Love Wins & I Am Love

Jesus is Love

The New Covenant of Grace

God’s Faithful Timing and the Beautiful Love Story

I Am in Jesus. My belief in Him has given me a new heart. This new heart is enslaved to righteousness, not enslaved to sin as it was before. The old hard and hardened heart, with its veil clouding my vision, is gone, and now I am able to see from the heart and with Holy Spirit the insights and guidance and always truth.

The Word was with God in the beginning. The is God. And the Word was born into flesh — Jesus, the Son of God.

The New Covenant was promised in the Old Testament. I have shared scripture on everything I’m saying many times, and it is all very true. Everything God says is true.

The Promise of the New Covenant
God spoke through Jeremiah during a dark period for Judah, around the time of the Babylonian crisis and exile.

“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

This is The New Covenant of Grace — internal transformation, a new heart, full forgiveness, and intimate knowledge of God. It stands in contrast to the old covenant’s external law that people repeatedly failed to keep.

God’s Pattern of Faithful Timing
Throughout Scripture we see the same pattern. God makes a clear promise, often in hardship or failure under the old system. Then, in His perfect timing — sometimes after decades or centuries of waiting, trials, and preparation — He fulfills it exactly.

Here are clear examples where God declares something and it unfolds on a measurable timeline.

Abraham’s descendants in Egypt (affliction/slavery)
God told Abraham his offspring would be strangers, servants, and afflicted for 400 years (Genesis 15:13). The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years to the very day before the Exodus (Exodus 12:40-41). God fulfilled the deliverance at the appointed time.

Israel’s wilderness wandering
God promised the land but, due to unbelief after the spies’ report, declared the generation would wander 40 years — one year for each day of spying — until they died off (Numbers 14:33-34; Deuteronomy 2:14). They entered the Promised Land after exactly this period.

Noah and the Flood
God warned of the flood and instructed Noah to build the ark. Noah was 600 when the flood began (Genesis 7:6, 11). Rain fell for 40 days and 40 nights (Genesis 7:12). The waters prevailed for 150 days before receding (Genesis 7:24; 8:3). The earth was dry after about one year and 10 days total in the ark (precise dates in Genesis 7–8).

Babylonian Exile of Judah
God declared through Jeremiah that the nations (including Judah) would serve the king of Babylon for 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12; 29:10). This was fulfilled; the exile ended and return/ temple rebuilding began around that timeframe (fulfilled as noted in 2 Chronicles 36:20-21 and Daniel 9).

David’s path to kingship and reign
David was anointed as a youth (1 Samuel 16). He became king over Judah at age 30 and reigned 40 years total (7.5 years in Hebron over Judah, then 33 years over all Israel in Jerusalem; 2 Samuel 5:4-5). God’s promise through Samuel was realized after years of trials.

Time from Exodus to the Temple (480 years)
God delivered Israel in the Exodus. Exactly 480 years later (to Solomon’s 4th year), construction of the Temple began — a key fulfillment of the covenant promise of settled worship in the land (1 Kings 6:1).

Joseph’s rise and the famine
God gave Joseph dreams as a youth. After betrayal and imprisonment, he interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams and rose to power. The 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of famine unfolded exactly as prophesied (Genesis 41). Joseph was 30 when he stood before Pharaoh.

Elijah’s drought
Elijah declared no rain “except according to my word.” The drought lasted 3 years and 6 months (1 Kings 17–18; confirmed in James 5:17; Luke 4:25) until God sent rain after the confrontation on Mount Carmel.

Hezekiah’s extended life
God told King Hezekiah he would die. After prayer, God promised to add 15 years to his life and deliver Jerusalem from Assyria (2 Kings 20:1-6; Isaiah 38). This was precisely fulfilled.

Jesus’ resurrection prediction
Jesus repeatedly said He would be killed and rise on the third day (e.g., Matthew 16:21; 17:23; 20:19; Luke 24:7, 46). This was fulfilled exactly as stated — crucified, in the tomb, and risen on the third day.

Jesus’ Prophecy of the Temple’s Destruction and the New Temple
Jesus prophesied that the Temple would be destroyed with not one stone left upon another (Matthew 24:1-2; Mark 13:1-2; Luke 21:5-6). This was fulfilled about 37 to 40 years later in AD 70. Yet He was speaking of His own body as the true Temple that would be destroyed and raised in three days (John 2:19-21), pointing to the New Covenant reality where God’s temple is internal — believers themselves indwelt by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16-17; 6:19; Ephesians 2:19-22).

The Timeline of the New Covenant Fulfillment

The New Covenant promise required more time because it had to reach the birth of Jesus and the crucifixion.

The prophecy was given around 586 BC during Jeremiah’s ministry.

The New Covenant was inaugurated at the Last Supper and sealed by Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection around AD 30.

That is approximately 616 years from the promise to its fulfillment in Jesus.

This spans the remaining exile and return period, the intertestamental years, the coming of the Messiah, His ministry, death, and resurrection — exactly as needed for God’s redemptive plan.

Jesus declared this fulfillment: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.” (Luke 22:20)

Love Wins & I Am Love

The Beautiful Love Story
What I am going to put together is scripture that attests to this fact: God is in Jesus. Jesus prayed to the Father, “I would like them to be of Me as You are in Me and I am in You — they will be in Me.” This is more than just being united. It is being full and complete in God.

I’m creative and God loves this. In this creativity I see things differently sometimes, and I always find a love song and a love story.

I always say love wins. Sometimes I say Jesus is love and God is love. Today I said to myself, “I am love and I am in God.” So I’m actually saying three things: I am in Jesus, and Jesus is God, and Jesus is love. And I am love. Well, obviously I am in God. When I say “I Am,” I am also saying God — because God is “I AM,” the God of Isaac and Abraham.

This is how I love the interconnections of things. Because we all reside in Jesus, and the very existence of everything is of the Light of God, which is Jesus. This is prior to His birth, when everything was spoken into existence — which is the Word and God.

Yes, it’s a beautiful love story. And I have loved too, and I love you, and God is love. And that’s the point of the story.

This shows God’s promises are always true. We can base everything on His faithfulness, including what He is doing in our day. The old covenant’s failings highlighted our need. Grace fulfills what the law could not. Love wins. The new heart is given. Sin is remembered no more. And we dwell in Him our Lord and God Forever.

LOVE WINS I AM LOVE.