“He who has the bride is the Bridegroom; but the groomsman who stands by and listens to Him rejoices greatly and heartily on account of the Bridegroom’s Voice. This then is my pleasure and joy, and it is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3: 29-30 Amplified Bible
“The Bridegroom Speaks: Today I will speak to you about a love that is dynamic and everlasting. My love for you is kind, compassionate, patient, slow to anger, enduring, and will never fail you. This devotion has been and always will be an overcoming force of courage with a never-ending flow of peace to all those who depend upon it. That is why I braided it with cords of strength, potential, and hope! My infinite love, intermingled with your faith in Me, creates a beautiful and legitimate unity. My bride, to you I have made a special commitment of love and I declare to the world I will be faithful to you through all the seasons of life.” Excerpt From The Book: The Bridegroom’s Voice By KimberlyMac
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God’s love does not fail us, in fact has never, ever failed us. You can’t say that about anyone in this world, but You can say that about Him. God’s love is an overcoming force of courage with a never-ending flow of peace. Courage: The God Grit to do things we are very uncomfortable doing. This bravery gets its influence over us as we open our hearts wide to God and receive His Love. God’s love is braided with cords of strength, potential and hope. If hope was a color, the name of the color would be faithfulness because God colors our hope in His trustworthy faithfulness. God’s love, flows on the wings of His Peace, His Prince of Peace, Jesus.
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Jeremiah 31:3 Long ago the Lord said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.” NLT
Hebrews 12: 5-7 And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children?12:5a Greek sons; also in 12:7, 8. He said, “My child,12:5b Greek son; also in 12:6, 7. don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline, and don’t give up when he corrects you. 6For the Lord disciplines those he loves, and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”12:5-6 Prov 3:11-12 (Greek version). 7As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? NLT
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I am listening up to God’s Voice through His Word and I definitely know that God’s Love, it has never failed me; It is everlasting, nothing shuts it down. God’s love, it is sometimes uncomfortable because of its disciplinary nature at times; I know without a doubt that Jesus believes in the transforming power of His Love, that is why He is not afraid to discipline us because He knows the grip of His love will keep us as we grow through the discipline. This is my heart’s prayer in response to these scriptures: Prayer: Jesus, I pray Your Infinite Love becomes more evident in my reality of truth, where I am living it out in my day to day growing through. Precious Bridegroom, I pray that my worldly viewpoint of finite love will fade as I experience the kingdom perspective of Your Love. Increase in me Jesus, may I experience more of Your Love, a love that changes me for the better while loving me unconditionally. There is nothing like this kind of love.
“The way of the cross, was not sentimental, romantic, or emotional decision. I consciously chose a sacrificial love. The message of the cross portrays a picture of true, inestimable love. This kind of devotion does not travel down an easy, broad path. My infinite love. dared to run the race of this life on a difficult, narrow road. Genuine love is a hard- hitting, enduring passion that is courageous, willing, and ready to forfeit all. This is the love I have for you, Bride of Christ.” Excerpt From: The Bridegroom’s Voice
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In our generation love will be tested and tried by great adversity. The greatest act of love ever known to mankind was Jesus and the nature of this love was sacrificial. When I hear the word love, I naturally think of sentimental things. I do have a very worldly viewpoint on love. I need to change that up. God’s decree of love for me was the cross of Jesus Christ. Redemption is the force of love behind the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for us. True love is not a broad path, it is a narrow path of selfless giving.
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Revelation 3:8-14 I know all that you’ve done. Now I have set before you a wide-open door that none can shut. For I know that you possess only a little power, yet you’ve kept my word and haven’t denied my name. 9 Watch how I deal with those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews but are not, for they’re lying. I will make them come and bow down at your feet and acknowledge how much I’ve loved you. 10 Because you’ve passionately kept my message of perseverance, I will also keep you from the hour of proving that is coming to test every person on earth. 11But I come swiftly, so cling tightly to what you have, so that no one may seize your crown of victory. 12For the one who is victorious, I will make you to be a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, permanently secure. I will write on you the name of my God and the name of the city of my God—the New Jerusalem, descending from my God out of heaven. And I’ll write my own name on you. 13 So the one whose heart is open let him listen carefully to what the Spirit is now saying to all the churches.
