How Can I Love God More Than My Boyfriend?

Ask Pastor John
Episode: 1537

[Growingingodliness]

Keep God above all things so that the rest can fall into place 🙏🏽

[HearGodsWord]

Loving God more helped me to love my wife better. ❤

[neidamarroquin]

Most beautiful poem. So intricately written. Thank you God for inspiring this man. It ministered to me greatly.

[justme]

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:26‭-‬27

[joansanchez]

BEAUTIFUL, artistic, heartfelt, smart, Spirit fueled, POEM! Thanks for sharing Pastor John!

[darthhobbit]

God took my fiance from me as He knew I was backsliding from Him 😔 I've only been a follower of Jesus for almost 6 years now. My fiance passed away almost 4 years ago. I wish God would take my memories of us together away from me. 15 years we spent together. I have found my faith was what got me through losing my fiance. The old me would have committed suicide to get away from the heartache but with Jesus, I can do this 🙏

[Dibdib]

Thankfully I’m ignored the title and listened. What wisdom for everyone! And I just loved that poem❤️thank you Pastor John.

[Richie]

Thankyou Pastor John for preaching God's word.

[maxaplin]

Very good teaching. For so many Christians, wives and husbands, and especially children, become more important than God, i.e., they become idols.

[patricebrown]

Beautiful message and poem. Both indeed inspired by the Holy Spirit. Ministered to me greatly. ❤🙏🏽

[torasacramento]

Beautiful - because if you love God more than your favorite love on earth you will always treat them as God wants you to :)

[angieblove]

How can I control these thoughts 💭 ? HOW how can I change these tapes that just keep playing and playing and playing in this plagued mind? I love Jesus but apparently not enough or I would be successful in destroying this part of myself that formed itself based in and around so much pain and trauma both physically and mental/emotional . I listen to things of Jesus, sermons and teachings, I am in the Word every morning ... I play worship music and sing to my God and I am on my knees praying to Him for guidance and peace and direction and deliverance. I have come a long way yes, but still feel so very far to go. Please lift me up in prayer my name is Angie. Thank you all 🙏🏻

[ashley.elizabeth.rose]

I broke up with my 5 year relationship because of this reason. I felt as though I wasn't suppose to be with him. He tried to build a relationship with God to please me. I had to let go because I couldn't let him live that lie. I am struggling because he is the best relationship I have ever had with someone. He is gentle, kind, peaceful, respectful, and caring. He would ask God to help him with loving him more, but would stay the same. God made this heavy on my heart so I had to let go. I am hurting so bad

[delbertclement]

So what I am getting from this is that 1.) I shouldn’t be too worried about this question because at the end of the day, God is gonna sort it out (or interpret some if not all negative situations outside of my control involving my significant other as God’s way of telling me that I love my significant other too much… yet I kind of need to be begging the question as to whether I love God more than my loved one in order to see any such aforementioned chain of events as an indication of God’s dissatisfaction in this specific dilemma i.e. this seems to be fundamentally subjective and arbitrary) And 2.) If I happen to do a thing that I know to be fundamentally a sin out of a consequence of loving someone, than I know that I am disproportionately loving someone inappropriately. I think the later conclusion is much more of a certain criteria than the former. In fact, if you are a person prone to anxiety, I would argue that the former can destroy a good and godly relationship. On principle I think it best not to presume to know why God permits specific events in our personal life to happen. It could be for what theological dilemma we are wrestling with understanding in the moment or simply something completely different. It’s better just to trust that God loves us and is simply trying to bring the whole world under His love and protection which requires a degree of pain and heartache considering how much this world has been permeated by sin… it’s best for us to just to keep our head above water and pursue the good which is God rather than ask questions that have no real tangible answers outside of subjective postulations.

[TheBubbaclark]

Marry him... :) Seriously though all it takes is a couple years of marriage... even a good marriage for you to realize your spouse can never fulfill you.

[karn]

I was thinking about this yesterday. What this means.
Sometimes u have to make a choice between something u love and choosing god. Example. Im 34 yr, i would like to have kids but after i divorce i havent found a godly men. I feel i "wasting" my last years of motherhood to have kids. In a way i feel i have to choose. And i really feel sad sometimes that im wating and wating and im risking not having kids in my life. But i have to trust god can provide a godly men for me and children even if am older. I think of sarah and Elizabeth from the bible.

[krishnasaikia]

Remember we don't live for humans, but for jesus. If you think putting god first will help your relationship then your love for jesus is nothing. If you love jesus as he is the one only sevior . Love jesus not for your relationship but unconditionally

[justme]

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God."
John 8:42‭-‬47

[migraineman]

I want to leave and be prepared for the right one according to God's will.

[angloaust]

Human love is mutable
Liable to change
Best to stay single
Avoid close physical contact
Remember the eternal
Surpasses the temporal
When christ returns one
Taken and one left