2018.8.18-3 The Benefits of Relationship Part 2 (Vertical)

The health of your relationships with others will only be as healthy as your relationship is with Jesus.Practical:You don’t connect with spouse cause you’re not happy with yourself...only as healthy as your relationship is with Jesus.Not really an introvert but because of your shame you keep to yourself...only as healthy as your relationship is with Jesus.Unhealthy perspective. “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me I guess I’ll go eat worms!”...only as healthy as your relationship is with Jesus.There is nothing more impt than my family. It doesn’t matter how much I tell that I love them or try to show them. No matter how much I love them, if I’m wounded...Hurt people hurt people. I wonder how much church hurt comes from people and not the pulpit. People don’t speak. People are rude. Nasty attitudes.Theological Jesus said:

NKJV18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

Pt: You’ll never get what He offers if you never take Him at His word. And so now, we try to feel better, do better have better and we’re limited because we really don’t love ourselves.Greatest Command

NKJV39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The benefits of relationships...

1. I Get AccountabilityIll: Me drinking out of the bottle from fridge

NKJV1 A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

Proverbs 18:1 NKJV

1 A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

NKJV1 A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire; He rages against all wise judgment.

2. I Get Back Up

NKJV12 Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

3. I Can Expect to Grow - I’m pushed into to doing better

:24NKJV 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

stir up (provoke)I heard someone say Isolation: Drug addicts want to be alone. The enemy does his best work when he can get you by yourself!The benefits of relationships...

Lisa Paul and Barnabas b/c of Barnabas Paul got access to his other disciples

NKJV26 And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple.

Jesus said I give you the keys to the Kingdomkeys=access translation: you have access to the KingdomQuad t-shirt I never could’ve gotten him an audience w said person on my own. He was given Back to School Money instead of a big order with a promise and an opportunity that money couldn’t buy ONLY relationshipCertain things you won’t touch based on your own resourcesSam authority over weather. He changes weather. BOB it’s supposed to rain and squelch the free time. All the men there benefitted from Sam’s prayers. Eventhough people don’t understand his anoiting, but came into agreement with what he declared, the weather had to obey.Ill: No kid listens to their parent 100% - Prophet has to honor in his own home.Good, chill, cool, awesome... Comes from Gucci as in the fashion label... because Gucci is rich and ballin'therefore he is good, cool, and just pimpin'Plug: A person who has everything u needQuad “you are the plug”Jordan didn’t get into UGA had a friend that knows the director or miniortiy students that w 1 email it cold’ve changed a no to a yesIn the spirit when we get to praying for each other, we have anointings in different areas, we have authority in different areas…beyond our own reach.The benefits of relationships...

Sometimes you need to be saved from your own voice!!! The problem is when we don’t have The Right Voices around.4 Common Types of Self-Talk The Laboratory of Neuroimaging at the University of Southern California says that a person has about seventy thousand thoughts per day. Catastrophizing—This is the mind’s “what if” game. It snowballs the worst-case scenario of the future with worried thoughts: What if this happens? What if that happens? These thoughts amplify anxiety and depression.Blaming—This is a mind trap in which some uncomfortable feeling is expelled by holding ourselves responsible for another’s pain or holding others responsible for our pain. The problem here is that when you perceive the  issue as lying outside of you, you give your power away to effect change.Rehashing—This is when our thoughts reflect on past circumstances, going over them again and again, often in an effort to figure something out.Rehearsing—This is the mind practicing some future event, playing through, again and again, the possible ways it may unfold.

Ill: I occasionally make pastors’ conf call. The leader has a “Soundingboard” There purpose is 1st to test and co-sign on what he’s saying. 2nd to provide testimony to what he’s saying is

If you don’t have someone to challenge your logic you’re in a dangerous place.

Proverbs 4:7 NKJV

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

Proverbs 2:6 NKJV

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

James 3:13–18 NKJV

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Did you not know that what we do w each other, affects what happens from above.

The revelation lie in the family structure and the grouping called “siblings.”

Me and Joe were thick as theives. Did the typical stuff boys do. We’d sometimes play to hard and tick the other off. I did just that. Joe tried to kill me. My mom had enough and she called dad.

Pt.: He was good if we were being healthy. He was NOT good when we’d try to kill each other!

