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    God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation
    God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation
    God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation
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    God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation

    By Jean Anne Stubblefield

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    Could you be missing the most important element of your Christian experience? Many have been finding their Christian walk much too difficult as a result of giving only a "mental nod" to God's immeasurable love for them. God's Love For Us, Our Christian Foundation provides a greater depth of insight into the love that God cherishes for you personally which will empower your faith and enable you to live the victorious, overcoming and miraculous life given to you in Christ Jesus.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781449779337
    God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation
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    Jean Anne Stubblefield

    Jeanie and her husband Craig live in Morristown, Tennessee in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. She assists Craig as he pastors Resurrected Life Ministries Church which they have built on the foundational teaching of God’s great love for us. Jeanie is a licensed minister of the Gospel. She has been a dedicated follower of Jesus and a committed student of His Word for twenty-eight years. Her passion is to share the life changing and transforming truths of the Word of God which have impacted her own life as well as the lives of others. She desires that all people may possess the blessed life of abundance, peace and rest that God intended each of us to have in Christ Jesus.

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      God's Love for Us, Our Christian Foundation - Jean Anne Stubblefield

      God’s Love For Us

      Our Christian Foundation

      Jean Anne Stubblefield

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      Copyright © 2013 Jean Anne Stubblefield.

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      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New International Version of the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7932-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-7933-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923505

      WestBow Press rev. date: 1/9/2013

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      God Is Love

      Jesus—God’s Love Revealed

      God’s Love—Our Christian Foundation

      You Are God’s Beloved In Christ

      Living A Life Of Love

      It is my joy to dedicate this book to Craig—my husband, best friend and confidant, brother in Christ and now my Pastor. We have been on this journey into Love together since the Lord joined us 18 years ago. Craig has been a spiritual rock through all our travels and all our ups and downs in following the Lord’s plan for our lives. He has become a wealth of revelation as we have given ourselves to the study of God’s grace and love for us which is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of the truths contained in this writing have been spoken from his lips during the anointed teaching and preaching of our church services. Thank you, Craig, for all you’ve been to me. I am a better person because of you, and I look forward to many more years of exploring the depths of our Father’s love together with you—even throughout eternity in His Presence!

      Introduction

      Love lifted me.

      Love lifted me.

      When nothing else could help,

      Love lifted me.

      Lying in the cool, dark upstairs bedroom of the old farmhouse, I turned and faced the wall. My life had been careening out of control in a crazy downward spiral until I now found myself at the bottom of a horrible pit. My mother’s words spoken to me earlier, as we sat in our country kitchen, still rang in my ears, Jeanie, you just need Jesus. Hadn’t I been there and done that? Wasn’t I raised as a Christian, attending church every Sunday and Wednesday? Wasn’t I a recipient of the Queen with Scepter award in GA’s, and didn’t I possess a stack of Vacation Bible School Certificates? Hadn’t I made my profession of faith and been baptized? Yes, I’d been there. I’d done that. And yet my heart was breaking with years of disappointments, abuses and condemnation. I had even spent years exploring and implementing Eastern religious practices into my New Age concept of life. I had decided to believe in Reincarnation, and I was a strict adherent to the Macrobiotic way of eating and its accompanying philosophy. I had explored and tried to leave no stone unturned in my search to reach God, or as I called Him, the Universal Power. Now, at thirty-one years of age I lay broken, hurting and confused in this dark bedroom, facing the wall. Jesus, if You are God’s Son, and if You really do love me, I need You to show me, I prayed the first prayer I’d prayed in unremembered years. It was the most serious and desperate plea I had ever made in my life.

      Several weeks later, I sat cross-legged on the soft green grass in my backyard. It was an unusually warm and sunny day in March. I was practicing Transcendental Meditation in which I had been professionally trained. My fingers were in position, hands resting on my knees, and I was repeating my mantra over and over. By practicing TM, I was trying to sink down into the only kind of peace I had known in recent years. Suddenly, as I sat there chanting my mantra (which I later found out was the name of a Hindu god), I saw in a vision Jesus; He was walking towards me, and in so doing proving that He truly is God—preempting any other so-called god that one could call upon. He was smiling at me beautifully. More than noticing His features, I was overwhelmed with His love that flowed over me in waves. Love that flowed from His heart and through His eyes to me! My first words were, Oh my God, You are really real!, for before this moment, I did not truly know that Jesus was alive and real. He was always something of a fictional character to me. From that moment I was forever His! I was forever changed—changed by love! My life made a 180 degree turn, and I began walking a new path with Jesus. His love had lifted me out of my horrible pit, set my feet upon a rock and given me a brand new life!

      But that is not the end of a beautiful story where I lived happily ever after. And it is the rest of the story that compels me to write this book. For what happened to me in the rest of the story is what happens to multitudes of Christians following the glorious freedom of the Father’s love given to them in the New Birth. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit two months following my New Birth in Christ. I began attending a Bible believing, Bible teaching, Spirit filled church. At this point, the Bible became very real to me, and I began devouring it with zeal. But something sinister was happening to me without me even realizing it, which is exactly what the enemy of my soul, the devil, wanted to achieve in my life. I was taught what was termed practical righteousness which, although an erroneous teaching, is the well-meaning and accepted concept for most modern Christians as well as Christian leaders and teachers. I was taught that, yes, I was saved absolutely by grace through faith in Jesus and not of works lest any man should boast; but now that I was saved, I was taught that I must maintain my right standing and fellowship with God through my works. Because of this I stepped into the world of trying— trying to please God, trying to serve Him and prove my love for Him. Oh, I loved Him so much and wanted Him to know it! Like most other serious Christians I knew, I began living a life in God that, in my mind, was based on how much I loved God and proving my love for Him by how much I did for God. In other words, I entered onto the performance treadmill of Christianity. I believed that my rightness with God—my close fellowship with Him—was based upon my performance. How very wrong this path proved to be. This teaching is not based on the New Testament (New Covenant) teachings, but on a mixture of the Old and New Covenants and a lot of religious traditions. In following this teaching, I became self-righteous without even being aware of it, depending more upon my works

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