Love is the source of Joy

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Loveis the source of Joy
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Love as a source of Joy

• Joy in Heaven Continual state of Joy with Love
• Faith, Hope and Love are important, but only Love
  continues in Heaven. While faith and hope are not
  needed in Heaven
• From the first pages of the Bible love is a
  common factor

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Love is the source of Joy

• Behold, how good and how pleasant it is        
  For brethren to dwell together in unity!        
  It is like the precious oil upon the head,
          Running down on the beard,         The
  beard of Aaron,         Running down on the edge
  of his garments.         It is like the dew of
  Hermon,         Descending upon the mountains of
  Zion         For there the LORD commanded the
  blessing--Life forevermore. (Ps 133)

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• Oil is poured from the Head ( God) to the beard (
  Priesthood) down to the rest of the body (
  Congregation)
• Symbolizing the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Comfort
  and Joy fills all conditioned by having Love

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From the Morning Praise

• In The Morning praise, the same is sung, loving
  attitude makes the praise very beautiful

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• For what thanks can we render to God for you, for
  all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake
  before our God (1Thes 39)
• Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with
  those who weep. (Rom 1215)
• I have shown you in every way, by laboring like
  this, that you must support the weak. And
  remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He
  said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive
  (acts2035)
• And indeed you do so toward all the brethren who
  are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren,
  that you increase more and more (Phi410)

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• we rejoice for your sake before our God Love
  makes us rejoice in reasons unrelated to me
  personally
• weep with those who weep when you share in
  others pains you feel rejoiced
• It is more blessed to give than to receive You
  will not find that Our Lord said this, but this
  is a practice that the Church lived
• St. Paul is thankful to their blessings because
  of the Loving attitude

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Actions
Touches
Time
The 5 Languages of Love
Gifts
words
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The 5 Languages of LoveThree Directions

• From God to us
• From Us to God
• From one to another

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Warm Welcome
Smile
Touches
Look to The Eyes
With Purity
Humor
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Love expressed by Touches

• Our Lord touched the leper before He healed him.
  The leper was not touched by any one before
  including his own family.
• The Mute and deaf He took him far, looked at
  him, with his finger touched His own mouth then
  the deafs mouth, then looked up and made him to
  read his lips EphathaOpen.

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Love expressed by Touches

• The bleeding woman He stopped and asked who
  touched me? He insisted on finding out who was
  she because he did not want her to feel guilty
  that she touched Him. He said Be confident

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Love expressed by TouchesSmile

• International way of greeting
• Looking at the Eyes
• The Rich man, He looked at him and Loved him
  The rich man perceived Jesus look as love
• With Purity
• We aught to use these venues to express love

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Quality
Best
Quantity
TIME
All Yours
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Love expressed by Time spent

• Best which time do you give?
• Quality may be short but valuable, am I
  concentrating or not!

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Love expressed by Time spent

• One of the markers for our love toward God is How
  much time we spend with Him
• He spends more time with us ( I am standing by
  the door knocking, if you open I will enter. He
  is hoping not for pass by but rather Dine with
  me!!
• In Gethsemane he was asking can you spend with me
  one hour!
• A girl that was lost, repots that she was longing
  for time with her mom but in vain.

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Way of presenting
Surprises
Occasions
Gifts
What do you like what do you need?
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Love expressed by Gifts

• Our Lord is always giving
• The woman who gave the two mites, was counted
  more than all.
• Way of presenting How do you give?!, you spent
  time to think How to offer.
• Surprises/ Occasions Our Church as a bride gives
  the best gifts to her Bridegroom in every
  occasion
• Occasions do to others as what you hope they
  give unto you.

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Love expressed by Gifts

• The unexpected gifts always count
• The gifts that count are the one that the other
  wants and needs
• You need to be busy thinking of what he/she
  needs, even if I am not quite convinced with.
• Our Lord loved the gift of the Ointment (
  nardeen) she gave the most precious, she broke
  the bottle on His feet He promised her she will
  be mentioned in everywhere. Also, she helped in
  burying our Lord as if she is one of His closest

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Encouragement Appreciation
I am sorry
Love
Words Of Love
Caring
Active Listening
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Love expressed by Gifts

• Encouragement we tend to appreciate only the
  good things and become condemning to others.If we
  try to see the everything as good we will be
  happier.
• If you care to be appreciated why Dont you start
  saying the same.
• Caring words you may not know how solve but your
  caring helps

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Words of Love

• Our Lord is great in His words of Love ( In
  malachai, He starts by saying, I loved you)

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Simple
Unexpected
Sharing
Acts Of Love
Effort
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Acts of love

• Doing the unexpected is the optimum
• Acts of love combined with labor/effort makes a
  difference including acts of love towards God.
• Jacob at his last hours requested his stick to
  bow down at it, it was a meaningful type of
  worship
• James ( apostle) while he is being martyred, he
  crawled to a attain a worship position.
• Every one will take his reward upon his labor.

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Q/A

• How to apply the 5 languages of love in the work
  force?
• A We continue to be loving even if the others
  are not hoping that they may change with time.
  Wisdom is essential
• Do not let evil overcomes but rather win evil by
  being righteous.
• Being accepted is not necessarily has to happen
  immediately.
• Our duty is to do good regardless of response

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Q/A

• The Christian is Different, we do not change
  because others are not comfortable with our ways.
• Types of Gifts I will add more time in my prayer
  ( one hour extra), doing an unexpected service (
  cold cup of water),
• Wisdom needs to couple love
• How to enjoy God in this busy life?
• A Consecrate initially time for God then give
  any time you can get

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Q/A

• To let go of a certain right needs wisdom I may
  be wrong that is why I am letting go. I should
  have clear conscious first before I decide.
• I f I am loosing my peace because of loosing my
  right I may not do it
• Words of love may be empty if you do not have a
  reason you aught to say it.
• Constructive criticism Encourage/ appreciate
  first then say the criticism
• Start by blaming yourself first,
• Choose the right time