You Are Mine!
I have two amazing sons, Derek and Aaron, who are now handsome young men. When each of them was born, I had the absolute thrill of a life- time, holding them just seconds after they entered this world. Cradling each son when he was born, my emotions burst forth and I wept tears of wonder and awe. I couldn’t help it! It was a miracle beyond words.
The sheer joy of tenderly securing each of my tiny, beautiful sons in my trembling hands was extremely moving. I felt so much love for my sons and I took great pleasure in them too. They were absolutely perfect! And here is a stunning truth: my sons couldn’t do a single thing for me to make me love them. No, I loved them with an extreme passion and I was wildly pleased with them for one reason alone: they were mine! My intense feelings of massive delight for them gripped me to the core of my being as I thought, How can I already love you this much?
These feelings of love and pleasure are the very same ones that your heavenly Father has for you every second of every day. His tender sentiments for you never change. You are that tiny, helpless baby in the outstretched hands of your heavenly Papa all the time. The stunning truth is that you can’t do a single thing to make Him love you. He already does.
God loves you, not for what you do or don’t do for Him, but because you are His. Period. He is positively thrilled with you!
He gazes upon you in total amazement and says, “My precious child, you have no idea what you do to Me. You are Mine. You’re beautiful and you’re everything I always wanted. When I made you, you were My dream fulfilled!”
I have two amazing sons, Derek and Aaron, who are now handsome young men. When each of them was born, I had the absolute thrill of a life- time, holding them just seconds after they entered this world. Cradling each son when he was born, my emotions burst forth and I wept tears of wonder and awe. I couldn’t help it! It was a miracle beyond words.
The sheer joy of tenderly securing each of my tiny, beautiful sons in my trembling hands was extremely moving. I felt so much love for my sons and I took great pleasure in them too. They were absolutely perfect! And here is a stunning truth: my sons couldn’t do a single thing for me to make me love them. No, I loved them with an extreme passion and I was wildly pleased with them for one reason alone: they were mine! My intense feelings of massive delight for them gripped me to the core of my being as I thought, How can I already love you this much?
These feelings of love and pleasure are the very same ones that your heavenly Father has for you every second of every day. His tender sentiments for you never change. You are that tiny, helpless baby in the outstretched hands of your heavenly Papa all the time. The stunning truth is that you can’t do a single thing to make Him love you. He already does.
God loves you, not for what you do or don’t do for Him, but because you are His. Period. He is positively thrilled with you!
He gazes upon you in total amazement and says, “My precious child, you have no idea what you do to Me. You are Mine. You’re beautiful and you’re everything I always wanted. When I made you, you were My dream fulfilled!”
Here is the truth of Papa’s heart found in the Bible:
You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God’s children—which is what we are! (1 John 3:1 NJB)
[God] gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. “We are His children,” just as some of your poets have said. (Acts 17:28 CEV)
This is exceptionally good news! You are not like a child of God. This is not just a nice analogy to make you feel better. You are God’s child. You are His actual son or daughter, created by Him in His image. Papa God has chosen you to be His very own, and with that come all of the rights of being in His family.
Paul explained God’s outrageous love and affection for us this way:
How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. (Ephesians 1:3–6 MSG)
Who is this extravagant Father? Who could possibly love you with that kind of passion? You were never an afterthought to God. You’ve always been on the heart and mind of your Father, who had plans for you to be here on the earth at this time and place in history before He even created the world. Just how important and special are you to God, whose creation of the world is secondary to His creation of you? He created you with the full intent to take you to “the high places of blessing” in Him and to saturate and soak you in His love and grace for all eternity.
You must see what great love the Father has lavished on us by letting us be called God’s children—which is what we are! (1 John 3:1 NJB)
[God] gives us the power to live, to move, and to be who we are. “We are His children,” just as some of your poets have said. (Acts 17:28 CEV)
This is exceptionally good news! You are not like a child of God. This is not just a nice analogy to make you feel better. You are God’s child. You are His actual son or daughter, created by Him in His image. Papa God has chosen you to be His very own, and with that come all of the rights of being in His family.
Paul explained God’s outrageous love and affection for us this way:
How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. (Ephesians 1:3–6 MSG)
Who is this extravagant Father? Who could possibly love you with that kind of passion? You were never an afterthought to God. You’ve always been on the heart and mind of your Father, who had plans for you to be here on the earth at this time and place in history before He even created the world. Just how important and special are you to God, whose creation of the world is secondary to His creation of you? He created you with the full intent to take you to “the high places of blessing” in Him and to saturate and soak you in His love and grace for all eternity.
His mind is made up about you. He has already settled on you as the
focus of His love. He made this decision before you were born, before you
had the choice to be loved in this way. So you’d better just get used to it—the
sooner the better!
Go to a quiet place and ask Papa God this question and allow your spirit to receive the affirming responses. "Father, just how much do you love me as your child?"
This is an excerpt from chapter 1 of Daddy, You Love Me: Living in the Approval of your Heavenly Father. To go deeper in the revelation of the Father's love for you, receive His Father's Blessing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5XNDt02aQ&feature=youtu.be
Declaring joy for you in the journey!
Brent Lokker
Go to a quiet place and ask Papa God this question and allow your spirit to receive the affirming responses. "Father, just how much do you love me as your child?"
This is an excerpt from chapter 1 of Daddy, You Love Me: Living in the Approval of your Heavenly Father. To go deeper in the revelation of the Father's love for you, receive His Father's Blessing here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5XNDt02aQ&feature=youtu.be
Declaring joy for you in the journey!
Brent Lokker
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