God's Love

Today, I want to encourage all of you. To remind you that God loves you, he is NOT mad at you. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. We allow ourselves to think and believe that God does not love us, that he does not care. I am here to encourage and remind you that he loves you. A daily reminder is that he has made an ultimate sacrifice for you when he died on the cross, while we were in our sin. In Romans 5:8 it states:

"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." 

 

I went through a season where I felt completely unworthy, as if God didn't love me. I didn't hear from him, I felt like he just left me. I spent days wondering God is me serving you even worth it? I feel like I'm trying to please you and never will. I am not perfect Lord, I am a sinner. I mess up a lot and I am so unworthy of your love. This is a season I actually just recently came out of.
 

There is a person who truly does not love you and that is the devil. He has a mission to destroy you. 

 

 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10)

 

 He wants you to be consumed with thoughts of God is mad at me, I will never be good enough, God can't use me. Lie after lie after lie.  Don't believe them.  In this time the enemy was attacking me because he knew God had something greater. See the devil wants to stop you, he wants you to give up so that you can serve him and not God. The devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness before he began his ministry. If the devil would have stopped Jesus, if Jesus would have gave into sin, we would not have the opportunity at salvation. If the enemy stops us, we wont fulfill the things that God has for us, or the next level that he is taking us to.
 

In the time where I felt alone, unworthy, not good enough, God reminded me that he is with me always, even when I feel he is not. He reminded me of this promise in his word:

 

..."and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen" Matthew 28:20.

 

You have to remember that the truth about Gods love is written in the bible. When those thoughts come in we have to examine why? Are we reminding ourselves of Gods love? When things are we allowing to distract us? What are we allowing to fill those thoughts. For me I was allowing the cares and business of this world distract me from the time I needed with God to be reminded of his promises and to learn more about his love. I would have known and been reminded off Gods love if I had been spending the time learning and knowing about it. We have to spend our time thinking and focusing on the things he instructed us to. As Christians we have to do our part, the bible says faith without works is dead.

 "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also" James 2:26.

A good way to check your thoughts is with this scripture:

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philippians 4:8 KJV)

What this does NOT say is think on things that are false (the devils lies), things that are unlovely, things that are negative, things that aren't of God. It DOES tell us to control what we think on. We have to make a choice to think positive and remind ourselves of Gods promises. 

So today be reminded you that God loves you & he wants you to know that. Do not forget it. If you need a reminder pick up the bible, it has an entire love story written for you. The chapters unfold the love he has for you. They unfold his promises to you. 

Do your part and leave the rest up to GOD!!!!!!

God bless,

Tamika