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Bible Verse
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
~Romans 8:28
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Bible Life Coaching
As I shared with you in the video above, my first dream of being an ice skater was taken from me after my parent’s divorce. Since I never had a loving family or a secure home life when I was growing up, my second dream as an adult was to own a home with a white picket fence in a pretty neighborhood so I could finally feel secure and at peace. To be honest, I somehow even felt God owed me the life I longed for because of my painful childhood. Although I prayed for these things, it seemed God would not give me my heart’s desire or my dream.
I was so disappointed I did not get my dream, I wasted many years blinded to the many blessings God was providing for me and the many things He was doing to prepare me for something greater– His dream for me.
Then one day it occurred to me, maybe I should change the way I pray. I went from, “Dear God, please give me this and do that…” to:
“Dear God, what is your dream for my Life ?”
“Dear God, what do I need to keep me from getting so comfortable that I forget to rely on You?”
“Dear God, what do I need so I can meet the needs of others?”
Once I finally surrendered my dreams to God, He gave so much more than I could ever give my self!
My life may not be the one I dreamed it would be, and God didn’t give me a white picket fence, He gave me something so much better: An eternal purpose for living today and an eternal home with Him in heaven for tomorrow.
I am not sure what your dream is, but I am sure your Daddy in heaven wants to spoil you with spiritual blessings that will echo into eternity.
Take a Moment to ask yourself the following questions:
1. Is my Dream “Personally Driven” or “Purpose Driven?”
2. Will my dream make other’s lives better?
3. Have I surrendered My will to God’s will for My life?
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Treasure of Truth
Sometimes our God disables our own dreams to enable His dream so He can do more through us than we could ever do on our own.
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This Week’s Song
Blessings by Laura Story
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We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things
Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise
We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we’d have faith to believe
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Love Letter
My Princess,
GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED
I know you sometimes wonder if your life has any real worth. But I assure you that I can use you to bless those around you. Just as I used Paul in prison, I will use you wherever you are or whatever circumstance you are in. Let Me water you with My holy Word, and you will begin to bloom wherever you are planted. Come to Me in prayer and let Me empower you with My Spirit. Even if you can’t see the harvest of your hard work now, I promise that others will one day look back at the time you were in their lives and remember your acts of kindness, words of wisdom, and extravagant love for them. So for now, My precious flower, let Me help you blossom in a world that is searching for the meaning of life.
Love,
Your King and Gardener of Life
“And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
ROMANS 8:28
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This Week’s Prayer
DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER,
Please forgive me for all the days I took Your place in my life by trying to meet my own needs and fulfilling my own dreams. Right now, I place my future in Your loving hands. I am ready to come before Your throne and trust You no matter what. Today I trade all my dreams for Your dream…knowing You have so much more in store for me than I could ever imagine. Grant me patience and contentment to grow where I am planted. Give me Your heart to love others around me and never doubt You again!
In Jesus’ Name, Amen
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Sheri.I just was given your book as a gift and it is so encouraging and uplifting.I read about your childhood and relate so well I grew up in foster homes and I had dreams too , God blessed me with a wonderful husband and 4 wonderful chikdren , but in 2004 my husband died and my world fell apart.. I praise God fort your book your monistry and I do want know what Gods plan is for my life/ thank you fr your ministry what a blessing you are
Dear Sheri,
I had just found your website last night from the “his princess book” a friend had given me. I am so happy and encouraged by you and i absolutely love these Bible life coaching clips. This past year has been a very low low point for me getting into a severe car crash and having my face torn up, getting out from under my parents roof, depression, anxiety,pills, alcohol , and it has just been the worst year and a half of my life and i was ready to end it myself but i found hope through reading your devotions.God is healing me and he is restoring me and making me a strong new women in him. Thank you so much and i can’t wait to hear more:)
P.S. I am also encouraged and happy about all the people who write to you on this page too. It is a tough battle out there and i am happy that there are others willing to pray and tell there stories and how sheri has encouraged them too:)
God led me today’s Bible Coaching. My life has changed so much since open heart surgery in July at age 45. I used to be a Bikini Competitor. I ran into a former competitor of mine at the gym today. She is my age and well on her way to being a national competitor. Me, I am 20 pounds heavier and probably won’t ever compete again with my chest scar. I cried today while I was talking to her over what used to be and even agreed to compete again even though I doubt I will be able to -tonite I ran into several Sergeants I supervise( I am also a Police Lieutenant) and they all complimented me on my leadership skills and motivating them and the remaining officers to do their best daily-they kept listing all my good qualities and virtues and then I read this passage today – couldn’t have come at a better time. I now open my heart to God and my Prince, Jesus to continue to lead me in the direction of their choosing, not mine for I know that what they have chosen for me is infinitely better, richer, and everlasting. Amen!