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God’s love is a wide-open door and because of the nature of this amazing love I open wide every door to my heart to Him, to give Him total access to my life. There is no compartment of my heart Jesus is not welcome in. God’s love, it is a full-bodied love and it encompasses everything in my life. The door to His love is wide open to me and cannot be shut by anyone or anything. Because He loves me the way He does, my ears are open to Him, to His Voice, because I desire to understand Him and obey Him in all things. No matter what I am growing through, I will bow down before God and passionately tell Him I love Him. Perseverance is a testimony of my love for God, of the obedience out of love that I have for Him. I stay the course no matter what because I love Him and I trust Him.
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1 John 4: 7- 14 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 8But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. 10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.11Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. 12 No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. 13 And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. 14 Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. NLT
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Love was shown in a radical way as Jesus came here to us. It was humble, selfless, sacrificial love. God did so much for us, loved us in a huge way, sacrificed and died for us when we were still living in sin. We should do the same. Love unconditionally. This is what real love looks like and we saw it acted out by Jesus. He loved us by going to the cross even though we had hurt Him, betrayed Him and turned away from Him. Jesus loved even though He had been hurt by us and He loved in such an enormous way, He gave His life. There has never been a greater act of love, than that of our Bridegroom, Jesus.
“As a Bridegroom, when I think of our love relationship, I have these questions for My bride: Are you genuinely devoted to Me? Will you cherish and respect Me, even when I admonish you and we disagree? Will My affection still inspire you when your life-path is sprinkled with adversity? When things do not go as you plan, will you still believe in Me? Will your heart still soar with faith and believe there is nothing impossible with My love?” The Bridegroom’s Voice Excerpt
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Are you genuinely devoted to Me? God asks me this today, I hear it from my Bridegroom’s Voice. I so want to be, but I am not totally, what I want gets in the way at times, especially if things are going in the way I planned and I don’t understand why? I always stumble by trying to wrap my finite mind around an Infinite method. Will I cherish and respect You when I disagree, when You discipline me? Yes I will. I do respect You, Lord and that is because of the AWE that I have developed in my heart of You. You amaze me and I stand I Awe of You and this helps me to have the respect I need when I don’t understand Your ways. When things don’t go my way, I know that You want me to still be inspired by You, even in growing through the adverse times of my life, You so desire my wholly-holy love. I desire to love You, the way You love me, unconditionally.
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Mark 14:32-41 They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said, “Sit here while I go and pray.” 33He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he became deeply troubled and distressed. 34He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” 35He went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that, if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting him might pass him by. 36″Abba, Father,”14:36 Abba is an Aramaic term for “father.” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.” 37Then he returned and found the disciples asleep. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Couldn’t you watch with me even one hour? 38Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.” 39Then Jesus left them again and prayed the same prayer as before. 40When he returned to them again, he found them sleeping, for they couldn’t keep their eyes open. And they didn’t know what to say. 41When he returned to them the third time, he said, “Go ahead and sleep. Have your rest. But no—the time has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. NLT
John 3:16 For this is how much God loved the world—he gave his one and only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life. TPT
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The love between this Father and this Son, was so real, so genuine, and wholly-holy. I say wholly because what Jesus wanted, was secondary to what the Father wanted, His relationship with the Father was an all in Love. Then we see the love of humans and how it falls so short. I have been there and felt that. In times of anguish of my soul, I have felt alone when friendship did not meet my need. Human beings can’t meet our needs. They can’t watch with us for one hour, our expectations of them are way too high, because all of us have that human condition that fails to meet the needs of others. Jesus knew what He needed, the love, the reality of truth, He would find in the Father God. He showed us who was our simply-significantly enough. God can meet our needs and He will make a way for us of strength, courage and navigation in our greatest challenges of this life. I am involved with 1 Minute Encouragement ministry videos and this one is perfect in its message today:
John 15:10-16 Jesus, the True Vine 1″I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. 3You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other. New Living Testament
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Am I genuinely devoted to God? When things don’t go the way I planned, will I still believe in God? Am I attached to God or am I drawing nourishment from people first? I really need to check my heart because I know that being wholly-holy aligned with Jesus, in a personal relationship is vital. I need to be hearing His Voice of truth. If I want my life to make a difference that matters, I need a strong attachment to God. My Bridegroom, Jesus, needs to be my best friend. I am not sure if I am there yet, but I am on my way and this scripture in John, this Word of God, it has a lot of good wisdom for me and I need to follow it. I am useless without God, I need to remain in Him, let be, be still and experience the power of God in my life. Stop being so self-dependent like I can do all things and I don’t need God. This is a trap of the enemy. Many of us do this, we try on our own until we fall flat on our face and God is always there to pick us up. He often wonders: Are you done yet? Will you trust me now. I am here for you.
