Participants: Karen Thomas (Host), Pr. Steve Caza
Series Code: IAADD
Program Code: IAADD000042A
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00:27 Welcome to Issues and Answers.
00:28 Today our topic is Love Drops. 00:32 So if you're interested in learning more about love, 00:35 how to build love, how to grow in love, 00:39 come on and join us today. 00:41 Our guest today is Pastor Steven Caza. 00:44 He is a graduate from Weimar College in California. 00:48 He's pastored in Kentucky, 00:49 the Cayman Islands, Utah and Tennessee. 00:53 His current churches are the Raleigh 00:55 and Covenant churches near Memphis, Tennessee. 00:58 He likes to be involved in public evangelism, 01:01 giving Bible studies 01:02 and training members to do outreach. 01:04 His lovely wife, Leslie, 01:06 he's been married to her for 31 years 01:09 and they have three grown children, 01:10 Shannon, Emily and Isaac. 01:13 His favorite hobbies when he's not preaching 01:15 and doing all those other wonderful things, 01:17 is planting orchards and maintaining them, 01:20 berry patches, gardening, jogging, and biking. 01:25 Welcome to the program, Pastor Caza. 01:28 Glad you could spare the time 01:29 for more of your wonderful hobbies 01:31 that talk to us about Love Drops. 01:34 I just love that title 01:35 so I'd like to say, Love Drops. 01:37 I know you do. 01:39 Good to be here. Thank you for having me. 01:40 Oh, you're so welcome. 01:42 So where do we start? 01:43 Well, let's go back to Genesis Chapter 26. 01:45 Okay. 01:47 And Isaac and Rebecca were living during the famine 01:51 and they realized they couldn't live there anymore 01:53 so they decided to move. 01:54 Okay. 01:56 And they went down to Gerar, 01:57 King Abimelech was a Philistine King of that area. 02:00 While they were there, 02:01 God came to Isaac and gave him a blessing again, 02:04 "I'll make your descendents like the stars of heaven." 02:07 And then with them being the new people on the block, 02:11 what happens when someone moves in who is new. 02:12 What do the neighbors like to do? 02:14 Like to come on and check them out. 02:15 Check them out, 02:16 where they were checking his tents, 02:18 his herds, his carts, 02:21 and then something was really interesting, 02:22 they started checking out his wife. 02:25 So they asked him, "Who is this woman?" 02:30 "Oh, she's my sister." 02:32 Was that really the case? 02:34 No, was not the case. 02:36 Starting here in verse 7 at chapter 26, 02:38 "And the men of the place asked him of his wife, 02:41 and he said, She is my sister: 02:43 for he feared to say, 02:44 She is my wife, lest, said he, 02:47 the men of the place should kill me for Rebecca, 02:50 because she was fair to look upon." 02:53 So she was a real good looker. 02:54 Oh, those were extra friendly neighbors. 02:58 I know they were bold to do that. 03:01 And it says here and it came to pass 03:03 when they had been there a long time. 03:06 So this deception had been going on 03:08 for quite a while hiding 03:10 who they were and it picks up here that 03:13 "Abimelech king of the Philistines 03:14 looked out at a window, and saw, and, 03:18 behold Isaac was sporting with Rebecca his wife." 03:24 So he looked out and he saw something and sporting. 03:29 Well, New American Standard says caressing, 03:32 New Revised Standard says fondling, 03:34 New King James says showing endearment. 03:37 Contemporary English version says hugging and kissing, 03:40 I say they were flirting and teasing. 03:43 They were having a ball, they were having fun. 03:46 Abimelech didn't have a modern English Bible 03:50 to figure out what it was but he didn't need it. 03:52 He looked at what was going on 03:54 and he realizes that is not brother and sister stuff. 03:58 Not at all. 04:00 Not at all. 04:01 Now, here's the point, Isaac had blown it. 04:05 Somehow they had made up 04:08 and they were having fun together. 04:09 They were enjoying each other's company 04:11 touching, talking, laughing, 04:13 he could see in their eyes, 04:14 he could just see their actions that there was, 04:17 it was that they were married. 04:19 It was obvious that they were married, 04:23 and I would like to say today, 04:25 I like it to be obvious in our marriages 04:28 where husbands and wives that we are married. 04:30 Amen. 04:31 That we are a couple, 04:32 that there's a warmth between us, 04:35 we care for each other. 04:36 It's in our eyes, Son of Solomon says, 04:40 dove's eyes. 04:42 The look of gentleness. 