Sheri,
I know that many times, we just receive your emails and it touches us and we forget to reply and encourage you. Please know that you are changing lives with your ministry. I am living the dream that God put in my life and, like others, it wasn’t what I was expecting. I look forward to your letters every day as it does touch my heart when I need it most. I don’t always have a lot of spare time, but I make time for that email God is so good and it is encouraging to see what He is doing through you. I pray for blessings to you and yours.
Hi Sheri,
I love your His Princess Series. This is my first time logging on to your Life Coaching Page. I was drawn by the title “Fighting for Your Dream”. I felt like I was in the “Fighting” and “Relinquishing” stage and now I know I must relinquish/surrender it all to God. I am a Playwright/Director/Producer. My last play was called “TOUCH!” and it was about breast cancer. It was was well received but satan quickly attacked my life for 5 years following the play. The attack left me uninspired and stagnate (to be honest). Now I feel like God is stirring up the gift, giving me instruction, etc, but I’m still not moving as one who has been longing for His instruction would. After reading your lesson today, I feel that I must continue to surrender and let HIM DO IT, NOT ME! Thank you for the on-time inspiration – Bev
Thank you for your comforting words and reminder that I have to hang in and look at the bigger picture. Times have been very hard for myself & family … There have been many days where I am just a bundle of emotional baggage fearing that I can’t stand a second more in the daily struggles happening in life. Your letters, words & site are very inspiring and have helped me to take a breath and hang in there.
I am happy to say that this weekend I was able to surrender my heavy heart and allow our Father to chop down my deep roots. It was an amazing experience as the tears just fell from my eyes. It is still going to be a long journey and it will be a challenge to resist allowing those chains to go back on.
Can you ladies please pray that I finally come to a point in my life where I totally surrender my trust to our Father. I get so close and then the fear takes over. I am going on a ladies retreat this weekend with the women from my church. Please pray that God works on my heart and that I allow Him to do a work on me. Thank you. Sheri, you are an amazing woman of God!!
I am so very thankful for you and your site!! What a blessings you have been to me, and please know this…God is speaking to me through you! His confirmation and affirmation leaves me in awe on a daily basis! How great is our God??! AMAZINGLY GREAT! Keep up the God work Sheri! He is smiling upon you! Thank you for all you do and are doing!
God bless you sister!
A Dear Friend just emailed your site and within minutes I was touched with the prayers and praises and stories. Thank you!
Amen Thanks to my friend for thinking/knowing that I’ve been serching all my life,still feel there is no way out,but this has opened my eyes.
This was forwarded to me through a friend.. For five years now I have felt alone. I have tried to reach out to others and have been so disappointed. I have no family and feel abandoned by everyone. This was very comforting to me. It seems like my dreams have been smashed. I dont know what God wants to do with my life and am just trying to hold on to hope
Hi Sheri; its all so clear to see all that God has done through you as i listen to what you share; truly you are a vessel of honor today that came from that broken vessel you speak of in your life. What a True Blessing of hope you’ve become “Wow”, so glad to have connected with you through your online video and email messages. It’s working amazing healing through my life, i do have difficulty writing even this little short message with all i am living at the moment, that has left me so feeling like that women who seems to have been living “someone elses” life but not my own for many yrs now, left with a sense of emptiness if not for God being in my life and my two sons which he has blessed me with. Just wanted to express my gratitude for all you share that brings such a healing from God to women like myself who are so broken in their hearts, and often are left in the place of loneliness, needy and just looking to find their way back home to Daddy! Am waiting now to see God’s dream in bloom through my life as well and i so love your saying “purpose driven rather than people driven”! Thank you Sheri.
