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discouraging him without knowing it. For some, this lack of appreciation for the small gestures will steer them away
from planning the grand gestures their heart desires to give you.

Furthermore, are you receiving your man’s love? Are you giving him the message that he is needed and appreciated?

Gentlemen, I have found the key to a woman receiving your love is simple: make sure she's the right woman for
you. If she is, she will have an easier time accepting your love. If she is having a difficult time with this, one of two
things is true. Either she's not the one for you or she hasn't learned to receive any kind of love – God the Father's or
her own.

Before she can ever accept all that you long to give, she will need to have come to delightfully accept the love of
God first, then her own, before she can ever appreciate your efforts in loving her. A lot of components and factors
can affect this. The environment she was raised in, the false truths she accepted along the way, or the overwhelming
grief from which she still hasn’t healed, are all factors affecting her ability to accept your love. They can and will act
as a barricade between your love and her heart. But remember, despite it all – to love her is to learn her. Across the
ages, men have wondered what women want, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that at the top of that list is to
feel understood.

Ladies, we choose to either agree or disagree with the truth that we are lovable. You may not want to hear that. You
may be thinking, Oh sure, yeah, I want to feel unlovable. So many of us have had childhoods and young-adult
experiences that taught us we were unlovable. I am not here to blame you for taking this false belief on, but I am
here to tell you it’s a lie, and you, are the only person who can truly free yourself from it. You are not difficult to
love. You are worthy of someone's love. You are worthy of someone's time and affection.

The first sign of this choice – one way or the other – is evident in our "glow." Do you sparkle and shine? Odds are, if
you're receiving love, you have a light and happiness about you that draws others to you.

A Proverbs 31 woman – or, as I like to say, a woman who knows she is beautiful and loved – is:
1. Confident
2. Brings good not harm
3. Smart
4. Resourceful
5. Someone who has a strong work ethic
6. Full of wisdom
7. Strong
8. Someone who possesses perseverance
9. Someone with a servant’s heart
10. Compassionate and loving
11. Grounded in righteousness
12. Someone who invites direction and accountability
13. Someone who knows whom she belongs to
14. Respectful
15. Dignified
16. Wears the breastplate of righteousness
17. Speaks truth
18. Protects her family and especially her husband
19. Humble
20. Inwardly beautiful
21. Guided to holiness
22. Physically fit and healthy

It's not surprising that Satan goes after beauty. The woman embodies everything he hates.

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