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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Galatians 4:12-20
Galatians
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Lovers
Galatians 4:12-20
There are 7 habits of highly effective lovers that will improve not only our marriages, but also our relationships with our friends, our adult children, and even our co-workers.
WE MUST CHANGE OURSELVES for others without demanding that they change for us.
We must accept people just as they are, unconditionally, even with their imperfections.
If they do, then you have learned to love like God loves us, unconditionally.
Relationships are enriched when lovers give up something special for the one they love.
True love is not blind to the truth. On the contrary, it acknowledges the truth even when it’s painful.
They set people free in their relationships without trying to control the one they love.
And that’s what we must do if we want to be highly effective lovers. We must suffer when the one we love suffers.
We don’t always know what to do when someone we love is hurting. That’s okay, because the best thing we can do is cry–not in a manipulative way, but with genuine tears of sorrow.
In a word, we must demonstrate GRACE in all our relationships. We must love freely and without conditions.