Seriously, I dont think I've ever been more certain of God's love for me. He has just been so faithful to continue to prove it over and over. And really He doesnt even need to! I know He loves me, but I love that He's showing me just how much. I must say, I've never felt more loved in my life!
There have been several times that He's proved it to me just in the past week. One time was during our 48 hour prayer. I was up from 3:30am - 6am and I heard God tell me make tea so we could have a tea party!!! It was so nice, I sat there sipping my tea and talking to God. He knows I like tea parties so He wanted to do something with me that I enjoy! How great is that.
Then the other night, I was going to bed and I always listen to my ipod to go to sleep. Well I put my playlist on and set it to shuffle the songs. Well even when I put it on shuffle I end up getting picky about what I want to listen to, but I was also didnt feel like changing it. So I asked God if He would be my dj. He said "Sure! What would you like to listen to next?". So I told Him the song "Arms Wide Open". Well the song I was currently listening to ended and what song do you think came on next???? Yup, thats right! ARMS WIDE OPEN!! I immediately just started half laughing half crying! Then I heard Him say "You didnt think I would really do it did you?". He's right, I didnt really think He would and I told Him that. He went on to tell me that He loves me that much that He wanted to do what I asked Him to. Even if it was as simple as playing the song I wanted to hear next to fall asleep. He's amazing and I love Him a ton.
BUT THATS NOT ALL!!! For the next story I first have to rewind to when I was 15. When I was in youth group at my church, my youth pastor introduced us to something called "Listening Prayers". It's a way to learn how to practice hearing the voice of God. So we sat in a circle and my youth pastor told us to ask God to give us an object that He see's us as. So we did that and God told me 2 things but i'll only mention the one for now. God told me that I was a pineapple! So we went around and shared what God had given us. After that, we went back to God and asked Him why He thinks of us as that object. When I asked God that question He told me it was b/c I have a sweet inside but I had some rough edges that I needed to cut off before people could access it! I've always really remembered that time. It really impacted me! I treasure that conversation with God so much!
So the other day after our teacher (who was with us over skype due to the fact that he was in India) asked his team to pray for us after he was finished teaching. The first girl stuck her face in the camera and pointed me out and said she got a picture of me with a PINEAPPLE! I went on to cut up the pineapple and I was just super excited about it and I had pineapple all over my face and I was surrounded by pineapples and was just loveing it!!! Last time I was the pineapple, but this time God was the pineapple. It was so cool. :)
I could really go on and on about how good God has been to me lately. I know He's always good but lately He's been like exceptionally good!!! I'm loving it!!! So much!!
Love this post! You can just feel your love for God!
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