Day 38 of God’s Love for Us December 30, 2017 “When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear…. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all” by Gerald G. Jampolsky. This quote came as a daily quote earlier this week. It made me really think about fears of the past. When we Read More
Month: December 2017
Day 37 of God’s Love
Day 37 of God’s Love for Us December 22, 2017 Today’s demonstration of God’s love comes from song by Matt Maher called “Hold Us Together.” I believe that God has used Matt and many others to write songs that point to Jesus. In this song, Matt points us directly to Jesus’ two greatest commandments, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. And “The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matthew 22:37, 39 NASB). Now Matt Maher’s lyrics that touched me to demonstrate Read More
Day 36 of God’s Love
Day 36 of God’s Love for Us December 21, 2017 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”(2 Corinthians 5:21 NASB). When we trust in Christ, we make an exchange-our sin for his righteousness. God offered to share His freedom and moral principles which are immeasurable, with us- who are broken, immoral, and generally ungrateful. When we acknowledge, believe, and trust in Jesus, we can encourage, help, and strengthen one another. Also, “we can celebrate with each other when we see God’s victorious Read More
Day 35 of God’s Love
Day 35 of God’s Love for Us December 15, 2017 In your moment of struggle, remember these words, “For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will gather you. In an outburst of anger I hid my face from you for a moment, but with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord your Redeemer (Isaiah 54:7-8 NASB). The Lord is good, He will test you to strengthen you, and He will discipline you when you think you don’t need Him. If we look at our struggles as discipline, instead of as ‘the Read More
Day 34 of God’s Love
Day 34 of God’s Love for Us December 13, 2017 “Teach me, and I will be silent; and show me how I have erred” (Job 6:24). This should be our daily prayer! Even after Satan took everything away from Job, he said, “But it is still my consolation, and I rejoice in unsparing pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One” (Job 6:10). His friend Bildad that came to console him, had this this to say, “Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity (or cast away the blameless); Nor will He uphold the evildoers” Read More
Day 33 of God’s Love
Day 33 of God’s Love for Us December 7, 2017 Why did Jesus Christ die on the cross? I think Paul put it it very plainly in his letter to the Galatians, when he wrote, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free (died); therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery”(Galatians 5:1 NASB). There were 613 laws for the Hebrews during Jesus’ time. He narrowed that down to “Love God” and “Love your neighbor as yourself.” When He said this, Jesus opened the door for you and I and all the Read More