We can't understand how great God's love for us is. But we need to grow in experiencing his love to receive more power to live as He wants us to. Even from the Old Testament in Hosea, we can see his amazing love for his chosen ones.
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2024-11-24 God's Love Letter -Ferdi Louw https://www.FathersLoveLetter.com https://www.GodLovesYou.TV The Visual Bible: Matthew (1993)
Ephesians 3:18-19|NLT 2007
18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. John 14:15|NLT If you love me, obey my commandments. John 14:15,23|NIV 15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command. 23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Matthew 20:1-16 1 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. ... 13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?' 16 "So the last will be first, and the first will be last." |
Hosea 1:2|NLT 2007
When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the LORD and worshiping other gods." Hosea 3:1-2|NLT 2007 1 Then the LORD said to me, "Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the LORD still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them. " 2 So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver and five bushels of barley and a measure of wine. Hosea 11:9|NLT 2007 No, I will not unleash my fierce anger. I will not completely destroy Israel, for I am God and not a mere mortal. I am the Holy One living among you, and I will not come to destroy. Hosea 14:4|NLT 2007 The LORD says, "Then I will heal you of your faithlessness; my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever. Hosea 14:4|NKJV I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. Hosea 2:16|NLT 2007 When that day comes," says the LORD, "you will call me 'my husband' instead of 'my master.' John 15:15|NLT 2007 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn't confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. John 15:9|NLT 2007 I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. |