A hidden emotion lying within.

Let us look at a different dimensional analogy of love.
Let us say there is a case where you think you cannot stand an individual you know.
You feel like you will never be around them, or even care what they think or say.
Think of an individual you have grown to trust, share emotions with, express your love through affection and charity.
Now study really deep that you may call them your best friend.
Let us study what you would consider an individual you cannot stand or enjoy gathering around. What has caused that?
Usually it can be caused by jealousy, revenge or even guilt.
It is not very hard to build up feelings of animosity towards ones.
Feelings of distraught, envy and bitterness dwells within from a child.
Remember when the child you ere playing toys with, you always wanted what the other one had. You were never happy with what you had of your own.
That could come under the category of greed or being stingy, no desire to share.
Later in life as you were able to comprehend what a parent or overseer was trying to display or teach you, they were just trying to let you understand the basic feelings to share and show respect through compassion and charity.
Of course you had no desire to attempt but it is crucial for that to be instilled in you from your youth, or it will be very hard to contradict that emotion latter in life.
After you grasp the understanding that your life will be satisfied and happy, until that battle has been controlled or overpowered by the easiest emotion and feeling that ones can express and comprehend after you find that within, that would be the feeling of “love”.
Your life begins with that original feeling, without your even knowing it.
As two parents express and desire of a lowing bond and emotion for a new life, a life to have a chance to be a part of God’s family.
So your foundation of life as you will come about will be love without your decision or attempt.
It is up to the parents to explain that desire and deep care by example to others. Only through respect and kindness and love towards all others that will cross your paths.
The parent’s heart is the best way a person can display that Godly character towards others.
You cannot help to show respect or high regards towards an Individual without you knowing or understanding.
If people can keep that close loving bond with a lifetime friend or companion, then you have expressed your unwanted feeling of respect you try not to display, by a common feeling towards that same mutual friend. You can have the utmost lifetime bond, and by displaying the regards of their feelings, you are giving credit to their decision through trust and care.
So as it comes down to it, indirectly you may like a person without you really knowing or studying it.
Rest assure, you are not able to choose God’s friends and children, and you think you can make decision of your own, but you call yourself a true child of God, with unlimited agap
pa love within, then you will have a loving desire to all mankind, without you even knowing them.A child of God will try to enjoy and have a goal to make God happy, and He desires a family to share all creations with.
And I have no choice in the matter of “who is a God chosen child of love.”


(Jonathan Goodwin)
(6) - Basic certainties of life.

1- One needs something certain, or in concrete.
2- Live knowing life like you are going to die tomorrow.
3- Significance- need to find our place in life. You need something from everyone.
4- Connections’ of love, to express feelings.
5- A desire to grow. No one needs to be treated the same.
They need to see growth.
6. Need to give back. Need to give back from your extra.
Sometimes from all you have, spiritual, material, personal.
No selfishness. Life without giving progression n will stop.Seeing the needs of others is a must.

Finding a Special Love )

Love is a strong and emotional feeling.
My first memory of Love,
I can recall my Parents expressing their feelings through telling me and by wrapping their arms around me was a feeling of security.
That was one way they expressed their Love.
Even at an infant’s stage, the child’s mind can feel the expression of love from their Parents.
The feeling was created to give and to receive.
The professing of love is detrimental to ones life.
As a plant needs water, a person needs Love.
Without water the plant will die.
A Person without love, or feels they are loved, Mankind has no hope.
In the case of suicide, the common denominator is lack of feeling Loved and Respected.
Enjoyment is prompted by a loving feeling or caring for ones and what you do.
Being completely satisfied is a necessity of life.
A common thought about a daily employment “I hate my Job”.
What really creates that thought, a lack of desire or pleasure?
Finding a job you enjoy or the feeling of appreciation is a need.
The same goes for a Marriage.
Finding a companion that will fulfill your needs and interests will be one of the main reasons to enjoy life.
But finding your Creator is the most important way to feel your life is complete.
When you get to the point when you do not feel like you can reach out and touch the one you need during tough times, who moved?
You need to feel excitement and pleasure, when you walk into the doors of your Home, or you’re Church.
“Am I really doing my job or keeping the trust the other one needs for me to keep peace and fulfillment in our relationship”.
Relationships should have the feelings of love, respect is very important.
Keeping or finding that 1st love, my memory was trying to find that special person.
I am very blest that I found that peace within. After I found that special person I felt complete.
To maintain that special feeling, takes effort from both in your relationship.
There is no room for selfishness, giving is a necessity.
Not sharing the wrong thoughts of your mind, blaming the other person will get you nowhere.
Cutting off ones hands during disagreements, could affect you when you need a hand to keep from falling down.
During your disagreements, start resolving the issue with love and kindness,
as a child is being raised, correcting with care and mercy is a must.
Love will last forever, where discouragement and wrong correction will damage and scar ones permanently.  

