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Authors: Joseph Prince
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It will never be about my love for God, but His love for me.
Father, thank You for the transformative power of Your grace and Your love in my life. You have taken me out of the wilderness of sin and brought me into Your tender embrace. I believe in Your love for me and want it to burn in my heart forever. I believe that as I embrace Your love for me, You will change me effortlessly. Amen.
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are!
1 J
OHN
3:1
NLT
I
received an awesome testimony from twenty-five-year-old Nathan from New York, who grew up with no father figure in his life except a man whom his mother married and who beat him regularly from the time he was three. Nathan struggled with his identity, his addictions, and his anger. But his turning point came when he learned that his Daddy God loves him. He wrote:
I heard a sermon of yours about being God’s beloved. I had never heard someone speak about Jesus as someone who died for my sins because He loved me so much. I thought there was no way anyone would die for me if they knew what I’d done. But the love I felt as I listened was something I’d never experienced before.
I had to know more, so I bought your book
Destined To Reign,
and the Lord’s words through your book changed my life.… I’ve dropped every bad habit—everything—in my past and have given myself to the Lord Jesus Christ. Every day seems new to me, and I see life in a different light now. I know that I have a Father in heaven who loves and accepts me. I know that He hears my prayers and won’t be slow to answer them.
In the same way, I pray you will have a revelation that you are right now loved by the Father and close to His heart. That your Daddy God always hears your prayers and is more than able and willing to lift you out of every dark pit and set you in His love and light.
Right now, I want you to do something: close your eyes and just say, “Daddy.”
That’s a prayer right there. In fact, that’s the deepest, most intimate prayer you can pray. Call upon your Daddy God because He loves you and cares for
you. You never did anything to make Him fall in love with you. And beloved, there is nothing you can do, nothing you could have done, that will ever take away His love for you.
I want you to know today that as a child of God, you don’t need to qualify for His love in any way. You are
already
His beloved. You may feel that you are far away from Him, but your Father sees you. He has been watching and waiting for you to come home, ready to sprint toward you to embrace you. He wants to lavish His love and kisses on you, over and over again.
You don’t need to earn your Daddy’s love. ALL that He has is already yours. He’s not asking you to serve Him in order to earn His blessings. ALL that He has, He has already freely and unconditionally given to you.
He gave up His only Son to die an agonizing death on the cross for the chance that you might one day accept His love. So come. Come to the Father. Come with all your failings, with all your brokenness, with all your inadequacies.
Come as you are. As you realize that you are the object of His love, I pray that whatever is negative or destructive will be flushed out from your life and you will experience breakthrough after breakthrough like never before.
Right now I am greatly loved by the Father and close to His heart.
Daddy God, thank You that I don’t have to qualify for or earn Your love. You love me and care for me despite all my failings, brokenness, and inadequacies. I thank You that nothing will ever take away Your love for me, and I receive all that You have already freely and unconditionally given to me through Jesus’ finished work. Amen.
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the L
ORD
, who has compassion on you.
I
SAIAH
54:10
NIV
I
n these last days of our journey in discovering the power of right believing, I want to leave you with one simple but critical truth. Memorize this truth. Feed on it. Let it take root in your spirit and become an anchor in your life. You will never be the same again.
Are you ready? Here it goes:
As a child of God, no matter what happens in your life, your Father in heaven loves you dearly and nothing you do can ever change that.
Will you believe that today? Whether you are going through good times or facing challenging times, you need to know that your Abba loves you. There is nothing that you can ever do to make Him love you more, and nothing that you can ever do to make Him love you less. Even—or perhaps
especially
—when you feel like you have failed, know that you will
always
be the apple of His eye.
Always
.
God loves you with an everlasting love (see Jer. 31:3). A love that is the same yesterday, today, forever. Feel your Daddy God enfolding you in His embrace right now. You are safe. You are utterly loved and completely accepted. He loved you before you ever knew Him. His love for you has
nothing
to do with anything that you have done for Him.
Nothing
you do will ever affect His unwavering, unconditional love for you.
There is nothing for you to prove. You only need to rest and receive your Abba’s love. Let your life become established and grounded in a love that is so perfect that no challenge or adversity will be able to knock you down. If you think that you’ve messed up, turn to your Father. In His loving arms you will find hope, security, and refuge from any storm.
I love how the apostle Paul puts it: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?… Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8:35, 37–39).
Beloved, there are no caveats or disclaimers when it comes to the love of your heavenly Father. The Bible plainly states that
nothing
shall be able to separate you from the love of your Father in heaven. It’s an absolute declaration and promise. “Nothing” means
nothing
. As a believer, this means that even your mistakes, failings, and sins cannot separate you from the love of your Father. Hallelujah!
I only need to rest and receive my Abba’s love.
Father, You are my Abba, my Daddy God, who loved me unconditionally before I ever knew You or anything about You. I acknowledge today that I am utterly loved and completely accepted by You. I believe that absolutely nothing can ever separate me from Your love, and I rest in Your unchanging, unwavering, and unshakable love for me. Amen.