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This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series How to Love God

We don’t want to live passive lives but long for it to be filled with fascination. We want our hearts to be consumed, to be apprehended. God knows this. He has put this desire in every person.

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Think about the many things people sink their time and energy into. From hobbies, interests and relationships. People are looking for things to captivate them and bring a sense of fulfillment. 

It’s interesting that when Jesus lays out the most important commandment for mankind that He starts with loving the Lord with ALL of your heart and then continues on down the short list.

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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series How to Love God

This is the third in a series on how we are commanded to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. These four ways need to be understood in order to love the Lord well.

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Mark 12:30 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”

The renewed mind plays a vital role in loving Jesus. The Lord said that if we are ever going to understand the Kingdom our minds need to be constantly renewed (Matt. 4:17). In Romans 12:2 Paul states that a major part of being transformed into the image and likeness of Jesus must require our minds being renewed. It’ a big deal.

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This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series How to Love God

Luke 10:27 “He answered: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind…’”

How do you love the Lord with all your soul? This is a huge question. We need to know the answer to this because it is one of the four things Jesus said we need to do in order to love God completely.

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We love the Lord with all our soul by living a life of faithfulness to all that the Lord has required of us. While loving the Lord with all our heart has to do with affection, loving the Lord with all our soul has to do with devotion.

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This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series How to Love God

This is the fourth in a series on how we are commanded to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength. These four ways need to be understood in order to love the Lord well.

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Mark 12:30 “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength”

Loving the Lord with all our strength is the final way Jesus himself commands us to love Him.

1 John 3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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