(Definition of Love)



Love means having strong feelings for someone that can be close friends, family or even someone in a romantic relationship. Love is a strong feeling that represents affection toward someone dear to you heart.


The greatest love of all is unconditional love.( It is also perfect love because it allows you to act from love and not fear). All fear based actions is the result of attachment to outcome and not trusting the divine. Perfect love is fearless. (We do not have to love because love is already present. We just have to realize it and allow it to be expressed through us).( Unconditional love is only possible when you love God more than any other). You trust the universe completely. Loving God is loving yourself with the best love.


Love without friendship is like a shadow without the sun


Love is a given, hatred is acquired.


Unconditional love is love that is free. You are never really free to love when you have attachments that keep you from loving freely. You hold back from expressing love because of rejection, you hold back from expressing love because it is not reciprocated. (When you allow yourself to love unconditionally, you are not afraid of rejection). You love fearlessly and freely without needing anything back. (The most liberating kind of love is the carefree kind of love). It is giving of yourself freely and not holding back.


If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a person who you hate, or an individual that the friendship has had a falling out.


True love will never fade unless it was all a lie.


"...Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."


Loving unconditionally) -love with acceptance and not requiring change. Sure you might desire positive upgrade but it does not change your love if it does not happen. Even when negative change happens, it still does not stop you from loving.( It is being willing to love even if never rewarded, because the love itself is its own happiness). When others love you unconditionally, they love you just as you are. (It is the most beautiful kind of love that you can experience because that is when you are truly loved.)


True Love comes from God, and love is demonstrated through character


"And where there's pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind."


True love never fails. Unconditional love is the whole secret of the law of attraction with detachment).( It is also the law of God action and acting from spirit). When you act with these three laws of the universe, you can never fail to create what you truly desire which is according to your highest good. (Unconditional love is simply God in action). (When you follow your heart and act according to your highest intentions, you are serving the divine within). We are all here to do God’s work, which is to express his love.


Love is a master key which opens the gate of happiness."


When you love unconditionally, you are simply following your heart while having detachment from results). Conditions are attachment to results. You may desire to have things go a certain way with someone or something. But when you unconditionally love and accept what is, even if it does not happen the way you intend it to happen, then you create the conditions by which the essence of (what you truly desire can happen because it is no longer a requirement for it to happen, but it is free to spring forth.)


Christian love is giving to others those things that you would want them to give you if you were in their situation -- and it's doing so even if they can't pay you back. In fact, it is doing so especially if they cannot pay you back! Christian love is respect for others. It is mercy. It is charity.

Neccessity of Understanding

Ones can take the most important things in life for granted and not to realize it is importance until it is too late. Many of us take our relationships for granted and move on until one day we wake up to realize, we do not have the connection any more.

Sometimes, this can lead to breakups or divorce, or simply just an uncomfortable relationship. Suddenly we realize something is wrong in the way things are going. . These sad experiences lead me to realize the most important thing in life is your relationships.

