The Love of God: God’s Plan To Save You! Part 1: How To Have Righteousness By Faith!

The Love of God: God’s Plan to Save You! Part 1: How to Have Righteousness by Faith!

By John Foll

©Copyright 2016, By John Foll

Cover painting by Bonnie Jenkins, graphics editing and book layout and design by John Foll.

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John Foll

White Raiment Evangelism

Revelation 3:18

P. O. Box 518

Russellville, AL

35653-0518

Email: WhiteRaimentEvangelism@gmail.com

Website: https://WhiteRaimentEvangelism.org

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May God richly bless you as you read this book, and learn of His wonderful love for you!

Version 2.0, 07/24/2016, updated 12/25/2016, 4/28/2019, 8/29/2019, 9/7/2019, 9/17/2019, 10/29/2019, 6/19/2021.

This book was written starting around April 2014. (4/14/2014)

The Love of God – God’s Plan To Save You series is intended to build a complete system of the essential truths of God’s love for us, or the gospel message on how to be saved, and how to please Him, and how to be happy in His love.

After you have finished reading this book, that you are now reading, that contains the essentials of what you need to know to be saved and to be happy, if you are hungry for more of this wonderful truth that God Loves you, please read the next book in this series, "The Love of God: God's Plan To Save You! Part 2: How To Become the Bride of Christ!" For more on this, see the Epilogue chapter of this book.

This book has been edited in such a way as to make it work as best as possible for audio readers in the eBook versions, to be able to listen to it being read. This opens up the electronic versions of this book for people who are blind, or have trouble reading, or for busy people who want to just listen to it while driving, walking, jogging, or working around home, etc. Sometimes you just want to relax, and not have to think too much, and just listen to an inspirational book being read. See the Epilogue Chapter for more information on this, and the recommended Phone, Tablet, or PC Book Readers to get, and why.

Acknowledgements:

This book would not have been possible without the rich blessings that God bestowed on me, which I didn’t deserve. I deeply thank God for showing me His love, and giving me the inspiration to write this book, that He put into my heart to write. Even though my name is on this book, this is really God’s book that He provided for me, and for others, to show everyone how much He loves us. The words and thoughts in this book are His, even though I had the privilege of writing down these beautiful thoughts He gave me, in my own words. As I wrote each chapter, God was leading and teaching me more of His wonderful love, to keep me from falling away from His marvelous grace. He was tenderly showing me how much He loves you and me! It was such a joy to spend the time in writing this book, thinking about how much He loves you and me! God loves you, and wants to help you get to know Him better, so that you can have all the joy and power to live a righteous life that you were meant to have, and to be forever saved. Please test to see if the words and thoughts in this book line up with the Holy Scriptures and are Spirit filled. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thessalonians 5:21 KJV, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide you into all truth. John 16:13. This book was an answer to my prayer to God, to have something to share with others, so that they too can have this wonderful joy that He wants to give us. And because I needed to study more of these truths for my own sake.

God wants everyone to know, that if they desire, they can get to know Him, and can approach His thrown of grace to receive help and mercy in time of need: to receive the gift of life from above, and get His peace, wonderful peace, and be full of His love, faith, joy and happiness, now and throughout eternity! He wants us all to have the assurance of our own salvation, if we want it, because He is able to keep us from falling, and He will forgive us if we fall, and help us back on the road to Heaven, if we want this. Our salvation that He wants to give us is ours, if we want it, and are willing to comply with His conditions.

This book will show the reader who hungers and thirsts after righteousness, how they can be filled with His love, and abundant life from above, and hopefully will inspire everyone who reads it to hunger and thirst for more of God’s love. In these troublous and perilous times that are ahead of us, God wants all of His children everywhere, and those who are not yet His children, to know the joy of His companionship, and show us how to prepare for Heaven, to go to the mansions of glory He has prepared for all who love Him. This book was produced by gathering beautiful thoughts, and wonderful truths from God's Word, to show His love for everyone in the world. This book will focus on God’s love, which is the key to everything good in this life, and the life to come.

