Hey, Siestas!
Several of you asked this week about the upcoming schedule for our Siesta So Long Insecurity discussion group. All of a sudden I realized that it was just days away and I’d better hop on it! I’ve had the shelf date continually in my mind but my priority attentions to it have been shoved behind the SMT Celebration and the launch of Tuesday night Bible study. My blond brain can only sufficiently handle one thing at a time and it’s finally time for this to be the one thing.
For those of you who aren’t up to speed on the subject, this blog community was my biggest resource and, hands down, my most valuable one for the new book, So Long Insecurity. I thought it would be so appropriate and insightful (and fun) to go through it together when it comes out. Well, it’s coming out on Tuesday so we better get this big ball rolling! I’ll put the information in the form of an FAQ for those of you who find that kind of layout most helpful. So here goes:
What’s the plan?
To go through the book together here on the blog over the course of nine weeks. It will conclude the week prior to the SLI simulcast (on April 24th) and I’m anticipating God using our discussions here to add insight into the messages I’ll share that day. He’s used you so many times in this ministry.
How will it work?
Every week I’ll give you a reading assignment (roughly two chapters a week) along with one or two questions based on that material. Those who want to respond will do so through posting comments.
Who should participate?
Anyone with two X chromosomes! Everybody’s welcome! Some of the things we do together on this blog – like summer Bible study and Scripture memory – are over the heads or outside the interests of many of our female coworkers, neighbors, siblings, or friends. Not this time. This subject matter was purposely written to be relevant for any woman trying to survive this culture with a little dignity. My prayer is that, in the pursuit of dignity, they will discover real Security. (Proverbs 3:26 NLT) I give you my word it is not a trap. It is what I believe from the marrow of my bones to be the Truth. If you’re unsure you want to risk asking someone outside the Christian community to join us, grab hold of the book quickly, read it for yourself and see if you think a few of your friends might be open to going through it. No pressure. It’s entirely up to you. God alone has the power to draw people to His Son.
When will we start?
So Long Insecurity hits the stands this coming Tuesday, February 2nd. I will give everyone who wants to participate one week to get your hands on a copy (bookstores, Amazon, etc.). Then, on Tuesday, February 9th, I’ll do a “roll call” (First name and city) to see who’s going to participate. That’s always a ton of fun. In an outreach setting like this one, it will be a blast to see brand new names. On Thursday, February 11th, we’ll start our reading assignments and our first week’s discussion questions. Each Thursday for the next nine weeks I’ll pitch another set of assignments and questions on the blog until we reach the conclusion. (For those who are afraid that one week might not be long enough to get a copy of the book in your hands, keep in mind that, even if you get yours late into the second week, the reading goes quickly enough to put you right on schedule.)
What if I don’t want to take nine whole weeks to read the book?
I just knew somebody was going to ask that question. I’m laughing but I’d be the same way. You can read the book as fast as you’d like then look back on it chapter by chapter as we slow down and do it together as a group.
But what if I don’t want to participate?
Then don’t! I’ll love you so much anyway and meet with you plenty of other times on the blog.
WOW. This is about to be a reality. I just have one last thing to say, Siestas. If you hate it, you helped me write it. SHARE MY PAIN!
I love you.
*Update*
You can sign up for the SLI DG on the roll call post.*
I am way behind, sorry! I have just ordered my copy of your book, but will start asap. I was listening to you on Life Today (I live in England) and was so inspired by what I heard I just had to see what it is all about. Thank you for what you said about courage. God is in dialogue with me about something close to my heart and his at the moment, and I will need courage to go ahead with it. God bless xx
Beth, I’m sad to say that only in the last few months have I really found out who you are and started reading your materials. I started the Esther study today and my heart is overflowing. I feel like finally I have found someone who speaks to my heart through Bible study and can help me get on the right path in that regard. It’s an area I’ve struggled in for many years.
Meanwhile, I am reading your new book on Insecurity, and I am the girl you talk to on the back cover. I was walking through Barnes and Noble, looking for another book, and the front of that book jumped off the shelf at me when I saw it! I had to bust out laughing when I read the back cover, hiding the front so nobody would think I was so pathetic I needed to buy THAT book!!! LOL I am LOVING it, and if you wrote it for no other reason, it was to reach my heart. I AM that woman you describe so eloquently. I cannot wait to finish the book and to see what God has in store for me. He’s speaking to me so much already, and I know it was HE who directed my eyes to that cover last week in the bookstore. Thank you for your passion for God. It’s contagious.
Hey Beth….I am a 60 year OLD woman for whom this book was written!!!!! This was MY story as well. I had been praying and pleading with the Lord to help me in this certain area of insecurity. Then at Barnes & Noble one Sunday after church…PTL! There you were!! I have purchased the book for me, one for my 83 year old mother (who loves it) a sister, and one to pass at Curves. My copy is literally underlined with yellow marker from beginning to end. Favorite 2 sentences for me: An old situation creeping up in a new season of our life can be more complicated than ever. We think we’ve murdered that monster once and for all, and then it rises from the dead and it has grown another head.
