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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by receiving God's love for us.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Okay, well love is in the air. We just recently celebrated Valentine's Day

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and I felt like the Lord over the weekend brought me back to this very profound,

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mind-blowing truth that's so simple I think we might miss it sometimes.

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So I want to read a few scriptures over you first. In John chapter 3 verse 16,

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you may be familiar with this scripture, it says,

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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him

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shall not perish but have eternal life. And then I want to take you over to Romans chapter 5

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in verse 8, it says this, it says, But God demonstrates his own love for us in this,

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while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And then the last scripture I want to read

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is in first John chapter 4 verse 9 where it says, This is how God showed his love among us.

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He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him.

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Okay, so here's the truth that the Lord pricked my heart with this weekend.

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You are the focus of God's love. I don't want you to miss it, so I'm going to say it again

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so it can sink in. You, yes you, are the focus of God's love. If you have been told or taught

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that you are the focus of God's wrath, or his judgment, or his disappointment,

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or that you are the object of his regret, you have been lied to because you are the focus

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of God's love. You are the focus of his affection. You know, he created us humans not to be slaves,

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but to be his children. He wanted family, so he made us. And he created this world we live in

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not to be a prison, but to be a paradise in which he could lavish his love and affection on us

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and have a real authentic relationship with us. And back in Genesis when all of that was

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threatened by a deception of our enemy Satan, our savior Jesus gave himself to re-establish

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this truth in our hearts by demonstrating with his very life that God is love, and we are the

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focus of his love. So this is what I want to encourage you with today. Don't let the enemy's

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deception strip away this truth from you again. It's already been stolen from humanity once,

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and it's been re-established, and it's for us to remain in. We need to remain in this truth. We

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need to receive God's love every day. You are the focus of God's love. Don't be tempted to live

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under anything less than that. Don't be tempted to believe his love is for everyone else but you.

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I want to encourage you to receive his love for you today by living exclusively in this truth.