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♡♡♡ Valentine’s Day ♡♡♡
MORNING MANNA:
John 3:17 ♡ Romans 8:29-39
♡John 3:16 This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when introduced to him. The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
♡Romans 8:29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun. The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
♡Romans 8:31-34 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for ? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
♡Romans 8: 35-37 Who shall ever separate us from Christ’s love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword? Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter. Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
♡Romans 8:38-39 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. New Living Translation (NLT) Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright© 1996, 2004, 2007 by Tyndale House Foundation.
GOOD MANNA FED MY SPIRIT THIS MORNING!
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♡Happy Valentine’s Day! Why is this day so happy for me? Well, I read the above Morning Manna and I smile, because by my point of view, it is all about me and my huge life transformation! February 14th, Many Years Ago, Someone took time to tell me about Jesus Christ and showed me in the bible these very verses about God’s Precious Love for me. I accepted Jesus In My Heart That Valentine’s Day! I had never read a bible, or even heard the name of Jesus spoken in such a personal way. I Found True Love Valentine’s Day Many Years Ago! Someone answered my unspoken heart cry of desperation and it was God, He sent me someone with the truth who pointed me to my Saviour, Jesus! When I think of Valentine’s Day, I think of Love, but not the Love of the world, a different, special love, a love that can only be described as faithful, enduring and true!♡ |
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♡The sweetest thing ever is that God sent my future husband to point me to Jesus. I had not even met my husband in my normal, everyday life routine. He was sent by his company to my Father’s job, they met and he led my parents to the Lord, he was discipling my parents at night after dinner. God purposefully brought this young man with the gift of evangelism into my life path, right into my home and He was specifically sent with a love letter from God to tell me about my future and hope in Christ and also to divinely bring us together for a future marriage. The Love Letter From God That Was Given To Me On That Valentines Day, Was John 3:16, The Greatest Love Letter Ever Written To Mankind! Isn’t God Amazing! He Is So Romantic In That Sweet Divine Way Of His! AWE-GOD! He knew from the very beginning of our lives the plan He had for my parents salvation down to my own dad inviting my future husband home for dinner to bring my future husband and I together, undivided in heart with Him. So, Valentine’s Day is a very special day for me, it is my spiritual birthday, the day that my life changed forever and the day I stepped into a dating relationship with my husband!♡ |
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♡ Me, I did not deserve what God purposefully set up and providentially did for me that Valentine’s Day. I was a broken, restless soul that had a thick mask of confidence on the outside, that covered over a very sick heart. Violence shattered my innocence in my young life at an early age and shame, fear and pain came in and took up residence in my soul. A family member brutally murdered my great-grandparents when I was at a very young impressionable age and it completely destroyed my child-like faith and innocence and crushed my inner peace! I was so ashamed as our family’s name and shame was all over the news! I vowed at that young age that I would never be fragile, would never hurt anyone because of mental weakness! As I grew into a teenager, the fear inside of me also grew stronger and I managed it secretly by strengthening my independent will and working very hard as an athlete. I trained every single day and never cut myself any slack, I stayed out of any deep relationships with my family and other people. I lived, laughed and loved on the surface, because that which was deep inside of me needed to remain masked! I did not know how to live life fully without exposing who I really was on the inside!♡ |
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♡ Destructive inner fear was the strong hold of my heart and it isolated my spirit and tortured my mind with dysfunctional anxiety! I was terribly afraid that I would one day be that person who murdered my great-grandparents. I had anxiety attacks on a regular basis, but I hid them from everyone; I bore them alone, as the enemy taunted me, lying to me that I would be just like the person I despised for killing my great-grandparents! I shouldered alone the yoke of fear and shame on the inside. On the outside I mustered up perfection! I worked harder than anyone at everything I participated in. I wanted to show everyone how strong I was! I was a very disciplined person and as the world saw me on the surface, a successful person, but on the inside I was all tore up, weak and sick! God’s love was about to change all that. It was about to close the gap of who I portrayed myself to be on the outside and who I really was on the inside.♡ |
