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Encouraging Words
This page is exclusively designed for the children of God (who are those who sincerely believe in Jesus). This page is designed to let believers know that God loves them no matter what circumstance they may find themselves in. That He cares for them dearly and how nothing or no one can ever separate them from His love.
Here below are spiritual key facts to remember children of God, these are key facts to meditate on in your walk with the Lord.
- God knew you way before you were even in your mothers' womb! And He loves you more than you can ever fathom (Psalm 22:9-10) (John 3:16) (1 John 3:1) (1 John 4:9-10) (Romans 5:8).
- God already knew you would believe in His Son Jesus and He has made you His very own child (John 1:12) (1 Peter 1:1-3).
- Because you have repented of your sins by placing your faith in Jesus Christ for salvation you are a child of the living God and nothing can ever separate you from his love (John 1:12) (John 3:16) (John 10:28-30) (Romans 8:35-39).
- We are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:37)!
- The scriptures say that no one who has faith in Him will be disappointed (Romans 10:11).
- I am sure that what we are suffering now cannot compare with the glory that will be shown to us (Romans 8:18).
- Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O LORD, have never abandoned anyone who searches for you (Psalm 9:10).
(John 20:29)
29Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
John 11:25 (NLT)
25Jesus told her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die like everyone else, will live again.
1 John 5:11-13 (NLT)
11And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12So whoever has God's Son has life; whoever does not have his Son does not have life.
Conclusion
13 I write this to you who believe in the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.
Romans 8:14-39 (NLT)
14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
15So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family--calling him "Father, dear Father." 16For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. 17And since we are his children, we will share his treasures--for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too. But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering.
The Future Glory
18Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later. 19For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse. 21All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us. 24Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don't need to hope for it. 25But if we look forward to something we don't have yet,
we must wait patiently and confidently.
26And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. 27And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. 28And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters. 30And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And he gave them right standing with himself, and he promised them his glory.
Nothing Can Separate Us from Gods Love
31What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?
33Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself. 34Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.
35Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? 36(Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep." 37No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. 39Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (NLT)
17What this means is that those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun!
18All this newness of life is from God, who brought us back to himself through what Christ did. And God has given us the task of reconciling people to him. 19For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people's sins against them. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others. 20We are Christ's ambassadors, and God is using us to speak to you. We urge you, as though Christ himself were here pleading with you, "Be reconciled to God!" 21For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
1 Corinthians 1:17-24 (NLT)
17For Christ didn't send me to baptize, but to preach the Good News--and not with clever speeches and high-sounding ideas,
for fear that the cross of Christ would lose its power.
The Wisdom of God
18I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God. 19As the Scriptures say,
"I will destroy human wisdom
and discard their most brilliant ideas."
20So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. 21Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe. 22God's way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom. 23So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended, and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense. 24But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the mighty power of God and the wonderful wisdom of God.
Romans 5:1-10
Faith Brings Joy
1Therefore, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. 2Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory.
3We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us--they help us learn to endure. 4And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation. 5And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.
6When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7Now, no one is likely to die for a good person, though someone might be willing to die for a person who is especially good. 8But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. 9And since we have been made right in God's sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God's judgment. 10For since we were restored to friendship with God by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be delivered from eternal punishment by his life.
1 Corinthians 15:22 (NLT)
22Everyone dies because all of us are related to Adam, the first man. But all who are related to Christ, the other man, will be given new life.
1 John 3:1-3 (NLT)
Living as Children of God
1See how very much our heavenly Father loves us, for he allows us to be called his children, and we really are! But the people who belong to this world don't know God, so they don't understand that we are his children. 2Yes, dear friends, we are already God's children, and we can't even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when he comes we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. 3And all who believe this will keep themselves pure,
just as Christ is pure.
Matthew 23:12 (NLT)
12But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
1 John 5:1
Faith in the Son of God
1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.
Ephesians 1:3 (NLT)
Spiritual Blessings
3How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:9 (CEV)
9But it is just as the Scriptures say,
"What God has planned
for people who love him
is more than eyes have seen
or ears have heard.
It has never even
entered our minds!"
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