You are precious.
I love you.
I love you.
Can you not see?
I want you. I love you.
Can you not see?
Look around. Look at Dayton, Ohio. Look at your hometown. Look how I redeem broken life. This is all for you.
Can you not see?
The things and people you love are all testaments of my love for you. It is for you!
Nikki, it is for you.
Give up your shame, you do not need it in my arms. I think you are beautiful.
Lay down your self-hatred. It does not belong in your small, tender hands. Let me take it from you. Be mine.
All I want is your empty hands to fill, my Nikki. I am God. I need nothing from you.
You are enough for me. You always have been.
Here, rest here. I have made a home for you in myself. You are always wanted here. You need not earn a spot. I did that for you.
Nikki. Do you believe it? Do you see it? You are mine. I am yours. It's what I want. You are what I want.
Daughter of mine, I give you every good thing. Enter into my Kingdom. It is yours. Live in it. Let's build it together.
I delight in you, my Nikki. Have you fallen? My grace has caught you. It will heal that hurt. It will never break under you. I will not allow such things.
Nikki, you are safe here.
I love you, my Nikki.
Can you not see?"
But now, thus says the Lord, he who crated you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel:
"Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you. Because you are precious in my eyes, and honored, and I love you, I give men in return for you, peoples in exchange for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and from the west I will gather you. I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Do not withhold; bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the end of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.
Isaiah 43:1-7