Dear Sheri: You are truly God’s vessel. Just wanted to express my gratitude for all you share with all the women of the world. I had amazing healing through your teaching and through the emails I have received daily. Thanking you Sheri.
Nancy, I couldn’t have said all that any better! Bless you sister.
Thank you also Sheri, for allowing Father God to work through you, as you have no idea how much your daily “love letters from our Prince” means to me, and often just how encouraging they truly are! How you can write such profound beauty each day must be divinely inspired! Even though sometimes i do find it hard to accept those letters and His love are for me personally also, as for all our sisters in Christ. I really do hope, one day very soon, i can enjoy the same deep, confident and intimate relationship with my Prince as you do Sheri. You are living proof that we can have it too…Bless you Sheri for your unique ministry in Christ Jesus, and helping us all to see who Jesus really is and not what we vainly imagine. Thank you Sheri, and Thank YOU Holy Spirit for this precious child of yours! 
God is so good! Even though I doubt it, He is continuing to reaffirm His call upon my life. God used you and your website to reaffirm His love for me today. I am listening to Beth Moore’s Esther series. Your devotional for September 6th spoke to me and reminded that God has placed me here, in this place, for such a time as this. Romans 8:28 is my life verse… Over my life, my mother died when I was 12, I was divorced with 1 child at 24, I had to close my business, lost my home, and had to claim bankruptcy. This morning I am putting the final touches on our women’s ministry program that meets once a month. We will be studying the song Blessings by Laura Story. Isn’t our God amazing! God, the Almighty God, cares for me and knows me. May God lead you, guide you, and bless you as you serve HIm.
I surrendered my dreams years ago. I went from being independent with an “I make me” attitude to a “God you make me into the women you created me to be” and I when I did that my life changed and God began a work. I find that when I surrender my dreams to Him and I lay them at His feet He picks them up remakes them into something so much better and then returns them to me. What can we say but thank you to a loving God like that. I host a website for encouragement for women also. Thank you Sheri for sharing your heart.
In Christ
Beth
Dear Beth meyers,
I am so encouraged by your reply. I to use to be an ” I make me” but now i am starting new and letting “God make me” who he wants me to be. If you read this message i would like to visit your website and write to you too.
Many times I often wondered why I had to be born with so many medical problems in having no thyroid at birthday. I like this topic ,because I know that I shouldn’t only remain where,but how I was planted,In my savior’s eyes it was a very special place and way, For he was the gardener. Now I often wonder how many lives were saved through the discovery of my condition,and how through the years,and advances,how it were able to save many babies from dying of having no thyroid. being they are now tested through the T3 T4 tests. It has been made state law that every mother and baby in the U.S. with these test,before and after delivery. The Lord used me as a vessel in this special way!! He is the master gardener,and the master physician.
He knew that through my life,others maybe spared. I can’t say I was the first to be born with no thyroid,I am not sure about that,but I was the first to be discovered to have no thyroid. God bless ,love Mellisa wells
I am so glad I heard you on focus on the family. I still need much prayer and support. I am living with a broken dream that I am so surprised with. Not sure what to do or think.
Thank you. devotions speak love of God that I am not used to thank you. peace and trust can be hard with life but with nothing is impossible to us who believe and I am sorry how I got out of trust and getting God in Christ back to trust. Many dreams lost and stolen But God is the best dream ever because He real.
Hi Rosella
I so related to what you had to say. I want to know that dream too. God’s dream! Go girl!
I’m taking that leap of faith too and I thank God for Sheri and team’s faithfulness to Him.