Good communication is the key to a good marriage. If you are having problems communicating with you spouse or you feel that there is a breakdown in your family communication. A person may need to check the attitude of feelings through expression of thoughts. Am I living by the fruits of the spirit and the intent of my heart?
Importance of Effective Communication
The importance of effective communication is demonstrated through daily activities. Everyday people all of the world rely on communication. Whether oral, auditory, written, electronic, non-verbal, or any other means, the communication process is repeated many times daily. Communication is the primary means by which people obtain and exchange information. When communication is misunderstood, schools, organizations, relationships, businesses, ideas, products, and people suffer. Eliminating misunderstandings is a key part of effective communication.
Communication is defined as the exchange of thoughts, messages, ideas, or information as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior. Effective communication occurs only if receivers understand the exact message the sender intended to transmit and feel the information at the end of exchange is clear. The ultimate goal of communication is to convey information and understanding of information from one person or group to another person or group.
Individual and communitarian identities are two quite different ways of being in the world. They connect at some point, of course, since all groups are made up of individuals and all individuals find themselves in relationship with various groups. But the starting points are different. To discern the basic difference, ask yourself which is most in the foreground of your life, the welfare, development, security, prosperity, and well-being of yourself and others as individuals, or the shared heritage, ecological resources, traditional stories, and group accomplishments of your people? Generally, those who start with individualism as their beginning tend to be most comfortable with independence, personal achievement, and a competitive conflict style. Those who start with a communal orientation are more focused on social connections, service, and a cooperative conflict style.
Communication is the way we interact with others and express our feelings, thoughts, needs, and ideas. It involves not only words, but also our gestures, facial expressions, body positions, and perceptions. It is a complex process that requires more than clarity in use of words; it requires consistency between our words and our gestures, facial expressions, body “language” and perceptions. It also requires active listening and careful feedback of what is understood. Complicated as it always is, communication becomes even more complicated when it comes to natural and spiritual families communication and relationships.
Active listening is one of the most important elements of family communication. If you do not actively participate in the listening process, you'll find it difficult to solve problems or to make necessary adjustments as a family.
A comeplete bond with God, it the best way to help stabalaize any other realationships. 

A Bond Within

There is always a common denominator when trying to get to know someone.

If you realize you do not have something that interesting for someone that would be enjoyable to discuss or share,

then you try to find what is desired in an individual’s life.

Finding something that is mutual with someone, would be the first step.

In the case of my best decision in my life, was when I found out that girl had a destination to reach out to that final calling was a first step in trying to look for something in common.

Next we were able to get to understand more about each other, being able to see one another,  being raised in different locations of the country, but our church’s we attended has a history of fellowship with one another.

Seeking after what the Lord is endeavoring to be a part of; to bring forth and present a Family to His Father is Christ’s goal He is creating.

Due to that history, our Assembly’s began working closer together was the desires from both of our Pastors. 

After that was created a part of my family moved closer to their assembly to help work together.

Now when we took time to visit our family, we were able to know more about one another.

 Our lives were and still are serving God with all our hearts.

By a continual relationship, we were able to find what we were searching for, that would fulfill the need in our lives.

By having a spiritual bond, a natural bond has created for a relationship for the rest of our lives.

A lifetime of a special relationship, that as is repeated in the ceremonial quotations, to death do us part is a goal that ones are searching for.

There are ones that try to explain how to have great relationships.

Different men have written books, and have given speeches on how to enjoy relationships the right way without trouble.

On paper these words can be good guides, it is not in each others heart from the beginning no mans words are not able to create a perfect relationship.

It still takes an effort from both to have that relationship that was originally designed to have.

 Maintaining a special relationship is the goal that God desired, and had in mind when His first creation of flesh was created upon this world. 

The whole plan was to have a family upon the earth, so by have a creation from a marriage, is the beginning of what God first set to have on earth.

The final goal God is searching for a people to be part of His family and to have a bond that will last forever.

To be able to enjoy all of the creations that God and His Son developed to have a part to enjoy.

As God had a plan to create a family within His spiritual and natural creations. And God explained His will to unto His creations of life, how to be fruitful and multiply.

