1. Learning How To Love God His Way (Learning God’s Language of Love)

2. 1. The Command to love God Jesus quotes from Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

3. 3. The Characteristics of true love for God. To love God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength is to commit myself to: 1. be totally loyal to God and obey Him in everything 2. to delight in Him 3. to rejoice in serving Him 4. to desire continually to please Him 5. to seek my happiness in Him 6. to thirst day and night for a fuller enjoyment of Him.

4. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. As we think about continually pleasing God in everything we do: 1.Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. 2.Practical steps to pleasing God continually.

5. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. John 14:31 - Jesus says: “So that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me.”

6. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. Jesus says that he showed His love for the Father by doing everything in his life exactly as the Father commanded him to do.

7. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. Colossians 1:10 - Paul teaches us to: “walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”

8. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. 2 Cor. 5:9 - Paul’s desire and goal: “Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.”

9. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. There is no area of your life that God does not care about. There are no non-essentials!

10. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. Questions for thought: 1. Does God care about what you wear? 2. Does God care about what you say? 3. Does God care about what you read? 4. Does God care about what games you play? 5. Does God care about where you go or what you do? 6. Does God care about what you eat or if you exercise?

11. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to desire to please the one we love. Ephesians 5:8-10: Paul says, “For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light... finding out what is acceptable to the Lord”

12. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. Pleasing God is the heart-beat of anyone who is a “child of light.” Questions for thought: 1.What motivates a child to bring a flower they picked from the road-side to their mother? 2.What motivates a wife to cook her husband his favorite mean? 3.What motivates you to do the things you do? 4.What motivates you to say the things you do?

13. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 1. Love motivates us to please the one we love. 2.Practical steps to pleasing God continually. Find out what God says pleases Him. Learn that obedient faith pleases Him.

14. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 2. Practical steps to pleasing God continually. Find out what God says pleases Him Read you Bible – think about what you read! Pray - ask God to teach you what pleases Him!

15. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. 2. Practical steps to pleasing God continually. Learn that obedient faith pleases Him. Hebrew 11:6 - “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him”

16. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. Faith has three elements. 1. Faith believes what God says. 2.Faith commits to do what God requires. 3.Faith trusts in and rests on what God promises.

17. Element 4: To desire continually to please God. God is very concerned about the attitude we manifest as we serve Him. Eph. 5:10 - Find out what is pleasing to the Lord! Col. 1:10 - Our goal: “To please Jesus in everything we do. John 14:31 – Be like Jesus – do exactly what God commands you to do.

18. Learning How To Love God His Way Element 1: To commit myself to be totally loyal to God and obey Him in everything. Element 2: To delight in God. Element 3: To rejoice in serving.Him Element 4: To desire continually to please Him. Next time: Element 5: To seek my happiness in God, and Element 6: To thirst day and night for a fuller enjoyment of God.