WHOLEHEARTED
DEVOTION
BREAD
11 “Who
among the gods is like you, O Lord?
Who is like you-- majestic in holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?” Exodus 15:11 (NIV)
1 I love
you, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my
rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold. Psalms 18:1-2 (NIV)
5 For
you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord,
my confidence since my youth. 6 From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth
from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you. Psalms
71:5-6 (NIV)
11 For I
know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to
give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me,
and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all
your heart. 14 I will
be found by you,” declares the Lord,
“and will bring you back from captivity.”
Jeremiah 29:11-14 (NIV)
29 But if
from there you seek the Lord your
God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all
your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV)
4 Hear,
O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your strength. Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (NIV)
9 “And
you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with
wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every motive
behind the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you
forsake him, he will reject you forever. 10 Consider now, for the Lord
has chosen you to build a temple as a sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.” 1 Chronicles 28:9-10 (NIV)
37 Jesus
replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart
and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This
is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And
the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the
Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV)
16 I pray
that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his
Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with
all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, 19 and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure
of all the fullness of God. Ephesians
3:16-19 (NIV)
21 For to
me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 (NIV)
BUTTER
“You can’t love God with your hands and feet and heart until
you have also come to love him with your head.” Scott
Sauls
“God rewards the person who is
diligent. And for those who will take time in their day to seek the Lord, for
those who will take time to read His Word, for those who will take time to wait
upon Him, He will reveal His truths to them.” Greg Laurie
“Our Lord Jesus, by His death,
didn’t purchase a right to only a part of us, but to the entire person. In His passion, He contemplated our
sanctification in its entirety, spirit, soul, and body, so that, in this triple
kingdom, He Himself might reign supreme without a rival. It is the business of the newborn nature which
God has given to the regenerate to assert the rights of the Lord Jesus
Christ. My soul, inasmuch as you are a
child of God, you must conquer all the rest of yourself which yet remains
unblessed; you must subdue all your powers and passions to the silver scepter
of Jesus’ gracious reign, and you must never be satisfied until He who is King
by purchase becomes also King by gracious coronation, and reigns in you
supreme.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“God of all Love,
your love for me and for the whole creation is beyond anything I can imagine.
Your thoughts are not my thoughts, and your ways are not my ways. But the
immensity of your love does not frighten me, it encourages me. For if I could
fully fathom your love and live in it, it would be no bigger than I am. And I
need a love at work in me that is infinitely larger than that. I give myself
today as completely as I can, knowing that the experience of your love will
create an even greater openness to you in the days to come. Choose for me the
best expression of your love as I live today, and I will gladly receive it, as
well as seek to find ways to share it with others. In Jesus’ name. Amen” Steve Harper
“He who with his whole heart draws near to God must of necessity be
proved by temptation and trial.” Albert
the Great
“Greatness is not
made through one trial or one victory.
It is hammered out over and over on the anvil of daily demands. Most often this work is done alone – in
complete obscurity. But God sees every
word, every choice, and every action.
Devoted hearts are never wasted.
He frequently uses the obscure, the broken, or the outcast for some of
His greatest work.” Charles R.
Swindoll
“Love Him
totally who gave Himself totally for your love.” Claire
of Assisi
“All love…casts
the mind into the mold of the thing beloved.” John
Owen
HEART SAVOR
·
The more I
know God, the more I love Him and the more I love Him the more I trust Him and wholeheartedly
desire to follow Him.
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God rewards those who
earnestly seek Him. 6 And without faith it is impossible to
please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and
that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:5-6 (NIV)
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Perfect peace
occurs where Jesus rules in a life.
