What is necessary for one to experience the Love of God?

If someone wants to experience the love of God, it is necessary to have the love of God in their heart.  It says in 1 John 4:15-16 (NKJV)” 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.”  So in order to experience the love of God we first have to receive the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ.  When we have been born again of water and spirit, then we have received the love of God into our hearts.  If we have received this love already, then we need to stir it up and elevate it in our thinking.  We need to give it priority in our life.