“When persecution touches your life because of Me, will this in any way modify your love for Me? Will you believe that My love for you constant and sure, when everything else is changing? Will you continue to trust Me when I don’t have the answers you need, when you think you need them?” Excerpt From: The Bridegroom’s Voice by KimberlyMac
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I lose my peace so often when things don’t go the way I expected them to go. Expectations of mine are truly a trap of the enemy. I do need to put my expectations in God’s Hands, surrender them to Him. There is so much changing right now. At first, I did lose my peace, the chaos of the culture surrounded me and I couldn’t shake it off, the anxiety and fear that run with that anarchy. The mob violence was sickening, very hard to swallow, and the fear that arises with that. The key to my peace is my vital-vertical connection with God’s Presence and staying in followship with Him. Going when He says go, not going when He says stop. Learning to hear that still, small voice of My Bridegroom and heeding it. Change has always been hard for me. I don’t know why I resist change. It is God doing a new thing. I get comfortable in the old and I want to stay in that easy-peasy comfort. Why does everything have to change? The heart of the gospel is change. We grow through life when we face our changes, embrace the newness with bold courage that comes from God. When I buck my will up against God changing things up, I suffer so much anxiety and I lose my peace. Without peace, I find I am very impulsive and that gets me into even more adversity. Unbelief is at the root of my dislike for change. I don’t believe God the way I should and I am changing this up. I have done much better with change lately, I am finally growing through this issue, by increasing my faith through the Word, through time with God, through praise and gratefulness.
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The World’s Hatred~ John 15: 18-16 NLT “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. 19The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you. 20Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you. 21They will do all this to you because of me, for they have rejected the one who sent me. 22They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin. 23Anyone who hates me also hates my Father. 24If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate me and my Father. 25This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures15:25 ‘They hated me without cause.’ 26″But I will send you the Advocate, Comforter, or Encourager, or Counselor—the Spirit of truth.
Deuteronomy 7: 6-9 For you are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. Of all the people on earth, the Lord your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure. 7 “The Lord did not set his heart on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! 8 Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 9 Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God.
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He rescues us and delivers us from our enemies simply-significantly because He loves us. It is so hard to wrap my mind around this. I do not feel worthy of this simply-significantly love of God, given so freely, so unconditionally, it is very humbling. I truly know I need to reignite my child like faith and open my heart wide to the Father God and receive everything He has for me. It is comforting to know that every day of my life I have an Advocate, here with me, and totally for me. This is the greatest part of being loved by God. God’s love takes great care of us in so many tangible ways, His love acts on our behalf. I belong to God, that is hard for me to receive this truth. I don’t feel worthy to be His. This is why God’s love is so amazing. Sometimes, I have absolutely no excuse for my disobedience, I do it because my flesh has bucked up my will and I know it grieves God. Yet, when I fall because of my bad choice, and I do, fall, paying the consequences of doing something I should not have done or said, but when I have fallen and am repentant, He is there for me. I love that about Him. He loves me into being better, becoming more like Him.
“My Bride, when you say I am “your true love” what do you mean by that? To you, is the meaning of true love the ability to trust in the commitment and promises that I made to you, despite your state of affairs?” Excerpt The Bridegroom’s Voice
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Despite my state of affairs, will I still love and trust God? I don’t know. Isn’t that a sad answer? He never gave up on me, He never forsook me, but I am not sure I can do the same. My state of affairs is pretty crappy right now with what appears to be happening in my world situation. I have wavered between belief and doubt, I have not stayed steady in my faith. Everything I know of my freedom and my God given right to be free, the liberty I have experienced all these years is eroding and it even looks like we may lose our freedom as a nation. The worst part of it is, it has been cheated away and so many people have been deceived to believe that good is bad and bad is good. I hate it. I can’t imagine that God would let it stand, because I believe that He is nothing like this, but I keep wavering between doubt and faith. I believe in Him, but I don’t always believe Him. This is my state of affairs and yes, I do want to change it.
