Title: Believer, You're Loved by God!
Meta: If I could pray one thing for you, I mean above everything else, if you are truly a child of God, if I could give you one gift – it would be that you would comprehend something of His love for you. It would be that – really. - Paul Washer
Tags: prayer,love,God,Christian

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If I could give you anything,

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if I could pray one thing for you.

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I mean above everything else,

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if you're truly a child of God,

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if I could give you one gift

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it would be that you would comprehend something of His love for you.

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It would be that.

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Really.

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I am tired of seeing you tired,

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I'm tired of seeing me tired.

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If you just grasp that one thing:

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He loves me.

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Immutably (unchangeable). (P)

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I will end with an illustration.

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I promise I will end.

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When I was in Peru, my first years as a single missionary.

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Practically from the moment when I was converted.

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This is going to sound all psychobabble, but I don't care, it's true.

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But when I was in school, I was never like in the "inner circle".

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Not the best athlete, not the best this, not the best that,

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and I determined that when I became a Christian...

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ya it was a fleshly desire.

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You can do your diagnosis, but please do it at home, right now just listen.

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I determined that would not happen to me in my Christian life.

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I determined that there wouldn't be this idea of

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there is Spurgeon and Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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and there all the inner circle, the guys that God really loves

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and I'm outside somewhere.

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I determined that would not happen

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and I worked 18 hours a day for years.

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And if I had a chance to go get martyred, I tried to do it,

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until the point where,

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I weigh like 225 right now I weighed about a 169 pounds.

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I killed myself, I killed myself.

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And one day on the third floor of this old building, where we took care of street kids

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and we had our church, during the war in Peru,

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it was all bombed-out and everything else

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and I slept in a little room on the third floor,

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I was going up the last little flight of stairs,

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and I collapsed

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and I said this

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I cried out, I screamed it

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“I don't want to go to hell because I, I'm afraid of hell.

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I don't want to go to heaven because I'm ashamed.

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Just put me somewhere,

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just put me somewhere.”

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It was at that moment,

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it was just a work of the Lord,

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Scripture started coming to mind, and different things.

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Yes, I realized how fleshly everything had been, and how wrong I was.

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But here's the thing,

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I recognized God loved me,

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loved me.

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That I didn't have to move to the left or the right.

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That was a thing I thought that day.

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I was sitting on the steps as looking at myself and I realized,

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I don't have to move a quarter of an inch to the left or quarter-inch to the right.

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I don't have to be a great missionary.

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I don't have to die as a martyr.

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I don't have to be a great preacher.

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I don't have to do anything

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because it is all in... it's God.

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It's in God, He did it all!

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He made the decision!

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He carries it through.

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He brings it to it's end.

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I am loved!

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What a wonderful release,

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that it's just Him.

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It's Him.

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For every once,

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I'll take a Puritan statement and modernize it.

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“For every one glance you take yourself in the mirror,

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take 10 long looks at God

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and His love.”

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Your loved!

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This is a terrible thing about being a preacher!

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I'm trying to tell you something

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I'm trying to get something through your thick head!

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And it is this:

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God, really, really, really, does love you immutably so,

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perfectly so,

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and it is all founded upon Him!

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His person,

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His decrees,

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His work through Christ on your behalf.

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All of it, it's done!

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It's done.

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You've got to walk in that.

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You've got to keep yourselves in the love of God.

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You've got to keep thinking it.

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Believing it,

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walking in it,

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talking it.

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Fighting to believe it if necessary.

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Believe it, you're loved.

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If you're here today and you're not a Christian

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and all those things I said about the holiness of God being a wonderful joy to the believer.

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It's a terror to you.

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It's a terror.

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The only way it changes is in Christ.

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Come to Christ.

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And some of you who are so storm tossed, believers,

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you're so storm tossed,

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and afflicted,

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just...

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Oh that God would use what's said here today

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to prove to your heart and your mind

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that you aren't deeply and dearly loved.