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Beth Moore, Believing God: Experiencing a Fresh Explosion of Faith

"Nothing ultimately causes more pain than our idols. [My] pain can become my idol"... I can make "an idol of [my] past pain" (137).

"... we need to address the detriment that has come to us through other mouths, renounce any hold they might retain, forgive their owners, and ask God to heal our hearts and minds of their damages.... 'No one will ever want you now.' ... 'God can't use you now.' 'You're finished'... 'You're just like your mother'" (138).

"The more thoroughly convinced we become that we are who God says we are, the more we will begin to act like who He says we are. Our daily lives demonstrate what we really believe about ourselves."

"... renounce words other have spoken over us that don't line us with the truth of God's Word.... give others the same privilege. They get to be who God says they are, too."

2 Corinthians 5:17

new = "unused.'
reconciliation = "restoration of favour of God to sinners who repent and put trust in expiatory death of Christ" (139).