❖God loves you!

M a t t h e w 7 : 1 1

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!

❖ Love God back with all your heart

• God loves you

M a r k 1 2 : 3 0

And 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.

If the most important commandment

is to love the Lord with all our hearts,

then the greatest sin would be to just

go through the motions!

People in love act much

differently than people with a

sense of obligation

Francis Chan

The first commandment is

not, “obey God”.

It is to “love God”.

J o h n 1 4 : 2 1

If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

You can keep God’s

commandments without

loving Him.

Do you love God, or do you

serve because you are

obligated to?

There is a big difference

between knowing God’s love

intellectually and knowing it

intimately.

Many people view their

connection with God as a

contract instead of a

relationship.

❖ Take time to consider what God has

done for you

• God loves you

• Love God back with all your

heart

P s a l m 4 0 : 5

Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be

recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are

more than can be numbered.

❖ Take time to consider what God has

done for you

• God loves you

• Love God back with all your

heart

❖ True love continues when things get

hard

• God loves you

• Love God back with all your

heart

• Take time to consider what

God has done for you

When you give your life to God, it

doesn’t mean that life will never be

hard. However, it does mean that God

sticks with you through the hard times.

He said He will never leave us of forsake

us.

1 C o r i n t h i a n s 1 3 : 1 2 N L T

Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then

we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and

incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now

knows me completely.

2 C o r i n t h i a n s 5 : 7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

❖ Let’s love God with a crazy love

• God loves you

• Love God back with all your

heart

• Take time to consider what

God has done for you

• True love continues when

things get hard

M a r k 1 2 : 3 0

And 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.

The irony is that while God

doesn’t need us but still wants

us. We desperately need God

but don’t really want Him.

Francis Chan

Do you love this God who is

everything, or do you just love

everything He gives you?

Francis Chan

If the most important commandment

is to love the Lord with all our hearts,

then the greatest sin would be to just

go through the motions!

We all need Jesus!

To know Jesus and to make Him known while living, loving and

serving like Him

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