God Desires That We love HIM

 Love is the alpha and headspring of the fruit of the spirit. Love is the superlative and pre-eminent affection of the soul. Love is the peak and pinnacle of a life that is hid with Christ in God: "And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
 God Desires That We love HIM to the very heart and core of our being so that the deepest affection of our souls is securely centered with love on Him. God also desires that we love Him with every fiber of our intellect and understanding so that our moment-by-moment thoughts and cognitive ponderings turn in love to His beautiful Person, with an undivided mind.
 Loving the Lord with all our heart, and soul, and mind, and strength, is a progressive love that builds and develops in our Christian walk. As we grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Savior, so we grow in love for the Lord our God and are enabled to have that love translated into the good works that God has prepared for us to do.
 Only as our thoughts and desires are focused on HIM will we grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Only as we love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind and with all our strength, will our love be centered on Him, and our lives transformed into the image of the likeness of the only begotten Son of His Love.
Mark 12:30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Our United Prayer:
Loving Father, we know that our love is weak and cold by comparison with Your yearning heart of love toward us which is expressed in the incredible gift of the Lord Jesus as our Substitute and Savior. We want to love You more and more with every facet of our lives, in thought, word, deed, in spirit, soul, and body. Pour into our hearts Your holy love, that we may be used as channels of blessings through whom Your precious love flows out to those that we meet every day. In Jesus' name we Pray, AMEN.