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♡When I accepted Christ’s amazing love, I had no idea that His plan was one of complete freedom, healing and transformation! I did not know that He could change me or heal me, I just knew that for the first time in forever, I had inner peace and the yoke on my shoulders lightened up! Over the next few years, God peeled off the layers of masks and I fully faced HIM, heart to Heart and spirit to Spirit and He made me new. I am a kind of cool looking vessel, a broken vessel of His Light with beams of His Glory that shoot out into the dark night, shattering the darkness and pointing people to Him. God’s Love, His Perfect Love Cast Out All Fear, Set Me Free And Gave Me The Desire Of My Heart To Be Wholly-Holy His Forever! He took a closed, broken, fearful damaged soul and created in me a new open-hearted vulnerability that leaned completely into His Love, His Sovereign Sway! Can you even begin to imagine an undefiled love? A love so pure that nothing could taint it? An innocent love? My picture of family love was shattered into a million pieces by one act of one person! God sent His Son, Jesus to show me what sacrificial love was all about and it began for me with the sacrifice of forgiveness, the letting go of my right to hate and bitterness. Jesus showed me the one act that truly matter was His one act of sacrificial love. He died once and for all of us! Jesus rose victoriously out of death, defeating it for us and His resurrected love is our forever enough! His love endures evermore and the world with all of its violence, betrayal, hurt and sin did not taint it. He was in love with us and He proved His love for us in the most miraculous way ever known to mankind! Oh what an incredible love I accepted Valentine’s Day! I am sure I will never experience even the half of it, it is more than I could have ever hoped for or imagined.♡ |
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♡ I read it again, the Morning Manna above and I have taken into my spirit the substance of its truth, hope and encouragement! My mind is renewed by it and thoughts spring forth with great joy! Jesus, your love has been tested by the greatest of all sacrifices, You gave your life for me, and for all my foolishness. I was unforgiving, bitter, angry, fearful, anxious and fake! Jesus, You loved me before You even knew me as the messy person I was, and you loved me even then! You met me inside, you knew the real me and you still died for me and reached for me to save me out of the death grip on my life! There is no greater love than the Love of a Father God who sacrifices His own Son so He could finally, defeat the curse of sin and crush the head of death with the incredible power of eternal life. Because of God, and His unconditional love, I live. I did not want to live because I was living a fake life, yoked to fear and strongly held by hopelessness, and at times, I just wanted to end my life! I live because Jesus rose above the shallow nature and selfish desires of the love of mankind. Jesus’ life was broken and poured out to show the power of God’s incredible All-Giving Love! That Valentine’s Day when I accepted Jesus in my heart, I felt it was just for me! It was so personal and I began a vital-vertical relationship with God that day, stayed up most of the night talking to Him! Just for Me, He Died, Just As If I Never Sinned And This Incredulous Truth Was More Wonderful Than I Could Have Ever Imagined As It Settled Into My Heart In That Healing Way That God Had! His love, the love of a Faithful God for His children, a love that is established and abides today, is a free love. His Love freed me from the strongholds of anxiety and crippling fear and from the jaws of a suicidal death, just as if I had never sinned and cost me nothing! The debt that I owed because of My sins was paid out of this incredible God love that endured the shame and pain of the cross that I might know and experience a personal, intimate relationship with My God and Father! ♡ |
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♡Who is God? GOD IS LOVE! Not the form of Love that the world shares on Valentine’s Day, once a year. That is temporary, self-fulfilling love! GOD IS LOVE, The Origin Of Love! Genuine! Abiding! Established! Faithful! Enduring! Forever Love! There is no other love that can compare to God’s Love! There is no greater love! The Red Blood Of Jesus Christ, The Color Of Valentine’s Day Will Always Be An Enduring, Unconditional Love, A Sacrificial Love, A Merciful Love That Will Always Be Reaching For Us! Make This Valentines Day Your Spiritual Birthday Or The Day Your Renew Your Love Relationship With Jesus!Accept This Great, Life Changing, Destiny Making Love For Yourself And Experience Life Like You Never Could Before; Lavishly Loved, Peacefully Perfected, Tenaciously Time-Honored, Selflessly Served, Forever Freed, Radically Ransomed, Permanently Positioned, Divinely Destined, Steadfastly Stabilized and Purposefully Provided For! AWE-GOD’S Love, Be Vitally-Vertically, Wholly-Holy Aligned With It Right Now! Don’t Leave Here Until You Are! You Will Be So Glad You Did! Happy Valentine’s Day From Someone Who Knows And Forever Will Appreciate The Great Love Of AWE-GOD! ♡ |
