HE
CALLS ME CHOSEN
BREAD
9 But
you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging
to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness
into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9
(NIV)
18 Yet
the Lord longs to be gracious to
you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord
is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! Isaiah 30:18 (NIV)
20 so
that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the
Lord has done this, that the Holy
One of Israel has created it. Isaiah
41:20 (NIV)
8 But do
not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand
years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in
keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not
wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only
Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever
believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.” John 3:16-18 (NIV)
14 “We
all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to
kick against the goads.’ 15 Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord
replied. 16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to
appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what
I will show you. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles.
I am sending you to them 18 to open their eyes and turn
them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they
may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by
faith in me.’” Acts 26:14-18
(NIV)
10 I delight
greatly in the Lord; my soul
rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and
arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a
priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. Isaiah 61:10 (NIV)
31 What,
then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against
us? 32 He who
did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also,
along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge
against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns?
Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right
hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the
love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness
or danger or sword? 36 As it
is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as
sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
future, nor any powers, 39 neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
BUTTER
“The person you
are now, the person you have been, the person you will be - this person God has
chosen as beloved.” William Countryman
“Chosen one of God, may you find it easy
to follow your King. May you find your
life when you are willing to lose it for the sake of the Kingdom. May our Lord lift you up to a place higher
than you could ever dream. May your
choice to follow Christ echo throughout all generations that follow you, and
may you receive rewards on earth and in heaven for your commitment to live for
our mighty Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen.” Sheri Rose Shepherd
“Though
salvation is not by the works of the law, yet the blessings which are promised
to obedience are not denied to the faithful servants of God. The curses our Lord took away when He was
made a curse for us, but no clause of blessing has been abrogated. We are to note and listen to the revealed will
of the Lord, giving our attention not to portions of it but to ‘all these
words.’ There must be no picking and
choosing but an impartial respect to all that God has commanded. This is the road of blessedness for the
Father and for His children. The Lord’s
blessing is upon His chosen to the third and fourth generation. If they walk uprightly before Him, He will
make all men know that they are a seed which the Lord has blessed.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“O the deep, deep love of Jesus.
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me! Underneath me, all around me, is the current
of Thy love, leading onward, leading homeward, to my glorious rest above! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His
praise from shore to shore! How He
loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, never more! How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to
call them all His own; how for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the
throne! O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
love of every love the best! ‘Tis an
ocean full of blessing, ‘tis a haven giving rest! O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ‘tis a heav’n
of heav’ns to me; and it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!” Samuel Trevor Francis
“For
the love of God is broader than the measures of man’s mind; and the heart of
the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.” Frederick William Faber
“‘There is no fear
in love’, writes the apostle John, ‘but perfect love drives out fear…’ He goes
on to point to the source of that perfect love:
‘We love because He first loved us”.
In other words, the cure to fear is not a change in circumstances,
rather a deep grounding in the love of God.
I ask God to reveal His love to me directly, or through my relationships
with those who also know Him—a prayer I think God takes great delight in answering. When I get depressed about my present
failures, I ask God to remind me of my true identity: one who will be made
perfect and has already been forgiven. ‘You’ve got to go deeper’, said the nun
to my burned out pastor. ‘Sink the well
into a water table that never runs dry’…Thomas Merton conceded that everything
in modern city life conspires against such surrender. We worry (fear) about money, about what we
need to have and to know, about whom to compete with and what is slipping out
of our control…(he) found the secret to true freedom: If we live to please God alone (the One who
loves us), we set ourselves free from the cares and worries that press in on
us.” Phillip Yancey
HEART SAVOR
· Jesus loves me this I know.
· I have been chosen to declare the praises of Him Who
brought me out of darkness and into His wonderful light.
· Nothing shall separate me from the love of Christ.