After the first two creations were brought forth, God’s family had started.

Due to the first disobedient thought that started in the, there was to separate emotions and thought patterns that took place.

And when God asked the next creations to show their obedience in bringing to Him an offering, the creation of choice He gave these two brothers, to search for a n offering to bring to Him, this is when God gave the natural mind option to follow His will of obedience of choice.

And due to the first decision of disobedience, the thought of impurity was thought by the decision of Cain’s offering.

The purity of mind that was created in humanity, was established

when Adam was given a wife that was a pure spiritual creation in the garden.

And the fall of impure thoughts was established in the carnal mind as we have today.

The differences between the sacrifices of Abel and Cain, was pure and impure. The decision to be Godly or ungodly was formed.

Pure and impure brings forth a separation from God and the flesh.

God’s people in Old Testament laws did not have the ability that the early church had.

The Jews had a chance to be Godly by being obedient to the law.

Gal. 3:21 the old law did nit bring life.

It took a different perspective from God to bring forth a chosen people.

Christ brought forth a new view to live, through the Spirit and love and charity.

God does not have laws and commandments or regulations,

He shows his way through principles and guides and helps to assist decisions.

To continue a Godly life of relationships through His spirit consists of,

feelings through love, caring feelings, a faithful trusting heart, respecting and honoring ones, sharing through confidence of your life being expressed by the fruits of the spirit.

Love & Safety Forever

Love & Safety Forever
Recognizable divisions should be only between Godly and Ungodly, but our goal is to see the Ungodly become Godly. That is why Jesus sent the Apostles into the entire world, to search for a people that would desire to serve and work with Christ Mark 16:15. And Paul and Barnabas chose to go unto the gentiles. Acts 13:46
Jesus worked and ate with ungodly- Mt. 11: 19

Christ’s goal was to reach out to all that was and is searching for a life
of love and security in a life of turmoil and unrest.
A life of love with an outlook of enjoyment and peace is hard to find, without an effort to give more than to receive.
We can never be a able to out give God, after giving his only son to an world that was and is full of lack of love, without ones looking or knowing how to search for God and his Son.

MT 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.MT 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.MT 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light

God created a Son first to be able to share a life of bond and support for others through a life filled with the spirit of love and charity.
Expression of God’s principles is His goal for His family to share.

The creation of a marriage and family was for a lifetime.
It was God’s intent for the garden to be dwelt in for eternity.
After centuries latter the ceremonial words say, “Till death do us part”
“as long as you both shall live.”

God created the human body to live forever.
Due to the fall that is when limits started.
We are limited in our strength of our natural life, but not through our spiritual.

Adam was cast out of the garden after being outside the spiritual realm,
a short amount of life-time all living creations exist upon the earth.
After direct disobedience of God’s will, life began to have an expectancy of time. After the fall is when time limits and the word end came into existence.

The gift of God’s spirit that was given unto Adam at his creation
Gen. 2:7, and then reestablished on the day of Pentecost was and is for eternity. Rom. 5:5, Mt. 22:37, 1 Cor. 2:9

The garden was a physical location for life with God eternally.
But through God’s love mercy and grace by his spirit.
Opportunity has been given to mankind to fulfill God’s original plan.

After the fall the word old and earthly house came about, but due to the gift that Christ came to give us, and the definition of a new man was brought and given to the fallen man. Col. 3:9, 10

Early departure of our natural life can be timed due to lack of our medical or physical oversight, and by accidental assistance. It is up to every Spirit filled creature to continue their goal of a life with God by our daily attitude of spirit toward God and all mankind.

At time as a child you had times when you were frightened, first thing you did was looked for security from one of your parent’s arms.
Even after marriage has taken place, times come when you feel like your spouse becomes your only safety net to resolve your feelings of insecurity.

Overall the feelings of protection you will always have will be in the arms of our Savior.
How secure are you really in Jesus, if you are willing and open to do God’s will, you will find that ability for everlasting life.
Rom. 5:1 - 2 Cor. 13:11

Hearts and minds can be locked up, or chained down, or restrained.