Well I have just finished the book and it was an amazing journey for me. Thank you so much for writing it. So many times as I was reading I was sure you were talking to me! Insecurity has crippled me for so many years. Oddly if you met me you would never know. I have learned to keep it so close. NO MORE. My life will be different because I have read this book there is no doubt. Knowing what I know now about the other side of fear is most likely the most freeing thing I have ever heard. I am keeping this book close to me for awhile. I have jotted down some things that will keep me focused and am keeping them where I can see them every day. All I can say is Woo Hoo!
B
Just finished week 6. I have come to the conclusion that as a menopausal woman this book is inspiring. At this season of my life, I have decided to be who I was created to be. Some of my fellow women have hit menopause & went nuts… started drinking… a lot, smoking, & two divorced their husbands! Yes, we women grapple with midlife, aging & menopause mania. However, I believe that the driving force we feel at this time in our life is not to make self destructive choices; rather , it is the time to change out of our insecurity into a garment of praise as a daughter of the Most High God! We will be who God created us to be!!! Smiles to all my menopausal mamacitas!
After reading your blog today, I am very curious and inspired to read SLI. Can’t wait to get started. I think it’s neat how you are reading the book with everyone and giving discussion questions too! Awesome!
Hi Beth,
I know that we have never meet, but I feel like I know you personally. Since July of last year I have worked with you on almost a daily basis. See I am the graphics designer for CCN (Church Communication Network) and have been working on the simulcast So Long, Insecurity since I was emailed your picture and a picture of the book back in August, 2009.
Anyway, I got done with your book just a few minutes ago along with all the signs and listening guides for the live site in Atlanta. I have to say it’s been such a great journey having the opportunity to work on this project.
I have to admit though, it would have really helped me in August to have gotten an early version of the book before I started on the simulcast’s project. See in middle July I was called by one of CCN’s project managers that the project was coming my way and I almost panicked when I heard the news. (I will admit that I had never done any of your bible studies in the past even though I’ve heard rave reviews over them.) But when I got the news, almost instantly insecurity started filling my mind like “you, why would they choose you? Your not good enough.” I feel that for over a month the devil marched right into my life and began attacking me, my marriage and my family.
Finally on August 15th I was emailed your picture and said “have fun” and oh by the way the website, materials and everything else in between had to be done September 1st! My first thought was what??? You want me to create a miracle in 15 days?! So I spent the first 2 days searching for design ideas and looking at the calendar. Telling myself that this was impossible and every time I’d decide that I was happy with a design and look, I’d scrap it and sob. It was horrible until finally God spoke to me. As I was sitting there sobbing, God said, trust in Me. Yes plain as day, just like you wrote in your book. So I wiped my tears and said okay Lord, show me the way. And so as you know, September 1st came around and wa la, everything was amazingly up and approved.
So that’s just a little bit of behind the scenes info that I wanted to share. I am so super excited about next Saturdays simulcast. I really am sad that I don’t get to be there live, but I do get to be at our local simulcast with some really great friends and I can’t wait to hear the inspiring words you will have to share that day. I’ll see you there!
Your sister in Christ,
Dawn Eddy
P.S. Thank you for being a great inspiration to so many women out there. I love your work 🙂
Hi Beth and everyone!
Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the simulcast. Is it at all possible it will be recorded and available for purchase at a later (not too late!) date?
I’m hoping so. I will be praying for you.
Connie
I finished the book and two verses have come to mind.
Phil 4:7 and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
2 Cor 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Just thought I’d share. Thank you Beth for your transparency in your writtings.
Susie
Hi Beth, I saw you live in Lutz, Florida this past weekend for Living Proof Live and I came home feeling so incredibly moved by you. Your words spoke to me more than I can express and I deeply appreciated your willingness to be so open and candid with 4800 women! I also picked up a copy of So Long,Insecurity there and could not wait to crack it open and begin reading. I am on page 75, and since it is a rainy Sunday afternoon, I am sure by this evening I will be close to completion, if not so. I have been wanting to read this book since I became aware of it. You are such an inspiration for women of all ages, races and backgrounds. I have done 2 of your Bible studies (Daniel and Believing God)and my small group is already talking about which one of yours we want to do next. Thank you so much for helping me to find my Christian self in a time where it is not so easy to do.
Your sister in Christ,
Lisa Mason
Dearest Beth,
Thank you for your book, “So Long Insecurity”. My problem is I didn’t know I was insecure
until I read your book, so now I am insecure about being “insecure”.
Ha! I just had to write that comment. But seriously, your book has made me look at my life in a new way and gave me a better understanding of myself and my relationship to my precious Lord Jesus. He is so wonderfully patient with us women! Your book is so timely. I have been a Christian for 33 years (I was born again when I was 25) and in all that time the trend in
most churches was not to expose your insecurities but to hide or cover them up with “activities”.
I love going to my Lord Jesus and asking, “Lord, Jesus, am I insecure?” and the sweet way He has of exposing those places in my heart that I didn’t even know exsisted.
I would never have asked Him that question had I not read your book and saw that I had all the symptoms but didn’t know what the problem was.
Thank you, sweet Beth, for keeping your heart so tender before our Lord, that he can use it
not only for your spiritual growth, but for your Sisters in Christ,as well.
