GREAT COMMANDMENT

Great Commandment/Great Commission

             Constantly love God with every passion of your heart, with your every thought, and with all your strength – and love your neighbor in the same                         way as you love yourself.  Mark 12:30 tPt

To love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength you must first know and experience His incredible unconditional love for you.  We love because He first loved us…..

It is now possible for us to know Him experientially and intimately.  It is all about relationship.  He is our One and only.

We must know who we are in Him and our authority in Him so that serving Him comes out of a secure love relationship, not fear or appeasement.

Our significance, self-worth and security do not, and must not, depend on our own efforts, what others think of us, or on how well we do – but in Jesus’ love and forgiveness.

We want to minister like Jesus – out of a secure place in the Father and only doing what we see the Father doing,

Secondly, it’s all about loving your neighbor as yourself.  Love must be our personal foundation (Eph 3:16-19) and the basis for our ministry – to love as Jesus loves (1 Corinthians 3; John 15:12).

We must be full of God’s love so that it is overflowing out of us and everyone we are in contact with will be touched by this love.

 God’s love is a secure foundation for ministry – it will help you to see people as He sees them and love them as He loves them.   (Eph. 3:16-19)