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T.O.D.A.Y.'S ENCOURAGEMENT for June 30, 2008
T.O.D.A.Y.
Ministries
14745 Merrilltown #1611 Austin TX 78728 Good Morning!
I
want to take time to "welcome" our new subscribers to T.O.D.A.Y.'S
ENCOURAGEMENTS! Thank you for your interest and may The Lord richly
bless you and yours for taking time to read them! I pray that they will
enrich and strengthen your daily walk with our Lord! Please feel free to
share them with your family and friends! I also encourage you to go to
our web site (link at the bottom of this page), and click on the Archive page.
All of the ones that I have sent out this month will come up first, which will
help you get into the flow of what I have been sharing about! God bless!
Today,
I want to continue talking about the COVENANT promises that God has made
available to us. First of all, the only reason that we have
this COVENANT with God is because of what JESUS did on the cross . . . not
because of anything WE did to deserve it! However, there is something
that we have to do in order to enter in to that COVENANT . . . We have to
"believe and receive" what Jesus did for us! The COVENANT has
been "cut" for us, whether we believe it or not, but we have a part
to play in order to "receive" the blessings and promises that are
included in it! Allow me to explain and make that "simple".
The COVENANT of God with us, is based upon His LOVE for us! I want you
to stop and think about what I am going to say . . . John 3:16 does not just
say that God loved us and sent His Son to die for us. Hold on, let me
finish! You can read that scripture for yourself, but it says . . .
"For God SO loved the world that He GAVE . . . and
you know the rest of that scripture. My point is that there are some
"key" words in that scripture . . . SO loved, and GAVE!
The words SO loved, defines the kind of "love" that God has and has
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit! It is AGAPE love . . . the
"ultimate" kind of love . . . it is an "unconditional"
love . . . the kind of love that we are supposed to love others with!
God loved you with this kind of love before you were ever born . . . so where
do we get this idea that we can DO something that would get God to love us
more, or that we could DO something that would cause God to NOT love us?
If He loved us "before" we ever did something "right",
then that proves that His LOVE for us is a steadfast and
"unconditional" LOVE!
I
believe that the Holy Spirit has used all of the above to lay a foundation for
what He has to say about the "blessings and promises" that God's
COVENANT has made available to us. His LOVE is
"unconditional", and His COVENANT is "unconditional" on
your part. However, His COVENANT blessings and promises ARE
"conditional". By that, I mean that you have a part to play in
order to "receive" them! I am going somewhere with this,
so stay with me . . . I can't put it all in just one
"Encouragement"!~~~~~~
Have a Blessed Day!! (Receive God's "unconditional" SO love for you!) In His Love, Luanne www.todayministries.org
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