#190 From Now On

Relationship Series# 1, by Karl Thomas

Here are some examples of some mothers and what they could have SAID:

MONA LISA’S MOTHER: “After all that money your father and I spent on braces, Mona, that’s the biggest smile you can give us?”

HUMPTY DUMPTY’S MOTHER: “Humpty, if I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a hundred times not to sit on that wall. But would you listen to me? Noooo!”

COLUMBUS’ MOTHER: “I don’t care what you’ve discovered, Christopher. You still could have written!”

MICHELANGELO’S MOTHER: “Mike, can’t you paint on walls like other children? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?”

NAPOLEON’S MOTHER: “All right, Napoleon. If you aren’t hiding your report card inside your jacket, then take your hand out of there and prove it!”

JONAH’S MOTHER: “That’s a nice story, but now tell me where you’ve really been for the last three days.”

“No man is poor who has had a Godly mother”   Abraham Lincoln

“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” Milton Berle

“You can’t just turn this off! I’m a Mother!!!”   Cheryl Thomas

You Don’t Leave Home Without:

1. A Concept Of God
2. A Perspective On Money
3. A Grid For Relationships

These three things are shaping your life right now.

We will examine all the different relationships … marriage …. friendship …

JOKE: How can you tell if your wife or dog love you more. Put them both in the trunk come back in an hour and see who is happy yo see you.

Revisit the homes where you grew up … Go up in the figurative attic and you will find stuff … where is my Curious George monkey … glove skates old trophy … maybe a chest in the corner with your name on it.   “D Karl Relationship university”

Where and How you grew up was a RELATIONSHIP UNIVERSITY.

Courses May Have Included:

1. Advanced Blame Shifting
2. Feeling We Suppress
3. Success By Self-centredness
4. Power Of Excessive Emotions
5. Men Are A Bit Better LOOKED FOR BOOK IN LIBRARY … LIBRARIAN SAID IN SCIENCE FICTION
6. Pray … Then Pray some more!

Proverbs 22:6 “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”

1 Kings 1:6 (NLT)

“Now his father, King David, had never disciplined him at any time, even by asking, ‘Why are you doing that?’”

“Psychiatrist Smiley Blanton says that roughly 80% of all of the counselling he does is the direct result of parents not having taught their children manners.  He emphasizes that he is talking about more than table manners; he’s talking about the whole spectrum of deportment and civility.”  Zig Ziglar

1 John 4:11 “Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

1 Peter 1:22 “…love one another fervently with a pure heart,”

Dr Dean Ornish — Ornish Lifestyle Medicine

“Love and intimacy — our ability to connect with ourselves and others, is at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing. If a new drug had the same impact, virtually every doctor in the country would be recommending it for his or her patients. It would be malpractice not to prescribe it — yet, with few exceptions, we doctors do not learn much about the healing power of love, intimacy, and transformation in our medical training.

There is a deep spiritual hunger in this country. The real epidemic in our culture is not only physical heart disease, but also what I call emotional and spiritual heart disease. The profound sense of loneliness, isolation, alienation, and depression that are so prevalent in our culture with the breakdown of the social structures that used to provide us with a sense of connection and community. It is, to me, a root of the illness, cynicism, and violence in our society.

Heathy relationships are more important than physical exercise, diet and even your genes.

People who feel lonely and isolated have a 300-500 percent greater risk of premature death due to physical illness.”

“If you try to build intimacy with another person before you have done the work of getting whole on your own, all your relationships become an attempt to complete yourself.”   Dr. Les Parrot

Your relationships are only as strong as you are.

Ephesians 3:1- 4:3 Message

14-19 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

20-21 God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Glory to God in the church!

Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus!

Glory down all the generations!

Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

In light of all this, here’s what I want you to do. While I’m locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don’t want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.

3 Relationship Essentials:

1. Profound Significance

This can only be found in God.

“… extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love…”

“If you then I will…” conditional love … We are to used to giving and receiving conditional love.

God’s love never ever fails.

Philippians 4:19 “And my God shall supply all your need…”

2. Unswerving Authenticity

“…road God called you to travel…”

You are unique. There is no one like you. Be your self.

Psalm 139:14 “I will praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;”

“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”   Jason Mraz

3. Self-giving Love

“…steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love,…”

You walk into a room and everyone else is of great value to you.

Philippians 2:3

“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves.”

Genesis 35:10

“From now on your name will be Israel.”

Lamentations 3:20-26

I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.

I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” The Lord is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him. So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.

FROM NOW ON!!!

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