{"id":779,"date":"2008-10-09T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2008-10-09T13:20:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T18:20:15","slug":"his-covenant-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/his-covenant-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"His Covenant of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scripture: Nehemiah 1:5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Observation:<\/strong> God loves us. The great and awesome god who created this earth loves us&#8230; and wants us to love him back and obey his commands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Application:<\/strong> All I have to do is love him and do my best at keeping his commands and God loves me right back. The creator of the universe doesn&#8217;t just put up with me, or know me. He LOVES me and wants good things for me. And all he asks is I follow his commands and love him back. And he even built forgiveness into the program, knowing that we would have missteps in trying to follow his commands. That&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer:<\/strong> Lord, thank you for loving me, and for this reminder that your love is always present. Please guide me in acting out of love for you&#8230; and help my actions be pure. Thank you for the changes you have made in my life&#8230; and the changes that are yet to come. Please continue to mold me as I strive to follow your commands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Nehemiah 1:5 Then I said: &#8220;O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands, Observation: God loves us. The great and awesome god who created this earth loves us&#8230; and wants us to love him back and obey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}