God Sees You: 21 Devotions for the Woman Who Feels Invisible

By Aminata Coote

Does it ever feel as if you're going through life but no one's noticing you? As though you're just going through the motions, but nothing—none of your contributions, none of your actions—matter?

If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then this devotional is for you.

It's tough to feel invisible in a world that values visibility and fame. But God has created each of us for a unique purpose. He values us and we should celebrate that value. Embrace it.

This devotional will take you on a journey of self-discovery and growth. You'll get the chance to walk in the shoes of women from the Bible as you acknowledge their value and worth. And in doing so, come to terms with your own.

Each day's reading will challenge you to examine your beliefs about a Bible character and draw parallels to your own life.

Prompts at the end of each day's devotional invite you into a deeper study of the Word as you learn to accept the truth. God sees you and you are precious in His sight.

Leave invisibility behind and claim your identity as a woman loved and seen by God. Get your copy of God Sees You: 21 Devotions for the Woman Who Feels Invisible today.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hopelight Publishers
• Release date: Mar 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9789768334053

Aminata Coote

Aminata Coote is a wife, mother, author, and follower of Jesus Christ. She is passionate about helping women to run their race. She encourages women to first know God, and then know themselves while getting on with the business of running their race.  You can read more from Aminata at www.Hebrews12Endurance.com. You may also connect with her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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Aminata Coote

God Sees You

21 Devotions for the Woman Who Feels Invisible

First published by Hopelight Publishers 2023

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Contents

Dedication

Introduction

1. God Sees You

2. God Hears You

3. God Will Forgive You

4. God Knows Your Heart

5. God Has A Purpose For Your Life

6. God Listens to Your Prayers

7. God Sees Your Sacrifice

8. God Has A Purpose for Your Pain

9. God Has Made A Place For You

10. God Can Use You

11. God Can Transform Your Circumstances

12. God Has Not Forgotten You

13. God Will Give You Wisdom

14. God Will Use Your Influence

15. God Will Reward Your Faithfulness

16. God Has Forgiven Your Sins

17. God Can Use Your Testimony

18. God Will Use Your Gifts

19. God Values You

20. God Will Provide For You

21. God Will Never Leave You

Last Words

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Dedication

For the woman who feels invisible,

I pray you’ll find encouragement in these pages along with the reminder that God cares deeply for you. He sees, hears, and answers your prayers.

Introduction

Hi friend,

Thank you for picking up this devotional where we will walk through 21 days of reminders that God sees us.

Maybe you picked up this book for yourself or a friend who feels invisible or overlooked. You want reminders that God sees you. I completely understand.

There has never been a time before when it’s been so easy to connect with others. Technology has opened up access to people and places that we could only have dreamed of a few decades ago.

Social media apps promise to create community and to connect us with like-minded people…yet, we’ve never been more alone. Isolated. Unseen.

Despite the technology, or maybe because of it, suicide rates are on the rise as people feel more disconnected from the world around them.

So how do we reach for and hold on to the truth that we’re not alone? That we are part of a community—a whole greater than ourselves?

By connecting to our Creator, the God who made heaven and earth and all that is within it.

God sees you.

He hears and cares for you.

These devotionals were written to remind you of those facts. You’re not unseen, my friend. Your Heavenly Father loves you and has the very best plans for you.

Your partner in faith,

Aminata

1

God Sees You

Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, Have I also here seen Him who sees me? - Genesis 16:13

Let’s go back in time and meet a woman named Hagar. She was an Egyptian slave in Abraham’s household. Abraham was a wealthy man who had many servants and flocks. He was married to a beautiful woman named Sarah. God had blessed him and he seemed to live a charmed life. The only thing Abraham and Sarah didn’t have, was children.

An interesting dilemma, because when Abraham was 75 years old, God had promised that he would be the father of many nations. Hard to be a father if you don’t have any children.

About ten years after God had made the promise to Abraham, Sarah grew tired of waiting. She suggested Abraham take her maid, Hagar, and have a child with her. That child would become Sarah’s child.

Back then, it was customary for women to have their husbands sleep with their maids and then claim the child as their own.

No one asked Hagar if she wanted to become Abraham’s concubine. No one asked how she felt about having her child claimed by her mistress.

No one asked Hagar anything. She was simply a commodity in a business transaction. The item that was being traded.

She was unseen.

Insignificant.

When she got pregnant, Hagar felt superior to her mistress. She had accomplished something Sarah hadn’t been able to for all her wealth or beauty. She, Hagar, the Egyptian slave, would become a mother.

Before that happy day, however, Hagar would have to experience more hardship.

The Bible tells us that Sarah treated her harshly (Genesis 16:6). The word translated as harshly is the Hebrew word ʻânâh (pronounced aw-naw’) which could also mean afflict or humble.

This is the same word used in Exodus 1:11 to describe how the Egyptian taskmasters treated the children of Israel after they’d pressed them into slavery.

We don’t know what Sarah did to Hagar, but it was so bad that Hagar ran away from her.

Let’s think about that for a moment. Hagar fled from her mistress without food, water, or any provision rather than remain in Sarah’s presence.

She must have felt alone. She wasn’t from the land of Canaan and had left the only people she knew behind. What was she going to do? How was she going to survive? What would she eat? Where would she go?

If she survived until her baby was born, how would she take care of it?

Maybe you’ve felt like Hagar.

Unseen.

Unimportant.

Unknown.

But Hagar’s story doesn’t end there.

The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness (Genesis 16:7). Look at the first thing that He said,

Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from, and where are you going? - Genesis 16:7

Do you see it?

The Angel calls her by name.

And by designation.

If He knew those two things about her, He already knew the answer to the questions He’d asked.

He knew she was Sarah’s maid and had recently come from Sarah and Abraham’s dwelling place. He also knew she had nowhere to go.

Let me tell you something about this angel.

If you look up the Hebrew words, you’ll see mal’āḵ Yᵊhōvâ. This wasn’t an ordinary angel, my friend. This was the theophanic angel—the pre-incarnate Jesus.

God Himself came down to Hagar and met her at her lowest point.