Definitely have been in that place - a place I never thought I would or could be!!! Just coming out of that darkness and it's scary to trust fully and completely again. As was said in the teaching this week, "we see others receiving what we are so desperate to receive" and all we get is silence. I so appreciate your vulnerability and what seems to be very raw emotion. I am praying for you as I know you are praying for all of us here, too. It's definitely comforting and reassuring that I am not alone in this struggle. God bless you always!!

Beautiful video- Thank you so much for being so honest.

I love you and I just want to share that I have been there too. I wish I could offer you a big hug! I was listening to you talk and thinking, YES! I went through about 10 years of believing God had rejected me and that he didn't love or want me. I left church for that time period and everything in my life continued falling apart. I am so glad that you are finding the answers and peace your soul needs. You are loved and purposed by God. He thinks you are amazing and his work could not be fulfilled without you and the purpose he has put in you. Thank you for the encouragement, please be encouraged today that you are a part of his plan through your faithfulness despite your feelings.

I was in that place approximately 4 years ago.....the place where I honestly felt God abandoned me. I felt like he was using my pain for his glory and I did not want to follow a God that did that. So I turned dark, hateful, Gothic, witchcraft, etc. (all things hateful) (note.....I am not saying witch craft itself is "hateful" I got myself into black/dark magic) I hated God, and I told him so. I cursed at him and everything. Then I got a cut on my leg that did not heal. It became so badly infected that it led to Sepsis and I went into a coma for 3 weeks, and recovering in the hospital for 2 1/2 months. The recovery was long, as I was 1/2 dead upon awakening from my coma. The recovery continued at home, and that is when God sent me an Angel. The Angel told me that my anger was killing me. He returned multiple times, each time with a strong message. I eventually saw the error in my ways and asked God for forgiveness. The Angel replied with "He already has. He has forgiven you before you even asked." And for the first time in my life, I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me......and truly I was forgiven. This was 4 years ago, and I am more healthy now than I ever was prior to my coma. And I still receive visits from that Angel......my Guardian Angel.

Yesterday, at work, I made an error and began to berate myself verbally out loud. As never before I became aware of what I was doing to my own heart and soul. I immediately spoke to myself just like the man at the airport spoke to Lysa. I was able to stop the lies and turn to God for acceptance and love. Praise God for His merciful presence!

Loved the treasure box idea. THe index cards in my handbag are helpful to me. Truth right there with me where I can pull them out like a Tylenol for a pain or headache!!!

I usually am my own worst enemy!! I am harder on myself than anyone else ever could possibly be. I had a very challenging day and caught myself speaking lies of the enemy to myself. My self-talk was going something like this.... "I have no idea why they promoted me to manager, it is just a matter of time before I get fired! I am not smart enough to manage this store and other people!! Everything I do takes longer than it should and I seem to struggle so much more than all of the other managers." THEN I REALIZED WHAT I WAS SAYING TO MYSELF!! I stopped dead in my tracks and the thing that came to my mind is that I have the mind of Christ and the wisdom that come with that!! So I just kept thanking God for the mind of Christ and pulled myself out of the PIT!! This after only reading one chapter of the book. I'M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE!! Thank you Lord!!

I can't find the comments or the list of scriptures you offered? Help

What a treasure Isaiah 26: 3-4. Is for me. Trusting in God will bring me perfect peace. Knowing that God is good at being God. Oh how I need to learn and believe that- how hard it is to do. I have been struggling with this for nearly 3 years- since my son was killed in an accident at work. I struggle with his loss and also with not knowing if he is with Jesus. Lysa says it so well when she said "I must fill the gaps of the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God." Please pray for me that I will come to that level of trusting our God and find that peace that he is offering.

I think of the song "Breathe" by Michael W. Smith with the lyrics "Your very Word spoken to me" Treasures of words. God blesses us every day with words. We only have to open our eyes and ears to hear them. Hard to do in a noisy world. I accept the challenge!

I look forward to this Challenge! Most of my life I focused on words that brought me down, it feels good to focus on the words that life me (and others) up! Thank you so much for writing them down and I will be beginning today!!

where are the questions?

my sister, with whom I was best friends for 75 years, recently went on a cruise with her 4 daughters and no husbands. I wanted to go so bad but my sister told me "Get over it Carole, you're not going." "Get off the pity potty" I was and am devastated that my own sister would treat me this way. I need this . I cannot read the book. I have wet macular degeneration in my eyes. I hope I can derive a sense of peace and forgiveness. We are completely estranged now.

