The Nine Secrets of Healthy Relationships – Part Two

July 17, 2024   /   Lighthouse Church

Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT) 22 But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law.

 

 

Galatians 5:22-23 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
Love Love does not seek her own, is not selfish or self-centered
Joy Loves does not rejoice in iniquity but rather rejoices in the truth
Peace Love is not easily provoked, but is serene and stable
Patience

(KJV – longsuffering)

 Love suffers long, perseveres, is patient
Kindness

(KJV – gentleness)

 Love is merciful, thoughtful, and concerned; it envies not
Goodness Love is great, gracious, and generous; it is kind and good
Faithfulness (KJV – faith) Love thinks no evil but has faith in God and others
Gentleness

(KJV – meekness)

 Love is humble and gentle, does not vaunt itself
Self-control

(KJV – temperance)

 Love is disciplined and controlled, does not behave unbecomingly

 

 

Two Misconceptions About Love:

  1. The world says love is a… but God says love is a matter of !

 

Eros Sexual or sensual love
Storge Family or natural love
Phile Friendship or companionship love
Agape God’s love

 

AGAPE LOVE:

 

    • It is a that commits itself to the well being of another, regardless of the of the one being loved.

 

    • We must have it in our lives as a for the other kinds of love in our lives, or they will never become all they can be.

 

    • It is not a love that we , but it is the love of God that He in us!

 

  1. The world says love is … but God says love is a matter of !

 

1 John 3:18 (NLT) Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.

 

 

A. Love is

  • Love is alive when it has time
  • Love is dying when it is hurried
  • Love is dead when it cannot wait

Patience means I take the time to wait for someone else to change, to recover, to get motivated. Patience means I make allowance for someone’s faults.

 

 

B. Love is

  • Love is alive when it
  • Love is dying when it
  • Love is dead when it

Kindness means the ability to care for each other in the practical details of everyday life. Kindness means adapting and inconveniencing yourself.

 

  • We do not change our actions by first changing our ; rather, our will change when we first change our !

 

Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

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