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Based
on teachings from Joyce Meyer's book: "Beauty For Ashes"
Are you someone who knows that God loves you, but believes He only loves you
conditionally?
The Bible teaches us that God loves us perfectly or unconditionally. His perfect love for
us is not based on our perfection. It's not based on anything except Himself. God is love.
Love is not His occupation; it is Who He is. God always loves us, but we often stop
receiving His love, especially if our behavior is not good.
God's love is perfect because it is based on Him, not you. So even when you fail, God
keeps loving you. You see, the devil's goal is to separate us from God's love, because
God's love is the main factor in our emotional healing.
We are created for love, In Ephesians 2:4-6, Paul says that God is so rich in mercy that
He saved us and gave us what we do not deserve, in order to satisfy the demands of His
intense love for us. Think about it. God intends to love us. he has to love us - He is
love!
When Satan comes to condemn you for your mistakes , learn to say, "Yes, I made a
mistake," then go to God, ask for His forgiveness, receive His love and press on.
Don't torment yourself by dwelling on past mistakes.
Remember John tells us that torment is fear, but God's perfect love casts out fear.
I John 4:18
And we know, and believe the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who
dwells and continues in Him. In this love is brought to completion and attains perfection
with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgement, because as He is, so are we
in this world. There is no fear in love, but full grown love turns fear out of doors and
expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and he
who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love. We love Him, because He first
loved us.
I John 4:16-19
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? For I am persuaded beyond doubt that neither death nor life, nor angels nor
principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, nor
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the
love Of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 8:35, 38-39
Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My
hands.
Isaiah 49:16
It is impossible to truly love others without first receiving the love of God,
because there is no love there to give. Once you begin believing that you are accepted and
loved by God, then you can begin accepting and loving yourself. Then not only will you
start loving God in return, but you will also start loving other people.
Joyce Meyer suggests the following methods to help you receive God's love:
1. Tell yourself, in your mind and out loud, "God loves me." Repeat it
often: when you awaken in the morning, when you go to bed at night and throughout the
entire day.
2. Keep a diary of special things that God does for you. Include the
little things as well as the major things.
3. Learn and even commit to memory several scriptures about the love of
God for you.
4. Read some good books about God's
love.
5. Pray for the Holy Spirit, Who is the Teacher, to give you a revelation of
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