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I am Complete in Him: True beauty

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Imagine this. You find a magic lamp. Naturally you rub it and, predictably, a genie pops out. You stand there, staring, waiting for the genie to tell you that you have three wishes. To your surprise, instead, the genie tells you that you have one wish, and with that wish you can change anything about the way you look. What do you say? Would you wish for longer, softer hair? Perhaps you would wish to be taller? Maybe you don’t like how small your nose is? Have you have always wanted sparkly, blue eyes? I am sure that there are lots of girls out there that can think of at least one thing that they would like to change about the way they look. But how many of them would say something like, “No thanks, genie, God made me the way I am, and I am complete in Him.” How many girls are actually happy with every part of the way they look? Girls tend to be their own worst critics. We see every little flaw in ourselves. Every miss placed hair, every freckle, every blemish. W
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You have a Purpose: Identify and use the special gifts/talents God gave to you

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  Have you ever thought that maybe you don't have a purpose? That maybe God put you here without any special gifts? Just because He wanted another human on the earth? Well don't think that! I know it is hard sometimes to find what we were made to do, who we were made to be, even why we were made at all. But trust me, God put you here for a reason, a very special reason. Sometimes, it can be hard to identify the reason, and along the way we tend to lose faith and give up. Stay strong! Don't give up hope. I am going to go through a few ways you can identify your special talents. 1. What do you like to do?   I doubt that God would give you a special gift or talent that you didn't enjoy doing.  Think, what do I like to do in my spare time?  What do I like to do to help people?  What do I like to do in school?  What do I like to do at home?  Something to remember, however, is that things don't always come easily. Just because it is something you enjoy, doesn't mean t
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His timing, His plan

  You grab your bag and rush out the door, jump into the car and get it started. You buckle up and fly up the driveway, turn right at the stop sign, left at the weird neighbor’s house, another right and, to your dismay, there is a turtle in the middle of the road. We have all been there. Your late for work or some activity, and you just want to get going, but that darn turtle is in the way. He’s moving too slow, and you hop out of the car to move him. Don’t! Don’t touch the turtle! Wait for it to cross. No, this did not just turn into a “save the turtles” article. The kind of turtle I am talking about is a metaphorical turtle. The “turtle” in this case, is a delay that keeps you from getting to point A to point B as fast as possible. As annoying as turtles are, they can be used by God to put you exactly where you need to be, when you need to be there, and even save your life. In the past few weeks, God has put many turtles in our way, and they saved us from getting into sev
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Standing out and standing up

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  We all know what it’s like to want to stand out.  We want to be looked at as different from everyone else, we want to be unique.  We all want to be special in our own way and be remembered because we did something different from the crowd. What if I told you that you don’t have to wear crop tops and skinny jeans and dye your hair 30 different colors to achieve the desire to be unique?  Well, get ready because I am about to. Picture this. You’re in a large room, with a bunch of people in it. Each one of them has different colored hair. Some have TONS of makeup on, some have little to none, and each one has less clothing on than the last. You go into the bathroom and look in the mirror.   You’re wearing a T-shirt that covers your collar bone, you’re wearing a pretty skirt that goes below your knees. Your hair is your own natural color. You look down at your shoes.  They aren’t the shoes that look like you glued bricks on your feet and painted them black.  They aren’t high h
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