I definitely struggle with believing lies about myself and God. Just last week someone said a very innocent comment to me, but I took it in and twisted in my mind to where I was full of shame. I allowed the line to become truth, and it affected me for the rest of the night and into the next two days, and how I interacted with others. I spoke with a mentor who told me I forgot that I had a choice to determine whether the words that were spoken were truth or lie, so by default, I took them in as truth. It was crazy to me, that then just two days later, I heard the exact same message in chapter one. God is definitely showing me how I allow the lies in.

I LOVE this challenge! What a terrific way to record and remember the takeaways. I strongly identified with the example of the ballerina. No matter how hard I try to be "whatever," I am always judging my life/performance on the opinions of those around me and it results in rejection over and over again. I can never be good enough to satisfy everyone. When, in fact, the only opinion that really matters is how God sees me and how I live my life for Him. When I stay focused on Him, I am whole. I am complete. I thrive. I can be assured that I am exactly where I need to be, doing exactly as intended.

Thank you for sharing your insights and chatting with us about the reading.

This will post under my husband's name, but I would like to say that I hope to collect so many of those treasured words to replace the damaging ones I carry with me. Blessings, Renee Buell

I feel like someone has looked inside of me and written what I feel. Its encouraging that I am not the only one struggling with most of these feelings. I really liked the prayer at the end of Chapter 2 and I wrote myself a note. "Say the prayer at the end of Chapter 2 every day until it is a reality."

I have started my treasure of words by just writing them down and then memorizing them. I want to say that the scripture of the week has been my go to scripture and has helped me put things back into perspective of who I really am in Christ; holy and dearly loved!

I love the way Katrina unpacked the word "treasure" and gave us ideas for how to capture meaningful words and phrases so we can return to them later. Lysa's idea of a notebook and the idea of the index cards were the two that stuck most with me, so that's what I've started today! Thank you both!

I have read chapter 1. I can't even begin to tell you how much this chapter hit me. And I mean, straight on hit me. I saw me in everything she said. I took notes from the chapter and put them in a journal. And under each one of those notes, I wrote something about me. I will admit that I am fighting a bad round of depression and the medical staff is helping me work with rejection. Most days I lose the battle. I have been calling myself all kinds of names for awhile now. I wasn't aware of the effect it was having on my son until he started doing it. I don't like who I am. That is one of the things that I struggle with the most. I have realized in this chapter, I am dealing with self rejection. I also realized that I owe my son an apology for putting myself down in front of him. He tells me that I am his number 1. I wish I felt that way.

It's nice to have a lie uncovered like the sky cap did for Lysa. I have a block of rejection from my husband's family. I am praying that God shows me every lie I believe and where my part is in it.

This is my second time reading the book. I am doing so with the study. I highlighted "Sometimes a phrase lands in your soul with such weight it leaves the deepest impression." I have an app on my phone where I do the same as Lysa. I hear something of grate value and worth that I write it down so I can expand on it later either in my journal or a blog entry. I appreciate this exercise. It's help me ebb and flow through times I have felt rejection want to seep and plant its tiny little roots in me. I unlock my phone, re-read that nugget of wisdom and keep trucking. Or I re-read my own journals and encourage myself! :)

I'm ahead of ya! :-) When I read the book this morning as part of my devotions, I jotted down the phrases that stuck with me, as well as any of my own thoughts that came up.

I love those words the luggage man said. I have my 9 year old grandson living with me. He is hurting deeply after my son, his father died and his mother left him. He speaks so many negative things about himself. I will use these words with him.

I have chosen to use the digital journal to record my Treasures. The first one from Chapter 1 was, "Honesty isn't here to hurt me, but to heal me". This resonated with me from a recent experience of rejection from one of my daughters who initially wanted me to participate in her bachelorette party, but told her planner who relayed the message through another daughter that she did not want me there. The hurt came because I felt betrayed, that she felt that I would be an embarassment to her being there, and that she no longer wanted me to be a part of her pivotal moments as I had always been in the past. The liability has resulted in us not communicating at all when we would daily. I know she was being honest, but am seeking past the hurt to see what needs to be healed so that I don't think that I'm a disappointment or embarassment to her. Genesis 1:31 is my treasure scripture for this.

I have used "not in my presence" with my children and grandchildren, and now I will use it to counter Satan's lie to me. What a treasure to be mined in chapter one, can"t wait to move onward.

Wow! I just caught myself using that line from the book when a friend of mine said, "Im must be stupid" without thinking I countered back with Not in my presence. Really reinforced it in me. Praise God

This book and study are going to be wonderful! I can tell already! I have a tendency to underline, "star", or "heart" things that I love in books, in fact, I've already marked up my copy of Uninvited. I love the idea of writing my treasured words during this study in my planner! Thank you for the challenge!

I couldn't find what you added in the video. I absolutely love the idea of collecting treasures. I am taking it a step further and calling them by different jewels depending on what the subject starts with. Its from a childhood story I remember about a little girl finding treasures in her bible and putting them in a treasure box. Lots of Pearls in Psalms. I had forgotton about this until I read that story in the first chapter. That whole sentence jumped off the page at me. I can definetely hear our Father saying, "not in my presence."

