KNOW AND BELIEVE GOD'S LOVE FOR YOU

[joaniemarie]

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[TD="class: yiv0340057783mcnTextContent"][h=2]- NOVEMBER 6 -
KNOW AND BELIEVE GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU[/h][HR][/HR]
You may know that God cares for you and loves you, and that He demonstrated His love for you by dying on the cross for you, but do you believe it? It is one thing to know about the love that God has for you, but another thing to actually believe it in your heart.

It is one thing to know that the sun shines on us during the day. But it is another thing to believe that the sun is still shining even though we don’t feel its warmth and all we see are dark clouds. Sometimes we are slow in believing God’s love for us when we are going through a tough time. But God wants you to know and believe that He loves you in the midst of the deal falling through, when that job is slow in coming, when the boss is fault-finding or when your child still refuses to come home.

In the midst of the pain, He wants you to know and believe that He is wholly on your side defending and taking care of you. And if God, the most powerful being in the universe, is for you, can anyone or anything come against you successfully?

Perhaps you feel like you have messed up big time. God wants you to know and believe that though others may be angry with you, He will never be angry with you. Neither will He condemn you. The sum total of His anger against your sins fell upon Jesus at the cross. So He wants you to know and believe that He will never punish you because Jesus was punished in your place.

When you feel unworthy because you have just blown it for the umpteenth time, know and believe that your heavenly Father still offers you the gift of no condemnation. So come boldly to His throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace. (Hebrews 4:16)

My friend, know and believe that since He loved you and died for you while you were still a sinner (Romans 5:8) at your worst and ugliest, how much more is His love for you now that you are His beloved child and the righteousness of God in Christ! (2 Corinthians 5:21)

​Daily Devotional by Pastor Joseph Prince


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[joaniemarie]

Praise the Lord this is true! All because of Jesus we are loved 100% by God. Our position in life has totally changed due to what Jesus has done for us. We now belong to the day. We are no longer children of darkness.
Because of Jesus we are children of the day. Jesus placed us there. Now we must chose to walk in the light of our salvation. We don't try to be the light., we already are children of the light....Jesus is the light and we walk in Him now. This is an amazing truth because we have this treasure in earthen vessels.

Romans
8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

 

[Hizikyah]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalm 130:5, "I looked to [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif], My being has looked, And for His word I have waited. My being looks to [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]More than those watching for morning, watching for morning. O Yisra’yl, wait for [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]; For with [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]יהוה [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]there is loving-commitment. And with Him is much redemption,"[/FONT]

 

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[TD="class: yiv0340057783mcnTextContent"]- NOVEMBER 6 -
KNOW AND BELIEVE GOD’S LOVE FOR YOU

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You may know that God cares for you and loves you, and that He demonstrated His love for you by dying on the cross for you, but do you believe it? It is one thing to know about the love that God has for you, but another thing to actually believe it in your heart.

It is one thing to know that the sun shines on us during the day. But it is another thing to believe that the sun is still shining even though we don’t feel its warmth and all we see are dark clouds. Sometimes we are slow in believing God’s love for us when we are going through a tough time. But God wants you to know and believe that He loves you in the midst of the deal falling through, when that job is slow in coming, when the boss is fault-finding or when your child still refuses to come home.

In the midst of the pain, He wants you to know and believe that He is wholly on your side defending and taking care of you. And if God, the most powerful being in the universe, is for you, can anyone or anything come against you successfully?

Perhaps you feel like you have messed up big time. God wants you to know and believe that though others may be angry with you, He will never be angry with you. Neither will He condemn you. The sum total of His anger against your sins fell upon Jesus at the cross. So He wants you to know and believe that He will never punish you because Jesus was punished in your place.

When you feel unworthy because you have just blown it for the umpteenth time, know and believe that your heavenly Father still offers you the gift of no condemnation. So come boldly to His throne of grace to obtain mercy and find grace. (Hebrews 4:16)

My friend, know and believe that since He loved you and died for you while you were still a sinner (Romans 5:8) at your worst and ugliest, how much more is His love for you now that you are His beloved child and the righteousness of God in Christ! (2 Corinthians 5:21)

​Daily Devotional by Pastor Joseph Prince

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I love messages like this. It reminds us believers again that each day we must take that love and grace Jesus paid for us to have and remember it is personal. He loves us personally and intends for us to believe and have personal faith in Him. This means no looking to the right or to the left. This means not looking at the world in it's crisis or even the neighbor down the road in crisis or ease in poverty or wealth.

