The cause of Christ ..... Kari Jobe

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1 John 4:8, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is Love."

God's Love is so BIG, it is hard to describe. But once you've tasted, once you've encountered Him, you will NEVER be the same. You can't stop talking about it. Just like when you first fell in love with someone. You couldn't stop talking about them right? You always wanted to be with them. You wanted to know everything about them. You wanted to spend the rest of your life with them....That's how it is with Jesus. Then all you want to do is satisfy His hearts desire. The only difference in Jesus's love is, HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, and He doesn't base His love on who you are, but on Who He is. Big difference!!! 

Jesus came, as the bible calls Him, the Bread of life. John 6:51, "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give to the world." That's the message I want to share with anyone who is searching and never satisfied. He fills you!

I don't have the words to describe such a love as His. But the picture is very clear. THE CROSS!! I don't question anymore if my existence matters. I know I do. Love died for me and you. People go from one relationship to another looking to fill that void. Value yourself as God values you.

1 John 4: 9-10, "In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.....not that we loved God but that He first loved us."

He does not love you based on your performance. There is nothing you can do to cause God to love you any more than He already does, and nothing to love you less. He loves us more than we love ourselves or anyone else in your life will love you.

In opening your life to Christ, you will find total love and acceptance. To be secure in His love, you will become a VERY SECURE person. That's where it begins. Knowing who you are in Christ!

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I'm Yours.....Lauren Daigle

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“But now, this is what the Lord says…Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1

Have you ever colored by number? It starts off just a dull sketch with numbers to color in those spaces. As you continue to color, you see a beautiful picture unfolding.

When you go through storms of life, you don't see clearly what's happening. You can barely even think clearly. But if we keep the faith and let our Creator fill in those spaces, everything begins to have more color. Psalm 46: 10 "Be still," God is on your side. It's hard to bear the cross of grief or pain. It's hard not to get scared at times. But God will continue to color in those spaces and create a beautiful picture of purpose. In every change in life, He is faithful and will remain with you in it.

I remember teaching kickboxing classes. One of those classes a real boxer came up to me and asked, "can I give you some pointers?" I said, "sure, I'm not scared." By the way, there is no holding back when someone is hitting your mitts. He cracked up at how I responded. It meant him being allowed to hit my punch mitts however he wanted, and then me hitting him with his good pointers.

Working out and taking hits from class attendees, is way different than getting hit by the storms of life. Class is over, and that's that. Life goes on, and the hits can come whenever they want. What do you do? I rest on God's promises. I tell Him, "God here comes another hit. But I know "I'm Yours," and you've got this.

God gives great pointers in His word. I hear His voice of love when I read it, and it cripples every fear. Nothing can separate me from His love. He is God over every storm. I don't have to take the hits, He does. 

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Constant ONE..... Steffany Gritzinger

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What Beautiful truth in these lyrics in this song!!!

 Psalm 139....

Who is like God? Do you know anyone whose countenance is always the same? No matter what happens in life, they are never shaken? You will never find anyone like that. That is a fact.

As much time as I spend with the Love of my life, I am still never constant in all my circumstances. God is the only One whose countenance NEVER changes. He is the "Constant One" in ALL things! Faithful in all He does. ENDLESS in His love for us. His mercy is truly like the sun. Always rising over us, Lamentations 3:22-23.

In the mountains, and in the valleys, He takes me just for who I am. But He NEVER leaves me the same. Happiness to most people is based on their circumstances in life. We all know what hard times can do to us all. Believers and non believers. We can all be shaken. The only difference with a believer is, we know what Joy is. Joy is a deep unexplainable feeling in the soul. It is given to us by the gift of the Holy Spirit. He causes us to see the beauty of Jesus Christ, and the meaning of everything we go through.

One of my favorite lived out scripture is, James 1: 2-3. "Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of ANY KIND come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow." I love that.... My endurance has a chance to grow. Who wouldn't want that? I mean, life is like a race. The bible even tells us that, 1 Corinthians 9:24. We are all heading towards a finish line. I want to go out joyful, and I WILL!!, because I know the truth to this life. There is no place that I can go that He will not find me. That is very comforting to me.

There is really no other way to experience true joy, than to be in it with Jesus. Trials will come. But He is constantly Faithful! His track record in my life has always been perfect!

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When You walk into the room... Bryan and Katie Torwalt

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Genesis 2:7----Job 33:4---John 20:19-22

The part of this song that gets me the most, because it is very personal with my husbands death, is...."When You walk into the room, sickness starts to vanish. Every hopeless situation ceases to exist. And when You walk into the room, the dead begin to rise because there's resurrection life in all You do."

From the very first breath of a newborns life, to the very last breath of someone going to their new address in heaven. It's still all "the breath of the Almighty".... Job 33: 4.

Some things that you see with your own eyes are unexplainable, but definitely a golden nugget from God to let you know He walked into the room.   

I know for a fact that when Jesus walks into the room sickness is healed one way or another. I've seen it in my husbands life twice. Once when he was healed of his cancer this side of heaven, and another time when God's will was to heal him for all eternity from lung cancer. No more will he ever have to fight to take a breath.

 2 months before I would take my husband to the emergency room, for which I didn't know would be the last time, he would always say..."I can't wait till 10:00, or, "Is it 10 yet?" I asked him why he always asked that? He said, "because I want to go to bed at that time." This was every night for about 2 months. No one will ever change what I know to be true!!!

I will never forget what God let us see, when ONLY HE KNEW it would be my husbands last night....

I had left the hospital around 9 PM because the nurse said all my husbands vitals were fine. Mikes sister stayed a little while longer. Long enough to see her brother ask the unexplainable.. She called me and said that Mike had asked to take his oxygen mask off around 9:30 and that he was very comfortable. I couldn't believe it! My husband wasn't able to go without his oxygen mask for almost 3 days. So of course I thought everything was fine, and I would see him in the morning. She called me and said she was leaving because he was resting comfortable. I said, "without the oxygen?" She said, "yes." It was around 11:30 I got a call telling us to come back to the hospital, my husband was going. Even the nurse was shocked! I know that when my husband asked to take the oxygen mask off just before 10 pm, Jesus was with him and he was already breathing heavens air. What a golden nugget from God. I mean, how do you explain that?

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