What is Love? (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2021
- In Part 2 of "What is Love?" I want to share two more facets that are incredibly important when learning to navigate the depth and power of God's love. As though looking at a multifaceted damond, discovering the power of love will enhance and mature your relationship with God, how you see yourself and how you interact with others.
For Part 1: • What is Love? (Part 1)
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I like what you said about you being married and realizing that you didn’t know what love was and how selfish you were. I had a similar experience I thought I knew what love was and when I found out how selfish and wrong I was I realized it’s time to open my heart and spirit up to really learn what is love and how to be grounded in it by Gods way. Because society idea of love is very toxic and scary. So this is when I found your teachings and I’m doing this series
God loves me and likes me delights in me
The saying: If you dot know where you are going, every road will lead you there, is like love whit out direction!!!
Thank you so much these two teachings have been on point every point you have made has been what I have needed to work on ♥️🔥🙏🏻 I love this series and all the teachings I’ve has so far ♥️🔥🙏🏻
I mean this by the Spirit of God, your teachings should be know world wide! They will help so many people! God bless you and your family and your ministry ♥️🔥🙏🏻
I also forgot to mention the revelation I have gotten as well! Again, God bless you♥️🔥🙏🏻
Thank u for all your videos !! Have truly helped me so much
God bless you Mark I wish more people would watch this ❤️ it would help absolutely everyone
Great teaching Mark. I'm soaking it up, and it's challenging me. One thing you said is something like God's love cannot be felt with our five senses. So my question is how do we then feel God's love? What am I looking for as feedback to know I'm feeling it? I am at the beginning of this journey, so I don't know if this is even the correct question to ask. Thank you :)
Thanks for your book on loving God and loving your self.
I love the song, exactly my age group. Embarrassing revelation, I used to listen to this and soul search. I certainly had an underdeveloped understanding of love. I'm fortunate to feel comfortable giving and receiving affection. And I really needed to hear that love isn't just an emotion. I confuse love with limmerance in romantic partnerships. And I struggle with trust, commitment and attachment.
Oh, I have been trying for so, so long.
Yes I do believe I have tried to block emotioffns but even stop but couldn't control all. especially when I was younger thinking differently than now with some things and people. But even now not so good with not dealing with them right and built up anger.
Being more "loving" at the start of things, but as relationships and the speed of motions.
And then I got into a comfort zone and underlying sins and addictions other lack of love issues... that what was suppose to make me grow into maturity. I did like to have affection moments but when I do need it I also have anger issues and some resistance would creep up too. And I have become that one who gives the silent treatment (then get told to shut up and go because I cannot speak right or negative about the truth) with hold affections to emotions who has been feeding the wrong emotions. Then I would be something controlling me to make the people who should love me and I should be loving makes me say things that will cause them to be mad or into trouble (If it was to do with having faith in CHrist I would understand why but it seems like more of an demonic influence on top of our issues with the lack of love and don't want to hear some things).
I really need God to open my heart to that love. I really do struggle to receive it because I believed and can't stop my heart from hardening and stop that angry and lying, resistance and had messed me up with the real ability to love and grow into maturity. But it keeps feeling like undealt sins or habits and that "lack" of love has made me keep choosing or blocking to grow and from not being able to force it or act on it. And how it has effected all relationship I have like I can't even do anything right to make it better or prevent the bad I see because of not having the right "love" or " control". Or messed up to be ability to teach others or my children maturely (but still kind of a performance thing) where it could of prevented so much of a mess of life and lives. And would also result in this love that we could of accepted from God.
And all can do is wishing
I know this is a problem too but So when I can't really speak up or talk to anyone and they get annoyed with me I just get more hooked on doing this "my way". And just want to keep "learning" but struggle with applying and accepting it.
This material is so good, and it has been so helpful in my battles with OCD. One thing I would like some clarification on is what to do in response to the knowledge that I need nurturing/discipleship in how to process emotions, etc. It seems like that is what perhaps most of this comes down to. But then what? How do I get that? Not asking for a quick fix, I understand the issue with that. I just don't know where to direct my path in this journey.
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"Christianity at times has been so afraid of emotions" so true 😂😭
For me stuffing emotions began in 1962 as a second grader. Tears were not allowed by my peers and I was one that felt too easily. Being called a "Cry Baby" as a boy was akin to a curse. Fighting was a part of growing up, since I wasn't good at it I didn't want to and felt like a coward. At 17 I wanted to join the Marines but I needed a parent's consent. I was in Oregan at the time and my grandparents were in North Carolina which is where I'm from. They mailed it but it got lost on the way. Vietnam was going on so I figured I would get killed or cured. When the consent didn't come I knew it was God. I didn't understand why he would do that to me since he knew me and I needed to change who I was, it pissed me off. I have been spared from and lot of bad consequences and I know God was involved. This made no sense to me and questioning why someone told me that God loved me. I started on this journey because Jesus said I was to love God with all my Heart and Soul. Everybody makes it seem like these two concepts are like tools. I can work on car engines with tools, I can't touch or use the heart or soul because I don't know what they are let alone how to access them. I bristle when some talks about feelings in their heart or soul. Makes no sense to me. I'm running out of time here. I would like to do what Jesus says I should do, but I can't.
I understand the idea of drugs and alcohol changing how you feel. When I found them I like the feeling, love had nothing to do with it. I DID NOT LIKE MY EMEOTIONS. I'm still not a fan and at this age self-anger is becoming is still continuing, no alcohol or drugs. You speak of this journey, another concept I don't like, to me it means no FIX.
If my wants to do things for me and I tell her not to, am I blocking her love. What she wants to do is not necessary or I can do it myself.
I think I’m struggling a bit with a concept of this in scrupulosity. I felt like God was supposed to guide us. Do we use our feelings in situations because the holy spirit will guide us. What about in toxic situations, I feel like conflating guilt or self- abuse can happen more easily when we’re not trusting how we feel about them. Does that make sense? I don’t mean to be contrarian here. It also make me doubt my decisions and wonder if various things are sin again when they’re not stated as sin explicitly, and if I should now feel obligated to read the Bible more and listen to more Christian material. I always tend to try to be (or maybe it’s internalized to where it feels natural and a first reaction to try to be) more understanding and loving and seem to get abused more when I’m not respecting how I feels. Again, not trying to be contrary, honestly expressing my own reaction to it as a person who’s struggled with ocd in the past. Thank you
I’m in the same boat. I think in a simple way, it’s like Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength; and the second: love your neighbour as yourself.”
If you can love God and your neighbour, then I think it’s okay (do it from faith, believing that Christ is in you, because I’m very sure the Spirit will make you know what you’re going to do is right or wrong) . If you can love your neighbour doing it, but not God, then God must come first. For example:
My neighbour asks me to have a drink with him, like wine, and I agree. There’s nothing telling me it’s wrong. I’m simply enjoying a drink with my neighbour. But, if he begins to give me more, and i will definitely get drunk, then I refuse. Being drunk is a sin (including drinking to _get_ drunk, I think), therefore, I put God first and do not get drunk, but drink in moderation, and stopping if I know I will overindulge. On the other hand, if I continue, knowing full well that I shouldn’t, then I’m rebelling. God will convict me and I will have to suffer the consequences (such as a hangover, memory loss, potentially getting hurt, being late for work, etc).
Hope this helps, but please pray about it!
Part of the OCD battleground is a distortion with how to process emotions. The interpretation of emotions gets hijacked. I talk about that in the OCD resources. I would reference those resources.
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