But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.  know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keeps  his commandments, to a thousand generations,   Deuteronomy 7:8-9 As we know the Israelites are God’s chosen people.  He was motivated by love for them.  God keeps his promises to those chosen people  – from generation after generations.  God…

Love is patient, and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; but rejoices with the truth.  Love hears all things, endure all things.  Love never ends.    I Corinthians 13:4-7 These verses are about the action of love; a behavior.  Most of all it shows the character of who the Triune God is. We all have to grow in this area of love.  In every situation we get into, we should use verses as a guide of how we are responding,  we should respond in a patient, loving, kind way.…

  A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I loved you, you also are to love one another.  By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.  John 13:34-35 One of God’s commands to us is to love others.  First to love other true christians.  Christians who obey God and are loyal to him.  We are brothers and sisters in Christ.  We are to love and support one another. Loving God and his will as revealed in His word will enable us to show God’s love.  Loving God must b top priority in our…

the Lord appeared to him from far away.  I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.  Jeremiah 31:3 God loves his people with an everlasting love.  He reaches out with kindness to his children.  Look at the Israelites.  They obey God, then slip away from him.  It’s a yo-yo.  Yet, there is God just waiting for them to return to him.  God still loving them, showing grace and mercy.  god will discipline us for our disobedience.  He is still calling us home.  He is still loving us. I caught myself questioning the Israelites fo them turning to other gods.  For instance, Why…

  So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.  God is love, and whoever abides in God, and God abides in him.  By this is love perfect with us.   so that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear.  For fear has to do with punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.  We love because he first loved us.  1 John 4:16-19 As long as we abide in God and Him in us, we…

See what kind of love the father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.  The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  1 John 3:1 When we accept Christ as our savior;  we become children/child of God.  We are chosen and adopted through Christ as his very own.  Being adopted in God’s family is the highest honor and privileges of our salvation.  God loves us so much that he calls us his children.  God bestows lavishly His love to us.  What is sad is the world does not know of this great love…

  Spend a few minutes with God praying. Put some music on and worship Him. Now pause, Be still – and know He is God.  Listen to his voice. Is he speaking to you? Write down what he is telling you! If he is being silent just enjoy His presence.  And know he loves you deeply Trust him.  and obey him Father God!  I pray that as we spend this time with you,  that if it be your will to speak to us, let it be so.  Help us to hear you and then to obey you.  Please let each one of us know your love for us.  Amen  

      I have been crucified with Christ.  It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.  And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  Galatians 2:20 Jesus loves us so much that he was willing to die for my sins.  God’s love is so amazing.  God sees us as being crucified with Christ, when we have true faith in Christ. When we have true faith we are united in Christ. Our old life is put to death when Christ died for our sins, however we have…

    The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.  Zephaniah 3:17 To me this is a comforting verse.  When I was going through a hard time, this verse was a go too.  For one God is in our midst.  He is with us.  He will save us.  God supports, supply, aid, strengthens, protects, and defends us.  God gives us unspeakable joy.  God will rejoice over you with gladness.  When we are anxious, scared, or nervous, he will quiet our hearts with his love.…

Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution, of famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  As in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither, angels no demons,  neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be to separate us form the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:35-39…