By: Elsa Salazar

Elsa Salazar — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 07:12:17 +0000

God’s Love is indeed amazing and He is lavishly gracious.
I truly believed that He caused a situation in my life so that I could seek Him and seek Him with all my heart.
“Then shall you call upon Me, and you shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you.”
“And you shall seek Me and find Me, when you shall search for Me with all your heart”
(Jeremiah 29:12-13).
It all started when I prayed for my sister’s healing and I noticed as if my prayers were not going anywhere. As if they were bouncing back to me. So I asked Him; “Where are You Lord? You seem so far away.” Are You even listening to me? I was so frustrated that night.
Weeks, maybe months, had passed, I just finished attending a mass at my parish church but I stayed behind for the first time to join the ladies for a rosary and a novena. In the middle of them praying, this verse came to mind.
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind” (Matt. 22:37).
And similar to your testimony, I thought of my husband, when we were still singles. How he was always in my heart, and in my mind. I always wanted to talk to him and listen to his voice, and be with him. And I thought of God, of this verse. And I blurted out, “ I don’t know if I love You Lord.” “ I don’t think I love You.” “ I don’t love You, and if You don’t teach me how to love You, then I am sorry because I don’t know how.” And with that I left and stayed in my car for a very long time, crying, because I don’t love the Lord and I don’t know how.
And He taught me how to love Him through His Word. He slowly revealed Himself to me as I continue to read my Bible. I learned to love His Word. And in loving and treasuring His Word, I begin to love and treasure Jesus in my life. He is my first love. Matt.22:37 became real to me. I am living it without a doubt. I love Him because He loved me first. I have encountered Jesus, the Savior and Lord of my soul, I am saved by grace alone through faith in Christ Jesus. I repented of my sin and I was reconciled back to the Father through the death of His Son for while I was still a sinner and while I was still His enemy, He died for me. I am now a new creature in Christ Jesus.
I am now attending a Christian church that preaches and teaches nothing but the truth of the Word of God.
“O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together”.
I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears” (Ps. 34:3-4)

By: Ijtsuri

Ijtsuri — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 02:54:27 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this article, specially reading it now for the first time in this situation I am passing thru ….God Bless you!

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