Bible Study.
I am a Beth Moore fan!! I enjoy to listening to her teach the bible! She's funny and right on. There are times she goes to the extreme but that's what I enjoy so much about her!
Today I watched a dvr'd show about The Guarded Heart. The next series is on The Healing Heart. But, as a mother of 3 very strong willed and independent minded children I am struggling some. :) Aren't we all, though. Bless your heart! I watched it I believe 4 times just so it sunk in. I really felt like God was speaking to my inner most parts! He was trying to tell me, "WAKE UP YOU CRAZY WOMAN. I'M TALKING TO YOU!!! " So, I wanted to share with anyone and everyone that may or may not be interested. :D
So.......
We need to be on the lookout for areas in our life with diminishing love. Love is our biggest priority and it's stated in the bible MANY times. If we don't have love then we have nothing. John 5:39-42 What we attempt to do, because we want to 'do the right thing', is to maintain our devotion to a relationship but we withdraw our emotion. Exodus 34: 6-7.
Blend of willing & feeling. When we don't feel it we try to will it. We will accept situation and just say we ae going to will it which is not at the heart of AGAPE love. We only will it long enough to get back to feeling it.
If we want to have a heart like God's and have God's heart beating in us we can't sit back ad will it. We sooner or later will withdraw our devotions as well. Your devotion follows your emotion. It's very important how and what we feel. Because what we feel, our emotion, will be come what we do, our devotion.
The people closest to you have the iggest capacity to hurt you. You may be around them but you think you can't make me love you. Sooner or later your devotion will follow your emotion. You have to ask for it back. You have to ask for your love back! Wherever you have suffored diminshing love you have not guarded your heart. Ask the Lord to give it back so you can get back to it. Our goal in life is not to not get hurt. If we are going to love big and love a lot then w are going to get hurt a lot. But we are goign to live a full life and love one another! You have to get your heart back into it! You have to ask for your love back!
The next series is on a healing heart! So if you are too broken hearted to get back into it then you need to hear the next series!!
We need our love back. One thing that is misleading us. Often we withdraw the wrong thing. A situation may call for us to withdraw something but it's not our love.
Examples:
In parenting sometimes kids hit adolescnce and we thinkg what has over taken my child!
There are times you try to parent a child you may not presently like. You want to look around and say, 'You little snot." And sometimes we do. We do say it.
A child can go through a season of such rebellion and sarcasm and sullenness that we can suffer the maintaining part of love. We love our children, but we are ticked and worn out and just plain tired. We ralize that we are suffereing a little bit of diminishing love presently. We can get it back! We have to ask God for our love back!
God demonstrates his love in a big way. Sometimes he withdraws blessing so we will have to look up! God blesses for obedience (not money or things) and withdraws for disobedience. FWe should bless our children the same way.
In our humanity we will withdraw love & maintain blessing. We keep blessing and keep blessing. We are so ticked at that kids we 'bought the car' and keep giving back the car keys.
We give money to support their negativity. Sometimes we will take them to the mall or out to cheer them up for 10 minutes only to see 11 minutes later they are not happy.
We keep blessing a rebelious chid and long since withdrawn our love. Then know what we are made about? We feel taken advantage of. Well, OF course.
WE ARE.
In any relationship where we continue to support but have withdrawn love we feel taken advantage of.
What if we withdrew support but we maintained love?
With a sullen teen, make them go out on a date with you and watch a movie and they have to have a good time! Not if or ands about it.
A Pastor friend of hers had a 15 year old daughter. His only daughter and they were close. She was his princess. Well, one day she didn't like her dad. So, he got permission from his wife and her support to do something during spring break. He went up to his daughters room and told her to pack a bag. SHe asked how long? Where are we going? The dad told her that he didn't know and they would be back when she liked him. Daughter told her dad she didn't want to go. Dad told daughter he didn't ask her. SO they left. She did not say one word to him for 2 days. The third day she started to talk a little bit. The fourth day she was laughing her head off. By the 5th day she was having the time of their lives. And by the 7th day their relationship was restored. By then they had been across 4 states and eaten every type of hot dog you could imagine. But, he decided their hearts were getting back into it and they couldn't let it go. An incredible picture!!
Where is that you feel powerless? Is it that you have withdrawn the wrong thing? You don't have to act like you like someone's problems or addictions!!!
Choose to love them! But make it clear you don't like that but you do love them!
Don't hate the person! Hate the problem! Maintain to have loved lavishly to be the point of life.
SO, there's my stash of joy and bible study today! I took only those notes so maybe it will be of great blessing to you today. God bless you all that are reading this. Have a wonderful day and I hope and pray that you find the areas of your diminishing love. Ask God to restore it! It's so worth it to love those you have relationships with!!
