Quoting @Gentlemenlegacy from twitter.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Revelation on love
I've had a revelation of what love is. Its being selfless, where the other persons Joy is placed above your Joy and uncomfortability.
Its doing what you have to do (within sanity) to make the other person happy.
This is in a human love relationship.
Many couples are different, have different personalities.
This is how they can come into agreement, Quoting Joyce Meyer:
There are no two people who need to get in agreement more than a married couple. God has done so much for Dave and me since we have gotten out of strife and learned to humble ourselves to the point that we don't have to be right all the time. Many wars are started in our homes over unimportant issues that don’t matter, such as whether to turn left or right out of the neighborhood when both streets go to the same store. If you want to have power in your marriage and in your prayer life, then you have to get along. You can learn how to "disagree agreeably" without causing strife.
The big question is: How do people who are not of one mind learn to agree? Agreement comes when the people involved stop being selfish. A lot of adults still deal with selfishness. All that selfishness amounts to is, "I want what I want when I want it, and I don't really care what you want because I want what I want." Selfishness is an immature inward focus. If each one of us will learn to voice our wants, but choose what best serves everybody in the family, then we will find peace. The key is to care about what the other person needs, be willing to humble ourselves, and do what we can to meet those needs.
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=two_are_better_than_on
Link To Joyce Meyer article
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=two_are_better_than_one
Also Joyce Meyer Continues to say on a different article:
Love is the highest form of maturity. It often requires a sacrificial gift. If love doesn't require some sort of sacrifice on our part, we probably don't love the other person at all. If there is no sacrifice in our actions, we are most likely reacting to something nice they did for us, or simply pretending to be kind to gain some control over them. Love is almost always undeserved by the person who receives it.
Our decisions should always have our spouse's interests in mind. Even a mediocre marriage requires sacrifice. It is important to understand that true love gives of itself.
Sacrifice means you are not going to have your way all the time. This means both the husband and wife are called to love each other with unconditional love. There has to be sacrifice of selfish desires if a couple is going to enjoy a triumphant marriage. As for me, every day when I get up, I choose to have a good marriage. I'm not leaving that one for chance to decide!
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=how_to_make_your_marriage_succeed
This is from Kenneth Copeland Ministries:
Its doing what you have to do (within sanity) to make the other person happy.
This is in a human love relationship.
Many couples are different, have different personalities.
This is how they can come into agreement, Quoting Joyce Meyer:
There are no two people who need to get in agreement more than a married couple. God has done so much for Dave and me since we have gotten out of strife and learned to humble ourselves to the point that we don't have to be right all the time. Many wars are started in our homes over unimportant issues that don’t matter, such as whether to turn left or right out of the neighborhood when both streets go to the same store. If you want to have power in your marriage and in your prayer life, then you have to get along. You can learn how to "disagree agreeably" without causing strife.
The big question is: How do people who are not of one mind learn to agree? Agreement comes when the people involved stop being selfish. A lot of adults still deal with selfishness. All that selfishness amounts to is, "I want what I want when I want it, and I don't really care what you want because I want what I want." Selfishness is an immature inward focus. If each one of us will learn to voice our wants, but choose what best serves everybody in the family, then we will find peace. The key is to care about what the other person needs, be willing to humble ourselves, and do what we can to meet those needs.
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=two_are_better_than_on
Link To Joyce Meyer article
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=two_are_better_than_one
Also Joyce Meyer Continues to say on a different article:
Love is the highest form of maturity. It often requires a sacrificial gift. If love doesn't require some sort of sacrifice on our part, we probably don't love the other person at all. If there is no sacrifice in our actions, we are most likely reacting to something nice they did for us, or simply pretending to be kind to gain some control over them. Love is almost always undeserved by the person who receives it.
Our decisions should always have our spouse's interests in mind. Even a mediocre marriage requires sacrifice. It is important to understand that true love gives of itself.
