JOHN 15:12 "I command you to love each other in the same way that I love you."
You have to make a choice to stay longer.
Is it possible that love lasts an entire lifetime?
Love is tested by doubts, differences, disappointment, distances, delays, debts, demands on life
Love is a choice, not a feeling but it provides good feelings
It's a choice to love or stop loving
Joy: a feeling of great happiness
Ever lasting love?
1 CORINTHIANS 13:7 "Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, and never gives up"
Choice for lasting love?
1. Lasting love extends grace
- you gotta choose to be merciful, show grace
- 1 CORINTHIANS 13:7a
- When do you show grace?
- When their flaws and faults irritate me
- grace is essential because two imperfect person work together
- PROVERS 17:9 "Disregarding another person's faults preserves love."
- EPHESIANS 4:2 "Be humble, be loving, be gentle
- if you are critical on other's fault, you're not humble, loving (grace allowance)
- When their words or actions hurt me
- intentionally or unintentionally-careless because we're not paying attention to other people's life; grace listens; god gave you two ears and one mouth; first duty to love is always to listen
- JAMES 1:19 "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry"
- loving, unselfish choice
- PROVERBS 17:9 "Love forgets mistakes. Nagging about them parts the best of friends."
- PROVERBS 19:11b "When someone wrongs you, it is a great virtue to ignore it."
- When they sin
- 1 PETER 4:8 "Let your love for one another be intense, because love covers over a multitude of sins."
- COLOSSIANS 3:13 " Put up with each other.. (and) forgive as quickly and completely as the Lord forgave you!"
- a great marriage is a union of two great forgivers
- I must choose to extend grace over and over
- trust causes blossom. love never stop believing. love is built on trust. love goes with trust.
- JUDGES 16:15a "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you don't trust me?"
- research on impact of trust on your behavior shows that genuinely trusting people consitently less galble, have a higher IQ, far better adjusted psychologically, live much happier life
- love believes, encourages
- what your loved one might have accomplished in life if you believed in him more? what your husband could have done in life if you said i'm behind you. 'I'm scared to death but I believe God and believe you. Let's go. We limit people by our unbelief. that's unloving.
- ROMANS 14:19 "Let us be always seeking the ways that lead to peace and the ways in which we can support each other."
- Love never loses its faith.
- People blossom when they are told I believe you.
- PSALM 62:8 "Trust God all the time. Tell him all your problems, because God is your protection!"
- I must choose to express faith in people everyday; you're showing love
- always looks for the best.
- people tend to rise to the level of expectations. you change bad behavior by helping him see a picture of what they could become. eg. hey, I think you can be really great if you do this. don't tell how bad it is.
- If you want to be a great lover, treat people the way you want them to become
- 1 CORINTHANS 13:7
- you can do it! every time you encourage somebody you're feeding them.
- #1 killer in marriage is a neglect.
- 1 THE
- I must choose to expect the best from somebody every day.
- It is more rewarding to restore relationship than the run from it
- JOB 6:14
- Ask God to put the spirit of Jesus in you
How to last a relationship?
1. Listen with all your heart
- James 1:19
- You don't automatically listen. have a built in time
- Listening is to listen as the way they want to say
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