Truth: I Am Deeply Loved
By Jon Walker
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:11 (NIV)
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In faith, I know this to be true:
Jesus loves me, even more than I love myself. He proves this by laying down his life for me (John 15:13).
He has my best interest in mind, even though it may not appear that way at times. God’s plans are to prosper me, not to harm me; to give me hope and a future with him (Jeremiah 29:11).
My Father knows how to give good gifts, even more than me. If, as a human easily led astray, I know how to love my children and to give them good gifts, how much more will my Father in heaven lavish them on me (Matthew 7:11).
In faith, I believe this to be so.
Jesus says, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened” (Matthew 7:7-8 NIV).
In faith, I believe this to be so.
God is love, and in his love I find perfect peace. I am able to love because “God is love,” and “God lives in [me] and his love is made complete in [me]” (1 John 4:8, 12 NIV).
When I love in the center of God’s love, trusting the truth of his love, he will keep me in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3).
And as I live in peace, the “God of love and peace will be with [me]” (2 Corinthians 13:11 NIV).
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