I have loved you, but you ask "How have You loved us?" (Malachi 1:2), as the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. The Father loves Me and has given all things into my hand (John 3:35). The Father and I are one (John 10:30).
I invite you to abide {accept or act in accordance with; continue without fading or being lost} in my love (John 15:9). If you keep my commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love (John 15:10). You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I chose you so that you should go and bear fruit, fruit that should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father for in My name, He will give it to you (John 15:16). And if the Father did not spare Me, but gave Me up for you all, how will He not also with Me graciously give you all things? (Romans 8:32) I have not forgotten you. Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:15-16). I will not forget you for my great name's sake, because it pleased me to make you mine (1 Samuel 12:22). I will not abandon you (Psalm 16:10). I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you - this is why I ask you to make sure your character is free from the love of money, and that you are content with what you have - ME (Hebrews 13:5). I loved you first (1 John 4:19). I want to make my dwelling {place of residence} with you, and walk among you (Leviticus 26:11-12). Nothing can separate you from My love - not death, not rulers, not the past, not the future - nothing (Romans 8:38-39). This is my commandment, that you love others as I have loved you. (John 15:12) Because if anyone has the world's goods and sees someone in need, yet closes their heart toward them, how does God's love abide in him? (1 John 3:17) By this you will know that you abide in Me, and Me in you, because I have given you my Spirit (1 John 4:13). I am waiting for you. I long {yearning desire} to be gracious to you and to show you compassion (Isaiah 30:18). When I ate my last supper on earth, I said, "I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine {wine} until that day when I drink it new with you in the Father's kingdom (Matthew 26:29). Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy {meet the expectations, needs, and desires; to fulfill}? Listen to me, eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food (Isaiah 55:2). I am the Bread of Life, whoever comes to me will not hunger, and whoever believes in me will not thirst (John 6:35). The bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh (John 6:51). The cross was me saying, this is my body, broken for you (I Corinthians 11:24). So if you are thirsty, come to Me and drink (John 7:37). My steadfast {firm, unwavering} love endures {suffers patiently, remains} forever (Psalm 89:28).
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