By: Sherina
Luke 10: 27 Love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all of your soul and with all strength and with all your mind
There are four distant ways to love God.
To love God with all of your heart!
To love God with all of your soul!
To love God with all of your strength!
To love God with all of your mind!
They are all equally important to God.
We must be obedient to spending time with God!
Deuteronomy 10:12 What does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to Him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrease that I am giving you today for your own good?
Ephesians 3:20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
1 Samuel 15:22 Obedience is better than sacrifice.
John 14:23 Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them and we will come to them and make a home with them.
Is there an area that God is asking you to be obedient in?
Heart
To love God with all of my heart, my feelings, understanding, and desires.
What does it look like when your emotions are not in check. (in the video)
To have our feelings, understanding, and desires in loving obedience will look like.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentles and self-control.
John 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Proverbs 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (more information on word of encouragement for November 2021)
Psalms 37:4 Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do work at it with all as working for the Lord, not for human masters.
Soul
To love God with all of your soul, which is the purpose that outlasts us!
Proverbs 16:4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end—
even the wicked for a day of disaster.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
1 Corinthians 12 Spiritual Gifts
Luke7:30 But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Psalms 33:11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Psalms 78:6 so the next generation would know them,
even the children yet to be born,
and they in turn would tell their children.
Strength
To love God with all of your strength! To love your God with your abilities.
Psalms 29:11 The Lord gives strength to his people;
the Lord blesses his people with peace.
Psalms 28:7 The Lord is my strength and my shield;
my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
My heart leaps for joy,
and with my song I praise him.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
Gideon’s story
Judges 7:2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’
Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Matthew 14:19 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
Mind
To love God with all of your mind! To love your God with the way you think.
Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Romans12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
A Life that Love’s God is such a good life.
To love Him with all of your feelings, understanding, and desires. To love Him with the way you fulfill your purpose and with the way you think, and with the way, you live your life.
Are you loving God with your whole self?
Gods Love For You
This Valentines I pray you would know God’s love for you and His heart for you as Paul writes in Ephesians 3:16-21 NLT
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. Glory to him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen.
Song of Song 4:7 You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
there is no flaw in you.
Love Letter For God
Romans 8
I knew I wanted to be a part of your life from the moment I laid eyes on you. I want to be a part of everything you are a part of. I knew this would be a love for the ages, the way you smiled and laughed. I called out your name in hopes that you would look back at me. That you would feel what I felt for you. I knew that I wanted you to get to know me, and I knew I would do anything to make sure it happened. And from that day on, I would be by your side.
I want to be there when you are laughing or crying because I love you and want to be a part of every aspect of your life. And when you are sure of my love for you and know I will always be on your side, we can conquer the world. There is nothing I wouldn’t give up for you. There is nothing more important than you. I will not hold anything back from you. If that is not enough, just ask me, my darling I would gladly do anything for you. I will always be there to defend you if anyone tries to hurt you. I am on your side because I have and always will choose you. I will spend every day fighting for you, my beloved. Proving my love for you. No one will be able to drive a wedge between my love for you. There is no trouble, no hard times, no hatred, no hunger, no homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst of the sin you can think of that would ever get me to stop loving you. In the difficult times you have to face, not just the ones you experience in the world but the pain you have to face within yourself. I will be with you, sitting right next to you, waiting alongside you for the deliverance. I will help you see the joy in the waiting. And any moment you are too tired to wait anymore, I will be right there, alongside you helping you. And if you don’t know what to say, I will be there to comfort you and listen to you as you cry. I will know exactly what your heart is saying because I know you. And you can be confident that I love you and I will be there for you. My job will be to show you the good when you can only see your sadness. So know there is nothing that will ever stop me from loving you. I am absolutely head over heels in love with you. Not one single thing will ever separate you from my love, not even life or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between my love for you, my bride, my life, my beloved, my love.