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Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.<\/span>
\nGive thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever.<\/span>
\nGive thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever.<\/span>
\nPsalms 136:1-3<\/span><\/p>\n

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This repeated refrain ‘His love endures forever<\/em><\/span>‘ teaches us that God’s love is the foundation for all His actions on our behalf and the fountainhead of all our thanksgiving. \u00a0His love includes His mercy, \u00a0His faithfulness, and His kindness. \u00a0God, by His nature, is good. \u00a0We are seeing His love always. \u00a0He sent His Son to die for us (John 3:16). \u00a0All for His love for us—the love that endures forever<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
\nthe earth is full of His unfailing love.
\nPsalm 33:5<\/p>\n

Being full of His unfailing love<\/em> means not ever reaching a point of lack in all aspects of life because He is giving Himself fully to us. \u00a0It is only \u00a0when we realize this kind of love and meditate on this kind of love that we appreciate how deep the Father’s love is for us, how incredibly vast beyond measure.<\/p>\n

Our God loves us with all His heart. \u00a0Let us reciprocate by loving Him, \u00a0too, with our inner being. \u00a0Let us not live a life that displeases Him but rather a life that is set on pleasing Him.<\/p>\n

Some people depend on chariots, substituting other gods for the One True God. \u00a0Remember God is the only One who is good.<\/p>\n

“Why do you ask Me about what is good?” Jesus replied.
\n“There is only One who is good.
\nIf you want to enter life, obey the commandments.
\nMatthew 19:17<\/p>\n

I just love how He loves us all! Even those that are living in sin He still loves them because He created them. \u00a0However there is judgement to them that are not in Christ Jesus. And those that are in Christ Jesus they testify of His love that endures forever<\/em><\/span>\u00a0for they shall not be judged and so the joys shall never cease.<\/p>\n

Therefore let us choose, brethren, to live a life that pleases the Lord. We should love Him for He first loved us. \u00a0We should also exercise the same love and goodness to others for we are created in His own image and likeliness. \u00a0There has to be no difference.<\/p>\n

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Father, we give You all the praise and all the glory for You are the great God, the ‘I AM who I AM,’ the all-knowing and always present God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth. \u00a0The earth is full of Your lovingkindness, dear Lord, and so we worship You. \u00a0Heavenly father, thank You for showing us Your goodness and mercy that endures forever in Your Scripture. \u00a0We love You and adore You; and thank You for the love that is given to us. \u00a0We pray for forgiveness for at times we have taken Your love for granted. \u00a0Teach us to appreciate Your love more and more. \u00a0And to love others and do good to them. \u00a0We adore You and give You thanks; in Jesus’ name we have prayed. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the God of gods. His love endures forever. Give thanks to the Lord of lords: His love endures forever. Psalms 136:1-3 *\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 * This repeated refrain ‘His love endures forever‘ teaches us that God’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":22736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3020],"tags":[3188,3367,1287,425,3737,9686,566,9178,9175,9646,3174,9618],"class_list":["post-28715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotions","tag-ann-mwafulirwa","tag-daily-devotions-2","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-gods-goodness","tag-gods-love-endures-forever","tag-john-316","tag-matthew-1917","tag-psalm-335","tag-psalms-1361-3","tag-seeking-him-devotional","tag-thanksgiving-devotions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/seekingHimthanksgivinggraphic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7t9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28715"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28718,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28715\/revisions\/28718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}