You Are Loved Bible Study: Embracing God's Love for You

By Sally Clarkson, Angela Perritt and Mary Graham

Dare to believe you are loved with an everlasting love . . . and loved completely, for who you are.

When you feel deeply loved and cherished, your whole outlook on life is infused with energy every day. Yet all too often, many of us seek acceptance and personal validation in all the wrong places or with the wrong people. It’s time for a life-changing discovery—that you can experience full, forever love from the One who knows you best.

In the You Are Loved Bible Study, popular authors Sally Clarkson and Angela Perritt walk with you on a journey through Scripture, sharing transformative truths that reveal the depth of God’s love for you.

With this special Women of Faith edition of You Are Loved, you will come to see—and truly believe—that you are seen, known, free, and loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Release date: Jul 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781496408525

Sally Clarkson

Sally Clarkson is the beloved author of multiple bestselling books, including Own Your Life, The Lifegiving Home with her daughter Sarah, Desperate with Sarah Mae, and Different with her son Nathan. As a mother of four, she has inspired thousands of women through Whole Heart Ministries (www.wholeheart.org) and Mom Heart conferences (www.momheart.org). Sally also encourages many through her blogs, podcasts, and websites. You can find her at www.sallyclarkson.com and on her popular podcast, At Home with Sally, which has over 5 million downloads and can be found on iTunes and Stitcher.

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Goals

BEFORE YOU BEGIN working through the eight-week reading plan, we believe it’s important that you write out goals. Take some time now and write three goals you would like to focus on as you begin to dig into God’s Word. Be sure to refer back to these goals throughout the next eight weeks to help you stay focused. You can do it!

My goals for this session are:

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Signature: _________________________________

Date: _____________________

Week 1

Week 1 Challenge:

Do you live moment by moment, knowing that God loves you? Do you dwell in the security and assurance of His love, or is there a voice or obstacle that keeps you from knowing His love?

Write down your fears, failures, and faults on a piece of paper. Leave room at the top.

Then across the top of the paper write:

While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). Nothing can separate me from the love of God. I cast all of these sins, failures, thoughts away, and accept His love forever and ever.

Finally, tear up your paper and throw it away. Let it be a physical representation of how God cast away your sin and replaced it with His love.

Week 1 Memory Verse:

The L

ORD

your God is with you,

the Mighty Warrior who saves.

He will take great delight in you;

in his love he will no longer rebuke you,

but will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3:17,

NIV

CHAPTER 1

HE CALLS US BELOVED

Sally

God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son.

JERRY BRIDGES

AT THE AGE OF forty-two, after three miscarriages (including one during which I almost died and had to be rushed to the emergency room), I thought I would never have another child.

Then one day my son Nathan, a scruffy, loud, and always moving little boy, came to me and announced, "Mama, I sure do think you should have one more little baby, and it should be a little