04:43 Doves are gentle birds. 04:45 You know my beloved has dove's eyes. 04:47 You can see it there is, 04:48 there's a chemistry there there's electricity there, 04:51 and a warmth and they have like each other, 04:55 they like each other. 04:56 Wow. 04:58 A couple who shares hobbies, plays together, 05:01 have common interest, 05:02 talking, sharing, planning together, 05:05 building good solid marriages. 05:08 We need to come to the understanding 05:11 that marriage is a covenant of companionship. 05:16 It's a covenant of companionship 05:19 and we find that in Malachi 2:14, 05:24 "Yet you say, "For what reason?" 05:26 Because the Lord has been witness between you 05:28 and the wife of your youth." 05:31 So what it's saying 05:32 this lady has been with you a long time... 05:34 Right. 05:35 From your youth, you're gonna put about the pasture 05:37 or this man has been with you a long time. 05:40 I mean significantly has invested their life in you 05:45 from their youth. 05:46 Right. 05:47 You've been together and then he continues on here. 05:51 "With whom you have dealt treacherously, 05:53 Yet she is your companion." 05:58 Your lifelong partner, soul mate... 06:01 It's beautiful. 06:02 Friend, so God is telling him, 06:04 she's been with you a long time. 06:05 What you're doing by putting her away is treachery. 06:08 And why? 06:10 She is your companion. She's been with you. 06:12 She hung in thick and thin, 06:14 and you know she loves you, 06:18 and here it says as he continues on, 06:20 "Yet she is your companion and your wife by covenant." 06:25 What does that covenant mean? 06:27 That you... 06:28 very good, 06:30 it's an agreement between two parties. 06:31 Okay. For mutual benefit here. 06:33 So they made a covenant. 06:35 They made a covenant, 06:36 the husband and wife, 06:38 it was by covenant 06:39 they both agreed of their own free will, 06:40 not put a gun to their head 06:42 and say you have to marry this person, 06:44 they agreed to blend their lives, 06:46 that two become one. 06:49 Now, when I do weddings, 06:51 there's something at the end of the wedding. 06:52 Everybody is waiting for... 06:54 You're right. You have that prayer. 06:56 They get up the veil goes up and the minister says, 07:01 "You may salute the bride or kiss your bride? 07:04 Kiss the bride, everybody smiling. 07:07 Do you know where that came from? 07:09 No. 07:10 It actually came from ancient Rome 07:11 where they sealed agreements with a kiss 07:14 and it came into the marriage ceremony. 07:16 So not only does a couple 07:18 seals their commitment to covenant with the, 07:21 "I do" actually ancient custom is they kiss too. 07:26 That they have covenanted to stay together, 07:28 to love one another, to stick together, 07:33 so that's where that came in from. 07:35 And this question... 07:37 Who know that? Excuse me. 07:38 Who know that coming all the way from Rome, 07:40 a Roman custom... 07:42 That's just a custom of Rome. 07:43 That's kept going thousands of years later. 07:44 Thousands of years. 07:46 There must be something to that. 07:47 Well, that kiss is sealing my, "I do" 07:53 that I am committed to you, 07:55 and I'm going to stay with you, 07:57 and love you, and bless you, 07:59 when it's both it's mutual. 08:00 It should always be mutual. 08:02 And this commitment to marriage was an issue in Jesus' day. 08:07 And they actually came to him, the Pharisees came to him. 08:10 And in Matthew 19:3-6, 08:14 the Pharisee also came unto him 08:16 tempting him and saying into him, 08:18 "Is it lawful for a man 08:19 to put away his wife for every cause? 08:22 And he answered and said unto them, 08:24 Have ye not read..." 08:27 So he's saying you know the answer. 08:30 They're just trying to get through the back door, 08:33 and I think this is where the whole, 08:35 all of us as Christians, 08:37 "Have ye not read, 08:39 that he which made them at the beginning 08:42 made them male or female, 08:44 And said, For this cause 08:46 shall a man leave father and mother, 08:48 and shall cleave to his wife, 08:49 and they twain shall be one flesh. 08:53 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one. 08:58 What therefore God hath joined together, 09:01 let no man put asunder." 09:03 As I thought about this that no man put asunder, 09:05 that word for men is anthropos, 09:08 mankind to Jesus saying, 09:11 no one male or female relative, friend. 