Have a wonderful day.
:) Blessings be yours,
♥
Today I watched a dvr'd show about The Guarded Heart. The next series is on The Healing Heart. But, as a mother of 3 very strong willed and independent minded children I am struggling some. :) Aren't we all, though. Bless your heart! I watched it I believe 4 times just so it sunk in. I really felt like God was speaking to my inner most parts! He was trying to tell me, "WAKE UP YOU CRAZY WOMAN. I'M TALKING TO YOU!!! " So, I wanted to share with anyone and everyone that may or may not be interested. :D
So.......
We need to be on the lookout for areas in our life with diminishing love. Love is our biggest priority and it's stated in the bible MANY times. If we don't have love then we have nothing. John 5:39-42 What we attempt to do, because we want to 'do the right thing', is to maintain our devotion to a relationship but we withdraw our emotion. Exodus 34: 6-7.
Blend of willing & feeling. When we don't feel it we try to will it. We will accept situation and just say we ae going to will it which is not at the heart of AGAPE love. We only will it long enough to get back to feeling it.
If we want to have a heart like God's and have God's heart beating in us we can't sit back ad will it. We sooner or later will withdraw our devotions as well. Your devotion follows your emotion. It's very important how and what we feel. Because what we feel, our emotion, will be come what we do, our devotion.
The people closest to you have the iggest capacity to hurt you. You may be around them but you think you can't make me love you. Sooner or later your devotion will follow your emotion. You have to ask for it back. You have to ask for your love back! Wherever you have suffored diminshing love you have not guarded your heart. Ask the Lord to give it back so you can get back to it. Our goal in life is not to not get hurt. If we are going to love big and love a lot then w are going to get hurt a lot. But we are goign to live a full life and love one another! You have to get your heart back into it! You have to ask for your love back!
The next series is on a healing heart! So if you are too broken hearted to get back into it then you need to hear the next series!!
We need our love back. One thing that is misleading us. Often we withdraw the wrong thing. A situation may call for us to withdraw something but it's not our love.
Examples:
In parenting sometimes kids hit adolescnce and we thinkg what has over taken my child!
There are times you try to parent a child you may not presently like. You want to look around and say, 'You little snot." And sometimes we do. We do say it.
A child can go through a season of such rebellion and sarcasm and sullenness that we can suffer the maintaining part of love. We love our children, but we are ticked and worn out and just plain tired. We ralize that we are suffereing a little bit of diminishing love presently. We can get it back! We have to ask God for our love back!
God demonstrates his love in a big way. Sometimes he withdraws blessing so we will have to look up! God blesses for obedience (not money or things) and withdraws for disobedience. FWe should bless our children the same way.
In our humanity we will withdraw love & maintain blessing. We keep blessing and keep blessing. We are so ticked at that kids we 'bought the car' and keep giving back the car keys.
We give money to support their negativity. Sometimes we will take them to the mall or out to cheer them up for 10 minutes only to see 11 minutes later they are not happy.
We keep blessing a rebelious chid and long since withdrawn our love. Then know what we are made about? We feel taken advantage of. Well, OF course.
WE ARE.
In any relationship where we continue to support but have withdrawn love we feel taken advantage of.
What if we withdrew support but we maintained love?
With a sullen teen, make them go out on a date with you and watch a movie and they have to have a good time! Not if or ands about it.
A Pastor friend of hers had a 15 year old daughter. His only daughter and they were close. She was his princess. Well, one day she didn't like her dad. So, he got permission from his wife and her support to do something during spring break. He went up to his daughters room and told her to pack a bag. SHe asked how long? Where are we going? The dad told her that he didn't know and they would be back when she liked him. Daughter told her dad she didn't want to go. Dad told daughter he didn't ask her. SO they left. She did not say one word to him for 2 days. The third day she started to talk a little bit. The fourth day she was laughing her head off. By the 5th day she was having the time of their lives. And by the 7th day their relationship was restored. By then they had been across 4 states and eaten every type of hot dog you could imagine. But, he decided their hearts were getting back into it and they couldn't let it go. An incredible picture!!
Where is that you feel powerless? Is it that you have withdrawn the wrong thing? You don't have to act like you like someone's problems or addictions!!!
Choose to love them! But make it clear you don't like that but you do love them!
Don't hate the person! Hate the problem! Maintain to have loved lavishly to be the point of life.
SO, there's my stash of joy and bible study today! I took only those notes so maybe it will be of great blessing to you today. God bless you all that are reading this. Have a wonderful day and I hope and pray that you find the areas of your diminishing love. Ask God to restore it! It's so worth it to love those you have relationships with!!
Have a wonderful day.
:) Blessings be yours,
♥
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