Think On It!
Excerpt From My Groomsman’s Journal
Peace: Week 1
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared from of old to me [Israel], saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you and continued My faithfulness to you.
Amplified Bible (AMP) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Groomsman Thoughts By Kimberlymac
- God loves me with an everlasting love. Lovingkindness draws me to Him and by continued faithfulness, He keeps loving me!
- Overcoming Courage- Never ending peace is found in His everlasting love.
- He purposely chose to love me with a strong, enduring love, a passion that knocks the fleshly self will right out of me and causes me to desire only Him.
- A hard hitting love, that is His love and it impacts me forcefully, changing my direction from I to Him!
Hebrews 12:4-11
11In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children? My dear child, don't shrug off God's discipline, but don't be crushed by it either. It's the child he loves that he disciplines;the child he embraces, he also corrects.
God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live? While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best. At the time, discipline isn't much fun. It always feels like it's going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it's the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.
The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
Groomsman Thoughts By Kimberlymac
- True love does not give up when corrected, tested or tried, it only grows stronger in wisdom, more submitted in forthrightness, willess in mind and courageous in action.
- I love this verse because it clearly with great clarity tells me that God will do what is best for me. There is no God like our God! AWE!
1 John 4:7-14 God's Love and Ours
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[a] into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[b] our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
Groomsman Thoughts By Kimberlymac
- Jesus=A sacrifice of Life to Life that I might receive Life and His Love and Live through it!
- God loved me with a sacrificial love, a hard hitting, impactive-active love with His intent proposed to reproduce in me the same kind of true love that was found in His Son, Jesus Christ! His love has impactive repercussion on my natural flesh, so that it is able to run its full course in me; habitually bringing me about face each day as I again visage my own wants, mindsets, willfulness and soulish desires and then willessly and purposely lay them down, once again choosing His life, not I but Him!
- Each day, The Love of Jesus Christ with it’s impactive repercussion creates in me a clean heart, pure in motives and decisive in decision to once again, this day decide to walk in His love and obey God His Father; an impactive repercussion connection that creates and writes my life-story testifying to all I meet, every day of my life, of a powerful faith message that carries with it Impactive Repercussion by His Holy Spirit from heaven to earth as it is from now unto forever!
- True love, the kind of devotion witnessed in the life of Jesus Christ, is always connected to sacrifice of self, the laying down of the human nature and the rising up of supernatural redemptive character that is demonstrated again and again through the death of will and wants laid at the foot of the cross in complete abandonment to Jesus Christ! Therefore, a full circle of impactive repercussion occurs again from life to life from now unto forever and it bears-wears the name: Christian!
- Christian, such as I am, therefore I love with God’s True Love, first demonstrated to me through Jesus Christ! Yes, I have experienced the True Love of Jesus Christ and it is an impactive repercussion that collides with my spirit with a forceful effect of courageous passion and selfless love, stimulating my human strength with an endurance that surpasses all things impossible in my life-path and emulating perseverance through my belief in God!
- His Truest Love impacts my faithfulness with such a heavenly repercussion, that I am able to move past my natural soulish affection to the supernaturally designed True Love; a devotion that is always bound in the sacrifice of self will and ever laid on an altar of selflessness, forfeiting all that is natural and subsequently springing forward a miraculous redeeming adoration–impactive repercussion.
- I can walk through my life path and no matter what situations suddenly pop up to barricade me from the love of God, I can have by His Holy Spirit, a courageous passion, an ardent selfless, servants love that stimulates my human strength with joyful endurance and has the ability to withstand the heat of personal betrayal and also, be able to persevere through the tests of extremely hard seasons of life and I can have all this without God’s destined dreams and visions for me being back stepped into a dead end!
- Impactive repercussion enforces my mind with the intentions of Jesus, stretching my thoughts past my natural mind sets into God’s unseen supernatural understanding; consequently saturating my souls natural tendency to rationalize, reason, and doubt with God’s unseen perception; His supernatural insight that fortifies my trust with His hope that springs eternal, and His peace that continuously and steadfastly leaps over all the strongholds, all the walls of impossibility and lands in the promise terrain of the Mind of Christ! God originally destined His Promises to be an impactive repercussion on my heart, that I might live out my life issues with the thoughts of Jesus Christ motivating, manipulating and driving my passions to right living.
- His True love is an incredible impactive repercussion in my life from season to season and because of it’s relational-salvational contact with me, I am able to persevere from faith to faith and my life is endowed in the living legacy of the victory provided in my Christian inheritance through His righteousness that impacts my personal soul with His fidelity, creating in me an undivided heart in Holy Alliance with Jesus, in full allegiance to Almighty God and protected eternally under the Advocacy of the Holy Spirit! Yes I am in an impactive repercussion, a relationship shocked and awed by God’s True Love! Heart–to–heart and Spirit-to-spirit!
- I Am secured forthrightly in the position of His Glorious Grace. Yes, I am unmoved by this world, firmly anchored in God’s Truth through His True Love, a devotion paid forward for me by Jesus Christ, His Son with an impactive repercussion of God’s mercy! Yes, I am able to run the race of this world, pressing His Love forward as I pass the baton to the next runner and see the race continued with a servant’s heart devotion focused on the Kingdom of God as each runner redeemed through impactive repercussion, selflessly runs the race to win with an impacting faith from servant to servant unto the finish line!