Learning How To Love God His Way

(Learning God’s Language of Love)

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. 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 Him3. to rejoice in serving Him4. to desire continually to please Him5. to seek my happiness in Him6. to thirst day and night for a fuller

enjoyment of Him.

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

• As we think about seeking our happiness in God, we want to learn:

1. God is the source of happiness.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes.

3. God wants to learn how to derive our happiness from our relationship with Him.

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

1. God is the source of happiness.

Psalm 16:11 -

“You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures evermore [forever].”

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

1. God is the source of happiness.

God is the inventor of happiness – “in Your right hand there are pleasures evermore [forever].”

God wants us to know that true and lasting “happiness” comes only from a growing personal relationship with Jesus - “in Your presence is fullness of joy”

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

1. God is the source of happiness.

Psalm 36:7-8:

7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes..

God promises happiness (contentment and satisfaction) to those who obey Him.

Deuteronomy 5:16: “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes..

“that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”

When God says “that it may be well with you,” what motivation is He appealing to?

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes..

Deuteronomy 5:33: You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess. (For similar verses, see Deut. 6:18; Jer. 7:23)

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes..

“that it may be well with you means you will be happy – content and satisfied!

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

1. God is the source of happiness.

2. Happiness is the satisfaction that comes from doing what is good in God’s eyes.

3. God wants to learn how to derive our happiness from our relationship with Him.

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

3. God wants to learn how to derive our happiness from our relationship with Him.

Psalm 128:1-2:

1. “Blessed (happy) is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways.

2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you [you will be content and

satisfied].”

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

3. God wants to learn how to derive our happiness from our relationship with Him.

Psalm 63:5-6:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Element 5: To seek my happiness in God.

3. God wants to learn how to derive our happiness from our relationship with Him.

Psalm 63:1-3: 1. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee

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.• Element 5: To seek my happiness in God, and• Element 6: To thirst day and night for a fuller

enjoyment of God.