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    The Nature of God: 50 Christian Devotions about God's Love and Acceptance (God's Love Book 1)
    The Nature of God: 50 Christian Devotions about God's Love and Acceptance (God's Love Book 1)
    The Nature of God: 50 Christian Devotions about God's Love and Acceptance (God's Love Book 1)
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    The Nature of God: 50 Christian Devotions about God's Love and Acceptance (God's Love Book 1)

    By Mona M. Hanna

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    A book that will bring your heart closer to God.

    The Nature of God contains 50 Christian devotions, focusing on God's true love and acceptance of us. The devotions portray God's kindness, sweetness, grace, mercy and forgiveness.

    These devotions break down the notion that God judges us, and has strict requirements for how we should think, feel and behave. Mona's stance is that God loves us like a parent loves their child, with the same intimacy and compassion that a loving parent would have. Immerse yourself in heart-warming declarations of God's love, and remind yourself of the true nature of God.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherM. Hanna
    Release dateNov 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465952110
    The Nature of God: 50 Christian Devotions about God's Love and Acceptance (God's Love Book 1)
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    Mona M. Hanna

    Mona M. Hanna is the author of the books The Nature of God and God's Promises of Love. She has been a devotional writer since 2008, creating the blog Mona Hanna Devotions, focusing on expressing God's love, acceptance, and compassion. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Australia, with a sub major in professional writing. She has worked in the private and public sectors, and is now committed to communicating the lessons she learns from her personal walk with Christ.

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      Amazing amazing amazing! And so unbelievably relevant to every day life. Do not miss out on the opportunity to read this book! Its amazing how just a couple pages a day can help give you such deep insight into yourself and life in general. A must read!!
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      This short and easy to read and understand this book of 50 daily readings covers God's love, including a letter to God. This is a perfect way to spend a few minutes with God.

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    The Nature of God - Mona M. Hanna

    God Knows Me

    God knows every inch of me.

    He made me. He created me. He made my mind. My heart. My soul. My talents. All of me.

    He knows everything I worry about, and looks at me with love and compassion.

    He sits with me always, right beside me, protecting me.

    I don’t have to struggle alone, waiting until I’m good or in a place of understanding about God to pray.

    I can talk to him anytime. He wants to hear from me. He loves me. I don’t have to wait to talk to him — I can talk to him now.

    He’ll never leave me, loves me more than life itself. I am not alone.

    Relationship

    At times I feel an ache, an inner loneliness that cripples me.

    But I forget about God. I forget that God loves me, and actually wants a relationship with me.

    A Christian friend of mine told me that God has emotions. Not that he’s defensive and unstable, but he loves me and is sad when I turn away from him. He feels sadness when I’m hurt, and feels love and joy at my happiness.

    I matter to him. He isn’t an emotionless deity, watching from afar and not caring. He doesn’t go about his plans without caring if I’m involved. What I do matters to him. What I say matters. How I treat him. If I spend time with him.

    He loves me, and just as I would be hurt if someone I love rejected me, he’s hurt when I reject him. Just as I feel sad when someone I love is sad, or I’m in pain when they’re upset — God’s the same. He aches when I’m upset. He actually loves me. He cries when I cry. If only I could see it. Any pain I feel would be diminished in light of God’s love. He cares about every part of me. If only I could see it.

    No Matter What

    I often feel that God’s love is fallible — that if I do the wrong thing, or make a mess of my life, he’ll love me less. I tell myself yes, God loves me, but he won’t accept me if I do something awful, or continually make mistakes. If I don’t understand him, and fail, he’ll look away.

    But if we look at the Bible, we see even the greatest people, who God loved and changed the world through, made some terrible mistakes. Look at David. God loved him with all his heart, and was enormously proud of him. But David fell down, and committed adultery and murder. He had many great insights about God, but even he didn’t always see God clearly. Yet God still loved him. He didn’t look away from him. He didn’t reject him. And David went on to be one of the greatest people in history, because of the works God performed through him.

    In our own lives, it’s okay to make mistakes and be confused, anxious and stressed. It’s normal and God still loves us. He’s with us no matter what — no matter what we do, even if we feel foolish and ashamed. He doesn’t see us the way we see ourselves. He’s with us even if we don’t understand him, and totally fall apart. It’s not a requirement of our relationship with God to never fall down. Jesus died to connect us to God despite our failures, and there are no barriers we could possibly create that could break that bond. God will always love us. No matter what.

    The Nature of God

    One of my biggest struggles with Christianity is feeling that God is upset with me.

    When I first became a Christian, I didn’t understand God at all, so naturally my faith was very limited. All I knew was that I wanted to be in a relationship with him. I did my best to not give up, and I took very small steps to grow closer to him. Eventually, over many months, he showed me he loved me, and taught me to love myself.

    In my current relationship with God, when something goes wrong, I can become confused and upset. I can feel he led me somewhere only for me to get hurt, or I can be confused by the messages I feel he’s giving me. But the intense pain I feel during this

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