★ MY SERMON NOTES
@ Jesus Revelation Assembly (JRA)
Tudun Wada Ring-Road,
Jos - Plateau State
26th April, 2015
JRA WOMENS' CONVENTION 2015
Theme: Excelling Through Every Season of a Woman's Life
☆ SUMMARY OF TEACHING
FOR SATURDAY 25th April, 2015
* Speaker: Mrs Patricia Chollom (Lecturer, University of Jos)
* Topic: Relationships
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| Mrs Patricia Chollom |
* God wants you to excel in your relationships
* God has set a standard for us (for relationships) in Jesus Christ
* If you do not have a vertical relationship (with God) you cannot have a horizontal relationship (with people around you)
* If your relationship with God is not complete, you will always have frictions in relating with people around you
* Do not be like the Galatians. They accepted Christ by faith, but they want to work out their salvation by self-effort (Galatians 3:3)
☆ Ingredients for Achieving Successful Relationships:
1. Faith
★ Rom 1:17 → "For in the gospel God’s righteousness is being revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, “The righteous will live by faith.”
* Successful relationships Cannot be established and maintained by self effort. It is by faith
* Self effort has limitations, and it will ultimately fail
* By knowing that we are partakers of His divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)
2. Love
★ Ephesians 1:4 → "just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love."
→ The love being referred to here is Agape love (pure, unconditional love)
* God expects us to love unconditionally and to also love the unlovable
→ We love because we have received unconditional love (1 John 4:19)
* For a relationship to be sound, there must not be any iota of suspicion
* Your love should not be like the ones politicians display in Nigeria
→They join a political party and pledge their love and allegiance to that party, but when they Cannot realize their personal (selfish) ambitions, they decamp to another party
* God's love is constant and does not change
★ Galatians 5:6 →"for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love."
→ Faith works (and its expressed) by love
* If the basis of your relationship not love, it will ultimately fail
* Do not love because you are expecting something
→ The moment you don't get what you are expecting, the love will die out naturally
* Always ask God for a dose of His love
* You cannot give what you don't have
→ If God does not fill your heart with love, you become incapable of showing genuine love to anyone
* The greatest weapon on earth is love
→ Love is more effective than any known man-made weapon of destruction
* Trust God in faith and allow Him to fill Your heart with His love
* Try by faith, not by effort
* Husbands have a responsibility to love their wives
* Women: Love unconditionally, whether you are appreciated or not
☆ Counsel to Singles:
(a) Do not fall in and out of relationships (looking for love);
(b) Keep yourself pure;
(c) Remain lovable
☆ NOTE:
→ God made us for relationships
→ God wants to relate with us, and for us to relate with others
→ If you do not want to love, you must relocate to another planet!
