"Lord! Here I Am! I Choose to Encounter You, and to Experience Your Fullness and to be Involved in Your Will Today!" By Pastor Leonard Roy Harris God Loves You. Yes You! Personally and Intimately and in Detail! Brother, sister in Christ! God is seeking you right now, to win you by his love that you might seek him with all of your heart. Prayerfully read the following passage of scripture. Let the Lord speak to your heart of his love for you! " For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you ………..," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place ……..." Jeremiah 29:11-14 Nothing can separate you from God’s love for you! Listen for the voice of Jesus as he reassures you that nothing can separate you from his love! No matter what things are lined up against you in all of those things you are more than a conqueror! Romans 8:37-39 "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." In your problems and issues and drama, God shows his love for you. God your Father does this because he wants your heart and he is doing everything that he can to win it, but he will not make you love him. It must be your choice on a daily basis! God your Father is seeking you. He is looking to see if you are worshipping Him in spirit and truth. John 4:23-24. Are you? It is because of the Lord’s great love that you are not consumed by your problems, and issues and drama and baggage! His compassion for you never fails! His compassion for you is NEW EVERY MORNING GREAT IS HIS FAITHFULNESS TO YOU! Lam 3:22-26. His eye and heart are on you! Your ways are in his full view and he examines all of your paths Proverbs 5:21. His eyes are on you! His ear is waiting for your cry! Ps 34:15, 1 Peter 3:12. Your heavenly Father leads you with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; he lifts the yoke from your neck and bends down to feed you! Hosea 11:4. Seek him for a flow of his love and daily revival and movement into and through your life. His love flows to you as he meets your deepest needs during your darkest days. Romans 5:3-5 tells you that as you suffer the Lord is with you and gives you the ability to persevere, to show godly character and to have hope because he pours his love out into your heart by the Holy Spirit. Touch your living Lord in hopeful faith and like the woman with the issue of blood there will be a flow of his life and love and power into your life! Luke 8:42b-48 "As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. Who touched me?" Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you." But Jesus said, "Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me." Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace." Mark 5:25-34 A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, "Who touched my clothes?" "You see the people crowding against you," his disciples answered, "and yet you can ask, 'Who touched me?' " But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering." Brother, sister, are you like the crowd that presses in on Jesus but never touches him in faith! You may know about Jesus in general like everyone else, but…do you know Jesus? Do you know him personally intimately. Look at what happened here. The touch of faith stopped Jesus in his tracks. He had no rest until he found the woman with faith. He "kept looking around to see who had done it." Even though he was surrounded by a large CROWD that was almost crushing him, He personally and intimately sought out the ONE who had touched him in faith! He SPOKE to her, personally, he COMENDED her for her faith, he BLESSED her to go in peace, he BLESSED her to be always free from her suffering. Brother, sister, the message in this booklet will do you no good if you do not choose to put faith in Jesus and seek him to encounter and experience him for yourself! Please do not make the mistake of Hebrews 4:2b " "…but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith." Please do not be self deceived as in James 1:22-25 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.   Listen to what Jesus says to you in John 7:37-38 "On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." Are you thirsty for a close personal relationship with Jesus? Will you personally come to Jesus and encounter him? Will you personally experience him so that streams of the living water of life and love and power will flow in and through you? Do you really long for Jesus like Psalms 42:1-2? As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? Brother! Sister! if you want to continue to read, please e-mail me your name and address. I will send you a free copy of the booklet "Lord! Why Me! e-mail: lendar@ameritech.net If you are led to help us make this booklet available free of charge, please send a donation to Grove Heights Baptist Church 9800 S. Greenwood, Chicago, IL 60628. Make the check or money order out to the church and place "for Caretaker Publications" in the memo section of the check.   Thank you for your partnership in helping many to encounter and experience the risen, living Lord Jesus Christ in their life once they have received him as Savior, Lord and Life!   Pastor Leonard Roy Harris