This document discusses loving God as the Christian ideal. It explains that we should love God because He is our creator, provider, savior, protector and everything. We should also love God because He loves us greatly and lavishes us with blessings. Loving God means loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and loving our neighbors as ourselves. It then provides details on what it means to love God with our heart, mind, and strength by being obedient to Him, developing a personal relationship with Him, and using our abilities and resources to serve Him.

1. Talk 5
Loving God – The Christian Ideal

2. Question?
 But why should we love God?

3. Why should we love God?
 Because God is our Creator, our
Provider, our Savior, our Protector,
our Everything Omnipotent.

4. Why should we love God?
 Because He loves us very much.
 Because He continuously lavishes us
with innumerable blessings and
graces…

5. Loving God – the Christian Ideal
And God wants to make LOVING
HIM as our HIGHEST IDEAL.
Loving Him with all our hearts,
with all our souls, with all our
minds and with all our strengths,
and loving our neighbors as
ourselves. This is the total
Commandment for His Love.

6. Loving God – the Christian Ideal
What it means …
 To Love God with all our heart

7. To Love God with all our hearts
What it means…
To Love God with all our heart
First, Putting God first in our lives.
Deut. 26: 2-11. “I shall bring you the first fruits of the
products of the soil which You, Oh Lord have given
me…”

8. To Love God with all our hearts
What it means…..
To Love God with all our heart
Second… We must be obedient.
• Jn 14:15, “...If you love me, you will obey my
commandments…”

9. To Love God with all our hearts
And what it means…
To Love God with all our hearts
Third…We must have that Burning Desire to
Develop a Personal Relationship with God
Himself, His Son and the Holy Spirit.
1 Cor 3:16 ‘Do you not know that you are the temple of
God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?’
1 Cor 6:19 ‘Or do you not know that your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you? ’

10. Loving God – the Christian Ideal
What it means…
 To Love God with all our hearts
and minds

11. To Love God with all our mind
What it means…
To Love God with all our hearts and minds
Always keep your heart and mind clean and holy...
1. Guard your heart and mind with all diligence.

12. To Love God with all our mind
What it means…
To Love God with all our mind
2. Use your heart and mind according to God’s truth
and not according to the immodest or flashy ways of
the world.

13. To Love God with all our mind
What it means…
To Love God with all our mind
3. Let your heart and mind be preoccupied
with things of God. Use your heart and
mind actively for God’s sole purpose
which is all about Love.

14. Loving God – the Christian Ideal
What it means…
 To Love God with All Our Strength

15. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
1 John 3:18… Dear children, let us not love
with words or tongue but with actions and
in truth.
We have to love God with our resources,
our abilities and our time.
To fully love Him with what we find our
HANDS to do, our EYES to see, our EARS
to hear, our FEET to go and our
MOUTHS to speak.

16. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
1. Love Him with what we find our hands to do.
We are able to serve the Lord diligently being His
hands extended in our world by giving a cup of
cold water to those in need. Feeding the poor.
Laying hands on the sick. Lifting our hands in
worship. Playing an instrument. Writing an article.
Working with excellence. The list can go on and
on. Our hands can serve a major purpose in loving
God with all our strengths.

17. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
2. Love Him with our eyes and what we see
The eyes are the gateway to the heart. We are made to
gaze on God’s beauty (Ps. 27:4), We are made to fix our
eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith (Heb.
12:2).
Our eyes come in contact with so much every day and
we should see things the way it pleases God. In that way,
we become what we behold.

18. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
Let us imitate Mother Teresa,
the lady who sees Christ in every
person she encounters.
She brought to the world a great
and living lesson in joyful and
selfless love.

19. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
3. Love God with our ears to hear.
Jesus said many times, “if anyone has ears to hear, let
him hear.”
What Jesus is saying is, listen to be transformed.
Listen to be changed. When we gain access to God’s
voice we are loving Him well. We need to listen to
others share their story, listen to their thoughts and
hear their pain. But we have to walk away from
gossip, slander, backbiting and negative discussions.

20. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
3. Love God with our feet to go.
Where our feet take us on the journey in life says a lot
about how we love the Lord. Jesus laid it out when he
said to “go and make disciples”(Matt. 28:19).
The great commission is all about going. Let our feet
be led by the Spirit into amazing places and divine
opportunities. When we go and serve, go to church,
go to a friend in need, go the extra mile, go make a
difference, we are loving God with all our strength.

21. What it means…
To Love God with all our strength
3. Love God with our mouth to speak.
May the words we say bring glory to the Lord. When
we edify, encourage, comfort, honor, support and
bring life (Prov. 18:21) to others we create access for
them to discover God’s kindness. We get to love Him
by declaring praise and worship to the Lord. Also,
when we boldly share our faith with others (Eph.
6:19) and bring them into a relationship with, and
when we instruct, coach and counsel others, it all
counts in loving the Lord with all our strength.

22. Above all, JESUS is our Model in Loving God…
 Jesus dedicated His life to
accomplish His mission.  And He was obedient to
sacrifice Himself unto
death to save mankind.
 Jesus spread the good word
and His Father’s love.