Chains are for support, or for security,
If chains are not put on with precious delicate oversight items can scratch or damage or germinate. Some damaged items can be repaired and buffed out.

In most minds when ones think of chains, they think of being tied or held down without freedom to move. But chains can be thought of something that can hold ones together for help and safety for protection and strength.

God created a place of security that He could help protect His creations. God used His Spirit to link or hold together His bond with His creation of Mankind. By linking Heaven with all His creations, God goal was to have a peaceful dwelling place with man to enjoy all the wonderful beauty of life.
This was the foundation the life of God.

When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them the ability to enjoy Paradise, and liberty to move around in the Garden as they pleased.
God did not create man to be shackled down but have a free will of choice.

A chain that has a link that might be weak while tension is upon it, before it would completely break you would add an extra piece to strengthen before it would break apart.
By increasing or adding links does not mean the old chain was not developed right. It was added to become stronger.

A habit can be another form of a chain. The chains of a habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Finding the keys to unlock knowing what keys to use is another process.

Christ has the only master key and He went into the world to open up doors for ones to come and serve him. Christ did not come to restrain, nor did he come to hold back or control. Christ came to liberate set free and release from man’s will of life.

A combination lock does not have need of a key, but it is necessary to cipher the right figure for it to open.

When it comes to your heart what kind of lock is attached to your heart.
It does take the right key or combination to let ones into your heart.
Does your heart only have an inside slide lock, due to being defensive, overprotected or paranoid?
What is really tough, is trying to open a lock from within after losing the key on purpose.

Keeping chains on after being forgiven sometimes creates a mental bondage without the ability to live in peace.
Christ came to deliver ones from the chains of darkness. Ps.2: 2, 3Jer. 5:5. Deut. 12: 8-10, Deut. 27:2, Lev.20: 24, Jn.14: 2, 3
From the tabernacle in the wilderness unto the church’s the apostles built, majority were structures that had no doors, and the ones that did have doors probably did not have locks to secure from entering or leaving.
God’s idea of a connection with Man to be by his side in peace, but do to the disobedience of the direct commandment Adam was given, the complete link to Heaven through Adam was disconnected/

Man will sometimes bring forth a yoke and servitude upon ones, but by Christ coming he gave man an option to be free to serve Him without being held back from the past.

In Haggai He is referring to step back and study the perspective or viewpoint of the church and people, and where they are spiritually.
Hag. 1:5 think of the way you are going and where you are at?
By bringing in little you are not getting ahead, “consider you ways”

The lack of success, go and reach out to help construct this building.
By ones responding to perform this task, God will bless the effort.

The glory of His house will be magnified through the brightness of Christ’s spirit within us, through love and charity in our lives.
Concern for others and not in attitude of selfishness, is displaying God’s spirit in our lives.

Chains are sometimes upon us due to an emotion of fear, guilt, and displeasure of our own mind set.
An act of guilt or anger can bring upon a feeling of pressure or mental stress, and discomfort.

Forgiveness is the mental, emotional, and spiritual process of letting go of resentment, indignation, or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference, or mistake. It can also mean ceasing to demand punishment or restitution for transgressions, real or imagined. Although forgiveness may be granted without any expectation of compensation, and without any response on the part of the offender, it is sometimes necessary for the offender to offer some form of acknowledgment, apology, or restitution; this can often open the way for the person who perceives to be wronged to feel empowered to forgive.

A chain that has a link that might be weak while tension is upon it, before it would completely break you would add an extra piece to strengthen before it would break apart.By increasing or adding links does not mean the old chain was not developed or created right. It was added to become stronger.A habit can be another form of a chain. The bands of a habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Opening your heart is like opening a lock, one type of key is the only way for it to work.
A combination lock can only be opened by the one with the original code.
If the figures or original key form due not correspond match up precisely it will not open.