Judi Presgrove
I am like Connie and cannot attend the simulcast either due to a family wedding. I read the book in one day and reread it along with your discussion group. I am also doing your revised Breaking Free a second time with my S.S. class. You have had tremendous impact on my journey of healing from unforgiveness, bitterness, and now insecurity which is the deepest root of all the other strongholds that have invaded my life through the years. Please tape the simulcast and make it available for us to purchase. I feel like I have missed the icing on the cake to your book without it in my life!!
Thanks a million for sharing your heart, insights, knowledge and God’s truth in this book.
Just wanted to ask, like some of the other ladies, WILL THE SIMULCAST BE AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE????? I did not attend cause I had no one to go with and I was afraid to go by myself!!! Ha! Now I feel like if I can’t see that I will go into another insecurity tailspin!!! (Just Kidding) Please post to us, somehow, as to the possible availablity of that simulcast broadcast. PRAISE THE LORD for HIS PRECIOUS SERVANT BETH MOORE!!!!!!!!
I’m a little late getting to this website, but I just got the book at Easter and still have about 70 pages left to read. Honestly, if I got nothing else out of the book (I have gotten a lot out of it, however) it would be comforting to know that I am not alone! Before finding SLI, I did an Internet search for “self-conscious” and came up with Veggie Tales and resources for teenagers. As a 48-year-old, this confirmed my feeling that I should have been over this problem a long time ago. Now that I know that insecurity is prevalent, I wonder why there aren’t more books out there. Thank you, Beth, for stepping up and addressing this issue!
I really enjoyed and was blessed by your book~~~So Long, Insecurity. God has been dealing with me about my Insecurity. With His Love, Grace & Mercy, He is bringing me out of it. I’m in the middle of writing a book. I have concerns for our gender & for married couples. I’m thankful for the Agape love that I feel from & to my Savior,my husband & my kids.Also for the love for my family,friends & others. Only through Him can we love others like He loves. After reading the last few pages of your book, So your considering Christ, I felt compelled to share this & some scriptures with you & others. Death-Repentance, Burial-Baptism in Jesus Name, Resurrection- infilling of His Spirit living inside of us with the evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance~~~ Acts 2:38-47; Acts 1:8;Acts 11:16; Acts 19:1-8; John 3:1-36; John 4:24; John10:38; John 14:14&27; Philippians 3:10 ; 2 Timothy 2:15~~~ It is so much more than just believing that you are saved. We are to be living a repentant life & striving to be more like Him. When Jesus returns for His Bride, the church, we must have on the wedding garment~~~ Being buried(baptism) in His Name.For our bodies to take on immoraltality, we must have His Spirit, His Power living inside of us to be resurrected,caught up in the rapture. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,and the Word was God. John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
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Dear Beth,
I just arrived home from So Long Insecurity. You probably sa
…HAHAHAHA,…..I TRIED to type a comment to you, but my fifteen month old daughter just pressed enter before I finished my sentence! So, I better keep this quick! I enjoyed todays conference very much. I’m sure you saw me sitting there on the sixth row, nodding away and taking notes. I am one woman in 300,000 – and I left with a fresh word and a refreshed spirit. So long insecurity! Well Done today.
Love Your Siesta in Christ,
Alison
I am new to the blog. I was at the conference today and wow! I really entered thinking I had no insecurities, but after 10 minutes, I realized I was so wrong. But the great thing is that I can be secure in who I am through Christ. Thanks so much for sharing your day with us. I am 1 of the 300,000. 🙂
Welcome to the blog!
Dear Beth:
WOW! today’s simulcast on So Long, Insecurity was awesome. My daughter (30 years old) and I sat with about 200 other women at Christ Fellowship in WPB Florida soaking up every word you said. I never realized how insecure I am. I have a lot of work to do, this is going to be no easy task, but with God’s grace, love and mercy I know He will get me through it. I want to be transformed…. I can’t wait to read your book to reinforce what I learned today. This will be my summer project. Thank you for your heart for women.
I feel I know you personally since I have done several of your studies. I even watched saw the videos with your “big hair”. LOL
I really enjoyed last year when I attended Deeper Still in Orlando, Florida. Revelation was my latest study with my Bible study group and we will be taking Breaking Free (for the second time) in the Fall. I am so thankful for your studies, I have grown more these past 8 years then in the 24 years prior as a Christian. Can’t wait to see what is coming.
P.S. I am a Nana of two adorable grandchildren, Brianna 5 and Brandon3 so I totally understand the love you have for your grandchildren. It is truly mind-blowing to know God loves me even more!
In His love,
Kathy
Beth,
I can’t tell you enough how much I needed to hear the words spoken today at your simulcast! YES, God did have a word for me — many in fact! 🙂 There are so many personal things you shared (the fact that you think you have a big nose for one) that I can totally relate too!! The way you described not knowing you had a big nose until you got into school and the kids told you that you did … I too had the same experience plus they all told me I was flat chested. Praise God I am in a place in my life (50 yrs, baby!) that I don’t care anymore– even though I never “fixed” either one of my God-given body parts!! Anyway, I am rambling but I just wanted to thank you for touching my life as well as so many other women. I think the biggest realization for me today was how insecure I was about being secure. Not anymore! I am going to be shouting it from the rooftops. I don’t care how crazy people think I am! I am crazy about my God and will tell anyone who will listen!