09:16 Nobody has a right to get into and split your marriage 09:20 that the God's plan was for us to work it out, 09:24 to stick, to cleave as it stick together, 09:28 because sometimes you just have to stick together. 09:31 Things are just as problems, there's struggles, 09:33 that's a part of every marriage, 09:36 all our lives we're gonna get problems. 09:38 Isaac and Rebecca, as we started off, 09:41 he denied his wife, "She's my sister." 09:43 How do you think she felt? 09:45 Yeah, she had to feel really badly for a moment. 09:47 Really bad but somehow in that story 09:51 they had to have made up because they were supporting, 09:53 so Isaac must have went to her and said, 09:55 "Look it, I blew it. 09:57 I was afraid." 09:58 He just owned up to it told that he was sorry, 10:00 asked her for forgiveness. 10:02 She took a big deep breath, she was waiting for that. 10:06 And now they can work it out 10:08 and get back together. 10:11 So God's plan is for the two to become one 10:14 and to become one flesh, 10:16 it takes a lot of work, but it's well worth it, 10:20 very worthwhile well worth it. 10:22 And when you ask ourselves, are our marriages strong? 10:26 Right. 10:27 Are they strong? 10:28 How do we... How to get marriages strong. 10:30 Yeah, how to get them strong 10:31 and are they strong. 10:33 Well, there's a book called, Love as a Lubricant, 10:38 and the stories that are told of a workman 10:39 who boarded the bus was going to work 10:42 and every time the door opened it squeaked. 10:46 So what he did is, he just got up, 10:49 he got his little oil can, 10:51 went over the offending spot, put a couple drops on. 10:54 Put it back in went back to his seat 10:57 and made the comment, 10:58 "I always carry oil can for there were always 11:02 something that a few drops of oil can quiet." 11:06 A few drops of oil, 11:08 that's where we get the title, Love Drops, 11:10 because love is the oil 11:12 that brings harmony into our homes. 11:14 Amen. 11:15 Can quiet the fuming so it's a love drops. 11:19 It's a love is what does that. 11:22 I want to share a few scriptures here 11:24 to help us to have that love drops in our marriage, 11:29 and let's take a look here. 11:30 Proverbs Chapter 31. 11:32 Proverbs 31? 11:33 And verse 26. 11:35 Okay. 11:36 And this is talking to the wife 11:39 and I think it's well for, 11:40 for couples to go into the Bible 11:42 and just read these verses 11:44 and get a tune up in maybe even a perk, 11:47 a perk up in... 11:50 See that God is interested in their homes. 11:51 He's interested in them. 11:53 He's interested in their wellbeing. 11:54 God wants us to be successful. 11:56 He's pulling for us. 11:58 He's cheering, God's our biggest cheerleader. 12:00 He wants us to have the abundant life 12:04 but there's keys to the abundant life. 12:06 There's laws of life it has given us in the scriptures 12:09 that if we follow will bring freedom, 12:11 it will bring joy, it will bring happiness. 12:14 God's primary goal for us is to be happy. 12:17 That's what he wants, he wants us to be happy. 12:20 In Proverbs 31:26, 12:23 speaking to the wife the verse says, 12:25 "She openeth her mouth with wisdom, 12:28 and in her tongue is the law of kindness." 12:32 So when the wife opens her mouth 12:36 she's speaking with wisdom... 12:39 And where is she getting that wisdom from? 12:43 The word of God, okay. 12:45 Life experience, skill, 12:48 hopefully we're learning from our mistakes. 12:51 Right. We're not doing that again. 12:53 Wisdom, we learn as we age and as we grow, 12:56 and as God works with us, as we are polishing. 12:58 When we get married, we're just, 13:00 we're not finished products, 13:01 we're just two people trying to mesh our lives 13:03 with our own baggage... 13:05 Right 13:06 And hopefully as we're marrying things are being laid off, 13:10 you know, dropped off. 13:12 And we're maturing, and we're figuring things out. 13:16 Couples who stay together even in the hard times 13:20 eventually will figure things out 13:23 and I will testify that, 13:25 31 years, my marriage is as sweet now as ever, 13:29 better I should say, 13:31 because I have learned things on what makes my wife happy, 13:34 and she has learned things that make me happy and... 13:37 So we have a good marriage, 13:39 we don't have a perfect marriage, 13:40 but we strive for a good marriage. 13:41 Does that make sense? Sure. 13:43 To have a good marriage. Yes. 13:45 And we can. 13:46 There is no marriage so far gone 13:48 that God can't heal. 13:50 I believe that God can heal even the worst situations. 