Thursday, May 8, 2014

Accepting the Father's love. Day 3 - Your Father protects you!

Isaiah 41:13
For I, the Lord your God,
hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, “Fear not,
I am the one who helps you.”

God has given us His word that He will protect us. What a comforting thought to know that it is The Lord God, the Almighty one, who holds our hand. God tells us to fear not because He is the one who helps us.

Deuteronomy 31:8
It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

God wants us not to worry because 1 He goes BEFORE us. 2 He will be WITH us. 3 He will NOT LEAVE us. 4 He will NOT FORSAKE us.
Therefore do not fear nor be dismay, God will take care of you.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Such a comforting thought. It gives me peace to know that God knows the plans of my life. He will protect me. He wants a future of hope for me.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Accepting your Father's love, Day 2

Accepting the Father's love. Day 2

Your Father delights in your existence.

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God is in your midst,
 a mighty one who will save;
 He will rejoice over you with gladness;
He will quiet you by His love;
He will exult over you with loud singing.

This verse shows how God REJOICES over US with gladness, He will show US His LOVE and He will EXULT over US. Yes, our God does delight over us and our existence.

Because God delights in us, we can go to Him with ever care and concern we have. He wants us to delight and love Him just as how He delights and loves us.

Do you love God and want to spend time with Him?

Psalm 116
I Love the Lord

1 I love the Lord, because He has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
2 Because He inclined His ear to me,
therefore I will call on Him as long as I live.
3 The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
4 Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
our God is merciful.
6 The Lord preserves the simple;
when I was brought low, He saved me.
7 Return, O my soul, to your rest;
for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For You have delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling;
9 I will walk before the Lord
 in the land of the living.
10 I believed, even when I spoke:
“I am greatly afflicted”;
11 I said in my alarm,
 “All mankind are liars.”
12 What shall I render to the Lord
for all His benefits to me?
13 I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord,
14 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all His people.
15 Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of His saints.
16 O Lord, I am Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of your maidservant.
You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving
and call on the name of the Lord.
18 I will pay my vows to the Lord
in the presence of all His people,
19 in the courts of the house of the Lord,
in Your midst, O Jerusalem.
 Praise the Lord!

Don't hold back, enjoy what God has given you. Delight in Him so that you can gain His rewards!!!

Monday, May 5, 2014

Accepting the Fathers love. Day 1

Your Father wanted you to be born.

Isaiah 44:2
Thus says The Lord who made you
and formed you from the womb, who will help you:
Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
 Jeshurun whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 43:1
But now thus says the Lord,
 He who created you, O Jacob,
He who formed you, O Israel:
 “Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
 I have called you by name, you are Mine.

I know for sure that God planned my birth because it says God formed me from the womb. I also learn that God will look after us, protect us and guide us if we do His will, because He loves us, because He has called us by our name and we are His.

The last 3 words in Isaiah 43:1 says "you are Mine."

God wanted us to be born so that we could become His children.

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Look at all the benefits of becoming His child... We become a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation and we can leave the darkness behind us. I become His special person.

I am CHOSEN. I am LOVED. God wanted me to be BORN.

Ephesians 1:4-5
4 even as He chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him. In love
5 He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will,

Again we can see God wanted us to be born. It was His plan right before He created the foundations of this world.

Accept His love because He wanted you to be here. It was His master plan right from the very beginning!