This 13 week, interactive study looks at issues many women face today and reminds them of their inherent value as daughters of the one true King.

Mordecai's challenge to Esther, "Were you not born for such a time as this?" is repeated for all women throughout the ages, says Diana Hagee. Every woman has a divine destiny. But women cannot fulfill that goal unless they understand His biblical guidelines.

In this interactive workbook, Diana leads women through a self-examination of their lives and their goals from God's perspective, not the secular society's. Topics such as self-esteem, diligence, attitude, goal setting and stewardship encourage women to establish a strong foundation for growth while learning to see themselves in a new light.

Through scripture, thought-provoking questions and answers, prayers, practical advice and devotional ideas, women learn how valuable they are to God and how they can have an intimate relationship with Him while evaluating the standards that make them a daughter of the King.

The KING'S DAUGHTER WORKBOOK

Contents

Part One: Your Personal Journey1. The King's Daughter:...........................................................32. My Value in God's Eyes:........................................................153. I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel:................................................234. The Holy Spirit and Me:........................................................445. Dreams with a Happy Ending:....................................................536. Women in the Workplace:........................................................697. Women and Their Relationships:.................................................778. And God Said "Let There Be Sex":...............................................959. The Temple of the Lord:........................................................10910. The Favor of God:.............................................................12311. Hospitality:..................................................................14112. Beauty:.......................................................................15313. Blessed and Highly Favored:...................................................167Part Two: A Curriculum for Women's GroupsLesson One: The Purpose of the Journey:......................................193Lesson Two: My Value in God's Eyes:..........................................199Lesson Three: I Am Not Ashamed of the Gospel:..................................206Lesson Four: The Holy Spirit and Me:..........................................217Lesson Five: Dreams with a Happy Ending:......................................224Lesson Six: Ten Commandments for Women in the Workplace:.....................229Lesson Seven: Women and Their Relationships:...................................232Lesson Eight: And God Said "Let There Be Sex":.................................240Lesson Nine: The Temple of the Lord:..........................................244Lesson Ten: The Favor of God:................................................251Lesson Eleven: Hospitality:.....................................................258Lesson Twelve: Beauty:..........................................................262Lesson Thirteen: Blessed and Highly Favored:......................................268Lesson Fourteen: Prayer and Fasting:..............................................274Notes.............................................................................285About the Author..................................................................288King's Daughter Resources.........................................................291

Chapter One

"Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" -Esther 4:14

In 1999 when I stood at the front of our sanctuary at Cornerstone Church and looked out at the three-hundred teenage girls who were attending our first Woman of God class, I was both excited and frightened. This was one of the first times I had conducted a large teaching series, and I knew the Lord was counting on me to make a difference in these young girls' lives.

These classes were inspired by the Book of Esther. As God positioned Esther to become the queen of Persia, the most powerful nation on earth at that time in history, she had to prepare herself. Why do we not prepare ourselves to follow God's call on our lives, I wondered. The result of this thought was a class at our church for the young women of thirteen-to-nineteen years of age to equip them to become women of God. I expected twenty-five to fifty young women to register for the class. Instead more than three-hundred girls flooded the registration tables.

One of the older girls who attended this first Woman of God class was Moriah Weaver. This eighteen-year-old says she was blessed to get into a group with girls her own age, from all kinds of backgrounds, and see that the struggles and problems she thought were unique to her were really quite typical. "For the first time I had a support system with people who were of like faith. I found a safe haven where I could be myself and ask the questions I wanted answered."

The next year when I began the first Woman of God class for women of twenty-to-one-hundred years of age I had that same queasy feeling. I wanted these adults to realize God's love for them and who they were as daughters of the King. I asked the Lord, "Help me to minister to these women as Your servant. Help me to show them Your plans for them as Your beloved daughters."

And the Lord answered my prayer. During the five years of these classes the Lord has blessed the women in our church. Approximately 2,500 women have participated in the Woman of God teaching series at Cornerstone Church, some returning the next year to work as facilitators, like Moriah Weaver, others returning each year to relive the experience and hear any new teaching.

Moriah says, "I agree with Mrs. Hagee when she says that this experience reminds her of peeling an onion. Every year a different layer comes off those who take the class, just as you can peel different layers off an onion. You don't realize that you need to deal with another part of who you are until the next session; at that time you are at a different point in your life."

Another woman in the first adult class was Judy Willingham, a single mom with three children- two boys and a girl. She had been a stay-at-home mom for sixteen years and was on child support and welfare to provide the necessities for her and her children. The hopelessness of her life had her so overwhelmed that her doctor had prescribed Prozac[R]-but that didn't alleviate her depression. "I was down," Judy told me. "I would lie on the floor and whine and whimper and ask, `Why me, God? What did I do to deserve this? Why? Why? Why?' People would try to encourage me, but I'd just cut them off. I gave every excuse in the world to stay just where I was, down in that dark hole of depression.

"A friend encouraged me to attend the Woman of God class. At first I didn't want to go, but after I went to the first class, I lived for Tuesday night. I sat right on the front row, as close as I could get. The class jumpstarted my life.

"After several sessions Teresa Weaver asked me to help type out the testimonies. `I know how to type,' I told Teresa, `but I don't know how to work a computer.'

"Still Teresa decided to give me a chance; she either knew that God would use this situation in my life or she was so desperate she was willing to take any help, no matter how unprofessional.

"And the work proved to be difficult, since the computer didn't act like a typewriter. As I tried to use the word processing system, I would get all jumbled up. I remember asking Teresa, `How do you go to a new page?' Thankfully she took time out of her many duties to show me.

"Despite my frustration with the word-processing program, I now had a voice inside me that said, `You know what? You can learn this, just like you can learn to do anything you want to do.'

"I never would have thought that before the Woman of God class, my self-esteem was so low. I believed I was stupid. I didn't have an education. But after you, Diana, told how the Lord helped you overcome low self-esteem, I decided that if God helped you, He...