13:54 He can help a couple to start dialoguing, 13:57 working things out step by step, 13:59 may take some time but he can reclaim. 14:01 If he can reclaim a human person 14:02 who is unconverted, 14:04 he can reclaim a marriage, 14:05 he can reclaim demoniacs 14:08 and prostitutes and drug addicts, 14:09 he can reclaim marriages. 14:11 So there's hope for our marriages. 14:12 Yes. 14:14 There's hope that the commitment is, is both. 14:16 So, "She openeth her mouth with wisdom, 14:18 and in her tongue is a law of kindness." 14:21 It's just the way of life, speaking kindness. 14:23 I think kindness goes a long way in a home, 14:26 speaking kindly, 14:28 good manners, having gentleness. 14:31 So telling the wife when you speak, 14:34 try to be wise in what you say 14:36 and in your tongue have the law of kindness. 14:40 Proverbs 31:10-12, 14:45 says to the woman, 14:47 "Who can find a virtuous woman?" 14:52 Well, that's a good question. 14:53 You stopped right there. 14:54 Well, look who asked the question. 14:57 No, what... 14:58 Today as I was looking at this 14:59 and I've been thinking about this 15:01 who can find a virtuous woman. 15:02 Well, there are a lot of virtuous women out there. 15:05 There are and there are lot of good men. 15:06 Yes, yes. 15:08 It's just, "Are you willing to wait and find one?" 15:12 And I want to back up, 15:13 there are women who maybe 15:15 when they were younger did things 15:16 they shouldn't have done 15:18 and made foolish mistakes, youthful lust. 15:22 But when they give their hearts to Jesus, 15:23 they become virtuous women. 15:25 Amen. 15:26 The woman at the well, 15:27 five husbands and one living. 15:29 Right. She left that day. 15:31 She left converted 15:33 and she was a different person. 15:34 The lady caught in adultery that they brought to Jesus. 15:37 He says, "I condemn you no more." 15:38 She left a converted woman, 15:40 a virtuous woman, her life was changed. 15:43 So even though we have made mistakes 15:44 when we were younger, 15:46 we can be reclaimed and become virtuous, 15:48 that's part of the new birth experience. 15:49 Amen. Right. 15:51 Yeah, that's exacting. That's right, it is exciting. 15:53 Another one would be Rahab the harlot. 15:55 She's in Jesus' genealogy. 15:58 Wow. 15:59 A pagan. Right. 16:01 And that she's in Jesus' genealogy, 16:03 she became pure woman and she was actually in the... 16:05 Might have been the great, great grandmother of David, 16:08 I may have it little bit off of Jesse 16:10 and then David and so she was in that. 16:12 So David actually had Canaanite blood in him. 16:18 So God can put together people from different backgrounds. 16:20 He can. 16:21 So the point I'm getting out, who can find a virtuous woman, 16:24 it's possible. 16:25 Every woman to be virtuous. 16:27 Every woman to be can be a lovely, godly, 16:30 well balanced person. 16:32 God has designed us to be reclaimed, 16:35 redeemed, restored, revived, 16:38 so it can happen, 16:39 so we can find a virtuous woman. 16:41 And when you find her, 16:42 for her price is far above rubies. 16:44 So when you find her grab her. 16:48 Don't let it get away. 16:49 Don't let it get away. 16:52 And here's a fun part of this, 16:54 "You can find a virtuous woman, 16:55 for her price is far above rubies, 16:57 the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her." 17:01 What does that mean? 17:03 Just know she's gonna do him good. 17:05 What she's gonna do? 17:07 He doesn't have to go behind her 17:08 and watch how she's spending the money, 17:09 how she's raising the kids, 17:11 what's she doing in her spare time, 17:12 he just trust her. 17:15 I got married 31 years ago, 17:17 I have not seen her paycheck the whole time. 17:20 Really? Yeah. 17:21 Everyone's going to my wife, day one. 17:25 Yeah, I'm decent with money 17:27 but she's a really good with money 17:28 and I just trust her. 17:29 I trust her with the finances, 17:31 with running of the home or she comes home 17:32 and say, "Oh, I had a... 17:34 I bought recently a microwave, is that okay?" 17:35 Of course 'cause you're always good with money. 17:37 You're always reliable, I trust you. 17:39 This is an area that I try to just trust my wife, 17:43 and I don't have to question her 17:46 and sometimes... Praise God. 17:47 Yeah, very good, it's very good. 17:48 So there it says here. 17:52 "The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her." 17:55 Safely trust, you can be sure she's reliable. 