The Power Of Love - Love Songs - A Study in Song of Songs | Mark Buckley | Week 4

``We mourn because we love, and when we love, we're vulnerable, and when we're vulnerable, we get hurt. But God is a God of love, and he has called us to love one another. Therefore, he knows we're vulnerable. We he knows we will be hurt, and he knows we will we will mourn, and so he has chosen to empower us with the Holy Spirit in a special way when we continue to trust him and believe him in spite of the things that break our hearts. Does that make sense? It's the covenant love of God. [00:31:27] (35 seconds)  #CovenantLoveHeals

``You if you stir up or awaken love prematurely, the very thing that God intended to ignite a relationship between two very different people becomes something that's destructive rather than the fusion. There there's nuclear fission which divides the atom and then creates an explosion, and fusion which takes more energy to unite atoms to create something that can generate incredible power without a destructive force. But and and that's what marriage is supposed to be, a fusion. Just like churches coming together, living streams, and and and Phoenix bible, [00:05:53] (47 seconds)  #MarriageIsFusion

``He does. And and I wish I could just get it all on my own. I don't wanna have to come forward for prayer and have somebody pray for me. I wanna just take it to the Lord on my own. You can take it to the Lord on your own, but he reserves certain blessings that'll only be imparted to you when somebody else lays their hands on you, when somebody else intercedes from you. Because he's given gifts to his people and supernatural gifts that make it so we actually need each other to really grow in Christ and and get healed where we need to get healed, and get breakthroughs where we've had demonic experiences that have left us wounded or scarred or whatever. [00:19:12] (43 seconds)  #ImpartedBlessings

``And I've told his dad, I said, it's not love to let him stay in that situation because the longer he goes towards into adulthood without meaningful employment and accepting responsibility and making a positive contribution, you're just enabling him and you're not helping him whatsoever. If you try and avoid conflict, you basically don't love somebody like you should. Okay. So let's get into the word. Song of Solomon, this was written three thousand years ago. The wedding celebration is our first part. Covenant love will be the second part. Chapter three verse five, [00:04:14] (42 seconds)  #StopEnabling

``Forty four years ago, we were in this group together, and every one of the couples is still married today. And they've got kids, and they've got all all but one has grandkids, and a bunch of grandkids. You know what I mean? And and none of them have had perfect marriages, but they've all learned something really important. And that is that we're in community together in the body of Christ, and we need one another. And we need to be able to be honest and share about what we're really dealing with. Oftentimes, the couples I know whose marriages have not made it, it's because they're living in a shell where they think that if anybody finds out that they're not happy in their marriage, [00:36:23] (45 seconds)  #MarriageNeedsCommunity

``I hope you don't ever experience this, but our story is that we moved here because our oldest son, when he was eight years old, was literally dying from asthma in Northern California. So we had to move here, get a new start. We knew one family, the family of David Stockton. David's now pastor of Living Streams. They started Living Streams with us in our living room. Matthew grew from a scrawny little eight year old kid to a big tall six foot three, got kid that worked for the Phoenix Suns as a photographer who brought his friends to church, loved Jesus, who honored us. [00:28:22] (37 seconds)  #FaithBuiltCommunity

``were going down the Salt River, and he playfully fell out of a tube right where the river had a vortex and it sucked him under, and he drowned. He he lived three days after being air backed out in a helicopter by the sheriff's department, lived three days in a coma before dying. And it was it was devastating for us. I mean, we were crushed. I was crying for days and days on end. But what got me through it eventually was the covenant love of Jesus Christ. He did not leave us or forsake us even though our heart was broken and our son was gone. I believe he raised our son to live with him. [00:29:08] (49 seconds)  #FaithThroughGrief

``We're gonna be talking today about the power of love. It is one of the great forces on earth. Back in the nineteen forties, my dad was gonna be shipped over to World War two to fly in the b 17 and b 29 bombers as a bombardier. He knew that he could die. 25% of the crews that were flying from England over Germany were not coming back. They were being shot down. And my dad knew that you you run do like 25 missions, it's like you got flipping a coin, you got a twenty five percent chance of dying. 25 times, it produced a lot of pressure. (41 seconds)  #LoveMakesUsBrave

