God's Thoughts Towards Us

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace* and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope**. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and you will find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity.  Jeremiah 29:11-10

*Strong’s Hebrew Concordance #7965 Shalom safe, i.e. (figurative) well, happy, friendly; also (abstract) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace:- x do, familiar, x fare, favour, + friend, x great, (good) health, (x perfect, such as be at) peace (-able, -ably), prosper (-ity( -ous), rest, safe (-ty), salute, welfare, (x all, is, be) well, x wholly.

**Strong’s Hebrew Concordance # 8615 (literal) a cord (as an attachment); (figurative) expectancy:- expectation (-ted), hope, live, thing that I long for.

Father in heaven, we praise and worship You for all that You have given us, all that You are doing for and in us, through Your Son Jesus Christ. He is the manifestation of Your thoughts toward us, the exact expression of Your character. He is the cord that connects us back to You. He is the One who has brought us back from the captivity of sin.

Thank You that, whatever we have done or neglected to do, there is now no condemnation because we are in Christ Jesus.

Thank You that, because we are in Him, all Your promises are Yes and Amen.

Thank You that He was made poor that we may become rich in Him. Thank You that we have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Him. Thank You for the riches of grace and mercy we have in Him

Thank You that Jesus took all our sickness and by His stripes we are healed.

Thank You that He not only delivers us from the penalty of sin, but from the power of sin. We look away from ourselves, our condition and failings, and turn our eyes to Jesus, trusting that He will do in us what we cannot do ourselves.

We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen

Supporting Verses

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. John 3:16-17

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1

For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen to the glory of God through us. 2 Corinthians 1:20

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2:24

Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness, and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sin. Colossians 1:12-14