Monday, April 6, 2015

Spoken For: The Pursuit of a Relentless Lover

I'm reading a book that's co-authored by my favorite author: Robin Jones Gunn. It's called Spoken For. She writes it with a woman named Alyssa Joy Bethke. 
There's a part of the book where these two share a list that they made. I wanted to share it here because it's amazing and so truthful. I needed to see/hear it and so does everyone else.

What God Says About You:

  • You were made in my image. (Genesis 1:27)
  • You are my treasured possession, my peculiar treasure. (Exodus 19:5 NIV, KJV)
  • If you seek me with your whole heart, you will find me. (Deuteronomy 4:29)
  • When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you. (Psalm 34:18)
  • Delight in me, and I will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4)
  • I know everything about you. (Psalm 139:1)
  • I know when you sit down and when you stand up. (Psalm 139:2)
  • I am familiar with all your ways. (Psalm 139:3)
  • I knit you together when you were in your mother's womb. (Psalm 139:13)
  • You are fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139:14)
  • All your days were written in my book before there was one of them. (Psalm 139:16)
  • My thoughts toward you are as countless as the grains of sand on the seashore. (Psalm 139:17-18)
  • As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you. (Isaiah 40:11)
  • I knew you before you were conceived. (Jeremiah 1:5)
  • My plans for your future are for good, to give you hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)
  • I have loved you with an everlasting love. (Jeremiah 31:3)
  • I will never stop being good to you. (Jeremiah 32:40)
  • I will take pleasure in doing good things for you and will do those things with all my heart and soul. (Jeremiah 32:41)
  • I want to show you great and marvelous things. (Jeremiah 33:3)
  • I rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)
  • I am your provider, I will meet all your needs. (Matthew 6:31-33)
  • I know how to give good gifts to my children. (Matthew 7:11)
  • I gave you the right to become my children when you received my Son, Jesus, and believed in his name. (John 1:12)
  • I am the Bridegroom and you are my bride. (John 3:29)
  • I have prepared a place for you. I will come back for you and take you to myself so that we can be together forever. (John 14:3)
  • I love you even as I have loved my only Son. (John 17:23)
  • I revealed my love for you through Jesus. (John 17:26)
  • I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live. (Acts 17:26)
  • In me you live and move and have your being. (Acts 17:28)
  • I am for you and not against you. (Romans 8:31)
  • I will never allow anything to separate you from my love for you. (Romans 8:35-39)
  • I gave my Son so that you and I could be reconciled. (2 Corinthians 5:19)
  • I am your peace. (Ephesians 2:14)
  • I am able to do more than you could possibly imagine. (Ephesians 3:20)
  • I am at work in you, giving you the desire and the power to fulfill my good purpose for you. (Philippians 2:13)
  • I did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7)
  • Every good gift you receive comes from my hand. (James 1:17)
  • I desire to lavish my love upon you because you are my child and I am your Father. (1 John 3:1)
  • My love for you is not based on your love for me. (1 John 4:10)
  • I gave the ultimate expression of my love for you through Jesus. (1 John 4:10)
  • I am the complete expression of love. (1 John 4:16)  
  • I will dwell with you in heaven. You will be mine, and I will be your God. (Revelation 21:3)
  • I will one day wipe away every tear from your eyes, and there will be no more crying or pain or sorrow. (Revelation 21:4)
  • I have written your name in my book. (Revelation 21:27)
  • I invite you to come. (Revelation 22:17)
 Robin Jones Gunn is an author that first inspired me to be an author. God has given me the gift to make it happen. I love this book and I hope these verses will bless you! 

God pursues all of you individually.  Never forget that. He is your Relentless Lover.

(Buy the book to read more!)

One of the girls......
Taylyr Jane
 

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