A Prayer to Embrace God’s Love – Your Every day Prayer

A Prayer to Embrace God’s Love
By Lynette Kittle

“That is love: not that we liked God, however that He liked us and ship His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” – 1 John 4:10

Rising up, I had an exquisite father who made me really feel liked. All of my life, I used to be assured of his love for me. As a result of I did have his love, it hasn’t been tough for me to imagine God, my heavenly Father, loves me, too. Sadly many people do not develop up with the sort of fatherly love I skilled. Numerous women and men develop up with out an earthly father’s presence, a lot much less his love, so the considered God as Father and His loving them is tough for them to imagine, obtain, and settle for.

God Is Love‘s Solely Supply
There may be nothing we are able to do to earn God’s love. It isn’t based mostly on who we’re or what we do or do not do. It is all based mostly on who God is, and He’s love (1 John 4:16). Regardless of what the world could inform or attempt to persuade us, God loves everybody. It doesn’t matter what our tradition promotes, there isn’t any different supply of affection on earth. Subsequently, everybody and every little thing else claiming to be love is a counterfeit. The enemy of God goes to nice lengths to make us suppose He does not love us. The satan does this by mendacity to us about God, and if we do not know the reality about Him, we’ll imagine these lies. John 8:44 describes the character of the satan and of those that imagine his lies. 

“You belong to your father, the satan, and also you need to perform your father’s needs. He was a assassin from the start, not holding to the reality, for there isn’t any fact in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he’s a liar and the daddy of lies.”

God’s Phrase Reveals the Reality
We are able to solely know who God really is and His ideas towards us by way of God’s phrase. His phrases inform us precisely who He’s and what we imply to Him. Because the saying goes, discuss is affordable, however God hasn’t simply stated He loves us. He has gone out of His method to show His nice love for us. We’re of such nice worth to God that He gave His solely Son to die and canopy the price of our sins (John 3:16). 

“However God demonstrates His personal love for us on this: Whereas we had been nonetheless sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).

God’s love is so nice for us that He was keen to sacrifice in order that we would stay endlessly with Him. As 1 John 1:9 explains, “That is how God confirmed His love amongst us. He despatched His one and solely Son into the world that we would stay by way of Him.”

Let’s pray:
Pricey Father,
I ask You to open my coronary heart to obtain Your excellent love. Forgive me for believing the enemy’s lies and for the instances I’ve willingly turned away from You. Free me from earthly hurts and wounds that hold me from drawing near You. O Lord, You’re the solely supply of affection on this world as a result of You might be love. Give me a young and grateful coronary heart in the direction of You for loving me first whereas I used to be nonetheless useless in my trespasses. Thank You for Your present of Jesus, our atoning sacrifice, which washes away my sins with His blood and reconciles me to You. Assist me at this time and day-after-day to come back to You and obtain Your unconditional love in my life. Soften my coronary heart and educate me to imagine and obtain Your tender love. In Jesus’ title, Amen.

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