You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind. (Matt 22:37)
How is this love expressed? The Word tells us that we love Him because He loved us first. The first step to loving God is knowing that we can love Him because of His own love in us. When you start a relationship with a person, it is developed. It is the same with God. We must develop a love relationship with Him by spending time with Him and studying His word. What about our mind? We love Him with our mind by putting on the mind of Christ. As you learn to think how Jesus thinks and apply that to your mind, you find that you’ll always be thinking of pleasing the Father instead of pleasing yourself. We will be daily crucifying our flesh and living for Jesus so that we can say what Jesus said and do what He did. That is when the devil has nothing in us because we have the mind of Christ. loving God with our mind is loving God with our thought life.
Spend time with Jesus and learn to love the Lord your God.Time is an investment and the more time you invest, the greater the reward. Pray without ceasing or in other words, talk to God about everything, He is concerned for what concerns us. Involving the Father in all that we do means that before we make any decision, before we plan anything, that we consult Him for His direction. When we include God in our everyday lives, we develop a closer and deeper relationship with Him. We learn to trust Him more in all things.
One of the most difficult obstacles for me to overcome was trust issues. I was so let down and hurt by so many that I lost the ability to trust. One of the reasons I had lost the ability to trust was because I had placed my trust in man and not God. When I decided to trust the Lord, the blessings that came to me afterward were amazing. Provision came, health came, peace came, renconciliation came. I am totally amazed at God’s goodness. He is good!
Learn to love the Lord your God. It is the best thing to learn in this life!
Pastor Michael Cannatello
TMMC The Teaching Ministry of Michael Cannatello
