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31 Days In God’s Love

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Last year, for the first time, I took part in the write for 31 days challenge. Bloggers pick one topic and write a post on that topic every day in October. I have decided to take part in the challenge again this year – and it will be a challenge!

If you have read previous posts you will realise I am a little busier than usual. The topic I have chosen to write is one I have found difficult to grasp. Especially in the current season I am in raising little ones. I will be spending the next 31 days in God’s love.

Through experiences and relationships with other people, a lot of us grow up not believing how much God loves us. This can be through a range of reasons:

  • Hurt from other people
  • Choices we have made
  • Broken relationships
  • Feelings of not being worthy

There are so many references to God’s love in the Bible it can be overwhelming. But then I guess that’s what God’s love is really like – overwhelming! I want to focus on the following over the next 31 days:

  • God’s love is steadfast and unchanging
  • God’s love can comfort
  • God will reveal His love through Jesus Christ
  • God pours His love into us through the Holy Spirit
  • Once we know how much God loves us, we are then compelled to love one another

In spending the next 31 days in scripture, I want to go deeper in the knowledge that God loves me. I don’t want to just know this in my mind though. My prayer is that I feel God’s love deep down in my heart. I am also praying this for whoever comes on this journey with me.

Will you join me in delving deeper over the next 31 days in God’s love?

  • Day 2 – Feeling secure
  • Day 3 – Unconditionally loved
  • Day 4 – Accepting unconditional love
  • Day 5 – I am worthy
  • Day 6 – Processing God’s love so far
  • Day 7 – Trusting God
  • Day 8 – The Father’s Love
  • Day 9 – A Love Letter from God
  • Day 10 – Blocking God’s Love
  • Day 11 – Reckless Love
  • Day 12 – Disciplining Love
  • Day 13 – Signs of God’s Love
  • Day 14 – Loving Me for Who I Am
  • Day 15 – Listen to Music
  • Day 16 – God’s Love is Found in your Village
  • Day 17 – No More Fear
  • Day 18 – Believing Our Worth
  • Day 19 – He Has A Plan
  • Day 20 – The Woman at the Well
  • Day 21
  • Day 22
  • Day 23
  • Day 24
  • Day 25
  • Day 26
  • Day 27
  • Day 28
  • Day 29
  • Day 30
  • Day 31
Five Minute Friday

What’s In A Name?

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This was written for the Five Minute Friday Community, where a number of writers gather for a weekly writing challenge around a single word prompt and write to our hearts content, but only for five minutes (or there about! I have marked where my five minutes stopped).

This weeks word prompt is ‘name’. Click here if you want to see what other people wrote. You can also have a go yourself. What do you think of when you hear the word ‘name’?

When I was growing up through school I was an easy target. With moving around a lot, I was always the new girl in class and I had very little self confidence. As a result, I was the class victim for everyone’s amusement. The problem though was I didn’t find it very funny. 

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You are loved More than you will ever know

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Words can pierce the heart. It only takes one person to say one thing and you have an open wound of worthlessness. It doesn’t matter how many compliments have gone before, words can slice you open and leave you bleeding out. 

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Day 18 – Searching for Sheep

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I love the story about the lost sheep. You know where the sheep goes wandering off somewhere and ends up getting stuck?

The shepherd realises he is missing a sheep after counting them all. He should have 100, but instead has 99. So, he goes trundling off searching for him. He searches high and low, far and wide, leaving the other 99 behind. He doesn’t stop until the last sheep is found.

When he finds the lost sheep, he rejoices so much that he calls all his friends up and let’s them know the good news – He has found his lost sheep.

You may think this is an odd thing to do. After all, it’s only one sheep. Why risk the other 99? But that sheep was so important to the shepherd. He was willing to leave the others and risk his own life just for the sake of one.

Do you know who the shepherd and the sheep represents? Well, God is the shepherd and we are the sheep. And do you know what? When we lose our way in life and stray off, God will search high and low for us to bring us back. And when we do come back, he will be rejoicing until the cows come home (or sheep in this case)!

You can read the story in Luke 15:3-7. There is also a very powerful and uplifting song about how much God loves us and would do anything to bring us back into His fold. It’s called Reckless Love by Cory Asbury.

If you are searching for God’s love today, listen to the song and see how much God is searching for you.

You are reading day 18 of the Write 31 Days Challenge in conjunction with The Five Minute Friday Community. Today’s word prompt is ‘search’.

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We Were Intentionally Made

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For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

Psalm 139:13-16

Our God is an intentional God. When He does things, it’s not by accident.  He intends to do them. This also applies to ourselves. I was not made by accident. I was not some random passing thought. God intentionally created me. He intentionally created you too.

I know what you might be thinking (coz I think this too sometimes)…

Hang on a minute. Me? He intended to create me? God created me on purpose?

Yes! You are not by accident.

I find this hard to grasp at times depending on what I am feeling and what situations I go through. On a good day I’ll accept He fearfully and wonderfully made me just the way I am. He will use me just as He intended to further the works for His Kingdom.

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