Feelings of the heart and mind are expressed through actions.
By giving or holding back is how are feelings are understood or brought forth.

God created feelings of expression, but originally He showed feeling of love and concern for mankind.
How many times did God express forgiveness upon Israel or has expressed upon my life?
The act of forgiveness can only be brought forth through love and charity, and compassion towards others.

Through the Children of Israel to the woman caught is adultery,
To the hanging on the cross, the expression of forgiveness, love and charity has been shown to mankind.

God’s Spirit flowing freely and openly within our lives will help our mindset towards ourselves and others.
The right spiritual attitude makes the difference in our lives everyday.

There are chains of Sin- Evil- Darkness, Destruction within
Mankind,
But being saved through Christ we are delivered, released from the darkness of life in this world.

God stands ready to pardon the vilest sinner. He is ever calling to men and women who have sinned: 'let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and God will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.' (Isaiah 55:7). There are those that think they have sinned too deeply to ever find pardon, but it is not so. It would be hard to find one


Living now and moving forward.
A spiritual growth depends on moving and growing farther than you were before.
You can never increase or continue on, if you stay where you always have been.


Letting go does not mean giving up or losing your way... it means “moving on”. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so."
"Luke 2:52" - Even Jesus increased in wisdom and knowledge, by increasing means going farther than you were before.
Christ never was stagnant or dormant in His daily life; Christ continued to perform God’s will in His life for mankind.
Christ way of thinking is a continual change in our life, until we reach the status He has for His people.
Christ did not tell the Gentiles come unto me or else,He said come unto me, meaning my arms are open to help lead you to my Father.Christ did not demand love!He gave the option unto each individual for their decisions to be made.
All Christ expects is a freewill heart, with expressions of charity and love. A spirit filled caring individual that would be living by the fruits of the spirit, is all God is looking for to do his will.

“God's act” Remission is the creditor's, not the debtor's, act; though the debtor be obliged in justice to pay the debt, yet there is no obligation upon the creditor to demand the debt, because it is at his liberty to renounce or maintain his right to it; and God hath as much power as man to relax his right, provided it be with a salve to his own honor, and the holiness of his nature, which he cannot deny for the sinner's safety, as the apostle tells us 'God cannot deny himself.' Yet properly, say some, though sin be a debt, God is not to be considered in pardon as a creditor, because sin is not a pecuniary debt, but a criminal, and so God is to be considered as a governor, lawgiver, guardian, and executor of his laws, and so may dispense with the severities of them. If an inferior person tear an indictment, it may be brought again into court, but if the chief magistrate order the casting it out, who can plead it? It is God's act; and if God justifies, who can condemn? Rom. 8:33, 'Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that, justifies, who shall condemn?'
That God absolves thee that hath power to condemn thee, God who enacted the law whereby thou art sentenced, proclaims the gospel whereby thou art reconciled. It may offend God who is a forgiving God: that God whose name thou hast profaned, whose patience thou hast abused, whose laws thou hast violated, whose mercy thou hast slighted, whose justice thou hast dared, and whose glory thou hast stained.

Paul wrote, “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust [desire] of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” (Gal. 5:16,17) Every devoted Christian has found, as Paul has stated, that it is impossible fully to keep the desires of the flesh under control, and that the struggle to do so is a continuing one. We all rejoice, however, that our unwilling imperfections are covered by the robe of Christ’s righteousness, and that under the covering of this robe our imperfect works are acceptable to our Heavenly Father.

