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               HEALING FOR THE HEART WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL
Vol. 1 Issue 1                                         January 20, 1997
           An outreach of Healing Love Outreach Ministries

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                           *GOD'S LOVE*
                        by Carrie Anderson

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Scripture- Ephesians 2:4,5 "But God! So rich is He in mercy! Because of
and in order to satisfy the great and wonderful and intense love with
which He loved us, Even when we were dead by our own shortcomings and
trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with 
Christ.  He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life
which He quickened Him.  For it is by grace by His favor and mercy which
you did not deserve - that you are saved (delivered from judgment and 
made partakers of Christ's salvation)."

Do you live with this hidden fear that God is angry with you?  Or that
you don't quite measure up to God's expectations of you?  I know for
most of my Christian life I thought those very same things.  In 
addition to that, I lived with this nagging fear in the back of my mind
that I was totally displeasing to God, and unworthy of His love.

What a wrong concept of God that is...nothing could be farther from the
truth.  Paul tells us that God has a wonderfully intense love for us and
that He is merciful and kind toward us and that He has imparted to us the
very life of Christ.

Listen, you can rest assured in the fact that God loves you and He truly
cares for you.  You need not fear every time you make a mistake that
God will turn His back on you, but know this, that we have forgiveness
through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, who died for your sins and mine.

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http://hlom.org/bookstore.html

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SPONSORS NEEDED 
There are a few young women who would like to attend our Women of 
Worth discipleship group that will begin on January 28th but find it 
difficult to afford the $45 fee.  
If you would like to help sponsor one of these women please send 
your check to Healing Love Outreach Ministries P.O. Box 823,  
Broken Arrow, OK 74013.  Please specify on the memo line of your 
check "WOW". All gifts are tax-deductible.

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                               *ALWAYS*
			by Sharron R. McMillan

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			Low tide always
			is followed by high.
			Rain always stops
			when the clouds pass by.
			Winter always
			turns into spring,
			and broken hearts always
			learn new songs to sing.

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NEWS AND NOTES
*We had tremendous computer problems last weekend.  While trying to fix
them we completely lost our subscription lists for HFTH Newsletter and
Weekly Devotional.  We have reconstructed a single subscription list 
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for any inconvenience this may cause.    
Thank-you.

*HFTH Newsletter will be sent out on February 10, 1997. To see a 
preview of what will be in it go to http://hlom.org/newnews.html
If you missed our first newsletter check out our archives at 
http://hlom.org/newsarchive

*We have added a What's New page to our website. To see that go to
http://hlom.org/whatnew.html

*Please feel free to pass this weekly devotional on to your friends.
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EDITOR: Dominica Anderson (dominica@hlom.org)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Carrie Anderson (cbander@hlom.org)
To subscribe/unsubscribe to the weekly devotional send e-mail to 
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These devotionals are taken from Healing for the Heart Radio Broadcast
which can be heard on KHJ 100.3 FM (Muskogee, OK) at 8:15 a.m. M-F
If you don't live in the Oklahoma area, you can hear a broadcast by
going to http://hlom.org/audio.html

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This weekly devotional is copyright 1997 by 
Healing Love Outreach Ministries.
Visit us at http://hlom.org

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