A Price was paid

1 Corinthians 6:20 For God has bought you with a great price. So use every part of your body to give glory back to God.

- God has paid a great price for each one of us.
- This should affect the way we live our lives.
- The way in which we live should bring glory to God.
- Let everything you do bring glory to God!

ROMANS 8:29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn, with many brothers and sisters.

Helen Keller wrote, "If we trust, if we relinquish our will and yield to the Divine will, then we find that we are afloat on a buoyant sea of peace and under us are the everlasting arms."

Pro 29:25 The fear of man is a cause of danger: but whoever puts his faith in the Lord will have a safe place on high.

Mat 9:26 And this report went out into all that land. 27 And when Jesus passed on from there, two blind ones followed Him, crying and saying, Son of David, have mercy on us.28 And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord. 29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith let it be to you.

What are you believing God for? What is your need, your desire? What is it that you know, in your own strength, will never be accomplished?

The two blind men believed the reports that they have heard. Reports that Jesus went about, healing the sick, causing miracles in people’s lives and they believed that He could heal them.

But Jesus asked a very, very important question. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

Someone once said: “In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage-so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.”

Prov 23 : 7 ( a ) For as he thinks in his heart, so is he

Prov 12 : 25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression,

Prov 14 : 30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Prov 17 : 22 A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.

The happiest people on earth are not the ones without problems. The happiest people are the ones who learnt to appreciate the possibilities of growth that problems bring.

Psa 3:3 But you, GOD, shield me on all sides; You ground my feet, you lift my head high; 4 With all my might I shout up to GOD, His answers thunder from the holy mountain. 5 I stretch myself out. I sleep. Then I'm up again--rested, tall and steady,

Psa 119:76 Oh, love me--and right now!--hold me tight! just the way you promised. 77 Now comfort me so I can live, really live; your revelation is the tune I dance to.

Like the worship song says : “You are the lover of my soul”

Today and every other day, heartache and longing and a broken-ness might want to overtake us, but we have to know and we have to cling to the comfort of knowing, that there is One who loves us – loves us so much, he gave everything to rescue us.

Like Hosea, who paid money to buy back his own wife, who endured the ridicule of the people to retain his wife, so God will endure on our behalf.

We were bought with a price; we will not be discarded for anything.