I Can’t, But He Can
March 27, 2014
Jesus begins teaching His disciples eight attitudes—called, the “beatitudes”, or “blessed attitudes.” Jesus gives a promise to bless the disciple who has each one of these attitudes. These blessed attitudes profile the mind-set, or way of thinking, that affects the behavior of a disciple of Jesus so he can be part of the solution and answer of Christ to all the suffering in the world. The first is “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
References:
Matthew 5:3
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Jesus preached this pivotal sermon on a mountaintop in Galilee when He challenged people who professed to be His disciples, to be strategically placed between the love of God and the pain of the hurting people in the world. He challenged His disciples to partner with Him and be conduits of His love. He concluded His sermon with a call to commitment and He appointed 12 of those people apostles, or “sent ones” who lived and died for Jesus.
March 24, 2014
The Sermon on the Mount is considered the essence of Jesus’ teaching and training for His followers so they could go into the world with His message and in His strength. In this lesson we learn the context of perhaps the most well known and yet misunderstood passage in the entire Bible. Many followed Jesus because of His healing ministry and Jesus invited some of His followers to be part of His solution to all the problems of humanity.
March 20, 2014
God intended sex for many purposes. One of the first purposes is procreation, but it is also meant to be a vehicle of expression for married couples. Unfortunately, what God designed for a joyful expression of oneness often becomes one of the greatest obstacles to our oneness. God’s Word shows us what our attitudes and expectations about sex should be in the context of the God-ordained institutions of marriage and family; to bring fulfillment and pleasure to both husband and wife.
March 17, 2014
The Bible provides answers to help us in understanding our God-given role, but the labor of division in a Christian home should be based on our natural gifts, talents, and our spiritual gifts. If our lives and homes are built on Jesus, and we understand our spouses, it will keep crises from destroying our marriage. God created sex for procreation. God also intended for intimacy to be an expression of love and the joyful expression of oneness.
March 13, 2014
We must understand the uniqueness of our spouse to be able to communicate at a deeper level. There are eight Biblical questions we should ask: “Where are you?”, “Who told you?”, “Have you eaten from the forbidden tree?”, “What have you done?” “Where have you come from?” and “Where are you going?”, “Who are you?” and “What is it you really want?” In other words, Do you want to be who, where and what God planned for you to be?
March 10, 2014
Understanding our spouse is the link that provides for the growth of relationship and the oneness. The value and worth of a man or a woman is based on their function and role as God has created them. A great prayer for our marriages is by Francis of Assisi: “Lord make me an instrument of your peace… grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love…”
March 6, 2014
Oneness—the two becoming one flesh—is the foundation of a marriage relationship, and love is the expression of that oneness. Without agape love, we can never have the kind of marriage God intended. This kind of love is irreplaceable, indestructible, unconditional, inspirational, and irresistible. We must realize this kind of love is impossible without God’s help. God intended marriages to be indissoluble and hates divorce. God’s Word teaches us to have boundaries for marriage that protect and preserve the relationship.
March 3, 2014
Love is the great expression of the oneness God intended when He said, “The two shall become one flesh.” One big problem in marriage is selfishness. When we learn to treat our spouse unselfishly—to put our spouse’s needs at the center—we begin to love as Jesus does. Divine love is best described in 1 Corinthians 13 and shows us how we should love others. With agape love, marriage can truly be fulfilling and everything God intended it to be.
February 27, 2014
Compatibility is the evidence of the oneness God designed for a husband and wife. Compatibility includes our: physical relationship, values, spiritual maturity, moral issues, how we spend our time and money, children issues, and every other area of life together. Your spiritual compatibility is foundational in defining the roles and responsibilities each have. In order to maintain compatibility, we must accept our spouse's strengths and weaknesses. The Bible gives us several instructions about how husbands and wives should relate to each other.
February 24, 2014
Good communication is the tool that helps us maintain and strengthen a husband and wife to work on their oneness. Just as we maintain and cultivate our relationship with Christ by communicating with Him in prayer and listening for His voice, married couples must maintain and cultivate their relationship with each other. Communication is like turning a light on our relationship, exposing things that would harm the oneness and revealing things that would help us grow closer.
February 20, 2014
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