Jesus answered, The first and principal one of all commands is: Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God is one Lord; And you shall love the Lord your God out of and with your whole heart and out of and with all your soul (your life) and out of and with all your mind (with your faculty of thought and your moral understanding) and out of and with all your strength. This is the first and principal commandment. The second is like it and is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:29-31, AMP).
Living God: I lift my hands in praise and worship because You are real. I enter Your presence with a heart filled with thanksgiving because Your love for me is so abundant that I am not consumed. (Lamentations 3:22, NIV).
LORD, please forgive me of my sins--for I have said, done, and thought things that are not representative of Your love. It is my desire to show and tell how much I love You, so please purify my heart, remove hateful thoughts from my mind, change my life that I may imitate Christ, and empower me to love You more and extend love to others.
Living God: I lift my hands in praise and worship because You are real. I enter Your presence with a heart filled with thanksgiving because Your love for me is so abundant that I am not consumed. (Lamentations 3:22, NIV).
LORD, please forgive me of my sins--for I have said, done, and thought things that are not representative of Your love. It is my desire to show and tell how much I love You, so please purify my heart, remove hateful thoughts from my mind, change my life that I may imitate Christ, and empower me to love You more and extend love to others.
I ask that your Holy Spirit fall upon me now, that I may go forward in faith, demonstrating how much I love You with all of my heart, mind, soul and strength. (Mark 12:30, AMP). Let me follow Your command and practice bearing the fruit of Love--may my life be pleasing to You, and use me, O LORD, to encourage others to live by the Spirit and follow the Spirit. (Galatians 5:25, HCSB).
In the name of Jesus Christ...AMEN.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. (Galatians 5:19-25, HCSB).
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