Why can't we love God with all our hearts?
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satan tries to stand in the way every time we get closer to god and we need to fight him the whole way even though you may feel it is impossible to love god with your whole heart just trying to evict satan from your being is enough to get to heaven you must resist the evil that is satan if you want any chance to gain eternal peace but.... the most important thing is to accept jesus christ as your savior and welcome him into your life now do not wait !!!
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God is a loving God -- He loved us so much that He sent His beloved son Jesus to die for OUR sins so he gives us as many chances as we need -- we just have to accept Jesus as our savior.  Then God holds us in His mighty hand and no one can take us from Him.
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God is Loving, God is All-Powerful, and yet He allows suffering.  Since the Fall of Adam, sin and death have been in the world.  Until the new earth (Rev 21:4) when 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain', it will be so. \n\nAs others mentioned, the climatic picture of His Son's suffering for the elect is a stirring reminder that He controls all things, that God's Son Suffered at the hand of His Father who was pleased to crush Him (Is 53), that God Himself endured the worst pain of all time, and used that public display to define love: 1John4:9-10 'This is love : not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins'.\n\nGod is most glorified when we are most dependent on Him, so He weans us from the many things that displace Him in our lives.  That is love.  Love divine, all loves excelling (hymned Wesley), the romance of Biblical Christianity.\n\nRom 8:28-29  'And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.'
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god lives in everyone but we all have to be willing to let him take over our life's. just remember he is always standing in front of you with open arms because he loves you and he care. its never to late to turn to the father and ask for forgiveness.
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This is a tough one.  Your original question reminds me of Matthew 10:37-39.  I had trouble with that passage as a child.  I couldn't imagine loving anyone more than I loved my parents.  And frankly, I knew it wouldn't be okay with them, which was threatening.\n\nWhat I've learned is that what we sometimes call love isn't very loving.  Sometimes we condition it such that it is merely a means of control or selfishness.\n\nI believe God calls us to love Him most, because if we love on His terms, we love everyone else better.  When we learn to define love as patience, kindness, truthfulness, hopefulness; having endurance and belief; able to bear all things; lacking envy, pride, rudeness, self-gratification, evil thoughts; not easily angered, not gloating over the failures of another, and neverending - when we define love as serving others instead of demanding that they please us, we love them to their highest good.\n\nMy husband and I both come from dysfunctional homes.  Abusive homes.  What we learned about love in our families, we knew we didn't want to pass on to the children we hoped we'd have or to incorporate into our relationship.  We promised to help each other love God most - even more than we loved each other.\n\nAnd that's hard sometimes.  But loving God most, helps us keep our family patterns out of our relationship.  It helps us love each other in ways that would not naturally flow from what we learned in our upbringing.
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Love for God then Love for one another
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Those who love God are called to love Him.
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Can u see ur own heart.u can't. So u can't say God is not present.
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yea! why didnt God just make us all robots programmed to love Him.
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Young Pastor with your heart in the right place:  God is not a thief that He would steal the hearts of man.  Accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is a choice that each one of us must make from the heart.  \n\nAs you can tell from most of the questions and answers here very few people are ambiguous about how they feel about God.  It is to those people you should share the Gospel of Jesus.  Show them hope and the promise of salvation.  \n\nBe blessed in your walk with God.  I am.
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No we can never do enough. We should keep obeying Him and doing good deeds. Pray for forgiveness and mercy. God will decide who deserves Heaven and who doesn't.
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ok,we can do nothing apart from God,Jesus said actually commanded us to love one another,however we cannot do this without Gods help,as for intercessory prayers that is when you feel led by the Holy Spirit to pray for someone other than yourself
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Without God, we are not capable of knowing what love is.  \n\nAre we supposed to read your name "Pastor Hatred"?\n\nYou still haven't told us what it is that you have against God.
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We cannot understand the nature of God he did not design our minds to be able to do so.His ways are not our ways.He surpasses all understanding.Yes I believe what you have said but I can not understand.
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I'm the type of person that needs absolutely everything proved to her.  Everything.  But I've found there are two exceptions...god and love.  Sure I can dissect the reasons why I believe in both, but what it comes down to is I simply *feel* them both.  I'm not talking about blind faith here.  It's sort of...instinct.  A gut feeling, if you will.
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Sometimes there are no clear answers to a question. This is one of those questions where nobody can give an answer and support it with concrete evidence.\n\nPart of the reason these questions aren't easily answered is that God wants us to CHOOSE to love Him. He didn't want to make things so obvious that we instantly know He exists.
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maybe. God uses hardships & struggle to build character to the person you might think has a 'hard life'. if he just hands over everything we want we dont learn anything.