Esther Carter
“Words of Life”
I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness…. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life…. How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God….
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us…. God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit…. God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us….
This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins…. You are precious and honoured in my sight and I love you….
He tends his flock like a shepherd: he gathers the lambs into his arms and carries them close to his heart…. With everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you…. My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed….
But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.
PRAYER Lord Jesus, thank you that you took my place on the Cross. I believe that because you took the punishment for my sin, I can have a relationship with you. I ask you to forgive me for all my sin, past and present, that separate me from you. And I invite you to be a part of my life and the Lord of my life. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Jesus was despised and rejected – a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down… He was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s path to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. (taken from Isaiah 53 v 1-6 NLT)
Psalm 103 verses 2-5 Praise the Lord, all my soul, and forget not all his benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
1 Corinthians 11 verses 23-24 For what I received from the Lord, I also passed onto you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”
1 Corinthians 11 verses 25-26 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
1 John 1 verse 7b The blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
1 John 1 verse 7b The blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. Revelation 1 verse 5 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood… to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 1 verse 7 In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 1 verse 7 In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Hebrews 10 verse 19 We have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus.
Romans 5 verse 9 We have now been justified by his blood.
Revelation 12 verse 11 They (the believers) overcame him (the enemy) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. “Words of Life”
Medley of verses on love taken from: Jeremiah 31 verse 3 Isaiah 43 verse 4 John 3 verse 16 Isaiah 40 verse 11 1 John 3 verse 1 and 16 Isaiah 54 verse 8 and 10 Romans 5 verse 5 and 8 Psalm 86 verse 15 1 John 4 verse 9-10
“Words of Life”