WEEK 9

TIMELESS TREASURES

GOD IS LOVE (Part 2)

By Sandra Clifton, D.Min.

 

Begin your study by reading “God is Love” by Evangeline Cory Booth (SpiritLed Woman magazine, Aug/Sept, 2007).

 

Introduction

If you ever want to know how much God loves you, just read His Word. Think of His sacrifice for you before you knew or acknowledged Him. The more you read His Word, the more you are sure to get blessed by His message of love for you.

After all, it is a love story—of His love for you, with redemption and eternal life offered to you through Jesus Christ, the Son! After reading His Word, you will want to tell others—so they can get blessed by God’s great love for them!

 

What God Says

Read Matt. 7:11-12.

 

Write it out.

 

Deeper Insight

Read the following Scriptures (in New King James Version, as the exercises to follow will be based on that). Make brief notes of what each Scripture is saying about God’s love for you.

 

Matt. 7:11-12:____________________________________________________

 

Matt. 14:14: ______________________________________________________

 

John 3:16-17:_____________________________________________________

 

Rom. 8:35: _______________________________________________________

Application

Below are three Scriptures with the theme of God’s love for you. Fill in the blanks with the correct word (taken from Deeper Insight section, using the NKJV). Look up each Scripture to see how you did and memorize each one. Put them on note cards or into your computer (as a screen saver). Get these truths of God’s love for you in you, and get blessed in new ways as you carry His powerful reminders of His love for you through out your day! Share them with others and bless them as well!

 

Matt. 7:11: “ If you then, being ___, know how to ____ good gifts to your _______, how much more will your ______ who is in ______ give good ______ to those who ____ Him!”

 

John 3:17: “For _____ did not _____ His _____ into the ______ to _________ the world, but that the _____ through ____ might be ______.”

 

Rom. 8:35: Who shall _________ us from the ____ of God? Shall tribulation, or _______, or persecution, or ______, or _______, or peril, or _____?”

 

For Group Study

Begin your group time by reading aloud Matt. 7:11. Discuss among the group what all this Scripture verse means—and how it has applied to them and their families. Encourage testimonies.

            Close the group session in prayer, thanking the Lord for His mercy and goodness. And give Him praise for His love, that it is unconditional and eternal!

 

Prayer

Memorize Matthew 7:11. Read it aloud as part of your prayer. Thank the Lord for His goodness and love and ever-abiding presence in your life. Thank Him for His promise to give you what you need and in such loving ways! Praise Him for meeting your every need and for performing the miracles you so need! Close your prayer with thankfulness that His love and grace abound and fill your life completely, giving you newfound peace and joy and assurance that all of your needs are met.