Lies Girls Believe

I had the privilege of taking the "Lies Girls Believe" session at Hearts At Home this year.  Dannah Gresh was the speaker and she was phenomenal!  She is one of the founders of the Secret Keeper Girls.  They came to our church this past fall, but due to finances I was unable to take Evelyn.  I am so thrilled I was able to hear her speak though.

Here are a couple of statistics I found to be startling:

• 80% of 10-year olds have been on a diet.
• 20% of 10-year olds are underweight.

Since when is normal God's best?

• Bullying peaks at 6th grade- only 20% of those being bullied ever tell someone.

Satan feeds us lies so we won't use our spiritual gifts.

The lies I believe will be passed on to my children OR the truth I believe will be passed on to my children.  Which do you want them to believe?

How to break free from the lies Satan wants us to believe:

1. Identify the bondage (the lies).
2. Ask for God's grace, wisdom, and the counsel of others to help you be free.
3. Stop listening to the lies.
4. Ask God to replace the lies with his truths- transparency.

• What you believe by your 14th birthday, you generally die believing.  
• 21% of those that attend Christian colleges are sexually active.
• 80% of those attending public colleges are sexually active.

Truth is conformity to a standard or original.  The standard for how Christians should live is the BIBLE.  

Daughters don't need self-esteem, but need God-esteem.  If they understand God, they will understand they have value but not think too much of themselves.

3 Truths to set you free:

1. Your primary purpose is to glorify God. 1 Corinthians 6:20 says:  you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
2. Your primary purpose is to look like God.  Genesis 1: 26-27 says: 

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

     3. Your body is a living sacrifice to God.  Romans 12: 1-2 says: Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

It's great to be a girl!!

I highly recommend reading Dannah's book: Raising Body Confident Daughters and getting the companion book for your daughter: It's Great to be a Girl!