Word of the Day
Beloved, I am your unchanging God….yours and yours alone. Take hold of the word “your.” How beautiful to have someone who loves you like I do…how comforting to have a merciful, grace-filled, intimate and personal Lover of your soul who adores being with you. This is something for you to be grateful for regardless of what is happening in your life.
Remember this; gratefulness opens the courts of heaven as you come into My gates with thanksgiving and praise. Never underestimate the power of even a simple thank you. Why don’t you try it right now? Thank me for something…for anything you can think of and encounter a fresh release of My Presence.
When you suffer remember all I have gone through just so you could endure through the power of who I am in and through you. I am not off observing from some great distance. I am abiding in you…with you.
Think on Me and do not grow weary, My love, in doing good and you will reap in due season. In fact, if you are willing to be a little more objective you will see reaping as you go. There are always little gifts left along the way like following a marked trail in the woods. In the natural, people leave little scraps of cloth and so on, but I leave gifts of encouragement and hope.
Take just a moment to close your eyes and let Me give you night vision in the midst of all things hidden. Receive My vision to see beauty enclosed in hard and dark places. Receive vision to see into the struggles of another man’s life and turn up the nuggets of truth. Let your suffering, struggle, time of waiting, or hoping be turned to joy by giving to others as I have given to you. Selah…Read Complete Love Letter
Just think of Him Who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself [reckon up and consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds. (Hebrews 12:3 Amplified)
Prayer
Lord, it is such an awesome thing to meditate on the fullness of who You are. As soon as I think one of Your marvelous attributes, many other amazing things about who and what You are flood my thoughts. There are not enough days in this life to contemplate the fullness of Your beauty and its ability to express itself through my life. How marvelous that You should choose me and do it with such great pleasure. The very thought makes my heart sing.
Your thoughts toward me are not capable of being numbered making it hard to comprehend on a natural level how deep and indescribable Your love is for me. How wonderful it is to have a personal relationship with You, the Lover of my soul…to know that You know about all my flaws and still love me. Who can describe such great love…such indescribable joy? There are no words in the human language capable of expressing my heart when it comes to loving You. All I can say is, “Thank You for being the lover of my soul.”
When I feel hopeless I remember Your promise to those who faint not…Your promises to reap in due season…a promise which gives me great hope. One thing I know, hope never disappoints for Hope is who You are. When I hope in You, I do not grow weary in doing good for You, Lord. Today, this very moment, I receive all the gifts of encouragement You have for me as I go along on our journey. I receive Your vision to see all the beauty hidden even in the hard and dark places. I see through the struggles I have had, as well as the struggles I see others have, by focusing on You…by setting my face like flint in Your direction. Help me as we journey together to share the joy You have given me as I walk as an overcomer through the seasons of life moment by moment. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- Focus on the word “your” in relationship to God and your intimacy with Him. Can you comprehend the reality of God through the indwelling Presence of Christ as the personal lover of your soul?
- Write your thoughts on paper as God reveals these truths to your heart.
- Take time to thank God without asking Him for anything. Have a time of worship and praise Him for loving you unconditionally and eternally.
- Are you willing to put on your spiritual night vision goggles of forgiveness and obedience to the living Word speaking to your heart in order to be able to see into the dark places without fear?
- Ask God to help you to see into the hard and dark places where you or others are struggling. Write down the revelations you receive as you seek the Lord in this area and put them behind you as you press on toward your high calling in Christ.
- As you reflect upon your own struggles in the past, as well as your time of waiting, journal the insights you now have as you see those things and times in a new light.