Here is some scriptures worth reading. Talk about good news! We have a lot to be thankful for.
Dt 6:4
Hear, Israel! Yahweh is our Elohim; Yahweh the only One.
Dt 6:5
So you will love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your intensity.
Dt 7:7
It was not because your multitude was more than all the other peoples that Yahweh was attached to you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all the peoples.
Dt 7:8
But it was because of the love of Yahweh for you and because of His keeping the oath that He had sworn to your fathers that Yahweh brought you forth with a steadfast hand and ransomed you from the house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Dt 30:6
Yahweh your Elohim will circumcise your heart and the heart of your seed so as to love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may stay alive.
Song 8:6
Place me like a seal upon your heart, Like a seal upon your arm, For love is strong as death, Its jealousy hard as the unseen, Its burning coals as burning coals of fire, The blaze of Yah.
Song 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, Nor can streams overwhelm it. If a man should give all the wealth of his house for love, People would despise, yea despise it.
Jer 31:3
From afar Yahweh has appeared to me, With love eonian I have loved you, Therefore I have drawn you [with] kindness.
Hos 11:4
With the cables of a human am I drawing them, with the ropes of My love. And I am becoming to them as those raising the yoke high over their cheeks. And I am stretching out to him, and I am feeding him.
Zeph 3:17
Yahweh, your Elohim, is within you; He, the Master, will save. He will be elated over you with rejoicing; He will renew you in His love; He will exult over you with jubilation.
Jn 15:10
If ever you should be keeping My precepts, you will be remaining in My love, according as I have kept the precepts of My Father and am remaining in His love.
Jn 15:12
"This is My precept, that you be loving one another, according as I love you.
Jn 15:15
"No longer am I terming you slaves, for the slave is not aware what his lord is doing. Yet I have declared you friends, for all that I hear from My Father I make known to you.
Jn 15:16
Not you choose Me, but I choose you, and I appoint you, that you may be going away and be bringing forth much fruit, and your fruit may be remaining, that anything whichsoever you should be requesting the Father in My name, He will be giving it to you.
Rom 8:38
For I am opersuaded~ that neither death nor life, nor messengers, nor sovereignties, nor the opresent, nor what is impending, nor powers,
Rom 8:39
nor height, nor depth, nor any differentother creation, will be |able~ to separate us from the love of *God *in Christ Jesus, our *Lord.
Gal 5:14
For the entire law is ofulfilled~ in one word, in *this: "You shall |love your *associate as yourself."
Col 3:12
Put~ on, then, as *God's chosen ones, holy and obeloved~, pitiful compassions, kindness, humility, meekness, patience,
Col 3:14
Now onover all these put on thelove, whichany is the tie of thematurity.
1Jn 3:16
inBy this we oknow *love, seeing that thatHe', for our sakes, _o lays down His *soul. We' also |ought to lay down our *souls for the sake of the brethren.
1Jn 4:17
In this is *love operfected~ with us, that we may |have boldness in the day of *judging, seeing that, according as thatHe' is, so are we' also in this *world.
Rev 12:10
And I hear a loud voice in *heaven saying, "Just now becamecame~ the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our *God, and the authority of His *Christ, thatfor the accuser of our *brethren was cast out, *who was accusing them sight ofbefore our *God day and night.
Rev 12:11
And they' conquer him becausethrough the blood of the Lambkin, and becausethrough the word of their *testimony, and they love not their *soul, until death.
May we all continue to grow in His love, to become as He is. When the day comes to have the boldness to look Him in the eyes and shake His hand and not to be ashamed. This is our Fathers will and His will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
God bless,
Gary