{"id":400,"date":"2017-10-08T11:39:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=400"},"modified":"2017-10-08T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:26:57","slug":"how-do-i-know-that-i-love-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/10\/08\/how-do-i-know-that-i-love-god\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I know that I love God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Love is the most important part of the spiritual structures of our lives. Love is a progression, starting with loving God. How do we know that we love Him?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We&#8217;re committed. We&#8217;re dedicated to God, no matter what&#8217;s going on in our lives. Commitment means we will not be moved.<\/li>\n<li>Do we live to please Him, or to please ourselves?<\/li>\n<li>Do we seek His presence?<\/li>\n<li>Are we obedient when He tells us to do something?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How do we get to a place of loving God?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Repent<\/li>\n<li>Speak the Word out loud<\/li>\n<li>Sing to HIm<\/li>\n<li>Speak His name<\/li>\n<li>Spend quiet time listening<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures:<\/strong> Psalm 37:5, Proverbs 16:3, Deuteronomy 10:12, Luke 14:25-26, Hebrews 10:19<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-400-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-08-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-08-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-08-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love is the most important part of the spiritual structures of our lives. Love is a progression, starting with loving God. How do we know that we love Him? We&#8217;re committed. We&#8217;re dedicated to God, no matter what&#8217;s going on&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/10\/08\/how-do-i-know-that-i-love-god\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}