The Bible says not to look at others or compare ourselves by ourselves or other people. Also., this means not to believe God is seeing us as we see us or as we see others. His love for us is unlike the love here on earth. His love goes further and higher than that. That is why when our feelings condemn us God is greater than our hearts. ... meaning He loves us as we are. And when we depend solely on Jesus for our right standing we will not be disappointed.

He loves the unlovely that we find hard to love. Including ourselves at times. That is why Romans 8:1 seen in it's proper light is so vital for the growing up in faith part.

8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.




Many people including some Christians can't understand this kind of love that is unconditional and free. The condition in the new covenant that we are in now is that we believe and have faith in the finished work of Christ for us. It's just too good to be true for us humans to comprehend. How can undeserving people have God's pure love and blessings? The answer? IN JESUS. In Jesus we have already been given these things. By faith we acquire the inheritance while we are still here. We are called to to live it out by faith Heb.11:1

11 Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, [SUP][a][/SUP]the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].

 

[joaniemarie]

The reason I believe that the promises of Psalm 91 for instance are for me personally is because I apply it personally. Like all the promises in the Bible that are ours must be applied by faith and no other way. When Christians say "that is not for us today because I've had problems happen and I've had bad things happen. So this is not true." That is the way to make it not true.

If we don't believe because we are basing the promises on our circumstances.,, than for sure based on our human circumstances it will NOT come to pass because we are looking at the bigness of our circumstances and not bigness and ability of the Lord and what He has done for us. Faith IN Jesus is supposed to be held on to with actual anticipation that what He says will come to pass. And if an answer doesnt come., we hold on until it does.

The enemy counts on us giving up and giving into defeat. he counts on our usual impatience. he knows we won't resist if he persists. he knows how easily we "faint" so he keeps sending us problems to defeat us and that make us see the problem and not the Savior. Our eyes get off the LORD and on to our situations and our own thoughts. he gets us to worry and try to figure out what to do "if" Jesus doesn't come through. he gets us to learn all we can about our sickness and even has us picking out caskets and planning our funeral. he can take all hope from the believer when we don't resist.

Whether it be for health., or for paying bills or for any kind of human security we need. he tries to plummet and pulverize us with hopelessness and defeat.

Here is Psalms 91 in the Amplified that strengthens and upholds me in times of waiting by faith.

[SUP]1 [/SUP]He who [SUP][a][/SUP]dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall remain stable and fixed under the shadow of the Almighty [Whose power no foe can withstand].
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2 [/SUP]I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!
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3 [/SUP]For [then] He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.
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4 [/SUP][Then] He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you trust and find refuge; His truth and His faithfulness are a shield and a buckler.
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5 [/SUP]You shall not be afraid of the terror of the night, nor of the arrow (the evil plots and slanders of the wicked) that flies by day,
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6 [/SUP]Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor of the destruction and sudden death that surprise and lay waste at noonday.
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7 [/SUP]A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not come near you.
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8 [/SUP]Only a spectator shall you be [yourself inaccessible in the secret place of the Most High] as you witness the reward of the wicked.
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9 [/SUP]Because you have made the Lord your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
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10 [/SUP]There shall no evil befall you, nor any plague or calamity come near your tent.
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11 [/SUP]For He will give His angels [especial] charge over you to accompany and defend and preserve you in all your ways [of obedience and service].
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12 [/SUP]They shall bear you up on their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
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13 [/SUP]You shall tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the serpent shall you trample underfoot.
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14 [/SUP]Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he knows and understands My name [has a personal knowledge of My mercy, love, and kindness—trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never forsake him, no, never].
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15 [/SUP]He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
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16 [/SUP]With long life will I satisfy him and show him My salvation.
[h=4]Footnotes:[/h]

1. Psalm 91:1 The rich promises of this whole chapter are dependent upon one’s meeting exactly the conditions of these first two verses (see Exod. 15:26).

The conditions under the new covenant are; Jesus makes us worthy for these rich promises and not our own worthiness. Keeping our eyes on the love of God IN Christ for us that has been 100% paid for already. It is then the answers come and the needs are met in supernatural ways.

And I must say., Jesus is so gracious that He even gives us answered prayer along the way of our break throughs along the way as we are learning to trust Him again and again. He gives us more answers to top the other answers. And it's done "along the way"