YOU WERE PLANNED FOR GOD'S PLEASURE!
You,God,...created everything
and it is for Your pleasure that they
exist and were created.
PEVELATION 4:11 NLT
The Bible says that God is love. It doesn't say God has love. It says God is love. Love is the essence of his character. God created you as you as an object of his love. You were made to be loved by God——that's your number one purpose.
Long before he laid down earth's foundations, God had us in mind,had settled on us as the focus of his love,to be made whole and holy by his love.
EPHESIANS 1:4 THE MESSAGE
Because of his love God had already decided that through Jesus Christ he would make us his children—this was his pleasure and purpose.
EPHESIANS 1:5 TEV
We know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God,and God in him.
1JOHN 4:16 NIV
The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us.
ROMANS 12:3 THE MESSAGE
No mere man has ever seen,heard or even imagined what wonderful things God has ready for those who love the Lord.
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9 LB
The LORD be exalted,who delight in the well-being of his servant.
PSALM 35:27 NIV
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
PSALM 103:13 NIV
God didn’t need to love you. He wasn’t lonely.He didn’t need servants.He wasn’t bored.God created humans because he wanted to love us.We were planned for his pleasure.
The LORD takes pleasure in his people.
PSAM 149:4 NASB
God takes pleasure in those who honor Him; in those who trust in His constant love.
PSALM 147:11 TEV
The steps of the godly are directed by the LORD.He delights in every detail of their lives.
PSALLM 37:23 NLT
The LORD brought me out into a spacious place;he rescued me because he delight in me.
PSALM 18:19 NIV
If the LORD delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm.
PSALM 37:23 NIV
May the glory of the LORD endure forever;may the LORD rejoice in his works.
PSALM 104:31 NIV
Smile on me, your servant, God; Teach me the right way to live.
PSALM 119:135 THE MESSAGE
God's wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes.You don’t find it lying around on the surface.It’s not the latest message,but more like the oldest——what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us,long before we ever arrived the scene.
1 CORINTHIANS 2:7 THE MESSAGE
God made us in his image.That means that we are unlike anything else in all of creations. We alone were given the capacity to know God and to love him and to have him know and love us in return.
God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him;male and female he created them.
GENESIS 1:27 NIV
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth. … And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything,because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.From one man he made every nation of men,that they should inhabit the whole earth;and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.”For in him we live and move and have our being.”
ACTS 17:24-28 NIV
I am your Creator.
You were in my care even before you were born.
ISAIAH 44:2 CEV