How do I know that God loves me?

It may sound like an immature question for someone who has been a christian for over 10 years, but like most relationships in a woman's life, it always comes back to the question of whether or not the other person really loves them.  I know that God loves me, but what do I have in our relationship that affirms this?  The old stand by is that God showed his love for us all by sending Jesus to die on the cross for all of our sins so that we could have a relationship with him.  That is absolutely true, but it says that he so loved the world not that he so love me?  Sometimes I feel like adoptee number blah blah blah,  but the amazing thing is that so far every time that I have felt this way he showed me how special I really am to him. These are some reasons why I know that God Loves me:
#1 God has never broken a promise that he made to me. He has never lied to me.
Every time that I have ever acted within the promises of God it has come out just as he said it would in his word.  I have never been disappointed.
 #2 He has preserved me when I really should have been destroyed
I have made some decisions that might have cost me my life, but God was looking out for me and saved me from those awful situations. 
#3  God answers me when I ask a question.
Whenever I ask God a question he speaks to my heart through his word, or through a family member, or through some other random person,or even by the Holy Ghost which reminds me of his words.  I am never left alone in a conversation.  He is always listening.
#4 When I am hurting he sends me comfort.
I am blessed to have a wonderful loving family, but sometimes no one but God can bring me back from my emotional slams, and God does bring me back.
#5 God sends me warnings when I am headed for trouble.
Whenever something is not according to God's ways a reminder pops up warning me that something is wrong and why I need to get away from that thing or person right away.
#6 When I don't follow the warnings God still makes ways for me to get out.
God has exit strategies to get me out of sticky situations, and I have had to use some of them.  Thank you God for keeping me.
#7 God forgives me when I forget to keep my promises.
It's not fair that God always does what he says for me and I don't always do what I tell him I will do for him, but God is patient with me even when I disappoint him.
#8 He protects me from those that try to do me harm.
When I ask God to keep certain people away from me and my family he has done it!  I am safe with my Lord.
#9 He provides for me more than I could ever do on my own.
Whenever my family or I need something it just seems to come to us.  I know that it is God providing us with what we need. 
#10 God doesn't abandon me.
When I start acting strangely or panicking or doing my control freak thing God allows me to go through my process, but I know that he is always there going through with me because I feel like he is right there listening to everything I have to say and watching me do everything that I do.  He carefully waits for me to say "help" and then rushes in to save my day. 

I could go on with the ways that I know God loves me, but I think you get the idea.  It takes personal experiences with God for me to really feel God's love for me, and he provides them because he knows that's what I need.  That really shows how much he loves me.  God proves himself to little ole me, his piece of dust artwork.  That's LOVE.

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