"He Is Love"

DAY #111 - 'A Woman of Faith' Devotional
Verse: "God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him." 1 John 4:16 HCSB

God is indeed love -- He has loved us so much, and we don't even deserve that which He has given. We all know or at least have heard, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:16-17 NKJV Because of God's love for us, He sent His one and only Son Jesus, so that through His death, we may live. All because he is a compassionate and merciful God. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:4-7

God's love is not like our worldly love -- it is unconditional. No matter who we are, what we've done, how we treat Him... He still loves us beyond all measure! No one knows or can measure how deep, how wide, how great the love the Father has for us. Check out this song, AMAZED. Each day, each moment, we should not take the love of God for granted, we should stand, bow, kneel, work, play, pray, dance, worship, praise, go through trials, AMAZED. Never let it get boring, or just another tradition or thing to you. God's love is amazing, and He is amazing! Let him amaze you today!

'AMAZED' sung by Lincoln Brewster


Why does He & How does He love us so much? He is love -- that's all that He is made up of, so that is what overflows to us. We should be so full of the love of God that we overflow to the world too. Check out HOW HE LOVES US, because even He is jealous for you... and it's a sweet, sweet love. Let him embrace you today!

'HOW HE LOVES US' sung by Kim Walker & JesusCulture


After all is said and done, one thing remains, the love of God. It is never-failing, never giving up, never-ending, it never runs out, it goes on and on and on and on and on... much longer than even the Energizer bunny. :)  Check out ONE THING REMAINS, and remind yourself that His love never fails! Let Him love you, and love Him back today!

'ONE THING REMAINS' sung by Chris Quilala & JesusCulture


"We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love." ~Barbara Johnson

Now once you have experienced the love of God, pass it on to a friend! Continue the love circle, and it will always come back to you!

BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING!

Embraced By God

DAY #11 - "A Woman of Faith" Devotional

Verse: Lamentations 3:22 NLT ~"The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!"

Have you ever felt alone, or that no one loved you? Well you were wrong... there is always someone that loves you, and loves you unconditionally. (That means no matter what you do or don't do, He still loves you). That's God! God wants us to respond to His love in a way pleasing to Him. We need to take time with Him, just as we would in a earthly relationship. There are 5 Love Languages, and God can love you with all 5, and you can love Him with all 5. {To read more about the 5 Love Languages, check out this website. (click the link)} We can spend 'Quality Time' with Him, we can use our 'Gifts' to show we love Him, we use 'Words of Praise & Affirmation' to let Him know how much we love Him, we do 'Acts of Service' to those in our community to show the Love of God, and that we are full of His love, and we can tangibly 'touch' Him when we worship Him. My Love Language is 'Physical Touch', so I really love the worship songs that include words where it talks of embracing Jesus, or God holding us in His arms, etc. This topic today touches my heart, as I love to be embraced by God. Each day we can be embraced by God, but unfortunately like in physical relationships we push Him away... or put Him on the shelf until we 'need' Him. (Technically we ALWAYS need Him).

Well, the choice is indeed yours... He is loving you beyond measure, and with a never-ending love as our verse of the day states... but how will YOU respond? Will you ignore or will you embrace Him back? "When you open yourself to God's love, you feel differently about yourself, your neighbours, and your world. When you embrace God's love, you share His message and you obey His commandments." ('A Woman of Faith' Devotional - Day #11. ©2007 Freeman-Smith, LLC. Nashville, TN. 37202)"Love is not something God does; love is something that God is." ~ Beth Moore




Be blessed and be a blessing to someone... share the Love of Jesus that is found right within YOU! Let God love you, and please love Him in return, it's one of the BEST choices you can make! <3

Thank you Lord that Your love and mercy never end!

Now, listen to this song and even to the special part starting at 6:33, where Kim explains more about the love of God, as there may be some of you who have never encountered the Love of God. (the message & prayer goes until 7:54 -- listen to it all, and let the Spirit of God annoint you where you are at!) It's the same Spirit that was there when they recorded this, as the one who is now with you where you are! Be blessed!

How He Loves
(sung by Kim Walker)

Be Blessed & Be a Blessing!

2 BLESSED 2 B STRESSED? (or vice versa)

The Lord wants to BLESS our socks off... He wants to give us all that we desire and more. Most of the things are things that we think we need, but really they are actually just wants. We need to stop stressing over things so much, and allow God to fulfill His destiny for us. We need to be able to live with the things He grants us, and desire that which He wants to give us, not just that which we want for ourselves.

When we rest in the arms of the Lord, all pain, hurt, sadness, hate, trouble and more goes away. We just float in the 'stream' with Him. The stream that grants us peace, joy, love, hope and more good things! We are not truly ready to be in the 'river' with Him, but we should be able to enter the stream of life with Him.

I thank the Lord for allowing us to 'find Him' and 'chase Him', but in the end, it is He who actually catches us. He should be all that we desire, and when we desire Him and Him alone, He will give us that which we need, and desire! Thinking to MATTHEW 6:33... "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." When we truly put Him FIRST (in the place He should be), all that which we need will be ours.  Earlier in the 6th chapter of Matthew starting at verse 25, the Word tells us not to worry. Worry causes stress, and stress causes more pain in the end than what we started with. There is a saying, 'That which angers you, controls you', and I certainly have let a lot of anger get into my heart & mind, mainly at work in dealing with disruptive, rude children. I have to remind myself to let the LOVE of JESUS flow from me instead of angry words. I taught the lesson regarding anger and bound up frustration, and what it does to you, in Junior Church and now I am having to live out my lesson, so I thank the Holy Spirit for revealing this to me. We watched LARRY BOY & the ANGRY EYEBROWS (I suggest this movie to those of you who love Veggies, or have children with anger issues.)

I have been enveloped in God's love and presence while listening to a NEW CD by Kim Walker (of JesusCulture) and one of her songs that has inspired me has just these words that SOMEONE needed to hear today. I have been sitting with this message for a bit in my heart, but because there are days when I haven't put God first, and I have allowed stress a spot in my heart and mind, that I haven't been able to share these Words of the Lord. The song is called "I Have Found", and it is written by Justin Byrne and Jon Mohr.

The words are as follows...

I have found a peace, that plows on through the storm
I have found a joy that jumps over sadness
I h ave found a love that lights up every room
I have found, I found You

You are all I want, You are all I need
Everything my heart could hope for
We are longing for, the glory of the Lord
'Cause we know there's so much more

I have found a trust that teaches how to rest
I have found a grace that guides me by the hand
I have found a strength that stands like a mountain
I have found, I found You

Only You, fill my soul (repeat)

(then they have spontaneous worship on the CD, and the words "Let your glory rain down..." repeats. It's just amazing!)

ENJOY and BE BLESSED.

Check out "I HAVE FOUND, KIM WALKER" on You tube. =)


~Mitz