God’s Valentine 2 U

"Be my Valentine."  GOD

When someone says Be My Valentine it means they love you.

God loves you and wants you to be is Valentine. The love that God gives us is not like the world's love.

       The World's love is as sturdy as the paper that most Valentine cards are made of.

God's Love is not a flimsy cheap imitation. It is the real thing. It is an all giving love that was and is willing to suffer and die for our deliverance.

          God wrote His love letter to you in His own blood.  He has given it to you with the greatest presents, not candy or flowers but streets of gold, a mansion in glory and abundant life here on earth.

He has proposed.  What will be your answer?  Will you be God's Valentine? It is your choice.

Say yes and be wed to Him for all eternity.

 

To God, You Are Special

While there are a lot of people in the world God love you in a unique way.

 

  Four Facts Showing God loves you in a Powerful way

 

God’s Son Jesus died for you.

 God demonstrated His love for you in this that He laid down His life for you.

 

Nothing can separate you from His love.

Romans 8:35-39 (NAB) 

    What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? [36] As it is written:

    "For your sake we are being slain all the day;

        we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered."

[37] No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. [38] For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, [39] nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

God loves us though He has seen our worse!

While we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  He knows our hearts our thoughts and our secret sins.  He loves us with an endless love and yet He hates those sins.  God hates sins because He loves us and sin destroys lives.

  

Finding the One who will make life complete.

    Everyone wants to find the perfect life partner.  But there are no perfect people.

       Many of the most popular people in the world have not found love that lasts.

    So if you search the world for the perfect lover you will never find him until you raise your eyes and look toward heaven. Deep inside us is a hole, a vacume, a need, that not even a hundred lovers could fill. Yet still there is hope. Your dream can come true.

 

     Earthly love is risky.

Beauty fades.

People change.

At any moment we could lose the one we love through death, or any number of things. The greater our love the greater the pain we are in danger of suffering.

 Marriages always end either in an angry divorce or mourning at a grave. Love seems to carry the seeds of the deepest pain we can have in life.

    There is a love that is more powerful that does not end and that saves earthly love with a heavenly home that lasts an eternity.  A love that satisfies forever.. 

 

   These characteristics of earthly love are similar to the love you can have with God!

 You ache for someone you:

    * will forever be proud of

    * can trust completely

 

    * can be totally open with

    * Who always and fully understands you?

 

    Your secret desire is for someone:

    * whose mind, strength and beauty will never decline

    

        You need someone who:

    * meets your needs so exactly that it seems you were made for each other

    * not just feels your pain but can always help you no matter how serious your needs become!

    * knows your darkest secret, your every thought, and yet thinks highly of you

    * can always be with you, no matter where you are, the moment you want your partner

    * will forever love you with a love so great and that it always thrills and satisfies you

    * always brings the best out of you, enabling you to reach the highest of which you are capable.

    You need a Lover who won’t leave you

       Jesus IS that person       

 

God will fulfill your life in ways no human can.  God describes Him wanting you as His own bride. He beloved. 

 

          You believe in God? Great! But just believing in someone does not make you married to them.  If you are married you probably decided that your  wife / husband was the one you would marry but until you made that commitment and said the marriage vows you were not married.

Joint Property

True marriage believes in someone so completely that you give all that you are, and all that you have, to that person for life. Your Maker is eager to do that for you, but for marriage to work, both partners must do this.

    If a street kid married a millionaire, she would get his riches and he would get her debts. He would take on her shame and she would gain his honor. For this to happen, she must turn from other men and join herself and her few possessions to this man in marriage. Everything he owns would become hers, if she lets everything of hers become his.

    Similarly, if we give to God everything we have – our time, abilities, friendships, and everything we own – he will flood us with a generosity that only God can show. We hand over to Jesus the shameful things we have done, giving up even our favorite sin. It becomes his. That’s what killed him. In return, Jesus’ sinless perfection becomes ours, so that we can enjoy the closest friendship with the Holy God.

    By becoming one with God, we give God the right to do whatever he likes with everything we own, but the Owner of the universe makes his riches available to us. We trade our abilities, for his unlimited power; our attempts to run our lives, for his unlimited wisdom. We give him our time on earth and he gives us eternity.

    In every way you gain from God’s offer and he loses. But God is in love with you. He wants this holy union more than you can imagine. Do not make him sad by holding back.

    A marriage made in heaven. The following is like a wedding in which you give yourself to the Lord, and so make him your God. In turn, the King of kings makes you worthy to become spiritually one with him, and he promises to give himself completely to you.

    If the following describes your feelings, you can make it your prayer by reading it to God.

 

    Prayer of Acceptance of God’s Proposal

    Dear God, It hurts to admit how bad I’ve been. Even though I have caused you sorrow, you sent your Son who gave his life and defeated death so that you could treat me as if I had never done a wrong thing in my life. You have given yourself totally for me and I long to return your great love, by pleasing you with all I have. I take you to be my God from this day on. I will love, honor and obey you. I yield to your loving protection and guidance. I surrender my sins to you, giving up even those sins I like. And in return I receive your pardon (forgiveness) and purity and your power to live a life worthy of you.

    Thank you that we have now begun a friendship so close and so powerful that not even death can break it.

    The Lord of heaven and earth knows your secret thoughts. If you prayed the full prayer honestly, you have entered a new spiritual world. That’s hard to believe. Everything seems the same. But not from heavens view. Your life-changing ‘marriage’ has begun.

    The proof lies not in your feelings (such as whether you feel guilty or happy), but in the honesty of the Holy God. He has given his word (in the Bible) that whoever turns from sin and looks to Jesus to be made clean, has a totally new future. God is no liar!

    If this is the first time you have sincerely offered such a prayer, you need further support immediately.  Contact a Bible teaching church immediately because they are God’s side of the family, the in-laws you join when you married God.

 

Romans 5:8  Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This demonstrates God's love for us.

 

  Jn.15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends

 

1Jn.3:16 ¶ This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

 

Eph.5:2 and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

 

Romans 8:31-35  What can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us?  [32] God didn't spare his own Son but handed him over {to death} for all of us. So he will also give us everything along with him.  [33] Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? God has approved of them.  [34] Who will condemn them? Christ has died, and more importantly, he was brought back to life. Christ has the highest position in heaven. Christ also intercedes for us.  [35] What will separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love?

 

Eph. 2:4-5 But God is rich in mercy because of his great love for us.  [5] We were dead because of our failures, but he made us alive together with Christ. (It is God's kindness that saved you.)

 

1 John 4:9-10 God has shown us his love by sending his only Son into the world so that we could have life through him. [10] This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins.

 

1 John 4:16 we have known and believed that God loves us. God is love. Those who live in God's love live in God, and God lives in them.