3. Mark 12:30-31 (NIV)
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

4. God created us to be relational and for relationships to be pleasing to God they must be on His terms.

5. Prov. 19:22 NIV What a person desires is unfailing love...

6. Prov. 3:5-6
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

7. Ephesians 3:16-19 (NLT)
16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you
will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

8. To be loved with an unfailing love we need to allow it to consume us.

9. When we are consumed by God’s love we truly know God and we get to know ourselves better.

10. Those found in Christ fully relying upon His resources demonstrate that love to others as well as themselves.

11. Jn. 1:12
To all those who received Him and believed in His name, He have the right to become children of God.

12. BELIEVE + RECEIVE = BECOME

13. Christ followers must not only believe what Jesus said about himself is true but also what He says about you is true.

14. To receive the gift of God’s love and grace requires our humility.