I am not going back — I am moving forward from this day on …. thanks to you and your message from God!! Can’t wait to get the book too! I haven’t checked the site but any chance of getting a recording of the simulcast?
I had the best time at today’s similcast… I have always known that I was insecure but never really realized that this was in no way being humble. I now know that I can’t complete God’s plan for me if I continue to be insecure. I am getting the book and am hoping to encourage a couple of other women to join me in a summer bible study. Thank you for being so frank and open with your insecurities. My area of embarasment my ears, I had to grow into them and the kids all used to call me “Dumbo”
Thanks again for an absolutely wonderful day.
Thanks for allowing God to use you….I attended the teaching today in Charlotte,NC. I can say this for sure my heart was open and ready for a word and I felt the hand of God on my heart and whispering in my ears. I appreciate the truth that came today and I am now going to read the book with my daughter that is 13 years old. (I am so thankful to really be giving her LIFE thru Christ) I love how you put insecurity into prespective, being unbelief…WOW that was freedom for me because I have ammunition with the word now….I am entitled to truth and I will be walking in it! Thank you for sharing YOU!
I have to admit that I have heard about you, however I have always been in the childcare area when ladies were doing your Bible Studies, so today was the first time I have seen you and heard you. I told my friends that I feel like I have really missed out by not “meeting” you years ago. Today I have been online seeing what DVD’s and books you have. I went to get your signed book today and we were sold out at our church- good problem to have. I very much enjoyed the simulcast today. Thank you for all you do and your love for the Lord. God bless you and your beautiful family~
Our church hosted the simulcast for over 200 women. We were packed to the rafters. What a blessing it was to have you in our house, speaking to us. We wept, we laughed, we hugged, we loved. We also hosted a “War Chest” party for Women at Risk (WAR), International. WAR provides safe havens in over 18 countries for abused women. “Fostering hope through heads and hands, in education and skills, to restore dignity and worth. WAR, Int’l hosts product made by rescued women and children; provides scholarships or micro-loans; and gives job skill training or education, holistically ministering to the woman in body, soul, and mind.” We sold over $3200 in products made by these abused women! Praise! Insecure women reaching out to offer hope to insecure women in practical ways. All in the name of God! Thank you, Beth, for giving us that opportunity. PS – My nickname in school was “The Nose”. God gave me that nose and I’m keeping it. He gave it to me so that I could smell everything better than everyone else. 🙂
I had the opportunity to go to the conference in Atlanta yesterday….the first time I have been away from my family to go out of town!! It was a breaking free moment for me and I am still overwhelmed by the annointing and presence of God that I felt at your event. Thank you for giving of your time and talents so I could receive from the Lord. I will forever be eternally grateful….
I am one of the 300,000 women who attended the simulcast yesterday. About five hours after arriving home, I was attacked with a bout of insecurity and did not even realize that I was being insecure until the whole incident was over. I am happy to say that God opened my eyes and turned the whole incident around. Thank you Beth, for being so in tune with the Lord. God is up to something great!
Good Morning! (I say that because I just enjoyed a hot cup of coffee). I just wanted to come here and say, “Thank you for allowing the Grace of God shine through you and your daughters.”
I attended the simulcast yesterday with my old bible study group. A group that has seen me through my best and worst days. We have now moved on to different groups but our bond remains strong. One of the ladies in this group bought us tickets (as Christmas gifts)to attend together. What a joy it was to all be together once again. I believe we have done about 6 or 7 of your studies together.
Anyhow, I was torn on whether to attend or not because the date conflicted with a family matter. I have three children (8, 6 and 2). And my six year old was admitted to the hospital the day before the simulcast. This was prearranged…so it wasn’t sudden. Her name is Ella. We like to say she is our Extra Grace Required child. (God must have known that when we named her because he middle name is Grace.) She is the spunk in this family and is OVERLY honest in about every situation. She is only in Kindergarten and I swear she knows the entire school. She is as SOCIAL as they come. (my poor son has been in that school for three years and they can’t even get his name right.) It tickled me yesterday we you told the story about Melissa asking if you were going to be bossy. Because when my Ella was 3 she was sitting on a stool at the kitchen counter and looked at me one morning and said, “I hope you are going to have a different attitude today.” (as she rolled her eyes)I tell you that child has pushed me beyond my limits but God has shown me so much through her. She makes me the woman I am today. And she loves the Lord and knows the Lord loves her. Anyway, sorry for getting side tracked but it comforted me to know Melissa was as spunky as her.
Ella has been battling nighttime episodes since she was three. Something beyond nightterrors. She will wake up so exhausted in the morning that she is an emotional wreck. She cries when she gets on the bus. We have seen countless doctors and she has been through multiple tests (from EEGs to MRIs). Everyone kept pushing us off. Well finally by the grace of God we found a place that was invested in her. They admitted her to the hospital on Friday and have discovered she is having seizures while she is sleeping. She will be released today and we will decide how to treat the seizures but we finally have answers. My dear husband stayed with her so I could attend this simulcast (while other family members watched my other two). I felt drawn to attend. The worship overflooded my heart and the word of God filled me.
