Healed People Heal People - Loving Yourselves

Matthew 22:37-40 “And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.””

Speak Kindly To Yourselves

1. You are God’s creation - Gen 1:26 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.””

Deposited treasure in you

You're to die for

Qualified

Created for victory

Trusts you to represent Him

2. You are God’s servant also - Romans 14:4 “Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.”

3. We love Him because He first loved us - 1 John 4:19 “We love because he first loved us.”

Stay Within Your Measure

Not in a comfort zone but avoiding the breaking point.

Jesus didn't save everyone or avoid criticism.

2 Corinthians 10:14 ESV “For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.”

2 Corinthians 10:14 KJV

For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:

Every anointing has its limits.

Jesus only did the Fathers will

God always gives us enough time to tend to His will and God given relationships.

Mark 6:31-32 “And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.”

Teach People How To Treat Us

VALUE yourself - Numbers 13:33

Many emergencies are things people didn't do when they should have.

RECOGNIZE behavior you appreciate

A wife used to nag her husband to do things around the house.

ALLOW behavior to continue

STOP or limit contact with boundary breakers, crazy makers, dramaddicts, grace growers, etc.

Jesus cleansed the temple - John 2:11; Matthew 21:17-23

Kicked the dust off His feet - Matt 10:14

Don’t even eat with brothers who are sinning - 1 Cor. 5:10

Avoid the divisive - Romans 16:17

Evil company corrupts good habits - 1 Cor. 15:33