The

Beloved

Taken, Blessed,

Broken & Given

Feeling unloved or

unlovable, inhibits

our understanding

of and ability to,

love.

Beloved

greatly loved, dear

to the heart or a

person who is

greatly loved

Henri Nouwen

Life of the Beloved

We are the Beloved. We are intimately loved long before our

parents, teachers, spouses, children and friends loved or wounded us.

That’s the truth for our lives. That’s the truth I want you to claim for

yourself. That’s the truth spoken by the voice that says “You are my

Beloved.”

Who/What defines You?

Who decides if you are lovable?

Who decides if you are lovable?

If it is us, then what do we use?

Relationships

Job

Self Worth

Being in the Moment

What if the decision whether you are

lovable or not was decided long before you were created?

Isaiah 43:1,7

Verse 1

But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and He who

formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you

by your name; You are Mine.

Verse 7

Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made

him.”

Psalm 139:13-18

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there werenone of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

Romans 5:18-19

Therefore, as through one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so through one Man’s righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.

1 Timothy 2:3-4

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Romans 8:14-17

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

Romans 8:31-32,37-39

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not

spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? … Yet in all these things we are

more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor

life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor

height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of

God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I Peter 2:9-10

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.

Chosen1. Ignore the lies and rely on the

truths of Scripture which reminds us we are Chosen by Him.

Chosen1. Ignore the lies and rely on the

truths of Scripture which reminds us we are Chosen by Him.

2. Surround yourself with people and places which support this fact.

Chosen1. Ignore the lies and rely on the

truths of Scripture which reminds us we are Chosen by Him.

2. Surround yourself with people and places which support this fact.

3. Gratitude increases your understanding that you are not an “accident,” but a divine choice.

John 3:16-17

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

YOU

ARE SO

LOVED!