Will You Be His Valentine?

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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1205. Today's Devo is called will you be his valentine? Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida. And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time.

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That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My morning Devotional podcast. Happy Friday and happy Valentine's Day, everybody. My name is Stephanie and I am wishing you all a beautiful, beautiful, lovely Valentine's Day. With your spouse, with your significant other, or if you're single, with your girls and with your guys. I just hope you have a love filled day. And please, if you did something special for Valentine's Day, then send us a little message. We'd love to hear what it is that you guys did so we can connect with you all. So let's dive into this. My first question to all of you. Will you be his Valentine? Romans 8, 37, 39 says, For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Oof. Makes me tear up. Because God loves you.

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Goodness gracious, does God love you.

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He loves you for who you are.

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He loves everything about you. Your spicy personality, your fun personality, your soft personality, your strong personality, your goofy personality.

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He loves you if you're tall, if you're short, if you're fat, if you're skin.

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Getting it don't matter. He loves you.

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Nothing can get in between God and his love for you. I have a funny story.

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When I was in middle school, I had the biggest crush on this boy. I'm not gonna say his name cause I'm worried he's gonna hear this. I had the biggest crush on him. And it was the last day of school and my friends encouraged me to go and tell him that I liked him. So I didn't go and tell him I liked him. My friend went over and said, hey, my friend Stephanie likes you. And I was watching all of this happen on the last day of school in the gym. And my friend walked right up to him and told him that. And he looked at her and went, ew, I don't like her. And it broke my middle school heart.

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It was awful. It was so sad. Thankfully, I'm Completely over it. I've moved on. But it was heartbreaking and not somebody. Not accepting your love is one of the most traumatic, heartbreaking things we can all experience. And I know I'm laughing about it, but it truly is not a laughing matter. When somebody does not accept your love, even if it's platonic love, they we want you to accept it. If I love you, I want you to accept that love because it's sad if you don't, it's offensive if you don't, it's embarrassing if you don't.

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God does the same thing to you. You know, God's love, It's all around us. You woke up this morning and the sun is shining.

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That's God giving you a beautiful day because he loves you. It's raining and you see a rainbow. That's God's promise to you, and that's his love to you. Do you have a wonderful spouse?

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That's a sign of God's love to you. Do you have friends that are supporting you? That's. That's God's love. Do you have a job giving you security?

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That's God's love. Do you have a car that somewhat gets around? That's God's love. Do you have a house?

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Do you have a beautiful city that you live in? Do you have a healthy family? All of these things are a sign of God's love for you. Don't be like that dumb boy in my middle school.

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That. That just shrugs it off. Accept God's love. Love. Let it sit with you everywhere that you go. God is asking you today, will you be my valentine? God, in his wonderful ways, if you can just look around, is showing you his love. I don't know how he's doing it, but he's doing it. And if you just open your eyes to the ways that he's blessing you, he's not just blessing you just because it's because he loves you. And he loves you more than anybody else in the world. So God is asking you, will you be His Valentine? And all you have to do is say yes. Yes, God, I'll be your valentine.

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Today I will accept the love you have for me. Everywhere I go, I'm reminding myself of God's love for me and how much I love him.

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And I'm going to share that with those around me. I'm going to share that in my attitude and my words and my choices that I belong to God. Because God loves me and I love him. And everything that I do, everything that I say, everything that I think is going to model my love for God. Will you be his Valentine today? Let's pray. Pray God, we will be your Valentine. We love you and we worship you and we thank you for this beautiful life that we get to live. Even if we go through struggles, even if we face sicknesses, even if we face financial issues, whatever it is that we face, we will search for your love in our life. If anything, these struggles will actually open our eyes to your love that is plainly right in front of us. So we will be your Valentine. We accept your love, we accept your grace, we accept your mercy, for it never fails us, it never goes away and you never reject us. You accept us, you embrace us and you love us. So we love you. And in Jesus name we pray.

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Amen. Happy Valentine's Day everyone. So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value in this devotional, share it with a friend, leave a comment or review for us on the app you're using right now. Until tomorrow. We pray that your latte is strong, but your love for Jesus is stronger.