Sacrifice means you are not going to have your way all the time. This means both the husband and wife are called to love each other with unconditional love. There has to be sacrifice of selfish desires if a couple is going to enjoy a triumphant marriage. As for me, every day when I get up, I choose to have a good marriage. I'm not leaving that one for chance to decide!
http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=how_to_make_your_marriage_succeed
This is from Kenneth Copeland Ministries:
Strife is deadly. It opens the door for the devil to steal, kill and destroy our home life. Any time we’re in strife, we give the devil permission to take us captive—at his will. Second Timothy 2:24-26 says, “And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.”
Strife gives the devil the upper hand! Throughout the Scriptures, God warns us about the danger of strife. Yet, it’s still one of the most common problems among believers. Of course, we don’t purposely let it in. We don’t wake up in the morning and say, “I think I’m going to stir up some major strife at home today.” We just inadvertently let it slip up on us—one minor irritation at a time.
If you have a tendency to let things irritate you, then decide to overcome that tendency. Take a big stand against those little opportunities for strife. If you’ve spent a lifetime getting your feathers ruffled over every little thing, it may take a while for you to break that habit, but you can do it. You may have to work at it a moment at a time, but when you do, you’ll be in a place where God can guide your steps and save you from some grave mistakes.
Strife feeds on selfishness. And one of the easiest places to remain selfish is with those dearest to you, in your own home. Being in front of other people often provides an added incentive to operate in love. You can find yourself being nicer and more courteous to friends and acquaintances than to your own family. At home with your family, temptation can come to allow selfish privileges that promote disharmony—as if selfishness had no consequences at home. You may find yourself saying things to those close to you that you wouldn’t dream of saying to anyone else. Thoughtless, hurtful words spoken to our spouse or children can set us up for a strife-ridden home life.
Disagreements happen in every relationship, but it’s more important to avoid strife than to appear justified in our opinions.
So how do we stop strife? We do it by going to the Word of God to seek His wisdom in settling disputes. The wisdom from above is peace, loving and easily entreated, willing to yield to reason.
A husband and wife will see things differently, but if they are both committed to the Word, strife can’t exist. If each of them walk in love and give the Word of God first place in their life (instead of selfish desires), Satan will have no foothold to bring disharmony and division. Allowing the Word of God to be the final authority in settling disagreements will take the pressure off everybody and it will restore harmony in your home.
A Christian husband and wife who learn to live and pray in harmony are mighty instruments of the Lord Jesus. When they agree and pray together about something, it will come to pass (Matthew 18:19). The rewards of living in harmony and backing each other with prayer are more than worth the effort it takes to walk in love with each other.
http://www.kcm.org.za/index.php?option=com_realhelp&task=article&id=300&Itemid=139
With God it means that we obey God even when it hurts, because we love him we strive to make him happy. Thats why the apostle Paul said he dies to self 1 corinthians 15:31 "i face death every day and die to self. He dies to making his life about making himself happy, but it's about making God happy, cause he loves God (Jesus Christ).He dies to the selfishness of making himself happy but to making God happy. Selflessness means that we move from making our lives about us, but out God.
1 John 2 : 5, "but those who obey God's word truly show how completly they love him"
In a relationship there's three people, God, your partner and you. Your love should be guided with making God happy.
Ecclesiasted 4:12
"Three are even better, for a triple braided cord is not easily broken"
With God it means that we obey God even when it hurts, because we love him we strive to make him happy. Thats why the apostle Paul said he dies to self 1 corinthians 15:31 "i face death every day and die to self. He dies to making his life about making himself happy, but it's about making God happy, cause he loves God (Jesus Christ).He dies to the selfishness of making himself happy but to making God happy. Selflessness means that we move from making our lives about us, but out God.
1 John 2 : 5, "but those who obey God's word truly show how completly they love him"
In a relationship there's three people, God, your partner and you. Your love should be guided with making God happy.
Ecclesiasted 4:12
"Three are even better, for a triple braided cord is not easily broken"
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