18:01 "So that he shall have no need of spoil. 18:04 She will do him good and not evil 18:07 all the days of her life." 18:10 Wow. 18:11 Doing good. 18:13 Can you imagine a wife was just thinking about, 18:15 how can I make this man happy, 18:18 thinking, helping the marriage to stay 18:20 well oiled if I can put that out there. 18:23 Yes, yes. 18:24 You know, pulling out your own little can. 18:26 There it comes... Here it comes. 18:27 Pulling out your own little can of love drops. 18:29 Love drops is very interesting. 18:32 You know, of course it's a love 18:34 but we need to put in a drop form. 18:36 If we are using love drops daily, 18:38 it will keep things, the machinery well oiled, 18:42 but if we neglect something. 18:44 And there's a squeak a problem, 18:45 love drops will help heal that as we talk, 18:49 make amends, and work things out, negotiate. 18:51 So love on the front end helps marriage to run well. 18:55 And if something goes bad, 18:56 love will reclaim that marriage. 18:58 And love is a choice. 19:00 It's a choice. 19:02 It's a choice. 19:03 Yes, we need to love by faith. 19:06 Explain that love by faith? 19:09 Sometimes a marriage can be so bad, 19:10 you just want to run away. 19:13 But by faith you can say, 19:16 "God, you have brought us together. 19:17 I believe you can fix this, 19:19 and by faith I'm gonna love this man 19:21 or by faith I'm gonna love this woman." 19:23 You know we're not getting along, 19:25 both of us want to check out here, 19:28 by loving by faith, 19:29 that's actually a New Testament term, 19:31 love by faith, yeah. 19:34 Yeah, love by faith. 19:35 Sometimes it's just by faith you're staying together. 19:37 That's part of the covenant agreement, 19:38 that's part of sticking together, 19:40 that's part of becoming the two becoming one 19:42 is I'd rather be anywhere else right now 19:44 because this marriage is, is so hurtful to me. 19:47 And I'm talking about, I'm not talking about abuse. 19:50 Abusive marriage is a whole different thing, 19:52 a whole different topic. 19:53 I say couples who have grown apart 19:54 and not getting along, they're arguing, 19:56 they're fuming, they're fussing. 19:57 You know, it's been going for long time 19:59 and maybe the love has, has died down some, 20:02 so those marriages yes, 20:04 and even the other marriages where there's abuse that 20:06 they get help, they can be reclaimed too, 20:07 but I don't want to go there today, 20:09 I want to stick with this. 20:10 Okay. 20:11 So by loving, loving by faith in that person, 20:15 God has given her to me. 20:16 God has given him to me. 20:19 And I believe that we can come out of this 20:21 and learn some things 20:23 or maybe even be stronger for it. 20:25 So loving by faith and just giving it to God, 20:29 praying, claiming Bible promises. 20:31 And letting him soothe you 20:34 and letting him bring you comfort, 20:36 God, He is a God of all comfort. 20:38 He will comfort us in all our afflictions, 20:41 and so God can comfort you 20:43 and carry you through this time, 20:45 and He's working with you 20:46 and pray that He'll work with your spouse. 20:49 So love drops. 20:51 There was a long way. 20:52 Now, Karen, let's go to Ecclesiastes 9:9 20:56 and we'll find some counsel for husbands here. 20:59 "Live joyfully with the wife whom you love 21:02 all the days of your vain life 21:03 which He has given you under the sun, 21:06 all your days of vanity, 21:07 for this is your portion in life, 21:09 and in the labor which you perform under the sun." 21:14 Ecclesiastes, Solomon is telling 21:16 husbands to live joyfully or we can say enjoy life. 21:21 Yeah. Enjoy life. 21:22 That sounds good. 21:23 God wanted us to have an enjoyment in our lives 21:25 and it says, "With our wife who you love 21:28 all the days of your vain life 21:31 which He has given you under the sun." 21:34 So what's with your wife whom you love. 21:37 We should be loving our wives and caring for them. 21:41 But it's interesting as we take a look at this, that says, 21:44 "This is your portion in life and labor 21:46 which you perform under the sun." 21:47 but in verse 10, the first phrase, 21:50 Karen, read the first phrase of verse 10. 21:54 "Whatever your hand finds to do, 21:55 do it with your might, 21:57 for there is no work or device 21:59 or knowledge or wisdom in the grave 22:01 where you are going." 