Beside Still Waters: Finding Rest, Refreshment, and Restoration for your Soul

By LEONIE H MATTISON

Find rest, refreshment, and restoration for your soul―21 daily devotionals for women.

This delightful 21-Day Devotional Journal offers encouragement and inspiration to liberate your soul from every guilt and shame caused by trauma, calamities, and suffering.

Whether you're an abandoned daughter, an abused teen, a

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Thread
• Release date: Oct 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781733296618

LEONIE H MATTISON

Leonie H. Mattison is an organizational and talent development practitioner, Author of her books "The Thread Memoir", The Thread Coloring Book", and "Beside Still Waters Devotional", creator of the "T.H.R.E.A.D Six-Step System" and founder of The Thread, a ministry established on the principle that "God can transform any problem for His glory and your good." She stands firmly on the belief that for people and organizations to unleash their potential, improve performance, and increase impact, they must acheive intentional transformation. She uses her faith, gifts, educational background, and life experience to help individuals and organizations unlock the best version of themselves. Over the last eighteen years, she has successfully led large transformation projects, teams, and initiatives, impacting up to 60 departments in an organization that has 83,000 employees and 8.4 million constituents. Through her efforts, she has impacted, increased, and secured nearly $75 million in grants. Although Leonie was successful in her career, her spiritual life was in severe chaos due to her unhealed childhood that followed her into adulthood. In 2013, after she hit rock bottom and survived a stroke-near death experience, she surrendered her life to Christ. Leonie began to engage in intimate conversations with God when one particular day while on a spiritual journey, God birth in her The Thread Ministry to help survivors heal from trauma. Women who have found themselves dealing with the disappointment of always feeling knocked down by life, and who are left trapped in past painful experiences, can finally rise to release themselves from guilt, shame, and sorrow and begin living true freedom, true happiness, and closeness with God. Where they usually feel unworthy, damaged, and humiliated, they begin to feel whole, at peace, happy, and complete, as a daughter of God. Women are living a brand-new life as overcomers. They begin to experience more joy; they live flourishing lives with no limitations on who, how, and what they can become in God; they improve their performance; they even launch careers that are positively impacting the world. Learn more about THE THREAD MINISTRY at www.leoniemattison.com

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Welcome to Beside Still Waters!

This devotional is dedicated to women who have survived the soul-crushing reality, pain, and impact of abuse. I’m so glad you’ve chosen to join me for twenty-one days to finding rest, refreshment, and restoration for your soul by the still waters.

This is part of the Thread collection which consists of the main Thread book, this devotional, an adult coloring book, and an audio tape. Each can be used separately in your spiritual healing process. But better still, they can also be used simultaneously to support the transformative process, as one reinforces the other.

Read the book and do the exercises required, listen to the audio book to remind yourself that others have also suffered as you have. Use this devotional in the morning or during the day as a reminder of the path to healing you have chosen. Color in the adult coloring book to start designing your best self.

My prayer is that the stories, the sharing of my life story and the six steps of the THREAD will work to bring peace, healing, and restoration to your life and a profoundly greater intimacy with God.

I’ve designed these twenty-one days of Scripture verses, prayers, and exercises to help you rest in God’s love, stop reliving the past, and continue pressing into God and His Word. Then you will move forward in power and might.

This devotional is all about you. It’s your time to shut out the world and be intentional about finding rest, refreshment, and restoration. Think of these twenty-one days as your personal retreat with God. Don’t pack anything. Leave it all behind as you pursue healing from physical, emotional, sexual, and/or spiritual abuse.

Come! Anyone who is thirsty should come to Jesus. He will give the water of true life to anyone who wants it. They will not have to pay anything for it"

Revelation 22:17 EASY

May you find wholeness in God as you rest your heart, quiet your soul, and meditate on the refreshing and restorative life-giving Word of Truth.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my mother, Joy May Lawrence. It was you who introduced me to the Lord and taught me that, no matter what life throws my way, I can call on Jesus anytime of the day, especially in the morning. Thank you, Mommy!

I also want to thank God and everyone who empowered, inspired, and supported me throughout this journey. I appreciate you all.

Table of Contents

WELCOME TO BESIDE STILL WATERS!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SOME TIPS FOR USING THIS DEVOTIONAL

WEEK ONE

DAY 1: TAKE YOUR BURDEN TO THE LORD

DAY 2: SAFETY FROM THE STORM

DAY 3: DON’T GO ALONE

DAY 4: TRUST IN THE LORD

DAY 5: DON’T WORRY

DAY 6: WHERE SALVATION IS FOUND

DAY 7: FOCUSING ON GOD’S GOODNESS

WEEK TWO

DAY 8: GOD CARES ABOUT YOU

DAY 9: FOLLOW GOD’S PATH

DAY 10: LET GOD TAKE CARE OF YOU

DAY 11: THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE

DAY 12: GOD IS MOVING

DAY 13: WISDOM FROM ON HIGH

DAY 14: REFRESHMENT OVERFLOWS

WEEK THREE

DAY 15: ENCOURAGE EACH OTHER DAILY

DAY 16: THE JOY OF THE LORD

DAY