Brilliantly YOU: Learning to Live Bold & Freeনমুনা

YOU have a story to share.

Okay, girl. It’s time to celebrate! Today is your last day of completing this Bible plan. Over the course of these past seven days, you’ve prioritized time in God’s Word and embraced your multi-faceted brilliance. You’ve turned to truth found in Scripture to unlock your potential. You’ve received love and made strong decisions to help you navigate your season with confidence, grace, and power. You’ve owned your capacity to shine and taken significant steps forward to live the life you were destined to live.

As this Bible plan draws to a close, it’s only fitting to end with this last challenge: Phenomenal woman, share your story. 

Your experiences, insights, lessons learned, and unique perspectives carry great weight. Maybe in the past you’ve questioned the significance of your own voice. Perhaps fear, insecurity, heartache, and disappointment have muffled or silenced you. Good news––today’s a new day and you have something powerful to bring to the world! So, girl, bring it!

When we choose to share our testimony and experiences openly and honestly with others, we quickly discover that vulnerability is not a weakness. In fact, it’s a great strength that the Holy Spirit uses to bring God glory.

As soon as a person declares, “This is how I am feeling”, “This is what Jesus did for me”, or “This is how I overcame that”, there will inevitably be someone else that says, “Me too!” Suddenly empowerment is spread, and in the process shame loses its power to keep us hidden, isolated and overlooked.

The world needs you to speak up. Women today need your unique encouragement and support. A high school girl may need you to share your story of overcoming depression to give her hope. A new mom may need you to tell her that you felt overwhelmed the first few months of becoming a mother, too. The business meeting you are attending needs your fresh and anointed ideas. That friend needs to know she’s not alone in her struggle to love her body, and that she can experience breakthroughs. 

You have something to say. You have tried and true wisdom to give. You have messages of hope to bring. You have encouragement to share. You have truth that can cut past the highlight reels we have grown accustomed to and remind the world that authenticity brings freedom. 

Remember, friend, YOU are brilliant––uniquely formed and divinely woven together, with the ability to light up this world through goodness and kindness, bravery and resilience. Your shimmer is multi-faceted and potential uncontainable. Created with purpose, you were destined to shine. 

. . .So shine on! Use your voice to spread the Good News of Jesus and bring hope to others!

TODAY’S CHALLENGE: What’s one aspect of your story or a life lesson that can provide encouragement, inspiration, and support to someone else? Write it down, and ask God to show you how He wants to use your testimony to bless and encourage others.