Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a short practical podcast that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, how-toes, and fantastic interviews for the listener on the go. I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just a few minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be time well spent.

We're just two more Thursdays away from wrapping up our phrases Christians love series on Joe, and I wanted to

take it in a bit of a different direction today to dive a little deeper into something my guest,

Felicia Machenheimer and I discussed on Tuesday's show, because it's something worth having more

than one conversation over, I think. If you didn't hear our show, it's a meaty one worth listening

to, so go back and do that. But we discussed a lot of things related to sort of surface Christianity,

whereby we settle for really feel-good messages rather than ones that help us necessarily grow and

mature in our faith, but might be a little harder to digest for a lot of us.

Beautiful Daughter of God is one we briefly discussed because she talks about it in her book,

Stop Calling Me Beautiful. And I want to weigh in a little bit more with my thoughts on this,

so here we go.

So there are some things I want and need to say right off the bat so that you'll hear my heart for the rest of the show. First of all, we are fearfully and

wonderfully made. That is made clear in Psalm 139.14. We are dearly loved by God, made clear in John 316 and all throughout the Bible goodness.

And we know according to Romans 1015 that if you're preaching the good news of Jesus Christ,

if you're telling people about the Lord, he even calls your feet beautiful.

We also know from 2 Corinthians 6 and other places in the Word of what our relationship is with God.

Says this, I will be a father to you and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

So, yes, even though I can't find scripture that calls us specifically this phrase, beautiful daughters of God,

we are his daughters by relationship through salvation.

And we know he sees us as very good as his

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