I also want to acknowledge the prayers of my mother and father, Bonnie and Melvin, who taught me to love God and raised me with the truth of God’s gospel message. I also want to thank my wife Jeanne, who showed me the importance of moving to the country, to obey Him. It is a blessing to be surrounded by God’s creation, and commune more closely with God, with no distractions. I would also like to thank her for her suggestions for this book, and for my books in general. I would especially like to thank my mom, now Bonnie Jenkins, for painting this wonderful painting for this book’s cover, showing the Bride of Christ; showing how we can all be full of God’s love, faith, joy, and peace and to be happy! I believe that God inspired her to paint this, to provide the picture for this book to illustrate His love for us! After God, I owe the most to my Mom, who helped me to stay faithful to Him. I didn’t want to disappoint my Mom, even though I sometimes did and I was sorry later. My love for my mom helped me to stay on track with God. And I want to acknowledge my stepdad, David Jenkins for taking care of my mom, and being there for me too, and helping me through college. I would also like to thank my friends, Lucais and Ainsley for all the help they provided my wife and I, as we moved to the country, in order to obey God’s voice and to prepare us to serve Him. I would also like to thank my friend Peter for his help in moving to the country too. And I would like to thank all the people in my life over the years that helped me.

And I want to thank you, dear reader, for the opportunity to share with you God’s love! It makes my heart so happy to know that God is giving me this wonderful privilege of showing you how much He loves you! Oh what joy!

Dedication:

This book is dedicated to God and to people everywhere: in every faith, and for those who have no faith, who want to be happy; who really want to get to know God; who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled with His love!

Table of Contents

Published By

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 For God So Loved The World That He Gave His Only Son: Being Born Again

2 The Lamb of God That Takes Away The Sin of The World!

3 More On the New Birth

4 Become White As Snow: Confession and Forgiveness

5 Faith Is The Substance of Things Hoped For: Righteousness By Faith

6 The Prayer of Faith: Enables You To Get Answers To Prayer and the Victory!

7 Giving Up Addictions And Sin: God Gives You The Power To Have A Righteous Life!

8 When You Give Your Heart Completely To God, Then You Belong To Him! Be Filled With The Holy Spirit

Epilogue

Appendix A: The Lamb with 7 Eyes, the 7 Spirits and the 7 Churches

Appendix B: Charts of God’s Plan For Your Life

Appendix C: Sample Prayers For Spiritual Life

Bibliography Acknowledgments

This Book Will Show You

Introduction:

Discover the Beautiful Truth That God Loves You and Has a Plan to Save You!

When you read this book, you will discover the essential truths of God’s plan to save you: how to be happy, and have great peace, love, and joy! Knowing how much God loves you is the key to everything good in this life, and if you wish, the life to come. It is easy to get all of these blessings and more from God, if you will just get to know Him. God loves you, and will take care of you, and will give you the assurance you need to know that He is saving you. He will help you to be free from your guilt, and will help keep you from worrying about your life and future, and then you will be free to be happy. Is this what you want? God will give this to you and more, if you want it! May your life be richly blessed by God, as you read this book, and learn about how much He loves you! This is my prayer for you.

Have You Given Your Heart To God?

Are you a believer in His love yet? Or you just hopeful that this book can help you to find a better life with peace, love, joy and happiness? I hope that if you have never given your heart to God, or are missing the essential ingredients of His peace, love, joy, happiness, or any of the other blessings that God wants to provide you, that you will read this whole book, and meditate on His love again, and again for you, until you see it, and believe fully in His love to save you, and receive these blessings! God truly loves you, and this book will show you how much He loves you, and how you might get this everlasting happiness for yourself! This is what most people really want, even if they don’t know it, and don’t know how to get. Most people just want to be happy, and have different ideas on how to be happy. But no real love or happiness can ever be found outside of God, for God is love. 1 John 4:8. Please pray and study this book until you see how much God loves you! This is the answer to your soul’s innermost desire. We were all created with this need for God to take care of us, to help us through this life and to make us happy, and we will never be complete, until we realize our need for Him, and give our heart to Him completely. Don’t stop praying about and studying God’s love and plan to save you contained in the Bible and this book, until He gives you your heart’s innermost desire. It is my prayer that you will learn of God’s love, and that you will receive His promised blessings of a new life with Him, and that your whole life will forever change for the better.

Do You Remember What It Was Like When You First Gave Your Heart To God?

