TEACHING ON THE LOVE & RELATIONSHIP GROUP PAGE – INVITED
So, let’s pray….
And our dear God we thank you for tonight. Sweet HolySpirit of God we bless you for this precious moment and the grace to teach your people through me. We receive with meekness in our hearts, the engrafted words of God, which wields the capacity save, deliver, rescue, and help our dying soul. We ask that beyond words, our hearts are spoken to, and beyond this medium, you would touch right here and now where we are.
For in Jesus name we pray.
I’d be brief and concise, trusting the Holy ghost to shed abroad in our hearts the light of his words. We must understand that what we see in our generation today as Maturity is far from what the Lord God sees or regards as Maturity, and that it takes a heart that understands the heart of God to enter into maturity.
We must register these statements of misconception in our hearts, that:
1. Maturity is not a phenomenon you grow into,
2. Maturity is not by the virtue of age or dictate of position.
3. Maturity is not conferred by natural or Cultural belief or perspective.
MATURITY IS A STATUS OF HEART…
Indeed, Maturity is a state of the human heart, such weighed on the scale of Love, conditioned in a way that by reason of understanding “essence and Factor” behind a situation can apply wisdom as the circumstances demands.
I WANT US TO READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY, AS THEY’D GUIDE OUR DISCOURSE.
PHILIPIANS 2:3
KJV: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
ESV: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
NIV: Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
AMP: Do nothing from factional motives [through contentiousness, strife, selfishness, or for unworthy ends] or prompted by conceit and empty arrogance. Instead, in the true spirit of humility (lowliness of mind) let each regard the others as better than and superior to himself [thinking more highly of one another than you do of yourselves].
PHILIPPIANS 2:5
KJV: Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
ESV: Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
NIV: In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
AMP: Let this same attitude and purpose and [humble] mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus: [Let Him be your example in humility:]
Understand that because as humams, having ate from the fruit of the knowledge of Good and Evil, instead of us, getting to know the Father as He always comes in the cool of the evening in the garden. Because we ate of the fruit, we sinned and we’re driven out of the Garden. So we got too familiar over the years with Knowledge, both positive and negative. Before we ever started getting to know our God.
And at such, we have from the knowledge perspective such in a fallen state conceived and persceived some Truths of life outside the context of the God perspective.
MATURITY….. Is a Stature of the Christ kind of Mind, such who beyonds taking offense, beyond the circumstances that has warranted our interactions with our fellow men, we are able to see betond ourselves and consider them. And someties beyond them and consider the factor rather their supposed inadequacies..
Especially in a relationship,
Maturity is not something you expect but something you should express. When you expect it, you can easily be disappointed, but when you express it, you will through such act command love in your relationship.
As regards the assertion that Maturity is a status of the heart. Our ability to conceive our partner the way Christ would conceive and regard such person, makes it easier for us to address every situations that comes around both such that are with frictions and such that are smooth. We are able to appoy wisdom.
One of the problem we have in relationships that we have not embraced, identified as well as addressed is the fact that we feel we are IN-CHARGE, in our relationships; that we refuse to let God do the leading.
If the king who owns the heart of Kings and princes his the pivot pilot of your relationship, it makes it easier to know that MATURITY, such that would be expected of you in that relationship is not a burden or an egoistic expression of self, but it is a SCOPE: A scope and a window through which you will in Christ understand your partners heart as well as train your heart to think the mind of Christ
I’d like to round it up with this.
Don’t get too familiar with Facts, and theories, traditions and culture, Intellect or ego. That you think the reason for maturity such that is expected of you is resident in tour ability to handle situations. It is a lie. God knows you cannot that’s why he said his strength is made available for your weakness.
And at such, Maturity is not your ability to handle situations but your ability to let go of situations to the one who can take you through it; God.
Guest Speaker:
Lawal Kolade M.
Convener:
Amojo Rebecca T.
