished SLI two days ago.

I had heard of the book some time back, but I wasn’t ready to dig up the mess inside. However, after a total break down over my husband standing up in a wedding and having to dance with another girl, I knew I couldn’t leave this festering inside any longer. I felt so pathetic – which is coming from a girl who from the outside is covered in confidence and good self-esteem.

My personality is one that requires me to get to the point that I decide, “You can’t have the best of me – you can’t ruin me!!” (or beat me at this, etc.) to do something. God got a hold of me and used this book in a very powerful way.

Thank you, Beth, for writing this book!

I can wake up now and instead of letting my circumstances, my husband, etc. determine my security, I know I am secure because my security comes from God alone – the only one I can trust always and with everything!! It is like a million bricks were lifted off of my heart, mind, and shoulders!!!

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:52:06 +0000

Good morning Ms. Beth, I probabaly am doing this all wrong, but I wanted to share something with you. Growing up, I felt like I was ugly (never had boyfriends) and stupid (I struggled in school). When I came to know Christ as my Lord and Savior, things started changing for me. One of the pastors @ the church, John S. would get on me when I would say something like I am stupid. He and others would say that I am made in Christ’s image and he is not stupid. After a long while, that began to sink in. At 41 years old, I have just started college (never been). It is a little tough with being a single mom of 2 teen boys, working full time and then some but I have to totally rely upon God. Trust me – I have learned how to discern Gods voice – that this is His ideal – certainly not mine. I had been dating this guy for the last 4 years. Good man, loves his kids (calls them every night) and they live half way across the country, great relationship with his mom & would do anything for anyone. Well about 8 months ago, I found out that he was seeing someone else (someone that I was getting to know) at church. I was deeply hurt. I forgave both of them. I then started praying about how to handle the girl – because I had basically just shrugged my shoulders and life went on as usual with my boyfriend. I did listen to a CD called no bitter root done by one of the other pastors at the church. (Honestly, I had to listen to it about 20 times). I felt sorry for this other girl – because she is a single mom of 4 boys (her husband left her for another woman about 2 years ago), she had been molested by step fathers & uncles in her life when she was young. Taken advantage of sexually by a pastor in another church. We became increadibly close – closer than sisters. we could call each other everyday, text 4 or 5 times a day, work out together, tell each other we loved each other. I spent Christmas eve with her and her kids (my kids at their dads house) I helped her put a train table together that night (took 4 hours), the next day – the 25th, I shared with her mom & stepdad, her brother, his wife and their kids. I had never in my life felt this close to another woman, she said the same thing to me. But I also felt my relationship with the Lord seperating. I wasn’t praying like I should & if I did, it was only mechanical, stopped doing my SS lessons, daily devotions, tithing and going to church on Sun. nights & Wed. She had quit coming to church all together for about 2 months. It had been about a month ago and I was sitting there in service Sun morning and the Lord spoke to me and said that this was not a relationship I needed to have. Well about a week after that I found out that she and my boyfriend had started back up their relationship again – about 3 months ago. Wow, I was devistated. I forgave them because when Christ died on the cross for my sins – that was enough. I have since gotten her out of my life completely. Him – come to find out, after a long e-mail she sent me about how he lied, asked her to lie, manipulated her, etc…. that this was like a “monkey on his back”, like a drinking or pornongrahy problem. I am not – I mean NOT back with him, but am supporting him with another couple in the church. He does now have a male spiritual mentor in the church. But anyway, my point is wow, the insecurities this has brought out in me. I have never in my life been this insecure. I would be thinking to myself “why are you acting like this and who are you????” I am on Chapter 15 of your book and it has started to change my “stinking way of thinking”. I am also reading the book by Josh Harris’ called Saying goodbye to Dating. Very good book. One of my classes at college is English Comp I. The teacher said to pick any book to read (for the younger kids in the class – no Twilight or Harlequin Romance, ect…)I would like to pick your book and share it with the class because all women – well at least the ones I know struggle with insecurity. I did my SS lesson last night. The title was “Sick Of Greed?” It talks about with the Lord’s help, we can reject selfish impulses that find expression in self-justifying thoughts and deceitful actions. The Lord had alot to say to me in this one. Have a super blessed day…. Angela

By: Angelica

Angelica — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:34:47 +0000

There is just so much to say. Being long winded by nature I’ll attempt to keep it short.
I thank God for you Beth and your “conspirators.”
I have come so much closer to our Father through your Bible studies. And to think that walk just gets better!!!

My growing relationship with Him is so fullfilling, but something was (and in many ways still is) missing.
I didn’t know. I mean I guess I did, but I was limiting His healing to the world at large or my daughter’s fractured foot. I never thought about his healing of me. Of My brokeness. I always passed it off as a childhood ailment like mumps. Everybody has it so get over it and go on. I knew that there was life above it. Some unattainable height that came I don’t know when, perhaps when I meet Him in the clouds. lol. Not here, not now. I wept, laughed, and came to the end of your book with a knowledge that I will be healed of this. Slowely, because I am that sort of girl that NEEDS the Burning Bush most of the time.
Thank You for going there Beth

Angie

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:09:26 +0000

At any insecure moment I have had the last couple monthes, I have repeated the “She is clothed with stregnth and dignity” verse. I have found it calming to remind myself of this and to find reassurance in the fact that my security is in Christ completely, not of things or people of this world.

By: Lea

Lea — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:28:26 +0000

I received SLI in april of 2010 as a result of a friend asking God what I needed for my birthday. I didn’t open it until 11/10 and began reading it on vacation. I prayed the prayer in chapter 9 for 45 days and the Lord has made huge changes in my sense of security and who I am and just in time for my mother (tough relationship) to be dx with stage 4 lung cancer with lymph mets. The emotions God guided me through while reading your book have turned into a healing balm that is now what helps me make it through each day as I listen to her struggle with this dx. I truly can’t thank you enough for this book and am unable to put in words how it has helped prepare me for this next chapter in my life. I pray that God will speak to your heart and let you know how much you are appreciated. Thank You, Lea

By: cityville

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