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The Gospel of Jesus Christ still moves me.

He came.

For me?

Amazing grace.

Lord Jesus, you are so worthy of all praise, and honor and glory!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOY0mjjmx8Y

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amen!

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Amen!

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Me too!

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Been sitting here all night, listening to good music and thinking about the goodness of God. I suppose, at 41, I'm just beginning to realize that God loves me.

I know that sounds simple and silly, but I've often felt like I could never be good enough for God.

People say that He loves everybody, and that is not hard for me to believe at all. With me, the real struggle begins when I personalize His love.

The idea that God loves ME is humbling.

I guess I am just beginning to emotionally personalize what I have always known mentally.

Jesus is freeing me from some things. Liberating me. Saving me.

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Oh Lord You’ve searched me
You know my way
Even when I fail You
I know You love me


Your holy presence
Surrounding me
In every season
I know You love me
I know You love me


At the cross I bow my knee
Where Your blood was shed for me
There’s no greater love than this
You have overcome the grave
Your glory fills the highest place
What can separate me now


You go before me
You shield my way
Your hand upholds me
I know You love me


You tore the veil
You made a way
When You said that it is done


And when the earth fades
Falls from my eyes
And You stand before me
I know You love me
I know You love me

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That's just awesome. :)

It's something else to realize, isn't it?

I fought for well over a year after I came back to church, over this very thing. There's no possible way God could really love me, want me. He's proven quite otherwise. What I finally understand of that love has changed, literally, everything.

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At the drama tonight, a lady came - an immigrant from Bulgaria. She said she was so stirred, and moved by God's presense; "I will now come to church here every service" then inquired about the schedule...

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The love and presence of God does amazing things.

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Libs.

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Edward this thread really touched me. My dad is 72 and has been saved since 1975. He's a faithful church attender, tithe payer, involved in various ministries in his church and when his pastor needs something, he's the first one there.

But Dad constantly fights the feeling that God really loves him. He's sat in church services for 30 years where fire and brimstone preachers did their best to make him smell the smoke. He's heard sermons where the pictures of God's judgment and punishment have been clearly painted.

Unfortunately so many of the preachers/teachers neglected to mention the unconditional, amazing love of Jesus Christ. I think that many of the old timers were afraid that if they preached about the Love of Christ, it would be taken as a license to do wrong, when in fact it doesn't. It actually makes me want live a more consecrated life knowing the amount of love and care that he has for me. How can you walk away from a Savior that loves us that much?

We can't do anything to ever earn it, make it more real, make the love deeper. It just is and always will be.

He and I have talked about it a lot in the last 5 years or so. When I was growing up I never knew that he dealt with it. He's beginning to overcome it some after countless talks and praying together.

I've tried to compare it to mine and his relationship. I've asked him if I could ever do anything to make him stop loving and caring about me and of course he says no. Then how much more does our Heavenly Father truly love us? Wow, what a thought!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RML-gY-cK_Y

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Great minds must be thinking alike today

I just posted that same video on my myspace today.

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I have used that very thought to make points to my boys and to others when talking about how much GOD loves us and will forgive us when/if we happen to fall.

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My daily Bible study for the past couple of weeks has been focusing on the unfailing love of God. I never knew there were so many scriptures that speak about the unfailing love of God. I have known cognitively that God loves me, but I have felt in the last few weeks that it is finally getting in my heart that God loves me and that his love is truly never fails. That God's love is unconditional and that I do not need to earn it. "Oh How He Loves you and me!"