My Valentine to Jesus, My Bridegroom
by Lydia E. Harris
Are you feeling lonely on this Valentine’s Day?
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Dear Jesus,
You sent me a valentine written in crimson blood. It says, “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3). And You’ve also said in Your Word that nothing can separate me from Your love (Romans 8:38-39).
This year I want to give You a valentine from my heart. What kind would You like? Would one of these hearts delight You?
- A faithful, undivided heart that puts You first each day (Matthew 6:33).
- A true heart that loves You with wholehearted devotion (1 Chronicles 29:19).
- A giving heart that is other-centered, not self-centered (Philippians 2:4).
- A loving heart that is patient, kind, and forgiving (1 Corinthians 13:4-5).
- A sincere heart that bows before You in worship and praise (Psalm 95:6-7).
- A devoted heart that sings, “My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine” (see Psalm 18:1).
Lord Jesus, this Valentine’s Day I want to renew my love for You. Please help me remain faithful to You and always put You first in my life. Thank You for Your incredible love for me. Help me love You more each day. I give You my heart.
Your beloved bride
Questions: What kind of a valentine could you give God this Valentine’s Day?
Would you like to give Him a changed heart?
Or renew your commitment to love and cherish Him?
Perhaps you’d like to sing a love song from your heart, say a prayer of gratitude, or write a love letter or poem to show your devotion. Whatever you give from your heart, God will accept with joy. “As the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you” (Isaiah 62:5).
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Linda R Iwill keepJackie in my prayers.You are such ajoy to talk with. May God bless you and your family and friends.
Alease I will continue to pray for you and your family and Jackie I will be praying for you dear neighbor Jane and also you that the Lord will use you to be a comfort and encouragement to her. Also Toni is now sick and was unable to go to work, she is a flight attendant so now she is not sure if she will be facing surgery or not. So please continue to keep her in your prayers! Hugs Linda
Thank you Jesus for loving me first. The ultimate valentine.Thank you Jesus for continuing to work on and in my heart.Thank you for bringing Joy to my life and heart.
I will be praying for Toni.Alease will pray for your family too.
Ladies please pray for my neighbor Jane, she lost her Husband today to cancer.
I just thank my jesus this moning while I was in the doctor office waiting.Yes Jesus is my valantine today and forever more.It is so amazimg how God is in our hearts.He knew us while we were still in our mother womb. Praise God.Keep my family in everyones prayers. Alease
I WILL BE PRAYING FOR TONI G
SHARON B
i am so gladJesus is my valantine
Yes, LindR and June… and all of you precious ladies. Let us join in prayer for Toni and all that concerns her dear heart. Sharon, know we are lifting you up and believing.
The Lord is doing a work in my life and my prayer is that He is doing a work in all of us as we travel this journey toward meeting Him face to face one day!
Dearest Jesus, there are no words that can begin to thank you and praise you for what you have done for us……..for dying for us…that we may live in eternity…for loving us in such a depth, we will never be able to comprehend or express our gratitude.
“Thank you, precious Lord…as you minister to us…and as you minister to us through others…like women here. I praise you Lord, and Worship You…for all You have done….and for all You do and will do in our lives.”
Lord Jesus, work in these ladies here on the blog and those that believe and worship you! May we go out and minister and win others to Your salvation. In Jesus we pray, believing!
Amen…and Amen!
LindaR, praying for Toni…and miss her words of wisdom here at the blog. May the Lord strengthen her and return her here soon.
Let’s all pray for sweet Sharon too. She has a breast biopsy February 22nd. We love you Sharon and know the Lord is with you!!
to my eternal love. Jesus I love you oh so much. My heart
overflows with love for you. Each day my heart is filled
with love for you. Every day my thoughts toward you are
thoughts of love and peace. i belong to you and you belong
to me. Oh! what great joy I have as I think about you. To-
day my love for you is even stronger than it was on yester-
day. My heart I give to you, it’s yours forever more. My
love is yours always, for you are my eternal love. This is
a love note I wrote to the Lord, who is my eternal love.
