In their book, "The Insider", Peterson & Shamy write, "God loves people whether they love him back or not. The farmer who hates God gets just as much sun and rain on his crops as does his neighbor the next farm over, who loves God. Why do the wicked prosper? They prosper because God loves them! Jesus is saying, You do the same. Love the people in your life without having an agenda for them. Love them because God loves them."

Matthew 5:45 (KJV) "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

After Dallas Cowboys Wide Receiver Terrell Owens was taken to a Dallas area hospital, police classified the incident as an accidental overdose of pain killers. A few days after the incident, Owens was still hurting, but said he has felt the support of numerous people close to him since he was released from the hospital.

Owners said he was encouraged by the response of many people close to him. His cousin, pastor, and a friend from the San Francisco 49ers practice squad all paid Owens a visit after the incident. He said another friend flew in from New York because she said God told her to come see him. Owens said that particular friend was a real encouragement, telling him, "we can all say we love somebody, but there's a difference between superficial love and godly love. 'God is going to be there no matter what you do.'"

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/michael_silver/09/29/owens/index.html. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell.

Psalms 117:2 (GW) "His mercy toward us is powerful. The Lord's faithfulness endures forever. Hallelujah!"

The Financial Times has warned that the world’s supply of diamonds is running out? The World’s largest diamond producer, DeBeers, will cut production beginning in 2011 from 48 million carats to about 40 million.

There is no shortage of the Love of God. Paul is convinced of that, and so am I.

Romans 8:38-39 (NASB77) “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, (39) nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

The flexibility of commerce on the internet makes it possible for companies to offer highly customized goods at prices that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. You can get M&Ms printed with a personal message. Everything from printed T-shirts to customized dress shirts is available through the internet. Companies customize service for you.

Years ago, an evangelist helped personalize the gospel for me. “Repeat John 3:16,” he said. “And when you come to the words ‘world’ and ‘whosoever,’ replace them with your own name.” I left the meeting that night having responded personally to the personal love of God, for me.

John 3:16 (KJV) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

In his book, It Calls You Back, Luis J. Rodriguez discusses the true relationship between a father and son who dealt with gangs. This son gets in a fight with his father about being in a gang. The son then runs away from the father and the father chases him “from street to street, alley to alley.” Then it goes on to say that the father searched for his son, Ramiro, for two weeks straight but was never able to find him. Then one of Ramiro’s friends tells the father where he is. The father then goes and retrieves his son.

Luis, the father says, “I just don’t want to fail- I can’t. My son is precious to me. Yet I know it’s on me to find a way.” Following this he gets a call from the police saying they have his son and are prepared to send him to a juvenile detention center. The father bails his son out of this. Time and time again the father goes after his son leaving behind his other children and wife. —Jim L. Wilson and Pete Ramirez

What do you think? If someone has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the ninety-nine on the hillside and go and search for the stray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over that sheep more than over the ninety-nine that did not go astray. In the same way, it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones perish.

Former Pastor Steven Dyer owns a stable business in Oklahoma and enjoys working with horses. He shares his experience through YouTube and has posted videos about the challenges of working with wild mustangs and teaching ponies not to be afraid. Dyer named the video series,” Sermon By Horse,” and said he got the idea from working with a mustang when he saw a connection between the way horses need boundaries and the way God lovingly uses boundaries to protect His people. As he worked with the horse, Dyer realized the animal would like to get out of his pen and run away to find freedom, but as the horse’s trainer, he knew something bad could happen if the animal ran away. Dyer said he saw a connection between the boundaries he gave the horse to protect it, and the boundaries God uses to protect the people He loves. Dyer said he has loved horses since he was a small boy and has trained them and taught people to ride in locations ranging from the Navajo Reservation to Saudi Arabia and has always found ways to use the animals to share his faith in Christ. —Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell

https://www.klove.com/news/positive-people/steven-dyer-uses-horses-to-help-humans-understand-god-s-guidance-podcast--19191