1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV
You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Psalm 139:14 ESV
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

1 Peter 3:4 ESV
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.


Proverbs 3:15 ESV
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Proverbs 3:15-18 ESV
She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Psalm 34:5 ESV 
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...


Matthew 6:28 ESV
And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin,


Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—


Psalm 45:11 ESV
And the king will desire your beauty. Since he is your lord, bow to him.

Matthew 5:8 ESV
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV
You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

Galatians 5:25 ESV
If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Romans 8:6 ESV
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

John 13:35 ESV
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Ephesians 6:11 ESV
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.


Song of Solomon 2:2 ESV
As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.

Song of Solomon 1:5-6 ESV
I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Ezekiel 16:14 ESV
And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Ephesians 2:10 ESV
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.


Matthew 26:8-10 ESV
And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste? For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor.” But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.


Galatians 5:6 ESV
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

Romans 12:1 ESV 
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Song of Solomon 3:1-11 ESV
On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not. I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not. The watchmen found me as they went about in the city. “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?” Scarcely had I passed them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her who conceived me. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases. ...

Isaiah 61:3 ESV
To grant to those who mourn in Zion— to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.

Psalm 139:13 ESV
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.


2 Samuel 6:22 ESV
I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”

2 Samuel 6:20 ESV
And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

Genesis 1:26 ESV
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”


Matthew 24:1-51 ESV 
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Isaiah 41:1-29 ESV
Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he. The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. ...


Job 16:1-18:21 ESV 
Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain. ...

1 Samuel 1:1-28 ESV
There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite. He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord. On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. ...


Job 1:1-22 ESV
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil. There were born to him seven sons and three daughters. He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east. His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually. ...

Tuhan tidak fokus pada penampilan luar kita. Apa yang ada di bagian dalam adalah yang paling penting bagi-Nya. Alkitab mengatakan kepada kita bahwa Tuhan fokus pada inner beauty kita, sehingga dapat tercermin  dari apa yang kita lakukan.


1 Samuel 16:7 - "Tuhan tidak melihat seperti manusia menilai manusia melihat apa yang di depan mata, tetapi TUHAN melihat hati.." (NIV)

Yakobus 1:23 - "Siapapun yang mendengarkan kata tetapi tidak melakukan apa yang dikatakannya adalah seperti orang yang melihat wajahnya di cermin." (NIV)

Penampilan luar bukan cara terbaik untuk menilai seberapa "baik" seseorang. Salah satu contoh adalah Ted Bundy. Dia adalah orang yang sangat tampan yang, pada 1970-an, seorang wanita dibunuh setelah seorang wanita sebelum dia tertangkap. Dia adalah seorang pembunuh berantai yang efektif, karena dia sangat menawan dan tampan. Orang-orang seperti Ted Bundy berfungsi untuk mengingatkan kita bahwa apa yang ada di luar tidak selalu cocok dalam. PS: Inner Beauty tidak harus untuk perempuan, kalau aku menyebutnya Inner Handsome sepertinya sangat aneh!

Lebih penting lagi, melihat Yesus. Ia adalah Anak Allah datang ke bumi sebagai seorang manusia. Apakah orang-orang mengenali penampilan luar-Nya sebagai apa pun kecuali seorang manusia? Tidak! Sebaliknya, ia digantung di kayu salib dan mati. Rakyatnya sendiri tidak melihat melampaui penampilan luar untuk melihat inner beauty-Nya dan kekudusan.

Matius 23:28 - "Dengan cara yang sama, di luar Anda tampaknya orang sebagai orang benar, tetapi di dalam kamu penuh kemunafikan dan kefasikan." (NIV)

Matius 7:20 - "Jadi, dari buahnyalah kamu akan mengenal mereka." (NIV)

Sayangnya kita hidup di dunia yang dangkal di mana orang menghakimi pada penampilan. Kita semua akan senang untuk mengatakan bahwa kita tidak dalam mayoritas, dan bahwa kita semua melihat melampaui apa yang ada di luar, tapi hampir semua dari kita dipengaruhi oleh penampilan.