Words I can’t find to truly say what I truly feel about the
Lord. So I attempted to put on paper some of what I feel for
the Lord. I never really known what true love was really like until I experience it with the Lord. I have experience
a lot of fake stuff, which I recognized wasn’t the real thing. I never felt and knew the love I have received from
the Lord before. I pray that the love of God that he has
lavished on us will embraced you ladies this day. I pray
that God in a divine way will manifest his strength, his
peace, his wisdom, his love, and his presence to Dianne.
I pray that God will be Tonig strength and power and make
her way complete in every situation in her life. Ladies
let us keep fresh on our minds and in our hearts the great
love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called
children of God! and that is what we are!(IJohn 3:1). Ladies
have a blessed valentine day in the Lord.
My Valentine….my love for Jesus can be written in so many songs….Amazing Grace, My Jesus, I love Thee, Oh How I love Jesus, but there is a special one that words come from a time He ministered to my heart, as I was giving up. It was only then, that I realized He is our Lord, our Savior, our All in All and I had to look up and praise His name, as He gave me these words.
“My Jesus You’re the Only One
To calm my fears and still my soul
You come to me, with your sweet love
You give me peace, when all around is falling
My Jesus, You’re the Only One
To calm my fears and still my soul
You come to me, with Your sweet love
I praise Your Name O HOly One
You give me hope when none be found
You give me strength when all is gone
This peace and love, I can’t explain
I feel Your loving presence all around me
My Jesus, You’re the only One
To calm my fears and still my soul
You come to me, with Your sweet love
I praise Your Name O Holy One”
He has been faithful and true…..He has put people in my path to encourage me…Oh How I love Him and praise Him for all He has done.
Yes, My Valentine, my true love that will never leave me or let me down. My wonderful Savior that has let me go on in my sin, time after time after time….yet who has always been waiting for me …with open arms. There is no other like that. There is no other.
I love my eartly Valentines…..but only because my Heavenly Valentine Father loved me first and put love in my heart.
Precious Lord,
ToniG is reaching out to ask for prayer. Thank you that prayer is such a powerful tool that You have given us to access Your throne of grace. On this Valentine’s Day we join our hearts and lift Toni to You and ask You to hold her close. Help her to feel the draw of Your love and the love for her here on this blog and bring her back for the encouragement and strength from Your word that she will find. Give her that “divine hug” today in a way she will know that You have reached out to her.
Bless Toni today and bless these ladies here today with a comfort they cannot even fathom as it flows from Your throne into our hearts. In the precious name of Jesus we pray, amen.
I also just want to ask one more time today for Prayer for ToniG for anyone who might not have received my message in the past devotional I put it in last night. She asked me if I would please ask all you ladies to pray for her, for strength as she is going through a very, very difficult time right now.Also pray that she would be able to find the time & strength to come back on the blog. Please, please pray for her as she so badly needs it. Thank you so very much ladies. Hugs, Linda
I would So very , very much like to thank Jesus for always being there for me, even at time when I wasn’t there worshiping & praising Him he never gave up on me but continued to be there for me day in & day out. He gives us the greatest gift that we could ever receive, eternal life and oh how we take if for granted so often. He is always there by our side to stand with us even when we cower away, He is so Faithful Strong & True and will continue to be till we are home with Him in Heaven.And to top it off thank you for the fruits of the Spirit which are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. “Thank you my Most Precious Valentine Ever For The Greatest Gift Ever Given” Hugs, Linda
This was a great devotion today, and I am reminded that Jesus should be our Valentine everyday…My husband is still away on his missions trip, he will be returning early Sat. morning, he called Tuesday and we had a very short 3min. conversation, he said he was haveing a great time and this trip has changed his life…I can’t wait til he returns and I hear all the great things God has done! Thanks to all that have been praying for him while he has been away!
Lord, thank you for loving us even when we arn’t loveable, thank you for never turning away from us and for giving us the ultimate gift of love on the cross…Happy Valentine’s Day!
Love,
Maia
P.S. It was only last night that he told me that he had asked the group to do the confrontation.
Thanks Lydia, I could use a divine hug today; my husband and I are not talking to each other. I still haven’t found a job (I have looked, but not as heartily as I could), and frankly am afraid to, so he decided to force the issue by going behind my back and having our support group confront me on it about 3 weeks ago.
