A
LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO
BREAD
3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with
loving-kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3 (NIV)
4 I led
them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from
their neck and bent down to feed them. Hosea
11:4 (NIV)
15 “Can a
mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she
has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on
the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” Isaiah 49:15-16 (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)
16 I pray
that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his
Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with
all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, 19 and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure
of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16-19 (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.”
John 3:16-17 (NIV)
8 But
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NIV)
4 But
because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even
when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with
Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming
ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his
kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through
faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one
can boast. Ephesians 2:4-9 (NIV)
10 “Though
the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you
will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10 (NIV)
27 “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow
me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one
can snatch them out of my hand.” John
10:27-28 (NIV)
BUTTER
“My Love will never let you go! It has an eternal grip on you. You live in a world that is unpredictable and unsafe in many ways. As you look around, you see landscape littered with broken promises. However, my Love is a promise that will never be broken. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing Love for you will not be shaken. The prophet Isaiah is painting a picture of dire circumstances: quaking mountains and disappearing hills. No matter what is happening, My Love is unshakable. You can build your life on it!” Sarah Young
“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
“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
“God
in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with
joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.’ (Zephaniah
3:17). The covenant is the heart of God written out in the blood of Jesus.” Charles
Spurgeon
“O love
that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee. I give Thee back the life I owe, that in
Thine ocean depths its flow, may richer fuller be. O light that followest all my way, I yield my
flickering torch to Thee. My heart
restores its borrowed ray, that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day, may brighter
fairer be. O joy that seekest me through
pain, I cannot close my heart to Thee. I
trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn
shall tearless be. O cross that liftest
up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee.
I lay in dust life’s glory dead, and from the ground there blossoms red,
life that shall endless be.” George
Matheson
“The believer is in spiritual danger if he
allows himself to go for any length of time without tasting the love of Christ
and savoring the felt comforts of a Savior’s presence. When Christ ceases to fill the heart with
satisfaction, our souls will go in silent search of other lovers….By the
enjoyment of the love of Christ in the heart of a believer, we mean an
experience of the “love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given to us”(Rom 5:5)….because the Lord has made himself accessible to
us in the means of grace; it is our duty and privilege to seek this experience
from Him in these means till we are made the joyful partakers of it.” John
Flavel
“Love Him
totally who gave Himself totally for your love.” Claire
of Assisi
“Amazing love! How can it be, that Thou, my God, shouldst
die for me?” Charles Wesley
“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
“God loves you as though you are the only person in the
world, and He loves everyone the way He loves you.” Augustine
HEART SAVOR
- · Jesus loves me this I know. He has loved me with an everlasting love and drawn me with cords of kindness.
- · He has engraved me on the palms of His hands, my walls are ever before Him.
- · He rejoices over me with singing.
