Esther Calling- What's Your Story‪?‬ Linette Rainville

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This month's topic: How to "DO LOVE" Even When It's Hard
Sometimes we DO LOVE because we LOVE a person or we are motivated because of their love for us.

There are other reasons too, we can DO LOVE out of an obligation, a duty, or a promise…

On the sermon on the Mount, Jesus took this “heart issue” and took it to the next level when He said…

“You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭43‬-‭47‬ ‭MSG‬‬

What Jesus is giving us here is a mandate to DO LOVE… even when it’s HARD… but he doesn’t leave us without resources.

We don’t DO LOVE out of our own LOVE TANK… but HIS.

As we draw on the depths of HIS MARVELOUS LOVE we become just the conduit for GODS LOVE to reach them…HE is the source.

GOD’s LOVE can sometimes be TOUGH LOVE.

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭4‬-‭7‬ ‭NIV‬‬ ❤️


In Psalm 55: 12-14 King David cried out…
“It is not an enemy who taunts, sneers, makes fun of, reproaches me—
I could bear that.
It is not my foes who so arrogantly insult me—
I could have hidden from them.
Instead, it is you—my equal,
my companion and close friend.
What good fellowship we once enjoyed
as we walked together to the house of God.”

“God BLESSES those who are merciful… for they will be shown MERCY.”
Matthew 5:7

As we reflect GOD’s MERCY…
HIS MERCY will overflow in our own lives.
Sometimes we DO LOVE because we LOVE a person or we are motivated because of their love for us.

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Friends have you started 2024 like a Stallion in a race, determined to make "IT" happen this year?
Where are you today?
How are you today?
Are you experiencing peace that passes understanding, or are you already bone-weary from all the racing?

After a tremendously difficult 2023, I finally settled myself in close before the Lord
on New Years Eve and rang in 2024 with HIM.
I was done in, wrecked as we would say, as I scribed these words that He gave to me that night.
As I share this word with you today, I am praying that it will move you as it did me.
Yes, Lord... Your Will, Your Way...
Here I am.
Teach me, I am listening...


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Esther Calling is a community at Daughters United, where we help Kingdom women discover, develop and deploy their missions around the world.

Listen in to this exclusive interview with Karen Stally, Founder of The Five Stones Retreat and Linette Rainville, Founder of Daughters United as they share their hearts for equipping the next generation of Kingdom Warriors... for "such a time as this." 

Karen is a Poet, Speaker, Author, Maker and Shaper of Kingdom Movements and Projects. With over twenty years experience as a Workshop Developer, Educator and Practitioner Globally.

Karen is anointed to speak life over dry bones, infuse HOPE, uncover IDENTITY,

inspire DESTINY and to mobilise for Kingdom ASSIGNMENT.

Questions?

Why Identity, Destiny and Assignment?

Why Warrior Women specifically?

Why NOW?

What is the vision? 

What will women walk away with from this RETREAT.



Kingdom Women.

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Restless.

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Stuck.

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Frustrated.

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Need some encouragement.

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Want to walk in your Assignment.

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Need to remember who God called you to be?

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Want to tap into the Destiny plan for your life?

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Find yourself around like minded warrior women.

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Be mobilized!

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Come and find space to unpack and recover.

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Heal and repair.

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Receive prophetic inspiration, encouragement and get loved on.

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“THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR”…

WHO do you see when you look at her?

I will be speaking about this at the The 5 Stones RETREAT next week… MAY 20,21,22!!🎙🥰 🏹

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Have you been wondering lately about diving into your God given calling?

Is your IDEA from GOD, your own personal desire, or both?

Well, if you’ve been wondering, I’ve got just the retreat for you to step into your CALLING!

I am honored to be among 5 international speakers in The Five Stones Retreat May 20, 21, and 22.

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This 3-day, 4-hour per day, on-line womens retreat will help you focus on YOUR:

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ASSIGNMENT

Check out the website. Pray. Join me and this amazing group of anointed COACHES next weekend. FINALLY see yourself as God see’s you and step into your ESTHER CALLING!...

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Own Your Assignment Without Apology- Karen Stally


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DAUGHTERS UNITED was birth in 2017, out of a heart cry for COMMUNITY, MENTORING and NETWORKING among women in Marketplace and Ministry.

One Sunday morning, sitting in a church service, I heard Pastor Tommy Reid share his story about driving in Buffalo in the 1990’s

 -down RT 5, past the DRY BONES of Bethlehem Steel, over the skyway, past the dead industrial waterfront, and into the broken down streets of downtown.

He shared how it broke his heart... Oh how my heart leapt! I understood this pain, as I had also wept tears on these same streets for many years. 

He then prayed for the Lord to breathe life upon these Dry Bones of Buffalo, 

That once again it would rise as a great city.  

He was rejoicing that now in his 80's, he had lived to see God begin to answer his prayers!

At that moment the Lord touched my heart, and poured a vision into me.

I saw a huge arena filled with women worshipping the Lord

and around the perimeter stood white tents, each representing a different area of outreach or ministry... 

