Title: The Way That God Gives is Amazing
Text:
John 17:2 (HCSB)
2 for You gave Him authority over all flesh; so He may give eternal life to all You have given Him.
John 17:6 (HCSB)
6 I have revealed Your name to the men You gave Me from the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.
John 17:9 (HCSB)
9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world but for those You have given Me, because they are Yours.
John 17:11-12 (HCSB)
11 I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name that You have given Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
12 While I was with them, I was protecting them by Your name that You have given Me. I guarded them and not one of them is lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
Observation:
When you read the above verses you can't help but realize how highly esteemed God's children are in the eyes of our Father in heaven, and of Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. The believers in Jesus are God's gift to Jesus.
The Father also has a gift for His adopted children; this gift is for each of His sons and daughters. God's gift to believers is Jesus.
John 3:16 (HCSB)
16 "For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
God gave us His best; now that is love. God loved us when we were unlovely. However, He fixed that with the gift of His only son.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (HCSB)
21 He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
He or she who has received the Son has the gift of eternal life. O how I love Jesus, and it is only because God loved me first, and gave me His best. With my whole heart I am a work in progress of giving Him my best.
1 John 5:12 (HCSB)
12 The one who has the Son has life. The one who doesn't have the Son of God does not have life.
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, the burning desire of my heart is that I would become more and more in my talk and my walk like Jesus, Your precious gift to me. Father, I am willing to do whatever it takes to draw closer to You. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Consecrate me now to Thy service, Lord,
By the power of grace divine;
Let my soul look up with a steadfast hope,
And my will be lost in Thine.
Source: http://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn.php/h/387#ixzz2hySDkJqv
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Proverbs 30:5 (ESV)
5 Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
Psalm 119:11 (ESV)
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
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