Psalm 116:1-2 ~ I love the Lord, because he has heard my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
HE LOVED ME FIRST
** God has shown great love to me. He has kept me free from a horrific food addiction for over three decades.
** Over five years ago, He healed me from stage four esophageal cancer.
** I have a loving husband, beautiful children and strong and healthy grandchildren.
** These are amazing gifts of love.
** But all these gifts are not why I sing about the love I have for God today.
** I love the Lord because He took away my guilt, my shame, my self-hatred, and my fear of being “less than” by bearing these sins and more in my place!
{Dear Father, thank you for the true followers of Jesus who lived their lives before me when I was so, so lost. Their peace and their joy was something that I longed to have. Thank you that they showed me that Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship. Please use my life to make an eternal difference in the life of someone today. May someone that I encounter come to experience Your love because of me. May that someone come to believe that Jesus died to set THEM free. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.}
1 John 4:19 ~ We love because He first loved us!
