RHEMA 2/17/09  LOVE OVERCOMES PERSONALITY OFFENSES

HEARD:  Like a child.  Shall we begin?  Let’s play.  Where?  Wherever you want. 

HEARD:  New assignment.  

IMPRESSION:  I had the impression of a person who was child like and hungry for the Lord, strong in carnality and very weak in faith.

PIX:  I saw the action of someone lifting their legs up and stepping really high in order to step over all the stumbling rocks in their road.

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RHEMA 2/23/09  INCOMPATIBLE TEAMS

HEARD:  Let’s see your hands. 

HEARD:  Reworking us.  That’s a possibility, if we can see that  nobody is completely compatible. 

PIX:  I saw the word, two. 

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TIPS ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH AN INCOMPATIBLE PERSON

LEARNING TO LOVE AS JESUS LOVED 

Basically when dealing with a difficult person, God's way is to be a peacemaker by being humble, forgiving and loving through staying consistent in character, behavior responses in servant hood.

That may sound like a being doormat, but the key is to find the true grit of self discipline in God to be:

1)  humble by not giving into self defense, retaliation, control, anger and pointing fingers. 

2)  forgiving by refusing to recall the offenses and asking God that the person not be judged for them.

3)  loving by I Cor 13 choices.

• It takes more character to ask God to be your defense than to fight back.

• It takes more character to humbly point out sin and then let it go and not feel responsible for changing another person.

• It takes more character to trust God to meet your needs than to expect a specific person to do so.

• This road is death to self, and that road is in Jesus' footsteps and God's path of righteousness.

1 Cor 13:4-13 NLT

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. 8 Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. 9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear. 11 It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.  13 There are three things that will endure — faith, hope, and love — and the greatest of these is love.