Insecurity cuts you like a knife. My Ella will ask me, “what’s wrong with me? I want it to go away”. She’s only six and I can tell she is insecure on the days she gets on that bus crying. By the Grace of God I am going to do everything in my power to make her more secure. I am going to start doing scripture versus with her now that she can read. She will have her own set of index cards.
Thank you for sharing your life with us and for your own personal stories.
I will be in Richmond in August to hear you live. I will be with my Mom and her bestfriend (and her daughter). I can’t wait till the day I can do this with my Ella.
Bless her heart! I’m so glad you got some answers. Praying right now for her healing.
There was something Beth said that hit me like a ton of bricks. She got down on her knees and in a voice not much louder than a whisper she said something to the extent of “My God, I am allowing this to take over my life, this is not living. I am in the prime of my life and this is how I’m going to live!?” At that moment I felt as though the room went silent and there was a connection from Atlanta all the way to Nebraska where I was sitting. A woman like Beth, her age, her accomplishments, her position in life, her family, her faith, her everything, and this is what she had to share!? She has everything I want in order to be secure and she is admitting to her own insecurities! I thought I was secure in Christ, confusing my insecurities for humility. Here I am 25 years old thinking my insecurities are just a form of humility and that as I get older they will go away and I will gain more confidence in my experience. My God is this how I have chosen to live? Am I going to wait for my insecurities to go away while clinging to them for humility at the same time? Until when? An intentional intervention must occur and I am ready, I just hope that I am just as intentional two weeks, thee months, a year, 50 years after being inspired to put on the new self. Because; at the same time living in me is a saint and a sinner.
Thank you so much for this comment. It spoke to me. I am 38 and I felt the same way. I am chosing to live this up and down life. But Jesus did not die for that. He died for me to have an abundant life. It is up to me. I have to have faith where I don’t feel it. I have to act when I don’t feel or see it and know that God is there. I keep waiting for him to make me secure and/or fix me, but that is not going to happen. I am supposed to “taste and see that the Lord is good.” I am to make the steps and know that HIS word says he is already there and the more I do it, the more it will be who I am. Thank you Lord!
I too was one of the 300,000 women who attended Beth’s simulcast…me in NC! What a powerful four hours! Time zipped by. There was room for more but I bet Beth was one exhausted lady! How fortunate we are that she is able to spread the WORD! Beth Moore, you are a gift to so many. Thank you!
The conference was wonderful!
I only got the first half of the conference because the storm blocked the Satellite.
I am still wondering what u – R – E stands for.
My daughter and I attended the conference and we are both in the process of reading the book. What a blessing both have been. Satan is always just waiting to attack believers, isn’t he? My daughter is a military wife and her husband is currently away for a 3 mth training. Just as the second session began she got a call from him that he had the opportunity to leave camp for a few hours of R&R. There is a female soldier that he is serving with and he called my daughter to tell her that she would be in the group with him for the day. Her insecurities kicked in and she became preoccupied with it for the entire second half of the conference. Pray for her and other military wives who are left at home to run households without their husbands. It is tough being separated and making your marriage work. Thank you Beth for your wonderful ministry to women!
Beth I was there live at the conferance at woodstock Baptist church. Just want to say PRAISE GOD111I love you and thank god I get to hear you speak and take bible study coarses. Last night I thrw away the old me and live in the new. Love Lisa Roberts from Forest hills meth church
Hi Beth! I watched the simulcast yesterday at Sandia Baptist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico with my best friend..and apparently 300k sisters!
It is only the day after and already God has changed me through So Long Insecurity. Insecurity and guilt are the tools the enemy has used for years to keep me in deep darkness; even when I KNEW I was forgiven I was never able to forgive myself. I praise God for you and your ministry and this broadcast. I left ALL of that in the church yesterday and even walking out felt completely renewed in Christ!
Here is my first day after story I though I would share for a laugh; because really this is a true insecurity triumph!
I spent today working in the garden, planting summer bulbs, and pruning rose bushes. My hair pulled back in a head band, gardening pants (tie dyed, bell bottom capri to boot). No make-up, not to mention no waxing in at least a month. I had helped my wonderful husband, Zach, fix dinner on the grill and we are just sitting down to eat..when.. somebody knocks at the door. Zach and I open it and standing there is his friend from his MBA program. Beth, the look on my face had to be priceless! She was holding dessert and said, “Hi, Zach told us to be here between 630 and 7 for dinner.” I feel myself turn in slow motion and looking at my husband. His jaw has dropped and he whispers, “I am so sorry, so sorry, I forgot.” I proceeded to be a hostess, excused myself from the room so they could study and it was only when I walked in my home office and looked in the mirror that I remembered my appearance! The old me would have immediately panicked and ran to brush hair, apply make-up and change. I would have freaked out over the kids board game on the living room floor and the fact that we did not have dinner for two extra guests! I just had to laugh Beth! I shook my head at the disheveled woman in the mirror and I LAUGHED ! The old me would have been MORTIFIED! The new me, the SECURE me, looked in the mirror and said, “Lord, I praise you for Beth Moore and yesterday’s message!” I threw a bandana on my head and went back out to the kitchen.
It is amazing what God did yesterday. I look forward to sharing this lesson, this security, this power of God with my nine year old daughter and six year old step daughter as they grow. Thank you Beth!!
