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God loves the WoRLd

God LOVES the World. Its a truth I think I tend to forget. I sometimes forget the importance of one of the most famous verses in the Bible, John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." This is grace. God sent His Son for you and me because He loved us BEFORE Jesus died! His love is not conditional. His love is unfailing. Jesus didn't decide to die for us because we were any good..He died because He is God and He loved us before the cross! It is something I tend to forget.  This Amazing love. How could a God so righteous love us that much, that He would send His son?!? Surely now nothing can separate us from His love. Rom 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." "Since we have now been justified by His blood, HOW MUCH MORE shall we be saved from God's wrath through Him! For if when we were

Encouragement

Somethings that have really been an encouragement to me in this last year in Bahrain and also just since I'v been back in SA, I will share below.. Now there is NO  substitute for waiting on God in the secret place, but the body of Christ, the church, local and universal, is an essential part of Christian life. I don't understand it when people tell me "no it's just me and God for now" because that's not the way His word says it should be, so...... ANYways. Before I mention these, I have to add that by far the greatest miracle God has done in my life is for sure what He has done in my heart. Why I say this, is because I have been through difficult things, OTHER than the accident, and difficult situations have not always taken me to God. Don't wait till things go wrong before you turn to God because often people turn to the opposite sex, drugs, money, tv, alcohol etc. when life sucks. The thing is that we are all going to die in the end and the tragedy is