Practicing Love towards the Saints

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Practicing Love towards the Saints

• NICF-March 8th
• Kennedy Mwenya

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• Wisdom from the world on building healthy
  relationships
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My Patience under attack??

• HEY!!!!!!!!!
• MY NAME IS NOT DENILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MY
  NAME IS DENNILE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THE OTHER
  ONE (DENISE) IS A GIRLS NAME...I AM NOT A
  GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHANGE IT...NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
  !

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1. Love is Patient

• In the dictionary, "patience" has several
  meanings
• bearing pains or trials calmly and without
  complaining,
• not being hasty or impetuous,
• being steadfast despite opposition or adversity,
  and
• showing forbearance under provocation or strain
  James 12-4, 1 Peter 220, Romans 53-4,

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Quotes

• Patience and delay achieve more than force and
  rage.--Jean de La Fontaine
• Patience is the ability to let your light shine
  after your fuse has blown--Unknown

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2. Love is Kind

• Definitions
• According to Strongs Concordance, being kind
  means to be useful and to furnish what is needed
  to those around.

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Quotes

• A good character is the best tombstone.  Those
  who loved you and were helped by you will
  remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. 
  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. 
• Charles H. Spurgeon

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Quotes

• It's nice to be important, but it's more
  important to be nice.  Author Unknown
• What this world needs is a new kind of army - the
  army of the kind. 
• Cleveland Amory

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Quotes

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always
  make a difference. They bless the one who
  receives them, and they bless you, the giver-
  Babara De Angelis

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3. Love is Not Jealous

• Definition
• Jealous is .
• Resentfully or painfully desirous of another's
  advantages.

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People are jealous over many things

• Jealous over possessions, wealth, assets -
  (greed, coveting)
• jealous of another's position, placement, job,
  advancemen
• jealous of another's authority, power,
  leadership 
• jealous of another's recognition, praise,
  prestige
• jealous of another's abilities, talents,
  skills    

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People are jealous over many things

• F. jealous of another's accomplishments,
  achievements, success
• G. jealous of another's intelligence, logic,
  knowledge  
• H. jealous of another's personality, social
  standing
• jealous of another's relationships,
  communication, intimacy, marriage  
• J. jealous of another's loyalties, devotion,
  attachment
• K. jealous of another's age, youth, maturity,
  experience 
• L. jealous of another's looks, appearance,
  beauty, health
• M. jealous of another's clothes, style,
  sophistication  
• N. jealous of another's opportunities,
  privileges, advantages, good fortune

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Quotes

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's
  blessings instead of your own.  Harold Coffin
• The jealous are troublesome to others, but a
  torment to themselves
• William Penn

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4. Love is Not Proud

• Definition
• Being Proud is ..
• Boasting about your abilities, accomplishments
  and experience to either gain favor, command
  respect and or put others down.

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Quotes

• A proud man is always looking down on things and
  people and, of course, as long as you're looking
  down, you can't see something that's above you
  C.S. Lewis

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Quotes

• Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude
  which separates excellence from mediocrity.
  Unknown
• No one ever choked to death swallowing his
  pride Unknown

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Spiritual Makeover

• Practicing my Christian Values
• George H. Lorimer said,
• Back of every life there are principles that
  have fashioned it.

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Spiritual MakeoverA 3-Step Process

• Create a list of the values that help build good
  Christian relationships.
• Then, honestly, rate yourself.

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Step 1. Kennedy List??
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Spiritual Makeover

• 2. Make a decision to live those values daily
• 3. At the end of each day, look back to see how
  you faired.

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Conclusion

• How excellent would Christianity appear to the
  world, if those who profess it were more under
  this Divine principle, and paid due regard to the
  command on which its blessed Author laid the
  chief stress!
• Let us ask whether this Divine love dwells in our
  hearts.
• Has this principle guided us into becoming
  behavior to all men?
• Are we willing to lay aside selfish objects and
  aims?
• Here is a call to watchfulness, diligence, and
  prayer.