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All Because of His Great Love ( by Fenny West)

All Because of His Great Love


He went through the valley
of the shadow of death for us
All because of His great love for us.

He saw you and I
In the corridors of time
And said the cross was worth it
All because of His great love.

He foresaw your coming to the Cross
To cross over to God;
Cross over from death to life ;
Cross over from darkness to light
Cross over from the chasm to safety,
Reconciliation, justification, salvation,
So He endured the cross, despising its shame,
All because of His great love.

So what should I do?
What should you do?

As the deer pants for the water brooks so my soul longs after You.
As a dry land is thirsty for water, so my soul longs for You.

{18:1} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

{18:2} The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.

{18:3} I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

63:1} O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

{63:2} To see thy power and thy glory, so [as] I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

{63:3} Because thy lovingkindness [is] better than life, my lips shall praise thee.

{63:4} Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
{63:5} My soul shall be satisfied as [with] marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise [thee] with joyful lips:
{63:6} When I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the [night] watches.

{63:7} Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
{63:8} My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

{84:1} How amiable [are] thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

{84:2} My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

{84:3} Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for

 herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

{84:4} Blessed [are] they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

{84:5} Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them.

]{84:6} [Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
{84:7} They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.

{84:8} O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob.  Selah.

{84:9} Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine  anointed.

{84:10} For a day in thy courts [is] better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

{84:11} For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

{84:12} O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee.

Made to Last ( by Fenny West)

Made to Last

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Whether you leave or cleave 
All the choice is yours
Let not the foe deceive 
Today, I counsel you

We were made for one another
And made to last
Let none put asunder 
What He made to last 

Why do you want to play 
a fast one only to lose? 
Love endures long 
when it is strong;

It Pays back good 
for all that is wrong
And this is the God-kind of love. 

to make our song

So my love think again
Think again in spite of the rain
What you see is passing away
It’s transient, not come to stay. 

The true meaning of love is to give and take
for better or worse, none to forsake
We’re glued and none can pull apart
So put the past behind for a New start 

Yes, we can…

 

Love Unlimited (by C.H. Spurgeon)

I will love them freely.” Hosea 14:4

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This sentence is a body of divinity in miniature. He who understands its meaning is a theologian, and he who can dive into its fulness is a true master in Israel. It is a condensation of the glorious message of salvation which was delivered to us in Christ Jesus our Redeemer. The sense hinges upon the word “freely.” This is the glorious, the suitable, the divine way by which love streams from heaven to earth, a spontaneous love flowing forth to those who neither deserved it, purchased it, nor sought after it. It is, indeed, the only way in which God can love such as we are. The text is a death-blow to all sorts of fitness: “I will love them freely.” Now, if there were any fitness necessary in us, then he would not love us freely; at least, this would be a mitigation and a drawback to the freeness of it. But it stands, “I will love you freely.” We complain, “Lord, my heart is so hard.” “I will love you freely.” “But I do not feel my need of Christ as I could wish.” “I will not love you because you feel your need; I will love you freely.” “But I do not feel that softening of spirit which I could desire.” Remember, the softening of spirit is not a condition, for there are no conditions; the covenant of grace has no conditionality whatever; so that we without any fitness may venture upon the promise of God which was made to us in Christ Jesus, when he said, “He that believeth on him is not condemned.” It is blessed to know that the grace of God is free to us at all times, without preparation, without fitness, without money, and without price! “I will love them freely.” These words invite backsliders to return: indeed, the text was specially written for such–“I will heal their backsliding; I will love them freely.” Backslider! surely the generosity of the promise will at once break your heart, and you will return, and seek your injured Father’s face.

The Height of God’s Love (by Rick Warren)

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39 NIV)

There is no place that you can go where God’s love isn’t. You’ll never be separated from God’s love.

Nothing — no circumstance, no situation — can separate you, because God’s love is everywhere: “Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39 NIV).

If you want an antidote for loneliness, here it is: You will never be separated from God’s love. The fact is, we do lose loved ones. If you’re married, one of you is going to die first, and you will grieve over that.

But if you’re a Christian, you’ll never be lonely because you can tune into God’s love. I’m not talking about religion; I’m talking about a relationship with Jesus Christ. His love lasts forever, and his love is everywhere.

Talk About It

– How high is God’s love? High enough to overlook your mistakes! Have you accepted God’s offer to forgive you and help you start over?

– How do you tune into God’s love in difficult circumstances or when you feel lonely?

 

Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., one of America’s largest and most influential churches. Rick is author of the New York Times bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life.” His book, “The Purpose Driven Church,” was named one of the 100 Christian books that changed the 20th century. He is also the founder of Pastors.com, a global Internet community for pastors.

This devotional ©2013 by Rick Warren. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Love Remains the Greatest

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Despite the yawning gap

Love remains the bridge

It is seen in full action

Regardless of the emotion.

 

Love remains the greatest

In the midst of great tests

It will always prevail

I t will never fail.

 

4     Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5     does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6     does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

7     bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8     Love never fails.

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Apple of My Eyes

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The apple of my eyes, that’s what you are.
My treasured one, the best bird I can have.
Ruined and marred by the fall that kept you far.
Yet, I longed daily for you, my first love.


Wondering and pondering which day you will come.
Waiting and looking for my broken dream
To come into my garden and bosom.
I looked here and there even in the stream.

Prepared a sumptuous meal for you and I.
But there, vacant remained your seat and place.
Gone for so long, I kept asking, ‘Why, Why?’
When will you return and show me your face.

No one, nothing! can take your place, beloved.
For you, any mountain I would have moved.

 

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©Fenny West2013

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Agape Love

Agape Love

LOVE

C.H. Spurgeon

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my spouse.

Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses His bride the church. “My sister, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My spouse, nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest bands of love; my sweet companion, part of my own self. My sister, by my Incarnation, which makes me bone of thy bone and flesh of thy flesh; my spouse, by heavenly betrothal, in which I have espoused thee unto myself in righteousness. My sister, whom I knew of old, and over whom I watched from her earliest infancy; my spouse, taken from among the daughters, embraced by arms of love, and affianced unto me for ever. See how true it is that our royal Kinsman is not ashamed of us, for He dwells with manifest delight upon this two-fold relationship. We have the word “my” twice in our version; as if Christ dwelt with rapture on His possession of His Church. “His delights were with the sons of men,” because those sons of men were His own chosen ones. He, the Shepherd, sought the sheep, because they were His sheep; He has gone about “to seek and to save that which was lost,” because that which was lost was His long before it was lost to itself or lost to Him. The church is the exclusive portion of her Lord; none else may claim a partnership, or pretend to share her love. Jesus, thy church delights to have it so! Let every believing soul drink solace out of these wells. Soul! Christ is near to thee in ties of relationship; Christ is dear to thee in bonds of marriage union, and thou art dear to Him; behold He grasps both of thy hands with both His own, saying, “My sister, my spouse.” Mark the two sacred holdfasts by which thy Lord gets such a double hold of thee that He neither can nor will ever let thee go. Be not, O beloved, slow to return the hallowed flame of His love.

 May you fall in love with Him.

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