Day 1 "You Are Beautiful"
My Sacred Place
Good Morning Beauties!
It’s here! We’re starting Day 1 of our 40 Day Journey. Thank you for your diligence in completing your preparation. Now that you’ve established your expectations, devised your action plans, and have ignited your motivation, let’s begin.
Have you established your “secret place”? It’s a special place you’ve designated to meet with God. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy or pristine, just a place where you can escape the distractions of the world and find intimacy with God. My secret place faces a window. As I look outside, I’m reminded everyday of God’s beauty through nature. I watch the sunrise, hear birds singing, and watch squirrels running through the trees. It’s a wonderful place to meet with God. Where is your secret place?
Beauty. What is it? It’s been an important part of creation, well, since creation. The Bible is full of verses using beauty and beautiful. We find beauty in literature, movies, songs, and the arts in general. Beauty is important in most cultures, especially here in the U.S. We can’t escape it. So what is it? How do you define it? Is it internal, external, or both? Selah.
Once you define it, explore how you believe it relates to you. Get in touch with how you really think and feel and then journal about those ideas. Pray God will reveal any lies the enemy has told you in regards to your beauty. The Lord is there with you and wants you to know the truth about your beauty.
As we get started, it’s also very important to know you can trust God with your most inner thoughts and feelings. He is safe. He is trustworthy. Below is the reassurance we need to know we are loved and God will be with us, protecting us as we take our journey. Please take time to read through the beautiful verses and journal about what He’s speaking to you.
Psalm 91 - The Passion Translation
”When you sit enthroned under the shadow of Shaddai,
you are hidden in the strength of God Most High.
2 He’s the hope that holds me and the Stronghold to shelter me,
the only God for me, and my great confidence.
3 He will rescue you from every hidden trap of the enemy,
and he will protect you from false accusation
and any deadly curse.
4 His massive arms are wrapped around you, protecting you.
You can run under his covering of majesty and hide.
His arms of faithfulness are a shield keeping you from harm.
5 You will never worry about an attack of demonic forces at night
nor have to fear a spirit of darkness coming against you.
6 Don’t fear a thing!
Whether by night or by day, demonic danger will not trouble you,
nor will the powers of evil launched against you.
7 Even in a time of disaster, with thousands and thousands being killed,
you will remain unscathed and unharmed.
8 you will be a spectator as the wicked perish in judgment,
for they will be paid back for what they have done!
9–10 When we live our lives within the shadow of God Most High,
our secret hiding place, we will always be shielded from harm.
How then could evil prevail against us or disease infect us?
11 God sends angels with special orders to protect you wherever you go,
defending you from all harm.
12 If you walk into a trap, they’ll be there for you
and keep you from stumbling.
13 You’ll even walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness,
trampling every one of them beneath your feet!
14 For here is what the Lord has spoken to me:
“Because you have delighted in me as my great lover,
I will greatly protect you.
I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face.
15 I will answer your cry for help every time you pray,
and you will find and feel my presence
even in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.
16 You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you.
For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!”
In the Secret (In the Quiet Place)
Love and Blessings,
Kendra
“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.’”