Wow how I know this to be true!... I was raised in a religion that taught that is was by works that you were saved and works that earned Gods love. I strived to please God by my works. I grew to have a lot of Bible knowledge and used it out in preaching. I loved it. I loved telling others about God. Id go door to door and have Bible studies with others teaching them. I was in Bible dramas and stood before congregations sharing testimonies of those I spoke with in my preaching. I went to school to become better educated to preach and teach. So much I did in this religion thinking that by doing this I would win Gods favor and love. When I was 18 God brought me out of that religion and when I left I left with many scars because the day I left was the day everyone I knew and loved... Family, friends, my own parents...cut me off. I was left alone and abandoned. All I had was the works I did in that religion and the Bible knowledge I received. I was empty and hurting and felt so alone. I lived in fear of letting anyone get close to me because I was afraid of abandonment. And I had no idea what an intimate relationship with God was. Two years later my ex brought me to church with him and slowly the seeds that my parents had planted in my heart as a child that had never properly been watered because of religion started to be watered. God began watering these seeds with his love and truth. I learned that it was by faith we are saved not works and there is nothing we could ever do to earn Gods love. He freely loves us unconditionally because he is a merciful, gracious, tender God of love. He yearns to have an intimate relationship with us. He longs and desires to fill us to completeness with his amazing unconditional love. It was two years after I started going to church with my ex that I finally excepted his love and was saved. I will never forget that moment because I heard God speak to me in a way I have never experienced... My beautiful princess, I know your scared and you dont trust anyone. People have hurt you, betrayed you, abandoned you. But Im not human Im God and I am holding you in my arms and I promise I will never let you go. I love you and I want you. Its ok you can trust me. I will never leave you, I will never abandon you, I will never let you go. That was 7 years ago. Since then he has healed my broken, empty heart and filled it to completeness! My scars of abandonment are healed and he has restored my life by blessing me with so many who love me as well. He has turned my weeping to joy and my ashes to beauty! I know there are so many others out there who are hurting just like I was... who feel empty and alone. But your not! YOU are the precious child of the most high God and He loves you more then you could ever comprehend! He not only loves you but he longs to have a close, personal, intimate relationship with you! He wants to heal you, restore you, and fill you up with his amazing unconditional love. There is nothing you have to do to earn it! He loves you just because you are His precious child! All you have to do is receive it! Jeremiah 31:3...I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. 1 John 3:1...See what kind of love the father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. 1 John 3:16...By this we know love, that he laid down his life us...
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