KEY SCRIPTURE: Mark 12:30 “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”

From our key scripture, our Lord Jesus says God demands total love. He wants your complete love and not part of it.

In the story of the Exodus of the children of Israel from Egypt, king Pharaoh requested in Exodus 10:24 that “… go ye serve the Lord, only let your flocks and your herds be stayed. Let your little ones also go with you”. Dear brother or sister, Satan, who is a symbol of Pharaoh, does the same. He tells you to serve the Lord, go to church, but don’t commit your whole being unto Him. Give your time but don’t give your money. The devil is always requesting that something be left for him. Please listen well, give no place to the devil. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. (1st Corinthians 5:6, Galatians 5:9). Many Christians do not pay their whole tithe. (Malachi 3:10)God our father, always asks for the whole of everything. If you give only a part, in God’s sight, you have given nothing.

Dear child of God, a little space or agreement you give to Satan seriously complicates your challenges and makes things more difficult for you.

When Pharaoh made that request for them to leave their flocks behind, the following was what Moses said to Him,” Our cattle shall go with us, there shall not an hoof be left behind……” Moses was not going to enter into any bargaining pact with the devil. The Lord said, You shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with thy strength. He always wants everything. Israel was called from slavery and their complete response is what makes their liberty whole. Our decision to wholly love the Lord gives us the true freedom God has intended for us.

God is perfect good. He can be trusted with your everything. His word has sustained the universe and has kept it intact in all these years. The scripture says that he spared not His own son but delivered Him up for us all. How shall he not with Him also freely give us all things(Romans 8:32)

It is not safe to leave any portion of your love for other things. God sanctifies and multiplies whatever he receives. Let Him have your everything. (Matthew 14:19).This is the only way to true liberty.

 CONFESSION

I love the Lord with my whole being. Every aspect of my life is to please Him. My way is made perfect as I live to honour Him with my whole being.

FURTHER STUDIES.

Ephesians 4:26-27. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48 “Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.”