It was more then I expected, but not more then what God expects to do in me and for those around me watching. Like everyone else might be feeling – excitement and joy for some wonderful freedom ahead. Yet I also realize the hard work ahead. As I drove home that afternoon, I was praying to God something like this; Ok God, here we go. I just left knowing I have a new beginning, yet I am head back to the place where I left this morning – my home, my circumstances. Nothing has changed there. Only the beginning of new me. I will face unemployment, 5 kids with two that have severe emotional struggles, my ex-husband and countless of demands. It like start all over. It will nag and pull at me to respond the way and still may, not just once, but hundreds of times. That is where You come in. This is where the change needs to begin. When I fail. When I see how ingrained my thinking is – like a my car runs when the key is turned. It’s automatic. I may like the old way of responding – it might even feel comfortable and easier. THis is when I need you Lord. So I don’t give up.Remind me that you have made me a new creation. Help me fight.”
I wondered how many women had to go home to places that will drag them down. Will they give up. Will the seeds that were planted grow. So not only will I be praying for myself to keep going, I was also encouraged to pray for the other 299,999 women to stay strong and not to give up no matter how painful and hard it may seem as God delivers up from this deep well of insecurity.
Thank you Beth – I know that if God brought you through to share – then 1. He is not through with you and 2. No one knows the depth of pain, sorrow, and grief that you endured for you to get the book done and teach on this.
tough subject and a great trap the enemy has held us in for far to long!
Beth, I hope you read this..
Dear Beth,
I have never read the Bible, nor have I ever been close in anyway that I can remember to Christ. I have had the roughest six months of my life (which is hard to beleive for a 24 year old). I was to the point of almost no return. Then out of the blue, a friend from high school contacted me..we haden’t talked or seen each other in seven years and she invited me to come with her to this conferance at her church. I didn’t have anything else to do and had spent the last months of my life in tears and suffering, so I went. I had no idea what it was going to be about and had honestly never heard about you. A little background information to help you realize how important this was to me…
I am a 24 year old woman, who felt very unloved by her parents growing up and practically lived with my grandparents. My first ‘real’ relationship in high school, where I actually cared about the person, ended up being a sexually abusive situation. I went into a dark box for years over it. Once I found some light, I continued on with life, but still struggled.. struggled hard. In between some messes happend that sent me further down the darker road..
But then I got into a relationship with a man that I felt truely loved me. After being together two years and making all kinds of plans, I was humiliated. He was living with someone else the whole time, he became mentally abusive to the point that I gave up on my self from the inside and I had to leave a job that I LOVED. This was the person that I would have done anything for…give him a lung or my heart if he needed it. I was used, yet I stayed with him, by his side for six months while he abused me, made me feel like I had done wrong by him and that I was a horrible person that shouldn’t be alive. Yes.. I did the awful thing. I begged him to forgive me, have mercy on me and even to not leave because I needed him… But what had I done? Why did I need the forgiving? He had twisted the whole thing to land on my sholders. I didn’t know if I even wanted to exisit.
I was to the point where I was blaming God for making things this way, I was blaming God for him smashing my heart and I was blaming God for not helping me and making me suffer like I was. The pain just got worse and my heart felt dead. I had no where to turn and this man that I thought loved me just kicked me in the dirt so hard that I never wanted to get up from it..
I still carried the weight of everything on my sholders until the day of your conference… We had just got into another tiff the night before actually and I cried so hard I couldn’t even lift my head up. The day of your conference was a LIFE CHANGING experiance..LIFE CHANGING! When it was over Beth.. That weight that had so forcefully held me down and was drownding me in my own tears was gone.. I accepted that I need to know Jesus and I need to accept him into my heart.. I realized that the all this time I was blaming God for these bad things that were happening…When did I ask him for help? I didn’t. I HAD NEVER ASKED HIM FOR HELP. I had done this to myself. Finally I prayed for the first time and truely ment it. I, a semi-beleiver, became a believer and asked for help. The storm was lifted… Snap! Just like that.
I have forgiven and put my past in the past. I am moving forward, even though it takes time. I feel like he has turely told me to get up and MOVE! My heart is filling up and not feeling so empty and dark. It has lifted my spirts to the point where I want to tell others about my life and how it has changed me.
I know there are tons of people that need help and assistance and maybe they just need to hear it from someone that was in their shoes, who felt ashamed to pray around other people, who felt odd at church because they didn’t know why they where there to begin with, who trusted in someone so much then cut down by the same person, who have been abused and suffer in silence, those who won’t reach out for God but instead blame him. I hope that I get the opportunity to talk about my experiances, I would tell every detail about how I felt and where I am now.
Beth, I do believe that I was brought to this for a reason and you brought a message to me that I truely feel in my heart saved my life. I can never thank you enough and I hope one day that I can tell my story…
Love always,
Amanda
Amanda, thank you for sharing your testimony with us. We rejoice with you in everything God is doing in your life! Welcome to the fellowship of believers!
Praise You Jesus. Eleven years ago, my life was also radically changed by Him! Hang on Amanda because you are in for the ride of your life!