“Bride, will you chose to let go of your preconceived plans and your personal agendas and find the newness of My presence, My love, and My truth in every situation you encounter?” Excerpt From The Bridegroom’s Voice
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I discount the purposes of God in play. I do. Because I think things should go the way I have preconceived them. So yes, this is the stumbling block for me. My personal agenda for how I want things to go, how I think they should go. God’s purposes are in play in the unseen of every situation I think is bad. God may not even look at the situation as being bad, because He sees the endgame, the good that He has envisioned and prepared. I have consistently reacted to my worldly viewpoint and underestimated the purposes of God in play in the unseen. I do need to change this up. I do. My doubt needs to decrease, my trust needs to increase. Being loved by God, no matter how I feel, this gives me the courage to act right, to not act on my feelings. The more I make the right choice the first time, the less I create bad spiritual habits. The right choice is believing in God, and believing Him, that He is good, that He is just, that He is righteous.
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Revelations 3:19-21 I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference. 20″Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. 21 Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne.
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Is discipline love? Is it is an expression of God’s love? Does He love us so much, that He wants us to grow and learn and sometimes we do this best through God’s discipline? So, why do we become indifferent to God when we are disciplined by Him? We always in our worldly viewpoint associate good things with God and all bad things not being Him. But this is not true when you see things through a Kingdom Perspective. So, do we withdraw our love and favor from God when things are hard and God is teaching us a valuable lesson? God loves me enough to discipline me. I know I struggle with this, but there is discernment to be had because we don’t judge good from bad very well, we see things only from a worldly viewpoint and it is time, I know for me to stretch to seeing things from a Kingdom Perspective.
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James 1:17-18 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. 18He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.
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The Father God, He gave us the best gift He could give us, Jesus and because of Jesus, we have forever life. He gave us living truth. He gave us an Advocate to be with us always. He has gifted us with the best of all gifts. So, why would we doubt Him, that He doesn’t have our best in mind now. His love is our best gift as human beings. His love gifted did not hold back anything, it was full out and unconditionally given to us.
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Romans 8:31-39 The Triumph of God’s Love~ 31So, what does all this mean? If God has determined to stand with us, tell me, who then could ever stand against us? 32For God has proved his love by giving us his greatest treasure, the gift of his Son. And since God freely offered him up as the sacrifice for us all, he certainly won’t withhold from us anything else he has to give. 33Who then would dare to accuse those whom God has chosen in love to be his? God himself is the judge who has issued his final verdict over them—”Not guilty!”34Who then is left to condemn us? Certainly not Jesus, the Anointed One! For he gave his life for us, and even more than that, he has conquered death and is now risen, exalted, and enthroned by God at his right hand. So how could he possibly condemn us since he is continually praying for our triumph? 35Who could ever separate us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love, 36even though it is written: All day long we face death threats for your sake, God. We are considered to be nothing more than sheep to be slaughtered! 37Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything! 38So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. 39There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!
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God’s Love, this amazing one-of-a-kind love is for us in such a way that nothing can be against us. There is no boundary this love keeps, it has the farthest reach, it gives all, holds nothing back. Just as if we never sinned, this great love of God, sacrificed all for us. It is a love that intercedes for us, on our behalf, and advocacy of prayer, always and forever. Nothing can separate us from this abundant love of God, nothing and no one. We thrive in God’s love, and can conquer all challenges, as all things are possible with Christ in us the hope of glory. No doubt about it.
