Relationships Are Worth the Drama: Choose Covenant and Unity

So when they don't have those starry feelings anymore, we say, I fell out of love because we thought love was just a feeling. That feeling of love is not the foundation of marriage. You fought there's people today. You today, this last week, you fell out of love with Jesus. Think of a day, I guarantee you, there was a day this week you didn't think about Jesus. And if you can fall out of Jesus, out of love with the perfect one, how do you expect to unconditionally love unperfect ones? [01:20:31] (36 seconds)  #LoveIsMoreThanFeeling

And when we finally got our reading glasses, boom. At that moment, we put them on, everything snapped back into focus. The words hadn't changed. The lighting hadn't changed. IOS hadn't changed. IPhone hadn't changed. Our vision had changed. And that's how the enemy attacks marriage and relationships. He attacks relationships by distorting the picture, by distorting our perception. He takes what God design designed for for covenant in the body of Christ, for covenant and marriage, and he reshapes it into something that's shallow or negative. [01:13:10] (41 seconds)  #EnemyDistortsPerception

It wasn't women. I know a lot of guys like saying women ruin the world. It wasn't women. It was individuality that brought sin into the world. They made a he made a decision without talking to his spouse. God's saying, I put you together because it is not good for you to be alone. Your strength covers each other's blind spots. When you feel your back against the wall and you're undefeatable, two of you come together, you could put 10,000 to flight. The fall happened when unity was abandoned. [01:38:16] (33 seconds)  #UnityPreventsTheFall

And sometimes the tension in a marriage, the tension in the body of Christ is not rent it's not random. It's it's covenantal misalignment. The enemy understands that if he can disrupt a covenant at home, if he can disrupt the covenant of the body of Christ, he can weaken our impact in public, and God is restoring. He's calling us back into covenant. He's waking us up and saying, here's the flint. It's time to get circumcised because unity is powerful, and I wanna do amazing things in your life. [01:11:01] (35 seconds)  #CovenantAlignsUs

But you need to be grown enough, put up your big boy pants, your big girl pants and say, I'm not bringing that into this new house. Because in marriage, in the body of Christ, of Christ, these patterns, these things mix like oil and water. And there's some baggage we need to drop. And maybe you grew up in a home where yelling was normal. So when conflict comes, he raises his voice. Yet she grew up in a home where conflict meant danger, so she withdraws. So now he's yelling and she's running, and it's not that they're compatible. It that it there's something in them that is unhealed, some baggage they gotta let go of. [01:31:14] (45 seconds)  #DropTheBaggage

Tell your neighbor, it's not the big stuff. It's the little patterns. It's the small unaddressed issues that become destructive, and we have to find the foxes in our soul before they ruin the vineyard that we've been praying for. They ruin the harvest. They ruin the body of Christ. They ruin the relationships that you know God wants to give you. [01:34:02] (25 seconds)  #SmallPatternsMatter

But here's what I know, that if you knew that a thief was coming to your house at 2AM, you would stay awake. You'd at least lock the doors. You'd set so alarm alarm. Right? Some you if you were warned of a thief's intent, you would just let not let him steal from you. You would put up some resistance. Well, the bible already warned us that there is a thief and he's coming to not just steal from you, but kill and destroy. [00:53:15] (34 seconds)  #WatchForTheThief

And even though we know he's coming, many of us have been lulled to sleep. Even though we know the enemy is coming to try to steal our health, he'd know he's coming to try to steal our joy. We know he's coming to try to steal our peace, to try to steal our calling, and the promises that God has over our lives. And I believe one of the primary areas he is trying to rob us in is our relationships. [00:54:48] (30 seconds)  #ProtectYourRelationships