Sunday, September 11, 2011

My Child

I am seriously in the process of writing some posts about our trip. It's been a wonderfully busy weekend in Nashville, TN at Visiting Orphans leadership training: The Advance. I will have time to write during our drive home. In the mean time I ran across this and HAD to repost it! I am printing it out and mailing it to my sweet orphan friends in Uganda. It gives me chills to read it!

My Child

You may not know me, but I know everything about you ~ Psalm 139:1
I know when you sit down and when you rise up ~ Psalm 139:2
I am familiar with all your ways ~ Psalm 139:3
Even the very hairs on your head are numbered ~ Matthew 10:29-31
You were made in my image ~ Genesis 1:27
In me you live and move and have your being for you are my offspring ~ Acts 17:28
I knew you even before you were conceived ~ Jeremiah 1:4-5
You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book ~ Psalm 139: 15-16
I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live ~ Acts 17:26
I brought you forth on the day you were born ~ Psalm 71:6
I knit you together in your mother’s womb. 
You are fearfully and wonderfully made ~ Psalm 134: 13, 14
I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me ~ John 8:41-44
I am not distant and angry, but am the complete expression of love ~ 1 John 4:16
And it is my desire to lavish my love on you simply because you are my child,
and I am your father ~ 1 John 3:1
I offer you more than your earthly father ever could ~ Matthew 7:11
For I am the perfect father ~ Matthew 5:48
Every good gift that you receive comes from my hand ~ James 1:17
For I am your provider and I meet all your needs ~ Matthew 6:31-33
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope ~ Jeremiah 29:11
Because I love you with an everlasting love ~ Jeremiah 31:3
My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore ~ Psalm 139: 17-18
And I rejoice over you with singing ~ Zephaniah 3:17
I will never stop doing good to you ~ Jeremiah 32:40
For you are my treasured possession ~ Exodus 19:5
I want to tell you great and marvelous things ~ Jeremiah 33:3
If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me ~ Deuteronomy 4:29
Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart ~ Psalm 37:4
I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine ~ Ephesians 3:20
For I am your greatest encourager ~ 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles ~ 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you ~ Psalm 34:18
As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart ~ Isaiah 40:11
One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes ~ Revelation 21:4
And I will take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth ~ Revelation 21:4
I am your Father, and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus ~ John 17:23
For in Jesus, my love for your is revealed ~ John 17:26
He is the exact representation of my being ~ Hebrews 1:3
He came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you ~ Romans 8:31
And to tell you that I am not counting your sins ~ 2 Corinthians 5:19
Jesus died so that you and I could be reconciled ~ 2 Corinthians 5:18
His death was the ultimate expression of my love for you ~ 1 John 4:10
I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love ~ Romans 8:31-32
If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me ~ 1 John 2:23
And nothing will ever separate you from my love again ~ Romans 8:38-39
The Holy Spirit will bear witness that you are my child ~ Romans 8:16
And Jesus will prepare a place for you in My house ~ John 14:2
My promise is for you, who I have called to myself ~ Acts 2:39
Keep yourself in my love ~ Jude 21

Love, Your Dad, Almighty God


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