I heard a gentle voice whisper deep in my spirit, 

  “Gather my Daughters”... for such a time as this! 

Thus was the birthing of DAUGHTERS UNITED, a global Mentoring and Equipping Ministry for Women on Mission.

Linette Rainville, Founder and Lead Visionary



PRAYER FOR BUFFALO... THE CITY OF LIGHT! 



Lord God!

We pour out our hearts to you on behalf of the City of Buffalo, WNY and this whole REGION.

Father, once she was a LIGHT to the NATION, and you called her the CITY of LIGHT.

She was an industrial passageway and you called her the QUEEN CITY.

You called her the CITY of BROTHERLY LOVE because of the depth of LOVE and CARE she has for her neighbors and visitors.

LORD GOD, we ask that you would RISE UP the DRY BONES of this city.

We already see that your hand has been at work here at our waterfront, at Canalside, at our Military Park and our Medical Corridor.

We see LIFE RISING UP all over this city and this region.

FATHER GOD, today we ask you also to RISE UP a Spirit of UNITY among our CHURCHES to 

BE your LOVE to each other, 

to HEAL our racial and religious wounds, 

to tear down our denominational walls, 

that we could ALL join our DRY BONES together and work as ONE BODY as you first intended us to work.

Lord we DECLARE… you will put muscle and bone onto this BODY, and you will BREATHE a fresh breath of your SPIRIT into us.

POUR your LOVE upon us Father.

POUR your LOVE into our Churches.

BURST through our doors and our walls.

POUR your LOVE back into us that we may POUR IT back out into the streets, into the highways, into the byways.

By THIS LORD, they will know that we are YOURS.

By our LOVE they will know that we are your servants, that we are Christians serving YOU JESUS, 

LOVING you, HONORING you, leading the way to your HEART and to RECONCILIATION with YOU.

We LOVE YOU FATHER and we thank you, and we PRAISE YOU for all that you are doing, 

and ALL that you are GOING to do in this GREAT CITY and in this GREAT REGION in BUFFALO, NY and NIAGARA FALLS.

POUR, POUR, POUR your LOVE into us, that we can pour out into others.

In JESUS NAME we pray. AMEN.


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Hi there my beautiful sisters!  
Does this Christmas look different for you? 
This has been a difficult year for so many, and the Lord put it on my heart to share a word of encouragement with you today. 
I pray that you are blessed and refreshed from this little word that I pray will bring a smile to your face, a knowing that you are not alone, and renewed hope for the journey ahead of you.
I hold you in my heart and in my prayers... 
Love, 
Linette
https://www.linetterainville.com


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WEEK 10: BEGIN AGAIN! Lean in sister... I have a word for someone.  The Lord wants YOU to BEGIN AGAIN!  Have you had to start over?  Many of you have had to BEGIN AGAIN. Maybe in careers, in relationships, education etc... God is saying today that "He is in the NEW BEGINNINGS!"   "The vessel that the potter was shaping, became flawed in his hand, so he began again, he crushed it into a lump (NLT).   Any of you feel like you've been crushed into a lump?   Yep... been there too!  The text continues... "The potter reworked it (reshaped it), he remade it into another vessel that seemed best to him."   Jeremiah 18:4  ENCOURAGEMENT:  GOD is in the BEGINNINGS, the REMAKING, the BEGINNING AGAIN!   You have never gone too far, you have never walked too far away from that thing that God has CALLED you to do, that you can't go back to it. You CAN BEGIN AGAIN!  That mustard seed dream, that vision, that assignment is still there! He may have even spoke it to your heart 10 years ago, 20 years ago...  if He is reviving that in you, today is the DAY to BEGIN AGAIN!  Inviting you to join us in our year long journey... 52 WEEKS on PURPOSE!  To follow along with us visit:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/esthe...​You will get our "verse of the week" , have access to all the downloadable planning sheets, lessons, tips and tools! ++ PLUS ++ connection to this amazing community of sisters from around the world!  We are a #sisterhood​,  DAUGHTERS ON MISSION, who have "Esther Callings"  for the Kingdom!    Let us Pray! Each one of my sisters are anointed and appointed for a good work.  It is no mistake that she came across this feed today. You knew she would need this encouragement today to TAKE UP HER MANTLE.  Encouragement to walk out this mantle you have given to her, this gift, this calling. Even if it is a baby step.   I pray for your FRESH WIND to help her  take those steps, to BEGIN or to BEGIN AGAIN.  To take up that thing that you have put right in her hands. Holy Spirit, we need you! Come! Fall FRESH upon us.  Impart those gifts, those callings, your power and fresh wind to START and to START ANEW in those things that you've called us to do.  In JESUS MIGHTY NAME! AMEN!  If you have been encouraged by this word,  please share, invite your friends to be part of this journey with us, so that WE can change a generation! So we can GATHER, GROW and GO for the Kingdom of God.   Blessings!  Leading in Love,  Linette Rainville  Founder/Chaplain- Daughters United Chief Encouragement Officer


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