Free Tell Them I Love Them by Joyce Meyer

"Tell Them I Love Them"
    by
    Joyce Meyer
    Contents
    Introduction

1 God Loves You!

2 Am I Good Enough?

3 Love Is Relationship

4 Love, Trust and Faith

5 Freedom From Fear

6 Love Reaches Out

7 God's Love Will Change You

Experience A New Life

About the Author
     
    Introduction
    I believe that what people need more than anything is a revelation of God's love for them personally. I believe this to be the foundation upon which victorious living as a Christian must stand.
    We do not need head knowledge concerning God's love; we need a revelation. This can only be given by the Holy Spirit and will be given as each believer meditates upon the love of God, observes the love of God in his own life and seeks that revelation through the written Word of God and also through prayer.
    It is fairly easy to accept that God loves the whole world enough to send Jesus to die for the world. But it is a little more difficult to believe that if you had been the only person on the face of the earth, that God loves you so much that He would have sent Jesus to die for you and you alone.
    After many years of being a frustrated Christian, I came to understand God's love.
    God graciously revealed to me, through the Holy Spirit, His love for me personally. That single revelation has changed my entire life and my walk with Him.
    I believe that what you read in this book will bring you new insight and understanding concerning the love of God. I believe it will place a new hunger in you to have this revelation for your very own. I exhort you to read the book slowly, to use it as a study aid and to meditate upon the Scriptures and the thoughts that you will find contained in the pages that follow.
    This book is submitted to you in humility, knowing that I am nothing apart from Him and that whatever revelation and understanding I have of His Word, it is only by His grace.
     
    1
    God Loves You!
    "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
    John 3:16
    God wants a family, so God made us to be His kids. He does not want us to act like babies, but He wants us to act like His kids. He wants us to depend on Him, rely on Him, lean on Him, love Him and let Him love us. He wants us to trust Him and to reach out to Him when we have a need. He wants to have a personal relationship with you.
    Most of us take John 3:16 in too broad a scope. "Oh, yes, I know Jesus died for the world,"
    but we are not just a group of general people down here that Jesus died for. He died for each one of us. He died for you!
    If you had been the only person on the face of this earth, He would have died just for you. He would have gone through all the suffering f or you.
    He died for you! God loves you so much. He loves you with an everlasting love.
    One day I was driving down the road, and God spoke to my heart and said, "Joyce, you're the apple of My eye." I didn't even know that Scripture was in the Bible. The devil came in with a thought right behind that and said, "Well, isn't that a bunch of pride? Who do you think you are?" And so I thought to myself, "Oh, I shouldn't be thinking like that." It goes against our carnal thinking to realize that we are special, that we are gifted, that we are different. Each one of us is an individual, created by our Father to be different from the person next to us.
    As I was thinking about it, God showed me a little mental picture of a lady standing in a supermarket by a large pile of apples. She looked all around and found one that was really super then reached in to get the very best one. What God was saying to me was that I was the best apple to Him.
    I was the special one. That doesn't seem right, but you see, God says that to every one of us. It isn't that He is saying that you are really someone neat, and everyone else is no good. He is saying that we are all special. It is in the Word, and the Word is for every one of us. You are the apple of