Free God Is Not Mad at You: You Can Experience Real Love, Acceptance & Guilt-free Living by Joyce Meyer

did not come true for you. If so, I urge you to realize that God doesn’t always work within our time frame or in the ways that we would choose, but if you continue to trust Him, you will see the goodness of God in your life. Trust God at all times, and never give up. This is one of the ways that we can be faithful to God, as He is to us.
    No matter how unfaithful your father or others may have been to you, I urge you not to let it ruin your life. There is no better day than today for a fresh start. Make a decision to believe that your heavenly Father is faithful and don’t ever give up.

God Is Faithful to Forgive
    God is always faithful to forgive our sins just as He promised He would. Sometimes people won’t forgive us, but God alwaysforgives sin and then forgets it. It is also good to know that there is no limit to God’s forgiveness. People often have limits to what they are willing to forgive or how often they are willing to do it, but God’s forgiveness never runs out. People may say they forgive us, but then remind us of what we did that hurt them, but God never reminds us of our past sins, because He has forgotten them (Hebrews 10:17). When we are reminded of past sins it is not God bringing them to our remembrance, but it is Satan, the Accuser of God’s people.
    God’s faithfulness surrounds Him. It is part of His character and we can always count on Him to be with us and do all that He has promised to do.

God Is Love
    My father told me all the time that he loved me, but the kind of love he had was sick and immoral. My mother told me that she loved me, but she didn’t protect me from my father’s abuse even though she knew about it. My first husband told me that he loved me but he was unfaithful many times. The list could go on, but I am sure you have a list of your own and that you probably relate to what I am saying. My point is that the words, “I love you,” to many are mere words with no meaning.
    However, when God says that He loves us, He means it in every way that is important and vital to us. His love always moves Him to action on our behalf, and true love can only be known by the actions that it prompts (1 John 3:16–18). You will see and experience the love of God being manifested in your life if you put your faith in it. Let me ask you if you have decided to believe that God loves you unconditionally and that He has a good plan for your life. I pray that you have and that you will begin to expect to seeit manifested in your life. I encourage you to say several times each day out loud, “God loves me unconditionally and something good is going to happen to me today.” By doing this you are verbally agreeing with God’s Word, and helping to renew your own thinking.
    The love of God (agape) seeks the welfare of all and works no ill toward any. It seeks an opportunity to do good to all men. The God kind of love is the love of a perfect being toward entirely unworthy objects (us). It produces a love in us for God, and a desire to help others seek the same.
    God’s Word states that He loves us because He wants to, and it is His kind intent. God loves because He must—it is who He is. God is love!
    Learning to receive the unconditional love of God is the foundation for the rest of our relationship with God. How can we trust people if we are not sure that they love us? How can we expect them to be good or faithful? We cannot! We must have the “Does God love me?” question settled forever. Yes and a thousand times yes—GOD LOVES YOU!
    Once again I would encourage you to go to God’s Word and let it convince you.
    Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.
    Ephesians 1:4
    Reading this verse once won’t convince you that God loves you if you doubt that He does, but if you really