Amanda and Connie, I really really think so. It has really really opened my eyes and I had to share how really dark my world was turning so that I could express why this was so important to me. I would have never ever thought I would ever be in any of those situations… let alone ever finding a way out, around or past them. I did, and in just a few hours with Beth.
No matter how deep you may be or how far gone you think you had become or who is for or against you… there is hopeand He is there. I know it was a long post, but it needed to be shared and I hope my story can be as life changing as this day was in my life.
Hi there, I am saddened because I was unable to attend the simulcast. There wasn’t a church in my area that was hosting the event. I also had a little family get together to wish my husband well in his new job he started today. Anyway, I have started the book and it is great so far. I was wondering if there is any possibility that the simulcast will become available to purchase as a download or video so those who could not attend can hear your message? I really hope so. Anywho it sounds like it was a great message and time and I am so thankful of that.
Take care
Sarah
I attended the simulcast in Spanish Fort, AL, and what a wonderful, uplifting time we had!
Unfortunately, we lost the video feed due to lightning after getting to the “c” in secure. Is there any way for us to get the “u, r, e” from your website, either video or text?
Even the glitch couldn’t keep the hand of God from touching each of us through your teaching, Beth.
God Bless You!
Kay
This is the second simulcast i have gotten to go to..It was awesome. I have long standing insecurity issues.. and through reading your book and going to the simulcast has truly opened my eyes to what i thought was just an expected part of life.. the chapter on men i think was my real eye opener.. did not realize that a lot of what i see is due to insecurity.. and helps me better understand our relationship a bit more clearly. it also opened my eyes to my teenage girls also..
we also lost the link during the storm..the part we missed was about the 34 year old blonde blog sister..
at any rate it was truly mind blowing!
for having such a interesting week, you pulled it off so well..God apparently had used the situations for His glory
love you and your family!
Hi Beth,
I feel like your twin. I come from the Midwest and now live up in Washington State. The most un-churched state in the nation so I have heard. I have been fascillitating your bible studies up here at our little Baptist Church and I have seen God do some crazy wild and wonderful things with my life and those in my classroom. I have such a passion for these women that it makes my head spin sometimes! I got as many as I could to the simulcast and they loved it. What a joy!!! The excercise to couple up with another women and repeat what you were saying was a huge “Bawl-a-thon”. It was amazing Beth, truly. The round table discussions at lunch were really great too. The questions really were thought out and they generated some awesome conversations. God has really blessed your life and you in turn bless ours by stepping out in faith and just giving us the “thang”! We pray for you all the time.
Your siesta in Christ,
Pamela
Just wanted to let you know our host site just sent me notes on the portion of the simulcast that we missed, so now I have the whole “SECURE”!
I would still love to watch the whole thing again if it becomes available.
Kay
Dear Beth,
Thank you from every inch of my soul for writing this book! I was first introduced to you through the Esther study, which I’ve greatly enjoyed and look forward to using as the basis for our Royal Family Kids Camp this summer. When I heard about your new book and then saw the title I knew immediately that I had to read it.
I grew up in a Catholic family with an alcoholic father. As much as I felt there were missing pieces in my life due to my father’s behavior, I also felt I wasn’t really getting what Jesus had to do with me. Throughout my life I have searched for this answer here and there, it wasn’t until at 30 God entered my life with a force something fierce! He was determined to get me to turn to Him whether it was on my agenda or not. After spending a week in the summer with a group of foster children my eyes were opened and my journey knowing God was present in my life had finally begun.
Your book has truly helped me to work through the alanon program and to rely on God to take away my character defects. The prayer that you wrote has worked wonders for me! God has started to touch my life little by little as I say that prayer every night, it’s been like a snowball effect towards transformation.
I greatly enjoyed your simulcast, as did my friends. I look forward to new books and studies, and hope to one day thank you in person for bringing me closer to Christ.
All my love,
Carly
Hello from Nebraska!
Twelve women (including myself) jumped in our church van and went to the simulcast in Fremont. Thank you to Fremont Alliance Church for hosting this!
Beth, you rock! Thank you for all of the Lord’s work that you do! You continue to bless so many people with God’s Word and are such an inspiration!
Love you!
Stephanie
Romans 8:28
just wanted to let you guys know: i leave for managua, nicaragua on monday, with an amazing team of 6 women. we will be working with women who have been stuck in a life of prostitution since adolescence- some of them are now in their 60’s. “so long insecurity”, in spanish, is the first thing we are packing. our team read it together, attended the simulcast and knew this book was imperative for these women. we wanted LPM to know that we are not settling with just changing our culture. Jesus wants to be famous everywhere! we are believing Him for healing…
I just finished So Long Insecurity. This book really touched me and i pray that i can put it to work everyday. I have told everyone that will listen to me about it. i want to share it with everyone that i can. I”m going to start buying copies so i can give them to my friends. because we never really know what’s going on inside! Thank you for being a willing vessel for God’s words. You are a blessing to all of us.