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1 Peter 2:20-25 For what merit is it to endure mistreatment for wrongdoing? Yet if you are mistreated when you do what is right, and you faithfully endure it, this is commendable before God. 2 1In fact, you were called to live this way, because Christ also suffered in your place, leaving you his example for you to follow. 22 He never sinned and he never spoke deceitfully. 23When he was verbally abused, he did not return with an insult; when he suffered, he would not threaten retaliation. Jesus faithfully entrusted himself into the hands of God, who judges righteously. 24 He himself carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we would be dead to sin and live for righteousness. Our instant healing flowed from his wounding. 25 You were like sheep that continually wandered away, but now you have returned to the true Shepherd of your lives—the kind Guardian who lovingly watches over your souls. The Passion Translation+
“My heart’s desire is that you discover how intimately I love you and you learn to love Me with an undivided, personal fidelity. Oh, My church, worship Me heart-to-heart! My bride, I have asked you many questions, ponder them in your heart. Remember, I chose you and I will love yo always and infinitely forever.” Excerpt From The Bridegroom’s Voice
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Proverbs 3:11-18 My child, when the Lord God speaks to you, never take his words lightly, and never be upset when he corrects you.12For the Father’s discipline comes only from his passionate love and pleasure for you. Even when it seems like his correction is harsh, it’s still better than any father on earth gives to his child. 13Those who find true wisdom obtain the tools for understanding, the proper way to live, for they will have a fountain of blessing pouring into their lives. To gain the riches of wisdom is far greater than gaining the wealth of the world. 14As wisdom increases, a great treasure is imparted, greater than many bars of refined gold. 15It is a more valuable commodity than gold and gemstones, for there is nothing you desire that could compare to her. 16Wisdom extends to you long life in one hand and wealth and promotion in the other. Out of her mouth flows righteousness, and her words release both law and mercy. 17The ways of wisdom are sweet, always drawing you into the place of wholeness. 18Seeking for her brings the discovery of untold blessings, for she is the healing tree of life to those who taste her fruits.
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Father God, You have loved me well with Your Words of instruction. I am who I am today because of Your law and mercy. I am forgiven, I am not condemned, but I am taught and loved by You. Your Word has so many advantages, one of them is peace and it is so sweet to be in Your Bible, because the end result of time spent with Your Living Word has always been peace over chaos. To gain truth when it seems the whole world is steeped in deception and false narrative, is truly a treasure for our hearts. We are so easily deceived, that I know without a doubt, the only reality of truth is found in You, The Light of the World, my Spirit and Truth. I love You, I honor You by trusting in the promises You have spoken, I am devoted to You by believing in You, I believe what You say, no doubt about it, I believe You. You love me greatly by never withholding the truth from me, even if it hurts me, You speak correction into my life, You are faithful to always speak truth, to speak what is true to me. I am so grateful for this. I love you so, and I love being loved by You.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-13 Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance. 5 Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. Love is not easily irritated or quick to take offense. 6 Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong. 7 Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Perfect Love 8 Love never stops loving. It extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away. It is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent. Love remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten. 9 Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, 10 but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters, for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child. But the day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish ways. 12 For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood. 13 Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run. TPT
My Groomsman’s Journaling
God’s love has been so patient with me and for that I am grateful. I am a slow learner. I don’t change quickly. I don’t like change at all. God has never given up on me, has never stopped loving me. What makes me change is not about what I am seeing and experiencing, it is about what God has promised. I believe in His Promises. I don’t see them all in tact in my life, but I believe in the life-giving power of God’s Promises and I believe they will one day be seen in full. So, the way I love God is by faith, undergirded by hope. As my faith increases, my love for God soars in proportion to the level of my faith and out of that flows trust. That is how I personally grow. I know God loves me, but I don’t understand His ways, He works things out purposefully, not always in the seen, but in the unseen His purposes are always at work, flowing forward until they manifest a beautiful endgame in the seen. I believe God is always working for my good and His glory and His purposes are His love language of goodness. I am loved by the purposes of God being in play for me every single day. I don’t think I have faced a day of my life where His purposes are not in play for my good. I know every challenge I face, I have God purposes in play in the unseen that are greater than the challenge itself. This is God’s love in action. His love is here, it is in play always and it is abundantly for me, working for my good. I believe in the powerful, transforming love of God.
I hope you enjoyed your time in The Bridegroom’s Café, where your soul is always well nourished by Chef Jesus. The Bridegroom’s Voice, My Groomsman’s Journal – Week One – The Bridegroom Speaks About Love, was a great week for me as I journeyed through with my Bridegroom, Jesus, listening up to Him, learning and being changed by His Voice. The Bridegroom’s Voice is an incredible Journey with Jesus and His Word. I hope you purchase one today and start your God Adventure listening up to Jesus. Make sure you share this post with your friends on your social media platforms and please subscribe to this blog with your email, so you don’t miss one meal on any of our Café Tables. God bless you MUCH, KimberlyMac
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