They did, but even though some of them spoke the truth at times, much of it wasn’t “in love,” and some of it wasn’t “in truth”–it was just in anger. Some of it even involved name-calling.
The fact that it was also sprung on me, that I had no idea that it was coming, really threw me (It started as an attempt by my landlord to resolve a conflict between us, which I’d invited him to do a couple of days before and which he’d angrily refused, but then changed his mind about it and didn’t inform me until we were already there. He had his say. I had mine. And then I got blasted.)
I have been reeling over it, or not thinking about it, ever since. I have honestly journalled about what I thought they were telling me (but they never mentioned the work issue that I can recall) and I have improved my behavior regarding the landlord’s complaints since then (doing a lot more around here).
I’ve also been “distracted” by my friend David’s death and recovery (BTW, he is back at home, with a defibrillator in place, still on IV antibiotics, but back to his normal self–no brain damage, no paralysis [despite what the neurologist told us early on]), by a split in our church, and by having the grandson here since that confrontation took place.
Ever since that night, though–on and off–my husband has been complaining about no results on my part as a result of that confrontation night (I have made some efforts to get work, too, including going to workshops on interviewing and networking.
Now, he has recently gotten more intense, and the last three times he has brought his complaints up he has been relentless about it. Yesterday, he also admitted that he has not been taking his antidepressant (which has been very helpful in keeping him not getting violent) and he said that it is my fault he isn’t (with my not working and my medical bills, his decision to not make any more medical bills [in this case a $15.00 office visit co-pay and a $10.00 prescription]). He also said that he doesn’t have depression, he just has a “badly matched marriage.”
On top of this, he just quit smoking again, and he has had a respiratory infection since Sunday night.
Not being on an antidepressant, and not smoking has historically resulted in his being violent with me. His taking on a victim mentality and denying/being cavalier about his own responsibility in our problems is also part of his pattern of violence.
Last night my husband threatened to go to someone in our support group to tell her about what I had told him about how I felt and thought about my treatment during that confrontation, as well as what I thought about some of the participants’ attitudes toward me and the issues that night. If I didn’t want him to do that, I was to go to that person and tell her how wrong I am, and ask for help.
I told him that was “triangulating,” and “think about it,” and when I did, I saw a look in his eyes and on his face that told me he knew that was true. I told him I wasn’t talking to her “yet,” and then left and talked to someone else that was in the group.
We haven’t talked since. I don’t feel inclined to, and the three times I said something out-loud (re-something on TV)he didn’t say anything back, as he usually did.
So that is where we are on this Valentine’s Day. Yay.
Happy Valentine’s Day, Jesus. Thank you for being the lover of my soul. Your name is powerful, the name above all names, and it gives life and hope. But your name and your Word also bring sweetness into my life. I’m reminded of the song, “Jesus is the sweetest name I know. And He’s just the same, as His lovely name. And that’s the reason why I love Him so. Oh, Jesus is the sweetest name I know.” Yes, Lord Jesus, yours is the sweetest name. It’s sweeter than honey or the finest candy. It’s like music to our ears. Thank you for your many blessings, and thank you for the many sweet touches you add to my life. I love you. What a privilege to be the bride of Christ with You, Jesus, as my Bridegroom. Thank you.
And Lord, please surrond all the readers with your exceeding abundant love today. Give them a divine hug from You. Touch them in a special way. In Jesus’ precious name, amen.
Bless your day, ladies.
Lydia
JESUS CHRIST WILL ALWAYS BE MY VALENTINE BECAUSE HE WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY HEART, SOUL AND MIND. THIS GOES WITHOUT QUESTION. WHEN ALL OTHERS SEAM TO HAVE LEFT ME TO MY OWN DEVICES I KNOW JESUS IS THERE NO MATTER WHAT. WHEN I AM HAVING A FAIRLY GOOD DAY IN SPITE OF THE PAIN I FEEL HIM FAR MORE THEN ON THOSE DAYS WHEN THE PAIN IS VERY VERY BAD. THOU I KNOW HE IS WITH ME AT ALL TIMES.
SWEET JESUS, THANK YOU FOR BEING MY VALENTINE FOREVER AND ALWAYS
CHRIS T.