1.12.24 • God Chose YOU

”Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.“
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭1‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Episode Transcript

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Good morning, affirmation, family,Welcome to your new day. This is
the day that the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad
in it. I believe that Godhas something in store for you today as

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you walk with him. How doI know well, It says in the
word seek me, search me diligently, and it is a promise that you
will find God. There's a promisethat we're looking at in scripture today,

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and it is what we declared overour lives, even from yesterday in Ephesians
chapter one, verses four through five. And I know that God is bringing
us to this passage again today becauseHe has a word for us to carry

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within our hearts, within our spirits, that He doesn't just want us to
go move on and forget what Hehas done. How he has chosen us
lost you. God doesn't want usto think for one second that we have

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been forgotten. He doesn't one secondwant us to think that we were not
chosen, that we were not handpicked and selected me to the end of
life. So I'm there has beenjust when in Ephesian's one, verses four

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and five, it says, evenbefore he made the world, God loved
us and chose us in Christ tobe holy and without fault in his eyes.

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God decided in advance to adopt usinto his own family by bringing us
to himself through Jesus Christ. Thisis what he wanted to do, and

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it gave him great pleasure. Hewasn't forced to do it. It gave
him great pleasure to adopt you.It gave him great pleasure to welcome you
in. Despite what you think,God wants you. The perfect love comes

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ross extreme side. Go side,you beg I cans, so we will

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declare. God decided in advance toadopt me into his family by bringing me
to himself through Jesus Christ. Hewanted to adopt me. I want you

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to declare this out of your mouth. He wanted to adopt me. Jesus
accepted me before the world began throughJesus Christ. I am loved by the
creator of the world. I wantyou to put your name in there and

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repeat after me, this is howloved you are. Even before God made
the world, God loved Keela.Put your name. Even before God made
the world, God loved Hannah.Even before God made the world, God

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loved John. Even before God madethe world, God loved me and chose
you in Christ Jesus to be holyand without fault in his eyes. God
decided in advance to adopt you meKeuela, into his own family by bringing

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you to himself through Jesus Christ.He said, he doesn't want to be
separated from you. He says,he doesn't want to be separated from you,
so he found a way. Hefound a way through Jesus. This
is what he wanted to do.It brought him great pleasure to adopt Quela,

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to adopt you. So I praiseGod for the glorious grace he has
poured out on us who belonged tohis dear son. Because God's grace is
upon us, that means that hedoesn't see us in the way that we

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should be seen. Because God's graceis upon us, that means that we
are supposed to be down in aplace that we are deserving of our pride
and our sin and all of ourfailures and iniquities. But God said,
because of my son Jesus, Iwant you close to me. I want

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you near me because I chose youeven before the world began. I selected
you even before the world began.I knew you and I called you to
me, I adopted you, andit gave me great pleasure. It gave

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me great pleasure. I can't stopreading because the scripture goes on, but

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we will continue tomorrow. I wasabout to go for it, but God
said, just wait. This isso good, and it's so good that
we are filling our minds with thistruth. Because whether you're listening to this
at the end of the year,beginning of the year, we are at
the beginning of twenty twenty four.And one thing that people think is they

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make goals, they make plans,and that's what determines their course, that's
what determines their way. But withoutknowing who you are, without knowing the
love of God that you carry,it doesn't matter how many plans that you
make. There's only so far somebodycan go if they know or they don't

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know the love of God. Ifyou don't know the way that you are
loved, you cannot go far areAnd God wants you to know that you
are loved intimately. Intimately. Ilove you, guys, and I will
see you tomorrow.