My Love for God
“You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.” Mark 12:30
What does this mean in practical terms?
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The only way that I can please God and learn what pleases Him is to know His Word; therefore it will be my pleasure to read from my Bible each day |
Psa 119:9,11,16, 105; 1Pet 2:2; 2Pet 1:19 |
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I must not add to His Word nor take anything away from it | Deut 4:2; Prov 30:6; Rev 22:18 |
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Service to God must be first in my life | Matt 6:33 |
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I must put my faith and trust in God alone, because He knows my needs and will provide | Matt 6 :25-30; Mark 11:22-23; Phil 4:6; 1Pet 5:6-7 |
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I must revere God above all and be humble before Him, recognising my total dependence upon Him | Isa 57:15; Isa 66:1-2; Mic 6:8 |
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I will glory and rejoice in the Lord my God and not in man | 1Cor 3:21; 2Cor 10:17-18 |
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It must be my continual desire to work faithfully and diligently in the Lord’s service to the best of my abilities | Matt 6:24; Matt 24:45-47; Rom 12:1 |
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I must fear and reverence Him who will utterly destroy the disobedient and the unfaithful | Matt 10:28 |
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I must have faith and believe His word; without faith I cannot please Him and He has promised to count my faith as righteousness | Heb 11:1&6; Rom 4:22-24; Gal 3:6-7,9 |
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I must try to try to be like God, developing attributes of kindness, patience and love, even for those who hate me | Matt 5:44-48; Eph 5:1-2 |
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My life is subject to God, I cannot guide my own life and in all things must acknowledge my dependence upon Him by making all my plans subject to His will | Prov 3:5-6; Jer 3:23; James 4:14-16 |
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I must keep separate from the world and its ways | 2Cor 6:14-17 |
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