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We are in a relationship series.
God never designed us to go through life alone… with any relationship.
We are talking about...
From this Day Forward...
Those are popular words that are used in many weddings.
Let’s look at the theme verse for this series.
We have hope because The faithful love of the Lord never ends.
God’s mercies are fresh every day.
Last week we asked the question, Are great relationships possible?
And the answer is yes they are possible but they are not likely to happen if we live like the rest of the world where the odds of making it are only 50%.
Last week we set the foundation was to Seek God.
That’s the foundation of it.
1. Seek God
2. Fight Fair
3. Have Fun
4. Stay Pure
5. Never Give up
Repeat that.
From this Day forward, I will fight fair
silly fights…
Toothpaste usage--- if he would just put the lid back on...
Husband ate the last Little Debbie…
He won’’t read directions…
Thermostat control
Remote usage
TV Volume
Listening vs. Fixing it… you want him to listen
Where to spend holidays…
Leaving hairs in the sink…
Eating ice cream in a bowl vs. container.
Leaving the Lid up
Please at least flush the toilet
Right way to drive
Toilet paper - over or under
The who said what loop… yes you did… no I didn’t....
Use of FB
No matter what condition our relationships are in, there is hope.
There are people everywhere that need hope.
Our hope comes through Jesus Christ.
Look at God’s plan for relationships.
Treasure… blessing… refreshing… everlasting…
That’s a picture heaven on earth.
God didn’t design our relationships to just survive.
Last week we saw how you can turn around the odds of making it.
We want to help you not only survive in your marriage, your dating, any and all relationships, we want to help you thrive in them.
If God’s design was for us to have great relationships, then why do we fight over little Debbies, and cat litter… Well, the reason is that we were born into sin.
We have a sinful nature.
And we still have that old nature hanging around.
The question is not if we will fight, but how we fight.
We want to talk abut fighting fair.
We may not be good at it… we need to learn how to do it.
ILL of a fight where the two are yelling in each others face… won the fight but lost his friend.
That’s what we do in our relationships… we win the fight but we lose the relationships.
We all take the wrong road in our relationships.
We are fighting the wrong enemy
We have somehow convinced ourselves that our spouse, date, whoever is the enemy but they are not.
The bible teaches that we do not fight flesh and blood enemies.
Our enemy is not flesh and blood… it’s not your spouse… kids… co-workers… we are confused.
During the Vietnam war, we fought the North Vietnamese but the problem was that they looked exactly like the South Vietnamese.
So sometimes the enemy would be right there in our camp and we didn’t even know it.
That’s the way it’s gotten in our relationships.
We make the other person to be the enemy and fail to recognize that the enemy is still there.
The devil is a despicable enemy and he wants to destroy your life, your relationships, our society and one of the ways he does it is by getting us to fight each other and not him.
If he can divide us, we fall.
We are driven by wrong motives
you … you … you...
We have wrong motives.
The secret to a successful relationship with living a God first life is that it puts the other ahead of yourself.
We are using wrong tactics
We are demanding our right to be right.
The greatest relationships takes place between two servants.
When one person takes the needs of the other person as more important than their own.
Tombstone - Here lies the body of William Jay who died maintaining his right away.
He was right, but he is just as dead as if he were wrong.
When you make wrong turns, you may demand your right to be right even though are dead wrong.
Dale Carnegie - Figure it out for yourself which would you rather have, an academic victory or another person’s good will.
You can seldom have both
When we are fighting … when we are not fighting fair, we are destroying relationships.
We will have disagreements, but we have to fight fair.
We are sinners and we will disagree
When unhealthy couples fight they fight dirty… healthy couples fight, they fight for resolution.
Unhealthy couples fight to win the fight.
Let me give you hope… a solution.
So say …
From this Day forward…
It’s what happens from today…
You may be hearing me and thinking that your relationships are MESSED UP.
There is hope… we learn to fight fair.
We can learn from James.
We want to learn from this passage how we can have heaven on earth types of relationships.
From this day forward, I will..
1. Stop and listen carefully
Stop… most of us react instead of responding.
99% of the time, when we react, it’s the wrong thing to say.
So we have to be …
“quick to listen...”
There have been times when Kathy is sharing something and I am coming up with a fix and interrupt her… she usually will respond, can I finish first.
We need to be quick to listen.
Look at this
We need to stop and listen and understand instead of pontificating on our opinions.
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