Shared on Friday, February 26, 2010

“By grace you have been saved.”

“Never fear to trust in God, for God loves you with an everlasting love.”

"My children, I am the seeker, I seek My beloved. Before you thought to turn to Me, I was there before you with arms wide open. I love you, you are My own. Accept My love and mercy. I give it freely and abundantly that you may live."

“Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ... We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin. For a dead person has been absolved from sin. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God. Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus." (Rom 6:3, 6-11).

“All of us once lived among them in the desires of our flesh, following the wishes of the flesh and the impulses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ (by grace you have been saved).” (Ephesians 2:3-5).

A sense that the Lord is saying, “I have been with you all along. You looked to Me, and yet I am with you. Silence everything, all the things around you. Be still and know that I am God.”

A sense of the living God. He is alive!