Namun, kita perlu menjaga penampilan dalam perspektif. Alkitab mengatakan kepada kita bahwa penting untuk menampilkan diri sebaik mungkin, tetapi Tuhan tidak menyuruh kita untuk berpenampilan ekstrim. Yang penting bahwa kita tetap menyadari mengapa kita melakukan hal yang kita lakukan untuk menjadi berkat untuk orang lain. Tanyakan kepada diri sendiri dua pertanyaan:

Apakah fokus Anda pada penampilan Anda mengambil mata Anda dari Tuhan?
Apakah Anda lebih fokus pada berat badan, pakaian, atau makeup daripada Anda pada Tuhan?
Jika Anda menjawab, "Ya," untuk salah satu pertanyaan maka Anda mungkin perlu untuk melihat lebih dekat pada prioritas Anda. Alkitab mengatakan kepada kita untuk melihat lebih dekat pada hati kita dan tindakan daripada presentasi dan penampilan.

Kolose 3:17 - "Dan apapun yang Anda lakukan, baik dalam kata atau perbuatan, lakukanlah semuanya itu dalam nama Tuhan Yesus, sambil bersyukur kepada Allah Bapa melalui dia." (NIV)

Amsal 31:30 - "Charm adalah menipu, dan keindahan cepat berlalu, tetapi seorang wanita yang takut akan Tuhan akan dipuji." (NIV)

I heard Dr. Chuck Swindol say, “Each day is different. Some days you wake up and ‘Good morning, Lord. Then some mornings you say, ‘Good Lord, morning!” 
The following is a revised thought I recently read.


Me: “God, can I ask you something?” 
GOD: “Sure!“


Me: “God please promise you won’t get mad?” 
GOD: “I promise.“ 


Me: “God why did you let so much bad stuff happen to me today?”
GOD: “What do you mean?“ 


Me: “Well this morning I woke up late. It ruined my day.” 
GOD: “I know!“


Me: “My car took forever to start.” 
GOD: “I noticed!“ 


Me: “At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong and I had to wait.” 
GOD: “Hmmmm!“ 


Me: “On the way home, my cell phone went dead.”
GOD: “Yes it did!“ 


Me: “And when I got home, I just wanted to massage my feet and relax, but the cord broke. Nothing went  
right today! Lord, why did you do that?”


GOD: “Well, let me respond. This morning the death angel was at your bed. I had to send 
an angel to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through it.” 
Me: “Oh!“ 


GOD: “I didn’t let your car start because at the time, there was a drunk driver on the road.”
Me: “Really!“ 


GOD: “The first person who made your sandwich today was sick and I didn’t want you to catch what they had.”  
Me: “Wow!“ 


GOD: “Your phone went dead because the person calling was stirring up strife in the church. You did not need to be involved.” 
Me: “Thank you God!“ 


GOD: “Oh, by the way, the electrical foot massager had a short that would have electrocuted you. 
Me: “I’m so very sorry God!“ 


GOD: “Don’t be sorry, just learn to trust me in all things, the good and the bad. I know what is best for you.”  
Me:  “I have learned my lesson! Thank you God for a wonderful day!“ 


GOD: “You’re welcome! Just remember that tomorrow I will again be handling all your problems. I will not need your help. So, have a good day.”


Every day, the we should be able to say, 
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalms 118:24). 
So as we say in Trenton, “Have a good-un y’all!"
These are Words of Wisdom.

Lihat 1 Korintus. Banyak orang yang tinggal di Korintus berpendapat bahwa tubuh mereka jahat. Akibatnya, beberapa dari mereka jahat. Akibatnya, beberapa dari mereka mengadakan pesta. Yang lain memutuskan untuk mengabaikan tubuh mereka sesering mungkin. Kalau di jaman sekarang banyak orang yang tidak menjaga tubuhnya dengan baik, dari hal ringan sampai berat. Mulai dari mengkonsumsi makanan yang tidak sehat, diet berlebihan, tidak peduli pada kesehatan, mabuk, memakai obat-obatan terlarang, merokok, bahkan menodai tubuhnya sebelum menikah. Paulus memiliki nasihat yang berbeda.