Hi, It’s almost a week since the day with Beth Moore, on So Long Insecurity. As I walked in the house so full of the Spirit, full of His love and word for me; my husband shared our dear friend, Jeff had taken his own life. The next six days have been horrific, and yet God has been there with each of us. As He does meeting us where we need to be met. So many unanswered questions, of Jeff and the Lord. Our youngest texed “God is still good” how I have seen that, in His words to use through the Sunday service and Jeff’s funeral service on Wed. Please pray for Kendra, his dear wife. She spoke at the funeral to dispel any myth of Jeff’s having had an unhappy life, or not enough faith. I believe Jesus stood by Jeff’s side interceding for him until he was in the presence of his heavenly Father. I do not condone the act but I do believe his salvation is secure. Ro. 8. It only makes sense to me that the God Beth spoke of would forgive Jeff as he has all the women who listened that day. Jeff heard Satan’s voice whisper “this is the right thing to do”, Jeff for a second believed the lies and forgot the Strength of a God full of grace and mercy, one who is all sufficient. Thanks for the message please continue to put it our there for all Gods children. Praying for the ministry.
Cindy, I’m so, so sorry to hear that this has happened. I’m praying for his family now.
Thanks, the body of Christ can be so very good, can, if we choose to, have more strength and power than we at time realize. When Peter was imprisoned the church prayed earnestly,until he was released. I so don’t want the adversary to get another thing from us. Our family has driven a stake, an anchor to the Lord. His word does not come back void. Again thank you for your prayers. Cindy
Until I read your book I didn’t know how insecure I was. It wasn’t that I was in denial or anything. I just didn’t know “those” behaviors were insecure behaviors. This has opened up a whole new world for me and every day God blesses me by freeing me up from the horrible bondage I know thousands of women will struggle with from now on. My prayer is enough women will discover the events, words and situations that make us insecure and make a sincere effort to change the course of these behaviors in our children. God Bless Everyone and Thank you for this book.
Dear Beth
Thank you for your book.I can hardly talk (usually I am a woman of many words)The Holy Spirit is working inside of me in the most deepest levels. Your book is all about me. What a relieve to hear someone putting your inner turmoils in a language I can understand.I cry and cry and cry. Is this healing?I felt understood. Thank you siesta or Schwester(German)Jesus is Victor!
Beth, I went to see your seminar of SLI this Saturday. I purchased your book AND my brain is clear and focused again. I am refreshed and so hungry to know my Lord more. I am 69 yrs old and I’ve been insecure about everything my whole life ! No more. I am clothed with strength and dignity. No one can take it away, God gave it to me. It is mine. Thank you Lord and thank you Beth. I believe you and I could be best friends.
God bless you as you continue to help others.
Grace
Dear Beth,
Thank you so much for your book. I just finished it. I have lived with insecurity my whole life. I am 50 years old and finally finding out who I really am. My husband died 5 years ago and I’ve been on a journey ever since. I relied on my husband for my security and didn’t realize it until he was gone. When I was left to myself, I was devasstaed. My two girls moved out soon after his death to attend college. In a short period of time I went from a full house to an empty one. It’s been awful, yet eye opening. I am learning to trust God more, slowly, but surely. I am learning to be independent, sometimes I like it, most of the time I don’t. I am battling lonliness which my therapist says comes from a long time ago. The list of insecurities goes on. Through your book I am claiming my security in the Lord and no one can take it from me! I know it’s not going to happen over night but your book has given me hope. I haven’t had that in a while. Thank you for helping me to live another day and know my God loves me. Love to you and your family.
I would love to see a bible study created from the book!
Beth-I have been reading your bible studies and books for the last two years-wish I had met you sooner! In the last year I have battled cancer-watched my mother and best friend die just weeks apart-due to cancer and have lost my job-I know that God has a plan for me-one to prosper and not to harm me…I thank God for each day he gives me to enjoy my life, my husband, my living daughter (lost my oldest daughter to cancer 15 years ago) and everything else around me! Sometimes I get a bit anxious to see what God has planned, but I know it will be revealed in his own time. Thank you for your work and openness-willingness to share your stories. In God’s name!
Dear Beth,
First, thank you for your words, your encouragement,and truth. I am reading your So Long Insecurity,I’m half way through. I am in late 40’s and since childhood I have had such a weight, and many challenges in life. Abuse, rejection, abandonment by both parents at a young age. I was blessed to have a christian family close by at the time I was going through all the junk that happened during my childhoodand and into my 20’s. I accepted Christ, but still carried the burden of all the junk. I’ve had secular and Godly counseling. Moved to SoCal in my early 20’s found a Godly based church married a man from the church had 2 girls, got a divorce. I’ve had ups and downs throughout my whole life and still feel no peace. I know God is real and trusting Him is at a low. Not because I don’t believe. I don’t blame him He is actually the reason I am alive today. Does this make sense? I want to have complete trust in him, I want to be that Godly woman He desires for me to be. I am raising two teenage girls, and I have failed(in the Godly sense). My desire is for them to be Godly women. They are beautiful and good girls. Right now, we are not in a church(no transporation and pride of not asking for help). I have strayed , because I’ve allowed the daily routines,and mistakes I’ve made..to keep me from praying and reading his word daily. I believe when I read His word that’s it’s truth. But why don’t I follow it? I’m tired of living this life, and I feel like I need to get off the fence and get healed for good. Please pray for me and my family. I want to be the disciple Jesus called me to be. I need to know that He loves me enough to get me out of this pit.