Latest / The Father's Business Podcast / Devotional-Jesus Loves You this I Know (John 15:9)
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- 0:03Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional hey everyone.
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- 0:34Speaker 1: Jesus loves you.
- 0:35Speaker 1: This I know.
- 0:36Speaker 1: John 15 9 Spirit, listen to the words of Jesus for you in John 15, 9.
- 0:45Speaker 1: As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Now remain in my love.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Listen to the testimony of Paul in Galatians 2, 20.
- 0:55Speaker 1: The Son of God loved me and gave himself for me.
- 0:59Speaker 1: And listen to his message to us today in Ephesians 5, 25.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her Spirit.
- 1:11Speaker 1: God, your Father, loves you.
- 1:14Speaker 1: He has loved you from the moment he knit you together in your mother's womb.
- 1:18Speaker 1: He has watched you grow and mature into the fine person that you are.
- 1:23Speaker 1: He is so proud of you.
- 1:26Speaker 1: He has heard your pleas in every trial of your life, days you thought would never end.
- 1:33Speaker 1: He has plans for you, so keep open to his life, his love, his peace and his joy.
- 1:41Speaker 1: You need have no fear, for his love casts out all fear.
- 1:46Speaker 1: He wants to show you love that you have never known.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Spirit, be blessed as you look into the face of Jesus, the Son of God, who loves you.
- 1:57Speaker 1: This I know he gave himself for you.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Trust his love for you in all things, himself for you.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Trust his love for you in all things, from the smallest to the greatest.
- 2:05Speaker 1: He is with you.
- 2:07Speaker 1: He is pouring out his love on you so that you grow into his beautiful likeness.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Be ready for his great wisdom and great grace to be poured out on you.
- 2:21Speaker 1: His wisdom and grace have no limits.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Listen for his voice calling you, for he wants to talk with you and be intimate with you.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Do not trust your own understanding, for his ways are higher than your ways.
- 2:32Speaker 1: Trust him in a deeper way with all your being spirit, soul and body.
- 2:38Speaker 1: The more you trust him, the deeper he will take you.
- 2:43Speaker 1: The great theologian Carl Barth, one of the great minds of the 20th century, was asked in his last years what is the greatest theological truth of all time?
- 2:53Speaker 1: I'm sure the one who asked the question was poised with pen in hand to record the product of his great intellect.
- 3:13Speaker 1: Instead, they got the overflow of his great heart Without hesitation.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Spirit, his love into your heart by the Holy Spirit whom he has given you.
- 3:23Speaker 1: So you are thrice loved by the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- 3:30Speaker 1: He will open the eyes of your spirit so that you may see the wonders of his love that he has for you.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Hear the refrain from joy to the world and wonders of his love and wonders of his love and wonders, wonders of his love.
- 3:49Speaker 1: But be prepared that it will not be without warfare.
- 3:55Speaker 1: The enemy will want to silence, steal and destroy the love of God for you.
- 4:00Speaker 1: He stands at your door daily with his lies.
- 4:03Speaker 1: For you, he stands at your door daily with his lies.
- 4:09Speaker 1: Do not allow him to gain a key to your heart.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Spirit, your covenant relationship with Jesus has changed your name.
- 4:16Speaker 1: You are no longer called forsaken, unloved or afraid.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Your new name is confidence, joyfulness and overcomer.
- 4:22Speaker 1: Be blessed in the name of the one whose name is above all names.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Be blessed as his friend.
- 4:29Speaker 1: As you seek his face, keep your eyes focused on him and he will synchronize the desires of your heart with his.
- 4:37Speaker 1: His love will be your strength in all your days to come.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Feel his loving arms around you, precious one, and be strong in him.
- 4:47Speaker 1: Be blessed in the one who is loving and faithful in all his ways to you.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Be blessed in the name of the Son of God, who loved you and gave himself for you.
- 5:00Speaker 1: This devotional is from you Are Blessed in the Names of God, by Sylvia Gunter.
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