Paul explains that we have been called unto liberty. His reference is to freedom from the Mosaic Law. Those who are wholeheartedly devoted to the doing of God’s will do not need to be commanded not to commit any of the evil ‘works of the flesh’. While not under the old Law, Christians are under a higher law, one which we might refer to as the law of love. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,” James quotes, and those who do love their neighbors will not in any way injure them.—James 2:8What the Apostle Paul describes as the works of the flesh are all evil, and the Christian should fight against these evil tendencies as resolutely as possible, looking to the Lord at all times for help in this struggle to crucify the flesh. The Lord’s help reaches us through the power of his indwelling Spirit, holy power, or influence, in our hearts and lives which produces the fruitage of “love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such,” Paul says, “there is no law.”—Gal. 5:23
Our Key Verse states that we have been crucified with Christ. The apostle in his letter to the Romans also declares that we are crucified with Christ, “that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” (Rom. 6:6) In the 10th verse Paul explains that Christ “died unto sin,” and in the next verse we read, “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
It is made plain that we are dead to sin in the same sense that Jesus was dead to sin. Jesus did not possess sinful flesh—he was a perfect human being. He died unto sin in the sense that he gave up his human life as a sacrifice for sin. Through the merit of Christ our imperfect flesh is made acceptable to God as a sacrifice, so we can, as Paul explains, ‘reckon’ ourselves to be dead unto sin even as Jesus.
In other words, we, like Jesus, are laying down our lives in sacrifice as part of God’s plan to completely destroy all the sin throughout the earth, and to restore fallen and dying humanity to life and atonement with the Creator. This is our calling. This is what is implied in being ‘crucified with Christ’.
Since we are being crucified with Christ sacrificially, as part of what Paul describes as the ‘better sacrifices’ of the present age, and since this is part of God’s plan to eradicate sin from the earth, it would be inconsistent for us, as individuals, to have any sympathy with, or association with, sin.—Heb. 9:22,23

There could be no greater motive for putting off the works of the flesh than this. May the indwelling Spirit of God enable us to do this ever more successfully as we follow in the footsteps of Jesus day by day!

communication in relationships

Sometimes we take the most important things in life for granted and not to realize it is importance until it is too late. Many of us take our relationships for granted and move on until one day we wake up to realize, we do not have the connection any more.

Sometimes, this can lead to breakups or divorce, or simply just an uncomfortable relationship. Suddenly we realize something is wrong in the way things are going.
It may save your relationship. In the coming days, I will add more content on the importance of communication skills in relationships simply because, at the end of day, if you have no one to share your happiness with, all the money in the world is worthless.
Good communication is the key to a good marriage. If you are having problems communicating with you spouse or you feel that there is a breakdown in your family communication
Importance of Effective Communication
The importance of effective communication is demonstrated through daily activities. Everyday people all of the world rely on communication. Whether oral, auditory, written, electronic, non-verbal, or any other means, the communication process is repeated many times daily. Communication is the primary means by which people obtain and exchange information. When communication is misunderstood, schools, organizations, relationships, businesses, ideas, products, and people suffer. Eliminating misunderstandings is a key part of effective communication.
Communication is defined as the exchange of thoughts, messages, ideas, or information as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior. Effective communication occurs only if receivers understand the exact message the sender intended to transmit and feel the information at the end of exchange is clear. The ultimate goal of communication is to convey information and understanding of information from one person or group to another person or group.
Individualist patterns involve ideas of the self as independent, self-directed, and autonomous. Many Western conflict-resolution approaches presuppose exactly this kind of person: someone able to make proposals, concessions, and maximize gains in their own self-interest. Children raised in this milieu are rewarded for initiative, personal achievement, and individual leadership. They may be just as close to their families as a child raised in a communitarian setting, but they draw the boundaries differently: in case of a conflict, they may feel more free to choose their individual preference. Duty, honor, and deference to authority are less prominent for those with individualist starting points than communitarian ones.
Individual and communitarian identities are two quite different ways of being in the world. They connect at some point, of course, since all groups are made up of individuals and all individuals find themselves in relationship with various groups. But the starting points are different. To discern the basic difference, ask yourself which is most in the foreground of your life, the welfare, development, security, prosperity, and well-being of yourself and others as individuals, or the shared heritage, ecological resources, traditional stories, and group accomplishments of your people? Generally, those who start with individualism as their beginning tend to be most comfortable with independence, personal achievement, and a competitive conflict style. Those who start with a communal orientation are more focused on social connections, service, and a cooperative conflict style.