Dalam 1 Korintus 6:19-20, ia menulis, "Atau tidak tahukah kamu, bahwa tubuhmu adalah bait Roh Kudus yang diam di dalam kamu, Roh Kudus yang kamu peroleh dari Allah,--dan bahwa kamu bukan milik kamu sendiri? Sebab kamu telah dibeli dan harganya telah lunas dibayar: Karena itu muliakanlah Allah dengan tubuhmu!"

Harga yang dibayar untukmu bukan dengan visa atau mastercar. Tapi Allah mengirimkan Putra Tunggal-Nya, Yesus, untuk mati disalib bagimu. Orang Yahudi dan Romawi membenci salib dan menganggapnya sebagai satu cara yang paling menyakitkan untuk mati. Paku-paku telah ditancapkan ke tangan dan kaki Yesus di salib, karena itu sembahlah Allah dengan tubuhmu--setidaknya itu yang bisa kita lakukan.

Women joining together for the largest extreme makeover of their hearts and lives. This time of "Transformation" Be made a "New" you spiritually, physically, mentally and emotionally ! Were focusing our hearts to be a queen after the King (Jesus).


Just as Esther did in preparing for her to meet the King- So we women need to make ourselves prepared and open for the King of Kings and be made beautiful as the Bride of Christ. ♥ The focus will be on us and what our King desires- and not just soley on our husbands. Three areas that will be a goal of submission to the Lord- Physical fitness & health, A deeper and more intimate prayer/worship time daily, and personal mini goals & self esteem. I will be making a pledge invitation for any woman who would be interested in participating.
This time of "Transformation" Be made a "New" you spiritually, physically, mentally and emotionally !

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you was born to be the only one

Ada ayat dalam Alkitab yang menyebutkan, "Sebelum Aku membentuk engkau dalam rahim ibumu, Aku telah mengenal engkau." (Yeremia 1:5). Tuhan itu nyata karena Ia menciptakan kita dan Ia juga mengenal kita. Ia menciptakan kita dengan rencana khusus dalam pikiran-Nya.

Terkadang sulit memikirkan hal itu ketika kita merasa berbeda. Terkadang kita hanya berharap kita bisa terlihat seperti orang lain, tapi pikirkanlah betapa membosankan kalau setiap orang sama. Ada sejumlah tiruam saat kita berharap menjadi sekumpulan yang asli. Kita sangat menghormati Tuhan ketika kita belajar untuk menghargai dan tumbuh dalam cinta sebagai individu yang unik seperti yang Ia inginkan.

Sangat bodoh, jika kamu ingin terlihat seperti orang lain. Bayangkan jika semua benda di sekelilingmu ingin terlihat berbeda. Bagaimana jika lemari esmu ingin menjadi teleponmu? Kamu tidak dapat menyimpan banyak makanan di dalamnya, ya kan? Bagaimana jika sofamu ingin berubah menjadi televisi, wow!

Bagaimana jika hewan ingin memiliki bentuk dan ukuran yang berbeda? Bagaimana jika anjingmu duduk di dekatmu sambil berkata,"Oh, seandainya aku jadi kucing." Atau ketika seekor tikus menghabiskan hari-harinya sambil berharap memiliki leher yang panjang seperti jerapah. Perbandingan-perbandingan ini tampak menggila, lalu mengapa kita membandingkan diri kita dengan orang lain? Kapan pun kita melakukannya, kita selalu merasa kurang.

Sudahkah kalian menonton Narnia: Dawn Theader Voyage? Ingat waktu Lucy ingin sekali menjadi Susan. Tetapi, Aslan (Yesus) datang dan menegur Lucy. Kita itu diciptakan unik dan tidak ada seorangpun yang sama seperti kita (PS: kecuali kloning, bahkan itu masih mempunyai kekurangan)

Aslan message for Lucy

Ditulis oleh: Sam

Orang-orang bilang cinta membuatmu buta. Menurutku, cinta memang membuatmu buta dan sedikit bodoh.

i'm giving up, Lord!