{"id":1207,"date":"2016-09-02T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/he-loves-me-he-loves-me-no-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:07:16","slug":"he-loves-me-he-loves-me-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"He loves me. He loves me not."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-tCdfmZnXlXw\/V8jVoD1M5dI\/AAAAAAAASQ4\/MNfb5ypf1Q0fpKQy4LcehqJWkJRGFR9mgCLcB\/s1600\/He%2BLoves%2BMe%2BHe%2Bloves%2BMe%2BNot.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/HeLovesMeHelovesMeNot.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Remember taking a flower and \u201cplaying the game \u201cHe loves me; He loves me not\u201d, while picking one petal off a flower (usually a daisy or a rose) for each phrase? The phrase we said at the last petal represented the truth between whether that cute boy loved us or not. I don\u2019t know if you guys played that game like we girls did, but  I just know we were motivated by our longing that they would like us and that little flower game gave us hope. <\/p>\n<p>In my case, when that cute black haired, brown eyed boy paid me some attention, I started saying \u201cHe loves me; He loves me lots!\u201d  LOL!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I heard Amy Groeschel speak about how to really know God\u2019s love \u2013 a much bigger deal than that cute boy we were attracted to.  The fact is God is crazy in love with us.  Proof-positive is found in John 3:16 \u201cFor GOD SO LOVED the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever (that\u2019s YOU and ME) believes in Him, would never perish but have eternal life.\u201d   And to emphasize His love even more, in Jeremiah 31:3 \u201cI have loved you with a love that lasts forever!\u201d  Wow \u2013 how\u2019s that for a FOREVER love?<\/p>\n<p>Back to that flower game.  How often do we play it with God\u2019s love \u2013 when we doubt Him and we question His plans for us.  It\u2019s like this:<br \/>\nI get a flat tire \u2013 He loves me not.<br \/>\nI get a job promotion \u2013 He loves me.<br \/>\nI sprain my ankle \u2013 He loves me not.<br \/>\nI get a check in the mail I wasn\u2019t expecting \u2013 He loves me.<br \/>\nI drop my cell phone and the screen cracks &#8212; He loves me not.<br \/>\nI am given a new cell phone \u2013 He loves me.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line, no matter how our day goes \u2013 no matter the ups and downs \u2013 the sweet surprises or the disappointments &#8212; no matter whether we feel sad or glad \u2013 God\u2019s love is unconditional (unlike those cute boys who were here today and gone tomorrow).  God is with us.  God is for us.  He has plans for us beyond our greatest imaginations. Jeremiah 29:11 \u201cFor I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the LORD, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u201d  Let\u2019s throw away those flowers and emphatically believe and know how deep, how wide and long is the love of Christ\u201d  Ephesians 3:18.  HE LOVES ME!  HE LOVES ME!  HE LOVES ME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember taking a flower and \u201cplaying the game \u201cHe loves me; He loves me not\u201d, while picking one petal off a flower (usually a daisy or a rose) for each phrase? The phrase we said at the last petal represented the truth between whether that cute boy loved us or not. I don\u2019t know if&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7506,7507,7508,1648,804,2309,1651,1652,3622,271,1653,593,7509],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-groeschel","tag-daisy","tag-ephesians-318","tag-flower","tag-for-god-so-loved-the-world","tag-forever-love","tag-he-loves-me","tag-he-loves-me-not","tag-i-know-the-plans","tag-jeremiah-2911","tag-jeremiah-313","tag-john-316","tag-petal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5586,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/5586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}