Oh How HE LOVES US...

This weekend I had the opportunity to go on retreat with the school that I graduated from. I was extremely nervous mainly because I wanted to be used but I didn't know how. I went into the weekend saying 'Surprise Me, God!' I LOVE surprises...and I realized over the weekend that Christians should too. If you really think about it most things are surprises to us, God rarely lets us in on what is going to happen. In that I think God likes to surprise us because He is never surprised! :)

A few days out of the weekend I am now looking back and seeing how God surprised me this weekend. I think the biggest surprise was how much I was able to get out of the weekend. We are always learning and hearing from God; this weekend I was able to learn so much from God through the girls in my group! They were such a blessing to me! The words that they said to one another as well as their prayers for each other were not only a blessing for me, or those they were praying for but also a blessing to GOD. What amazing stewards of HIS love!

Also, I was able to feel HIS love for me in such an amazing way! I pray that all pursue that love…those that do will find it! Once felt there is no turning back. I feel that since I grew up in the church and was told SO many times, ‘God loves you’ I have become numb to it! ‘Yep, sure I know that, thanks!’ BUT seriously GOD LOVES ME! Not even just that, how much He loves me is amazing!

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane, I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realise just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
So Heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way…

He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Oh how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.

Well, I thought about You the day Stephen died,
And You met me between my breaking.
I know that I still love You, God, despite the agony.
...They want to tell me You're cruel,
But if Stephen could sing, he'd say it's not true, cause...

Cause He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves us.
Whoa! how He loves.
Yeah, He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves us,
Whoa! how He loves.


This song is amazing…if you have never heard it look it up, it brings me into His love every time! PRAISE GOD FOR HOW MUCH HE LOVES US!!