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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)
3 I will
praise you, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing of you among the peoples. 4 For
great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the
skies. 5 Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your
glory be over all the earth. Psalms
108:3-5 (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)
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)
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)
10 “For
the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.” Luke 19:10 (NIV)
13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life
for his friends. John 15:13 (NIV)
21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21
(NIV)
15 “If you love me, you will obey what I command. 16 And
I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you
forever-- 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept
him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives
with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come
to you.” John
14:15-18 (NIV)
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 8:38-39 (NIV)
7 Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever
does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This
is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This
is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1 John
4:7-10 (NIV)
BUTTER
“There is
only torment and slavery and wanting in envy and hatred and strife but sweet
rest and pleasure and wholeness in the security of God’s love.” BHY
“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
“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
“My hope is not in a cure today. My hope is
not the absence of suffering and comfort returned. My hope is in the presence
of the One who promises never to leave or forsake, the One who declares nothing
“will be able to separate us from the love of God.” (Romans 8:39). Nothing.
Your story is a good story. In the grief, pain and hard, the Author has a plan.
It may feel like a desperate breaking of your very heart, but suffering is not
the absence of God or good.” Kara Tippetts
“God’s
love is always supernatural, always a miracle, always the last thing we
deserve.” Robert Horn
“God is love and only love. In God there is no hatred,
desire for revenge, or pleasure in seeing us punished. God wants to forgive,
heal, restore, show us endless mercy, and see us come home. But just as the
father of the prodigal son let his son make his own decision God gives us the
freedom to move away from God's love even at the risk of destroying ourselves.
Hell is not God's choice. It is ours.” Henri
Nouwen
“Why does God want us to remember?
God's desire for us to recall His past mercies has nothing to do with His own
personal insecurities, but everything to do with us worshiping Him rightly.
Every time you recall the depth of God's love for you, He is inviting you to
love Him back more deeply and more fully. Every time you remember His matchless
love, it brings healing and wholeness, challenging you to respond with praise
and surrender. Every time you recall His immense sacrifice, it brings hope and
trust that He will do it again. Remembering Him is for His glory and for our
good.” Michael Youssef“Because of Christ, there is no place God will not go and no one He will not bless. You are never beyond God’s love, and you are never alone. God is present even in the midst of your greatest need, your greatest weakness, and your greatest failures. Grace would have it no other way.” ThornCrown’s Welcome
“Divine
omniscience provides no comfort to the ungodly mind, but to the child of God it
overflows with consolation. God is always thinking about us, never turns His
mind from us, always has us before His eyes; and this is precisely how we would
want it, because it would be dreadful to exist for a moment outside the
observation of our heavenly Father. His thoughts are always tender, loving,
wise, prudent, far-reaching, and they bring countless benefits to us: It is
consequently a supreme delight to remember them.” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“Can
you answer this, believer? Can you find any reason why you are so often
mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy anticipations? Who told you that
the night would never end in day? Who told you that the sea of circumstances would
ebb out till there should be nothing left but long stretches of the mud of
horrible poverty? Who told you that the winter of your discontent would proceed
from frost to frost, from snow and ice and hail to deeper snow and yet more
heavy tempest of despair? Don't you know that day follows night, that flood
comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter? Be full of hope! Hope forever! For God does
not fail you. Do you not know that God loves you in the midst of all this?
Mountains, when in darkness hidden, are as real as in day, and God's love is as
true to you now as it was in your brightest moments.” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
HEART SAVOR
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God is love.
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God’s love is demonstrative.
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Nothing can separate us from the
love of God.