Here’s my point…how you treat folk in the local gathering is directly connected to how you respond AND how you think about your heavenly Father.

1 Corinthians 1:9 NKJV

9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 John 1:3 NKJV

3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.

if you’re not right each other, you can’t be fully right with God.

koinonia to share something with someone, to participate with someone.

You live a flat life. Healthy food taste better than crap but you have to reset your taste buds!

Ill: when Q was younger. He only wanted rice and chicken. He hated vegtables, fruit, potatoes, etc. That’s not a balanced meal. It’d drive my wife crazy b/c she knew that he wasn’t getting all the nutrition.

“Let me do God by myself. I’ll catch a webstream. I’m going to walk in the fields.” To refuse fellowship is to refuse God’s best for you. You’re refusing the nutrients.

The importance of eating veggies is:

Anti-oxidants

Antioxidants help prevent or stop cell damage caused by oxidants. (Get it? Antioxidants.) “Oxidants are free radicals that you find in the environment, but they're also produced naturally in your body,” says Diane McKay, Ph.D., an assistant professor and researcher at Tufts University’s Antioxidants Research Laboratory.

Your body creates them to help fend off viruses and microbes, but if you have too many, they can cause serious damage and contribute to certain cancers and heart disease. You also get hit with oxidants daily from things like air pollution, cigarette smoke, and alcohol, McKay says. (Gross.)

Anit-cancer

Tumor blocking

An abnormal swell of the body caused by abnormal growth tissue. Subsequently, to off-set the absence of fruits, veggies, nuts, etc. you have to take vitamins.

Problem: there is no vitamin we can take to replenish the effects of fellowship…partaking.

Vertically, we look to God malnurished. I forgot to tell you, lack of the nurtients found in those things stunt growth and devilopment

Malnourishment Leads to:

1) Infections

Obesity

App: Since when did Christianity become about you?!?!? It’s never. told someone “we’re going to have a prophetic guest. ‘I’ll be there. i want to know what God has for my life.’”

App: Stuff doesn’t pass. You’re clogged up. Always a sour attitude. Can’t get peace no matter how much shopping you do. Mad at the world!!!

1) Infections

App: You can’t stand no kind of storm! Something is always wrong.

2) Poor Growth and Development -

Hebrews 6:1 NKJV

1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

3) Constipation

App: Stuff doesn’t pass. You’re clogged up. Always a sour attitude. Can’t get peace no matter how much shopping you do. Mad at the world!!!

4) Obesity

App: Since when did Christianity become about you?!?!? It’s never. told someone “we’re going to have a prophetic guest. ‘I’ll be there. i want to know what God has for my life.’”

What is wisdom? The bounty of life’s experiences.“God teaches us wisdom through experience, either someone else’s experiences or our own. It cost us a lot more to learn from our own.”It’s more natural to default to what’s wrong vs. embrace what’s right.When you are in community, the power of spoken words over you can silence the silent words in you.My wife has become the queen of declarations in our home. She’s always challenging us to speak the right stuff out of our mouth. When you are in healthy relationships you people should be changing how you’re thinking.

NKJV14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the fainthearted, uphold the weak, be patient with all.

NKJV2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

The man on the ship that only ate from his packed meal Accountability includes telling the truth to youencourage/push you to growgo through the category of friends who’s growing you, whose holding you, whose molding youbcounsel of wisdom voices other than yourselfto have funThis is what pray.com is about

The most important thing you can get in life isn’t a retirement account. an established trust fund.

Proverbs 4:7 NKJV

7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

Proverbs 2:6 NKJV

6 For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

James 3:13–18 NKJV

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. 16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

2018.8.18-3 The Benefits of Relationship Part 2 (Vertical)

Intro

I Don’t Have to Do Life by Myself

Enables You to Reach Beyond You

I’ve Got a Lifeline

I Don’t Have to Do Life by Myself

Enables You to Reach Beyond You

I’ve got a lifeline

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2018.8.18-3 The Benefits of Relationship Part 2 (Vertical)

Intro

I Don’t Have to Do Life by Myself

Enables You to Reach Beyond You

I’ve Got a Lifeline

I Don’t Have to Do Life by Myself

Enables You to Reach Beyond You

I’ve got a lifeline

Close

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