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Post by zirui on Nov 16, 2017 21:31:02 GMT
I don’t want to sin anymore. Sinning grieves God. I think the reason why we disobey and sin is because we don’t love him enough. I want to love him to a point where I cannot even bear the thought of sin. It’s hard. I want to love him to the point where I can trust him with all of my life describe even if it hurts. How do I increase my love towards Jesus and God the father and the Holy Ghost? Love love love. God is Love. How to get more love? Love is more than an emotion it’s so much more than feeling and even our actions Love is so big so complex. Love
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Post by Monii on Nov 16, 2017 22:06:45 GMT
Pray God will give you more love for Him. I personally like to remember everything He has done for me.
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Post by nobody on Nov 17, 2017 2:45:55 GMT
There's a simple answer from scripture.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
1 John 2:15-17
So step one is not filling your senses with what Pagans love. To renounce the passions of the carnal life.
Step two gets a little more intense...
The instruction comes in Romans 12, to offer your body as a living sacrifice. An old Bible teacher I love joked that the problem with a living sacrifice is that it keeps trying to crawl down off of the altar. Lapsing in devotion is like being a boat set adrift. As we turn to do another thing the boat has gotten too far from our grasp and you need to get soaked and really exert some effort to bring it back again.
The only way to love God more is to hate the world more, and the best way to hate the world more is to pour yourself out in service, in seemingly futile acts of agape love. You CAN even put this into practice on a secular job, skip lunch, work nonstop do more than is required from bell to bell ask for more and never complain. In Ecclesiastes it's written to cast your bread upon the waters and it shall return to you. The verse is about material substance, but it works spiritually too, the principle is as Jesus said... Give and it shall be given you in good measure pressed down shaken and flowing over.
One of the first preachers I loved used to rightly say, "you can't out-give God." The only way to find out if that's true is to try it as you give and give and they take and take and you have to fight hard to overcome your own impulses to say enough is enough... (consider it now, even Jesus in his Humanity asked "if there be any other way...") when you get to the bottom of the barrel and there's nothing left and yet somehow God starts giving you MORE, you give and continue to give and the love of God will rise up in you like a river bursting at it's banks.
Street preaching is a GREAT WAY to do this. However many enter a temptation to harden themselves and try to shock sinners by preaching Hell. What will shock them more is the genuine weeping love you have for their souls over the reality of Hell that you genuinely believe. The love Jesus put in you is meant to be shared courageously. There is only life in community.
Get radical with a love that cost you everything and you'll find the Love of the Father. Get stretched, get empty, God fills and brings abundance; that's the path of Christ. His words... "follow me."
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Post by waris on Nov 17, 2017 11:30:20 GMT
Honestly spend your time with God. Reading or listening to the audio version of the bible, watching sermons or teachings that are of sound doctrine, listening to gospel music (I try to avoid hillsong/jesus culture/bethel etc.). Fill your soul and spirit with things of God. Pray more and talk to him throughout your day even if you can't really hear responses yet. Stop watching all the meaningless tv and youtube videos and stop listening to secular music (if you haven't already). These things can poison the mind. Do what the bible tells you to do (keep His commandments). Work on producing fruits of the spirit. Be honest in what you say and all you do. Surrender all. Have compassion on others and ask to see through the eyes of Jesus Christ. Right before you sin ask if this is what God would want from you (you might feel some conviction and not do it). Ask God to take away the sin from you if you have trouble letting go (it might not go away immediately, but after some time you will just not do it). Have faith and believe in Him and His Word.
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