``it produced a lot of pressure. So he went AWOL. He literally took off across the country right when his training was complete to go visit my mom in San Francisco, and as and to say goodbye to her, and I love you to her, and I hope we can get married someday. And then, the he got busted and went to the brig and got demoted and everything. But for him, it was worth it because the power of love makes us a little crazy. Right? It does. And when you hear a love song, it can lift your heart. [00:00:39] (33 seconds)  #LoveDrivenChoices

``the mother's blessing was important. Now your parents are not perfect. They did not have a perfect wedding or a perfect marriage. However, if there's one thing they probably care about on earth more than anything, it's you and your future if you're gonna get married. And they want to bless you when you have the right person at the right time. Don't underestimate that. My parents were divorced by the time I was 19, and I had to fight my instincts to just like, you're lost, I'm starting a new life in Christ. [00:16:51] (39 seconds)  #HonorParentalBlessing

``And she hesitated, and then she told me a story of how she had been abused as a little girl. When somebody her mom had been in the hospital for nine months from a mental breakdown, her dad brought in a caretaker, the caretaker had a son, and the son had abused her. I had no idea, And it was traumatic. And I knew that something very powerful and very demonic had happened to her when she told me the story. And we prayed together in Jesus' name for her to get a breakthrough. And Jesus met her on that picnic, and she had a breakthrough, and she got some deliverance, some real soul healing. [00:24:07] (45 seconds)  #HealingThroughPrayer

``Solomon came into this marriage not only being part of community, but he was prepared. He had made this beautiful carriage. He had the resources. He had the skill. He was a skilled man. When I was doing some marriage counseling, pre marriage counseling recently, the woman said, maybe we should elope. And the reason she said, maybe we should elope was the guy she marry wants to marry has no consistent income. He is an entrepreneur. Calls himself an entrepreneur. He does all these deals. A lot of the deals fall flat. [00:13:38] (38 seconds)  #BePreparedForMarriage

``one of the things my dad said to me when I told him I was gonna marry Christina was, don't tell me that you love her, tell me if you like her. What what does that mean? And he what he meant was, do you like hanging out with her? Do you like go taking a picnic? Do you like taking her to your construction site? I was I ran a construction company. Do you like being with her because the overwhelming amount of time is not romance? As Tim said, I think in his sermon last week, what, 4% of the time, [00:20:01] (37 seconds)  #LikeHerEveryday

``And I said to her, Carol, please don't do that. I do not wanna go in this group. Okay? I've already heard about the group. And in the group, you get together and you talk about the struggles and challenges and problems of marriage. Said, I don't wanna do that. You know what I mean? We're doing fine. Chris, I'm happy. Christina's happy. She says, Mark, I'm fasting. I'm praying. Well, guess what? Guess who won out on that one? Christina and I end up in the growth group. So the couple leading the group would start each group by talking about one of the trials that they were going through. [00:32:37] (31 seconds)  #GrowthGroupsHeal

``And one of the couples, he he worked with me for ten years here at Living Streams, and then they he took over a messianic congregation in Washington. His name is Highland and and Rita. I'm up at their house. I was doing a men's retreat for them that weekend, and they were having a fight. I literally I was talking with them last night and reminded them of this story. They're having an argument, and in the argument, they were arguing about the fact that his wife would take the the, you know, the garbage bag that you buy at Costco, the little white bags that come in the big rolls. She would take it out to the garbage oftentimes when it's only half full. [00:34:26] (39 seconds)  #SmallHabitsBigImpact

``We were watching a Netflix series recently, and we were into the show, but there was so much cursing, so much vile stuff, so much sexual weirdness we said to each other. That should probably be it for this series. We're done with this, aren't we? We just ended it. We ended it. Because those folks are not gonna live happily ever after when they're not living according to the word that holds everything together ultimately. And that's what we want. We wanna be held together by the power of the one who spoke this world into being. [00:38:57] (40 seconds)  #GuardYourMedia