WORDS for your PSYCHE - Part I

Topic: God's Love

“I will sing of the Lord’s great love for ever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations. I will declare that your love stands firm for ever, that you established your faithfulness in heaven itself.” (Psalm 89:1-2 / NIV ®)

“Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His faithful love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords. His faithful love endures forever.” (Psalm 136:1-3 / NLT)

“God, the Lord, created the heavens and stretched them out. He created the earth and everything in it. He gives breath to everyone, life to everyone who walks the earth.” (Isaiah 42:5 / NLT)

“Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” (Isaiah 43:1 / NLT)

“…you refuse to ask for my help. You have grown tired of me…You have not honored me with sacrifices, though I have not burdened and wearied you…Instead, you have burdened me with your sins and wearied me with your faults. I - yes, I alone - will blot out your sins for my own sake and will never think of them again.” (Isaiah 43:22-25 / NLT)

“I, the Lord, made you, and I will not forget you. I have swept away yours sins like a cloud. I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist. Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.” (Isaiah 44:21-22 / NLT)

“…Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne? But even if that were possible, I would not forget you! See I have written your name on the palms of my hands.” (Isaiah 49:15-16 / NLT)

“For a brief moment I abandoned you, but with great compassion I will take you back. In a burst of anger, I turned my face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you.” (Isaiah 54:7-8 / NLT)

“Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink - even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk - it’s all free! Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for the food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food. Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.” (Isaiah 55:1-3 / NLT)

“They will be my people and I will be their God. And I will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good for them. I will put a desire in their hearts to worship me, and they will never leave me.” (Jeremiah 32:38-40 / NLT)

“The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.” (Lamentations 3:22-23 / NLT)

“’For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep...I will tend them in a good pasture...There they will lie down in good grazing land, and there they will feed in a rich pasture...I myself will tend my sheep...declares the Sovereign Lord. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak, but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd the flock with justice.’” (Ezekiel 34:11-16 / NIV ®)

“Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love....” (Joel 2:13 / NIV ®)

“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 / TEV)

“Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? For I am certain that…. there is nothing in all creation that will be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 35 and 38-39 / TEV)

“And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, ’Abba, Father.’ Now, you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, God has made you his heir.” (Galatians 4:6-7 / NLT)

“See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1 / NLT)

“This is real love - not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.” (1 John 4:10 / NLT)

“God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect” (1 John 4:16-17 / NLT)