thoughts to make your heart sing
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Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing, an innovative devotional by bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones (The Jesus Storybook Bible), presents 101 insightful, biblical thoughts that build a reader's personal day-by-day relationship with Jesus and create a deeper understanding of faith. Through the text and beautiful art by Jago, discover God seeks to know us with an amazing and grace-filled love.TRANSCRIPT
Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing By Sally Lloyd-‐Jones Release date: 10/09/2012 Price: $16.99 Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing, an innovative devotional by bestselling author Sally Lloyd-‐Jones (The Jesus Storybook Bible), presents 101 insightful, biblical thoughts that build a reader's personal day-‐by-‐day relationship with Jesus and create a deeper understanding of faith. Through the text and beautiful art by Jago, discover God seeks to know us with an amazing and grace-‐filled love. About the Author
Sally Lloyd-‐Jones is a leading writer of inspirational books for children, with an expertise in conveying biblical truth to young children. She is the author of three bestselling children’s Bibles, including the Gold Book Award-‐winning Baby’s First Bible and, most recently, the Moonbeam Award Winner-‐-‐-‐The Jesus Storybook Bible. She has written many picture books for children, including Handbag Friends, Time to Say Goodnight and the critically acclaimed, How to Be a Baby: By Me, the Big Sister. A native of England, Sally lives in New York City. Find Sally on her Facebook, Twitter, & at her website: www.sallylloyd-‐jones.com
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In the beginning, God sang everything into being—for the joy of it!—and set the whole universe dancing!
God was in the center, at the heart of everything.
Like the dance of the planets before the sun—turning, spinning, circling, wheeling, revolving, orbiting around and around—God made everything in his world and in his universe and in his children’s hearts to center around him—in a wonderful Dance of Joy!
It’s the Dance you were born for.
Dance!
“The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” Job 38:7 (KJV)
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What words does God want you to treasure in the deepest part of you?
“Be good”? “Do it better”? “Try harder”? are those the words God wrote in the Bible for us, to rescue and free us?
no. Those words only show us what we can’t do.
The words God wants us to remember are just three small ones: “I love you!”
They are the words that stop the Terrible Lie that Satan whispered to eve in the garden: “God doesn’t love you!” They are the words that heal the poison in our hearts that stops us from trusting God.
They are the words that Jesus came to tell us with his whole life.
They are the words he died to prove.
What words will you treasure today?
Three SmaLL WorDS“[Treasure] these words of mine in your heart and in your soul.” Deuteronomy 11:18 (eSV)