I LOVE the word TREASURE! I will be keeping a small journal that I will keep with me, and keeping my Treasures in there as well! :)

I have always taken notes in a journal for my Bible studies, but almost never find myself going back and being able to locate something that spoke to me in my time of need. However this time I am going to write them down on index cards and keep them in a box on my desk! Maybe even keep them in my purse so I can correlate scripture with it and meditate on it during the week!

Treasure from chapter one for me is: We can't control the lies that come at us but we CAN CHOOSE not to listen and what resides in us. 2Cor. 10:15 I am a huge Notecard/sticky note girl that posts encouraging words on bathroom mirrors and all over the house:) I can relate to the Dianna Spears who shared about spousal verbal and emotional abuse ! after 20 years of marriage also for me I had a dear friend that was placed in my life just for me and my boys that walked that journey with me to wake me up and stop believing his lies.

Very excited to start my treasure journal !

I smile as Kristina speaks about "treasures of words" and reiterates Lysa about collecting them. I do this already and have for quite some time now. What works best for me involves making those treasures into images post-worthy for Facebook or Pinterest and I then collect and categorize them in Facebook albums or Pinterest folders. This makes them readily available in digital format for sharing on a whim or when necessary in a specific circumstance or message topic. The actual time and effort spent in creation of the images embed them into my brain and heart, as well.

This is something I started doing after reading War Room! It is so very helpful!! Started a new treasure chest with Uninvited today :)

Enjoying the study so far. I think I'm going purchase a small chest to put my "treasures" in. It will not only have visual symbology but practical symbology as well.

Thankful for this study. I have allowed "rejection to steal the best of who I am," and I want to replace the lies with truth. I will journal the treasures.

The bible tells a husband not to be harsh towards his wife. After 22 years of marriage, and the brokenness of it, now separated, it is hard to forget those harsh fights and words. Satan loves to stir those emotions and images up - even after I have laid them at the cross many a time over. A very dear friend of mine sat me down and looked directly in my eye and repeatedly said to me " Dianna - you ARE NOT A B****H! " You see, I heard that so many times it totally degraded my self image. I felt unworthy, unloved, misunderstood by someone who should understand my emotions and truly want to help me with my struggles. Instead, I was degraded - my husband was harsh. So dear sisters - I challenged you - do the same for yourself. Create your own treasure. When you hear that line of rejection(verbal or mentally) - go to your mirror or dear friend - speak and claim over your heart - " I AM NOT xxxxxx " whether the xxxxx are a word, adjective, characteristic no longer true for my sister in Christ Jesus. YOU ARE NOT who Satan wants to claim you to be. Satan wants to keep us from a real relationship with God and prevent us from ministering to others how God heals our broken hearts. Satan wants to hold you down but as you know Satan has been defeated and through the power of the Holy Spirit - we are free to walk with the Lord in an intimate relationship. Prayers and Praise !

Ready to take this challenge! I have a small notebook that I can write in or glue note cards on the pages. It is small enough that I can carry it with me where ever I am going.

Really like this idea...would be a great way to utilize the journal and add the words there

I have a journal that began as a prayer journal and morphed into a "My One Word" journal. My One Word is a journal exercise where you pick one word for the year. It could be faith, it could be trust, it could be learn. This year, my one word is forward. So I collect sayings and special Bible verses that go along with that word. About a week ago I was having a pity party for one and I took out this journal and read through what I had written and collected this year. I honestly encouraged myself! LOL Her suggestions are very good, whether you are doing this study or not. Thank you!

I love this definitely going to take the challenge. in chapter 1 i could relate to her when she had the incident at the air port

OBS stands for Online Bible Study

I love the idea of a notebook. I'm going to begin one to capture those phrases that truly stick with me. After working through today's study, the treasure I took away is that "rejection steals the best of who I am be reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me."

Love this idea as well. Storing "treasure words" as a constant reminder of truth. Praying for the Lord to lead each and everyone of us. Will also be intentional to speak "treasure words" to other people around me. Speaking love, life, and truth.

So thankful to begin this study. I have to keep my mind focused on what God's Word says - about Himself, about me, about others. His Word is a treasure worth seeking and storing up in our hearts. For when we have that great treasure, we will be less likely to find our truth elsewhere. I love that God takes us on a joyful, exciting journey to find the marvelous treasures in His truth and make them our own. Glad to be on that journey with you all!

I have a small journal where i will be storing scripture and encouraging words to read through during and after this study. God's timing is perfect!

sorry what does OBS stand for?

Thinking of a journal, that is quickest for me.