Good Bye Insecurity-Beth Moore Notes

<sup>Today I went to the Beth Moore simulcast in Macon, Mo with my cousin, Jenny. A person can't really beat these one day mini conferences. For $20 you get admission to the live simulcast (300,000 women across the US and Canada viewing at once), free breakfast, and free lunch. Not to count the fact that you will leave spiritually filled to the top with a fresh new Word.

Here are some of the notes I took that had to do with insecurity. I took many other notes off of side comments that Beth made and feel like each one could be its own blog! So here is what she had to say on insecurity today.

Ephesians 4:17-32; 5:1-2

17</sup> This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

²⁵ Therefore, putting away lying, “ Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another. ²⁶ “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, ²⁷ nor give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need. ²⁹ Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. ³² And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

¹ Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. ² And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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6 Points of a Secure Woman
S aved from herself
E ntitled to truth
C lothed with intention
U pended by grace
R ebounded by love
E xceptional in life

Insecurity is not a weakness. It is unbelief. Pure and simple unbelief. It is not believing who God says HE is and who God says we are. It will not add one single good good thing to our lives. NOTHING! We have nothing to gain from insecurity. We have everything to gain by believing God.

Insecurity is a form of pride. It is an obsessing on yourself. When we are secure we think less constantly about ourselves as we live out who God says we are. Insecurity is believing lies. The last thing Satan wants is for a Christian to know truth.

Don't wait on your feelings to begin to feel secure. Security begins in our minds (mentally) and moves to our feet (physical action) and then collides with our emotions. Don't just be a hearer of the Word. Be a doer.

Ask yourself, "How would a secure woman act in this situation?" Because the truth is we are secure in Christ.

Unforgiveness can hold us in insecurity. People who really feel deeply graced/forgiven grace/forgive others. This forgiveness can free us to be secure.

We are not secure accidentally. We need to put on strength and dignity and fill up our space with grace. Prov. 31:25 and Eph. 2:8