Seven Secret Passions of a Woman

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Seven Secret Passions of a Woman
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Passion 1To Be a Difference-Maker
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Passion 1 To Be a Difference-Maker

• Wanting to make a mark on the world is part of
  Gods design for us
• The worlds definition of making a difference
• A mark of a different kindone that will last
  into eternity

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Loving People Shapes Their Souls for Eternity

• Changing diapers with tenderness and cheerfulness
• Answering 14,000 Why? questions every day with
  patience
• Being polite when you feel like being cranky
• Making dinner night after night after night

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Loving People Shapes Their Souls for Eternity

• Doing a kindness in Jesus name
• Pouring your energies into a family
• Giving money to people and organizations that are
  doing Gods work
• Doing your job to bring glory to God and meet the
  needs of people He created

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Passion 2To Connect with Other Women
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Why It's Good to Be a Woman

• We got off the Titanic first.
• Taxis stop for us.
• We don't look like a frog in a blender when
  dancing.
• We don't have to pass gas to amuse ourselves.
• We can congratulate our teammate without ever
  touching her rear end.

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Why It's Good to Be a Woman

• We never have to reach down every so often to
  make sure our privates are still there.
• We have the ability to dress ourselves.
• If we marry someone 20 years younger, we are
  aware that we will look like an idiot.
• We will never regret piercing our ears.
• No fashion faux pas we make, could ever rival the
  Speedo.

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Passion 3To Know Truth
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Passion 3 To Know Truth

• Worlds view
• We can not know truth
• There is no Truth
• Everyone creates their own reality
• Whatever works for you
• Gods view
• There are things that are true at all times, in
  all places, for all people
• Absolute Truth

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Passion 3 To Know Truth

• Three worldviews
• Naturalism
• Pantheism
• Theism

• Ways to know
• Experience
• Reason
• Observation
• Revelation

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Passion 4To Fill the Hole in Our Hearts
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We try to fill the hole with...

• Family
• Romance
• Sex
• Chocolate
• Material stuff
• Shopping

• Food
• Work
• Chocolate
• Friendships
• Travel
• Chocolate

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Passion 5To Be Beautiful
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Passion 5 To Be Beautiful

• Attached to every girls heart is a question Am
  I beautiful?
• God thinks so. The King is enthralled with your
  beauty. Ps. 4511

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Wild at Heart John Eldredge

• Masculine heart
• A battle to fight
• An adventure to live
• A beauty to rescue

• Feminine heart
• To be fought for, pursued, and wanted
• An adventure to share
• A beauty to unveil

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"Eve is the crown of creation. She embodies the
exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in
a way that nothing else in all creation even
comes close. John Eldredge, Wild at Heart
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"The deep cry of a little girl's heart is am I
lovely? Every woman needs to know that she is
exquisite and exotic and chosen. This is core to
her identity, the way she bears the image of God.
Will you pursue me? Do you delight in me? Will
you fight for me?" John Eldredge, Wild at
Heart
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Passion 5 To Be Beautiful

• The essence of a woman is beauty the essence of
  a man is strength
• We dont have to manufacture beauty, its already
  there. Its part of the image of God. We just
  need to unveil it.
• Ta-Da!

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Passion 6To Have Fun, to Feel Alive An
Adventure to Share
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Passion 6 To Have Fun, To Feel Alive An
Adventure to Share

• OT celebrations and vacations
• What do you do for fun?
• Turn challenges into adventures
• God, help me experience this as an adventure
• Different kinds of fun

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Passion 7To Be Loved and Cherished by the
Ultimate Lover
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Passion 7 To Be Loved and Cherished by the
Ultimate Lover

• Everyone longs for romance
• Romantic love promises but ultimately disappoints
• Romantic love doesnt want to possess, but to be
  possessed
• Romantic love is a sign of something beyond, like
  road signs

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The Perfect Lover

• Anticipates our every need and desire, and meets
  it
• Can read our mind
• Knows us and loves us anyway
• Loves us passionately, intimately,
  unconditionally, aggressively, realistically,
  with a holy jealousy
• Appreciates us

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The Perfect Lover

• Takes our breath away with the exquisite goodness
  of loving and being loved
• Totally committed to our happiness and well-being
• Will possess and penetrate us without making us
  lose our identity
• Will sing love songs to us like in the movies

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The Perfect Lover

• Strong, beautiful, handsome, tender,
  compassionate, sensitive, manly, smart, capable,
  ingenious, creative, romantic, self-sacrificing
• Jesus is the Lover, the Husband, who fulfills the
  infinite desire within us.

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• The believers leap of faith in response to
  Gods leap is like the acceptance of a marriage
  proposal, which permits the divine bridegroom to
  impregnate us with his life. What God asks of us
  is not to try a little harder to obey his laws,
  or to experiment with mystical stages of
  consciousness, but to give ourselves recklessly
  to him, to leap out of our skins in holy
  abandon.

--Peter Kreeft Heaven The Hearts Deepest Longing