Dwell on the rich theme of God's love for you; dwell on this subject night and day. Seek the Lord again, that you may be found of Him. Don’t let your love for Him grow dim. You need your first love experience with Him every day, because there are disappointments, hurt, and pain in this world that are trying to take you down, and take away your happiness. And every day it’s a battle against your sinful nature, and the evil without that would destroy you. Dwell much on God's love; don't be discouraged, but be warmed by His love! Pray that God will restore you to the first love you had for Him again, if you lost it, or give it to you if you never had it before, so that your joy will be full!

God has been so wonderful to me, more than I could ever deserve, when He forever changed my life with His love. My desire is that everyone could experience the joy and happiness that God has given me! He showed me how much He cared for me when He gave me His precious Holy Spirit, filling my heart with His love. This has been the most wonderful experience in my entire life! God’s love has completely broken my heart; He strengthened me and gave me His peace, love, joy, faith, hope and happiness. I no longer want anything but His wonderful presence in my heart, guiding me, protecting me, and saving me. If I want anything else, it comes after this, for I would trade everything I have in order to keep His precious love; I want His love above all else. At first I thought I was writing a book about Righteousness By Faith, then later I thought it was about How To Get The Holy Spirit, but then I discovered that the book that I was writing was really a story about God’s love for us! God’s love is supreme, and because of this love, He wants to supply you with all the gifts you need to be happy, now and forever, including peace, love, faith, joy. And He will give you the Holy Spirit, if you desire! You will never deserve the love that God has lavished on you, nor the gifts He wants to provide you, but since God is love (1 John 4:8), He will supply them to you anyway, if you desire them and are willing to love, trust and obey Him.

The Purpose of This Book:

The purpose of this book is to help you give your heart to God all the way, if you have not already done so, and help you to get a new life with Him. Or if you have given your heart to Him all the way, this book should further enrich your experience of love, joy and happiness in Him! In this book we show how to become born again, so that you can receive all the fullness of the blessings that God wants so much to give you! Yes, your Heavenly Father loves you dearly, and longs to know you and walk with you and help you every step of the way, to be your guiding light. This is the good news of the Gospel! But you may say that you are already a Christian and gave your heart to God a long time ago. Do you have great peace, love and joy? Are your sweetest thoughts of your God, whom you love? Do you have abundant life in Him? If you already have these blessings, then we are happy for you! Praise the Lord! But if you feel a sense of guilt that there is something you need to do, or that you are missing out on the blessings that God has promised? Then read this book. Do you have the assurance of your salvation? Or are you not sure? Are you tired of sinning? Are you trapped in habits that you know you should break? Are you hurt, angry, depressed or sad? Then you should read this book. God greatly loves you and wants to give you the precious gift of His righteousness and love to you, so that you can have this new life with Him! He will supply all of your needs out of His rich bounty of blessings. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19 KJV.

It is our desire for this book to teach you God’s love from the Bible, and how to access the throne of grace, so you can obtain help and mercy in time of need. Hebrews 4:16. It is our belief that the ideas in this book should be accepted by all Bible believing people everywhere who love the Lord, because this book will show the truth of God’s love from the Bible. The Spirit will take away the desire for supremacy and self-seeking, and will give us love for everyone, which will help us be one in Christ. It is our desire for everyone to see how wonderful God is, and receive His invitation to go to Heaven with great joy. We sincerely believe that if more people could understand the blessings God wants to give them, that there would be more people accepting His invitation. It is our desire to help as many people as possible see how they might have the very happiness and joy that they have been searching for their entire life, but don’t know how to get.

It is our prayer, dear reader, that you will have the most wonderful experience of your life, as you read this book, study your Bible, and pray to God for this new life, learning to give your heart to Him! May God richly bless you, and give you the true desire of your heart! Amen!

#1 For God So Loved The World That He Gave His Only Son: Being Born Again

To begin this book, we will explore God’s wonderful plan to save you. The good news is that God has a plan to give you peace and happiness! We will start with the story of Nicodemus’ interview with Jesus. This story will show you how much Jesus and the Father love you, and how to obtain this peace and happiness that They want to give you. We think that you will see that this passage in the Bible is one of the most wonderful messages of hope for your soul!

Nicodemus Comes To Meet Jesus By Night:

"There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I