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How To Love God With All Of Your Heart

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Answer: To love God with all your heart means God becomes your first loyalty—your deepest desire, your highest trust, and your chosen obedience. It’s not a mood; it’s a steady direction: turning from rival loves, returning to God daily, and practicing devotion through prayer, Scripture, worship, and quick repentance.

Key Explanation

Loving God with all your heart is the Great Commandment in action: the center of your inner life moves toward God instead of away from Him. The Bible describes this wholehearted love as seeking God, trusting Him, obeying Him, and refusing divided loyalties.

Scripture anchor (KJV): “And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart…” (Deuteronomy 6:5). “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments…” (1 John 5:3).

What “With All Your Heart” Means

  • Undivided direction: your life is aimed at pleasing God, not balancing God against idols.
  • Chosen loyalty: you prefer God’s will over your impulses and excuses.
  • Whole-person devotion: your thoughts, habits, time, and desires increasingly align with God.

7 Practical Steps You Can Start Today

  • Return first: Begin the day with a simple “Yes” to God before anything else.
  • Remove rivals: Identify the top distraction that steals your affection and reduce it deliberately.
  • Feed love with truth: Read a short passage and ask, “What does this show me about God?”
  • Obey quickly: When conviction comes, act fast—delay makes love cold.
  • Practice gratitude: Thank God out loud; love grows where thanks is practiced.
  • Choose clean inputs: What you watch, scroll, and listen to trains your heart—choose wisely.
  • End with God: Review the day, repent quickly, and thank Him again.

Common Reasons People Feel “Stuck”

  • Divided affection: trying to love God while feeding a competing love.
  • Unconfessed sin: guilt makes people hide from God instead of running to Him.
  • Routine without heart: religious habits with no attention, no honesty, no obedience.

Quick tip: If you want to love God more, start with one small obedience you’ve been delaying—wholehearted love grows in the soil of immediate obedience.

A Simple Daily “Wholehearted Love” Rhythm

  • Morning (5 minutes): short prayer + one Bible paragraph + one obedience step.
  • Midday (30 seconds): pause, thank God, and realign your thoughts.
  • Evening (3 minutes): review, repent, forgive, and rest in God’s mercy.

A Short Prayer

Lord, I choose You first today. Turn my heart from anything that competes with You. Teach me to obey quickly, to seek You honestly, and to love You with my whole heart. Amen.

A simple visual representing wholehearted devotion to God
Wholehearted love is a daily direction: choosing God first in desire, trust, and obedience.

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References

  • Deuteronomy 6:5 (KJV)
  • Matthew 22:37 (KJV)
  • 1 John 5:3 (KJV)
  • Psalm 119:10 (KJV)