Crazy For You Isaiah 62:5 Zephaniah 3:17 Isaiah 40:1-2 Psalms 18:16-19 Psalms 18:35 Psalms 103:11 Lamentations 3:21-24 Psalms 130:7 Romans 8:35-39 John 15:12-14 06.06.16

CRAZY FOR YOU

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As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.    Isaiah 62:5 (NIV)

17 “The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”   Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)

1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for.  Isaiah 40:1-2 (NIV)

16 He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters. 17 He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. 18 They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. 19 He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.  Psalms 18:16-19 (NIV)

35 You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.   Psalms 18:35 (NIV)

8 The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.   Psalms 103:8 (NIV)

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him.  Psalms 103:11 (NIV)

21 “Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: 22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24 I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”   Lamentations 3:21-24 (NIV)

7 O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.   Psalms 130:7 (NIV)

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 8:35-39 (NIV)

12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:12-14 (NIV)

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“We are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.  No created being can ever know how much and how sweetly and tenderly God loves them.”  Julian of Norwich 

“The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return.”  Charles H. Spurgeon   

“The world will say they will love you if you are beautiful —- but the truth is you are beautiful because you are loved…. Because He who is Love loves you unconditionally.”    Ann Voskamp

“In the gospel we discover that we are far more wicked than we ever dared believe, yet more loved than we ever dared hope.”   Tim Keller

“Doubt not His grace because of thy tribulation, but believe that He loveth thee as much in seasons of trouble as in times of happiness.”  Charles Spurgeon

“No sea is deeper than the ocean of His love.  There is no army stronger than His hosts, no force greater than His throne of grace, no enemy who can overcome His direct and indirect work in our lives.”  Robert J. Morgan

“Do you know who you are? Do you know who you were designed to be? Do you know the Father’s intent for your life? You are meant to hear in your spirit the same thing Jesus heard when he came out of the waters of baptism at the beginning of his ministry: ‘You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased’….J I Packer puts it simply. ‘What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God for his Father’…Our highest privilege and deepest need is to experience the holy God as our loving Father, to approach him without fear and to be assured of his fatherly care and concern.”  Greg Ogden

“The supreme happiness of life,” Victor Hugo said, “is the conviction that we are loved”….Unfortunately, many people go through life feeling unloved – and unlovable…No matter the reason, your feelings aren’t telling you the truth!  God loves you, and if you begin to see yourself the way God sees you, your attitudes will begin to change.  If He didn’t love you, would Christ have been willing to die for you?  But He did!  The Bible says, “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us” (1 John 3:16).  God loves you.  Hammer that truth into your head and mind every day.  It will make all the difference.”    Billy Graham 

“Once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vise, constrained by the love of God.”  Oswald Chambers

“The children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love - the love of Christ constraineth them; they rejoice that divine love is set upon them, they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them, and then by force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart, fervently.  My dear reader, do you love Him?”  Charles H. Spurgeon   
  
HEART SAVOR

·       God loves me, even me.

·       God’s love gives sacrificially.  God’s love through me is to give sacrificially as well.  The blessings received in the sacrifice far outweighs the cost.

·        There is no greater force than God’s love – it will never fail - 8 Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NIV).