Leviticus 26:2-4 KJV
2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
We serve a never changing God. He expects something from his people. He longs to have relationship with his children. He wants to bless you!!
Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Jesus told us to show our love for him by keeping his commandments. We often wonder why our prayers go unanswered. Well maybe, just maybe it's because we do all the asking but not the keeping. We have the power within ourselves to speak life and death but we MUST keep God's commandments, we must live by them and honor them.
John 14:14-16
14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
We can't say we Love God and serve him and not keep his commandments.
John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
We can't be half way Christians. God expects all or nothing from us.
Revelation 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
