This document discusses signs that indicate how much someone loves God. It uses the example of a failing marriage to illustrate what God might say about a person's relationship with Him. It then quotes scripture describing how those who love God yearn for Him and find satisfaction in Him alone. The document urges readers to consider whether God is their top priority and whether their love for Him has grown weaker over time or remained as strong as when they first became Christians. It closes by emphasizing the importance of loving God with one's whole self.

1. How much do you love
God?

2. A Pretend counseling session with a couple.
Wife “he says he loves me but he is never home
after work till the late hours of night and he is
always too busy on weekends to be with the
family”.
Husband “I just can’t live with her anymore, she is
too restrictive and there is just so many rules. There
are a lot of things I’d rather do than spend the day
with her.”

3. This sound like a pretty broken relationship?
At first glance, it may seem that today’s message is about
marriage, but I want to take this much further for the
Christian.
Let’s suppose you and God went for some relationship
counseling;
● What would He say about the relationship?
● Would He say any of the lines above?
● Would you say any of those things?
● How does God perceive the love you have for Him?

4. So the question is, how much do you love God?
There are particular things, signs if you will, in the Bible are
real indicators of our love for God. (Flip to Isaiah Chapter
62)
● Remember as a teen when you spent hours every night
on the phone with your boyfriend/girlfriend?
● Some of us even snuck out of the house or maybe were
not one-hundred percent honest with our parents to gain
the opportunity to spend time with our high
school/college sweetheart.

5. Isaiah 62
1
For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
2
The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.

6. 3
You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the
Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your
land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you
shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land
Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your
land shall be married.

7. 5
For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.

8. Is your heart that way toward
God?
Psalm 84:2

9. Psalm 84:2
My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.

10. When you love someone, you desire
to spend time with them.

11. Misty and hamburgers
● Aversion to beef since her pregnancy with
Isaac
● Ordering her food
● I do this automatically; she does not have to
tell me. I love her, and I know her well enough
that I know what pleases her.

12. How does this relate to God?
● God hates sin.
● The chicken sandwich of our lives He orders is
most desirable to Him without the beef patty
mixed into the mixture.
● The more we love Him, the more we want Him to
like His sandwich.
● Psalm 97:10a, “Ye that love the LORD, hate evil.”
Do you hate sin?
● What type of love sandwich are you serving God?

13. ● After nine years of marriage, my wife still
satisfies me.
● My happiness level rises when she enters the
room; fears and hardships are easier to bare
when she is there.
● She is not perfect, but she is perfect for me.
● She would say the same about me.
● None of these things that we provide for one
another is not possible without love.

14. Those that love God are satisfied with Him.
● He is the root of our happiness, provides our needs, calms our
fears, answers our questions about life and the universe, and
gives us faith to make it through the day.
● Also if we let him he will mold and shape us

15. And because he first loved us…
● He bled and died for us, rose again the third day,
and will be coming back someday.
● He saves our soul.
● He satisfies every need – spiritual, physical, and
mental to accomplish His will on earth and in our
lives.
● Jeremiah 31:14, “And I will satiate the soul of the
priests with fatness, and my people shall be
satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.”

16. Do you love God enough that He satisfies you?
● Lastly, our love for God will cause us to prefer Him before
worldly things.
● Philippians 3:8, “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss
for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord:
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count
them but dung, that I may win Christ.”

17. The Beginning…
● Many people will shuffle their priorities to
meet the moment.
● Going back to the married couple.
● When the first got together and then married
he held her hand, gave her flowers, made her
the center of his world (or so it seemed).

18. The End…
● Then for whatever reasons, life got in the way.
● He forgot to put God first then himself and then his wife.
● Because God shows us true everlasting unconditional
love.
● He no longer talks to her or spends time with her, and the
relationship is soon cut off.
● She realizes the love the man claimed to have for her
was fleeting at best if it ever existed at all.

19. Where does God float up and down your priority
list?
● Pray Time
● Devotion
● Praying at meals
● Christian fellowship
● Church

20. Here are some hard questions
● Do you Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew
22:37).
● Do you love God more today than a year ago?
● Do you love Him less?
● Do you love Him about the same?
● Do you love Christ just as much as you loved Him when
you first came to know Him?
● Do you still have that new Christian FIRE?

21. Closing…
● Nothing is more important than us loving
the Lord with all of our being.
● Remember: “Love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).