He Loves Me! The Relationship God Has Always Wanted with You

194 Pages·2000·0.88 MB·English

by  Wayne Jacobsen

He
He Me!
Me!
T H E R E L AT I O N S H I P G O D H A S
A LW AY S W A N T E D W I T H Y O U
W Y N E
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J A C O B S e N
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He loves

Me!

The Relationship God Has
Always Wanted With You
Wayne Jacobsen
HE LOVES ME! by Wayne Jacobsen
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To Sara,
On the celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary
I couldn’t have found a better friend or beloved partner with
whom I could share this journey. Your example of loving me
through my worst moments and laying down your life at great
personal sacrifice has taught me more about God’s love and
how I can trust him freely than anyone else on the planet.
Acknowledgments
Thank you, Kevin Smith, David Boan, and John Yates of
Australia, for pulling me aside and showing me a more excellent
way. Your insights on the cross revolutionized my appreciation
for Father’s love and helped me understand how Jesus’ church
can really share his life together.
Thank you, Dave and Donna Coleman of Visalia, for
enriching my life and this book with the lessons you’ve learned
and being patient with us as we went through a similar process.
Thank you, Nick Sembrano and Bob Blasingame for contrib-
uting your expertise to the specific content of these pages.
Thank you, Scott and Sandi Tompkins for adding your spe-
cial gifts of editing to this manuscript.
Thank you, John Mason and your staff at Insight International
for helping me make this book available to those who will be
touched by it.
Thank you, dear friends in and around my former home
town of Visalia, California, for all the ways you have loved me,
stood by me and shared my journey. And thank you, too, to the
many explorers we have met from all over the world who are on
a similar journey to discover the depths of God’s love and how
to live as his people in the earth.
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Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
The Relationship God Has Always Wanted With You
1. Daisy Petal Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2. What Jesus’ Disciples Didn’t Know . . . . . . . . . .19
3. Threatened With Hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
4. A Father Like No Other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
5. Welcome Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
What Fear Can Never Achieve
6. The Tyranny of the Favor Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
7. What Shall I Give to God? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
8. The Businessman and the Beggar . . . . . . . . . . .69
9. The God We Love to Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
10. The Most Powerful Force in the Universe . . . . .85
Undeniable Proof
11. He Loved You Enough to Let You Go . . . . . . . . .95
12. Who Needed the Sacrifice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
13. The Hen and Her Chicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109
14. What Really Happened on the Cross . . . . . . . . 117
15. The Antidote for Sin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
16. In the Darkest Moment . . . Trust . . . . . . . . . . .133
A Life Lived in Love
17. Trying to Earn Points With Someone
Who Is No Longer Keeping Score . . . . . . . . . . 141
18. So Sin Isn’t Important to God? . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
19. A Lifetime of Learning to Trust . . . . . . . . . . . .155
20. Shamelessly Free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
21. In Exactly the Same Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
22. The Prayer God Always Answers . . . . . . . . . . .179
Discussion Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
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Foreword
W
ith wise words and thorough logic, Wayne Jacobsen leaves
no obstacle standing between a believer and God the Father.
He carefully and gently pushes aside any resistance to absolute
reliance on the grace of God and his plan for us. Some journeys
carry such dangers and mysteries that we long for a hand to
hold and a secure face to be seen. This book places your hand
in the secure one and clearly portrays the face of God.
When Jesus answered a questioner and informed us that the
greatest commandment was to “love God with all our heart,
soul, mind and strength,” for many of us, this was a command
to which we could only aspire. Perhaps we even prayed, “Lord,
I want to love you with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.”
After reading this book, I am confident you will easily say, “I do
love you completely.”
No matter what your emotional state, peace will settle on
your heart. Any anxieties about God are going to fade. Prepare
your face for a smile and your heart for a constant parade of
brass bands celebrating a great victory.
As you read and receive the understandings of this book, you
will frequent God’s presence much more because of the eternal
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Foreword
relationship you will find there so superior to your own best
efforts or dreams. These gifts of God are unattainable on your
own but you will find this book to be an invitation to God’s
house and its warmth with an RSVP. With that invitation in
hand, you will feel like you have “arrived;” and you have!
If it seems that I push too hard and compliment too highly
about this book, it is on purpose. You hold in your hands a
classic.
Be prepared to know God better and love him more. You
are about to go on a journey whose road map you will save for
repeat use and whose copies you will gladly and freely give to
others.
—GAYLE D. ERWIN
AUTHOR, Jesus Style
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The Relationship
God Has Always
Wanted With You
On that day you will realize
that I am in my Father,
and you are in me,
and I am in you.
—John 14:20