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Rekindle your love for God
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God looks at the heart

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Great things are in store for all, who love the Heavenly Father with their whole heart.
1Cr 2:
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

God looks at the heart and not at the mode of our religious tradition and worship.
Eph 6:
6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

The whole purpose for our existence is to love God; therefore to not love God is the worst of all failures.
Jos 22:
5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jesus taught us to daily get alone with the Father in secret and also he taught us to love the God the Father with all our hearts, minds, soul and strength.
Mat 6:
6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

The only acceptable offering we can make to God is the offering of a heart filled with love.
Rom 12:
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.

Anything done without love is unacceptable, empty, and meaningless to both God and man.
1Cr 13:
2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Brethren, we are in the last days and Jesus said, "because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold."
Mat 24:
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Have you allowed your love for God to wax cold?
May I urge you to get alone with God and rekindle your love for Him.
James 4
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.