22:02 Okay, the context of this. 22:04 "Whatever you hands finds to do, 22:06 do it with all your might," 22:07 The context says living joyfully with your wife 22:11 that's your portion under the sun. 22:13 Wow. 22:15 We take out of context, 22:16 if you're gonna work at a job or whatever, 22:17 do that right, and that's good, 22:19 we need to, but here is really saying, 22:21 you need to put everything into your marriage. 22:23 Wow. 22:24 And the reason is because 22:25 the last part of this verse says, 22:27 "There's no work or device 22:28 or knowledge or wisdom in the grave 22:30 where you are going." 22:32 So you can't fix your marriage after you're dead. 22:34 No. 22:36 It's got to be on this side of death 22:39 when you're on top of the topsoil not underneath. 22:42 And that's... 22:44 No coming back from the grave... 22:45 No coming back. 22:47 And putting your hands in the life of your loved ones. 22:48 Things you wanted to teach them, 22:49 tell them, work with them. 22:52 There's none of that. 22:53 So, "Whatever your hands finds to do, 22:55 do with all your might, 22:56 that's living joyfully with your wife." 22:59 We need to be putting our efforts into our marriages. 23:02 And when computers blank out, 23:04 we'll spend hours trying to fix it, 23:06 but if there's a glitch in our marriage, 23:08 do we put as much energy into fixing our marriages 23:11 as we do the other, 23:14 our cars, our boats, computers. 23:16 Right. 23:18 So whatever hand finds to do, 23:19 we are commanded to do it with husband and wife both 23:22 and to do it joyfully. 23:24 Let's go to here Ephesians 4:32, 23:30 'cause I want to talk about love drops, 23:32 what are the ingredients in love drops. 23:34 You know it's an ancient formula. 23:37 It has not been used much 23:39 'cause people really don't know, 23:41 it's gone out of use, so... 23:44 The idea of love drops. 23:45 The idea of love drops and also the ingredients, 23:48 what makes a love drop? 23:49 We need to bring it back Ephesians 4:32, 23:52 go ahead, would you read it? 23:54 Thirty two? Yes. 23:55 okay. 23:57 "And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, 24:00 forgiving one another, 24:01 even as God in Christ forgave you." 24:04 Okay, three ingredients be ye kind, 24:09 that's actually a song, "be ye kind went to another" 24:12 Yeah. 24:13 You know that one, tenderhearted, 24:14 forgiving one another. 24:16 That's even a song that we sing, 24:17 kindness, 24:20 gentleness, goodness, 24:23 treating each other well is a ingredient in love drop, 24:28 that's the first one is, is having a kindness. 24:31 Then there's a tenderheartedness 24:33 where we're dealing sympathetically, 24:36 empathetically, patiently, 24:38 enter into their world, 24:39 our spouses have downturns, 24:41 things aren't going well at work 24:42 with the children or whatever, 24:44 is just being a tenderhearted reaching out to them... 24:48 Coming out of ourselves? 24:49 Coming out of ourselves, yeah, being tenderhearted, 24:52 not coldhearted or cold shoulder. 24:55 So there's a tenderheartedness, 24:57 so be ye kind went another tenderhearted 24:59 and it says, forgiving one another. 25:03 So forgiveness is a part 25:05 where we need to learn to forgive. 25:07 Rebecca had to forgive Isaac. 25:10 Yes. 25:11 For a big blunder publicly, public blunder. 25:15 You know, he disgraced himself in front of everybody, 25:17 once they were found out but she had to forgive him. 25:20 They made up and got their marriage back on line, 25:25 learned some lessons and moved forward, 25:29 so kind, it's not holding grudges. 25:32 Not letting them fester in us, 25:34 dialoguing, talking. 25:36 Love drops isn't an eye problems. 25:38 Love drops is actually the way to fix the problems. 25:41 So it goes as putting love drops down 25:43 and I'm turning my head to problems, 25:44 it means we're gonna talk about this 25:46 kindly, gently, lovingly, 25:49 and we're going to solve this. 25:52 Now, these three ingredients are not rare ingredients. 25:56 They're not rare ingredients. 25:57 They're in the reach of all of us. 25:59 All of us can be kind, 26:00 all of us can be tenderhearted, 26:02 and all of us can learn to forgive one another. 26:03 Amen. 26:05 So we can all have that love that we're longing for, 26:08 giving love, receiving love, 26:11 having love drops, having love drops. 26:15 Pastor, we're in need of love 26:18 certainly to be able to come out of ourselves, 26:21 to be able to look to the needs of others. 26:24 Would you offer prayer for us please? 26:26 I would love to. Thank you for having me. 26:28 Thank you. 26:29 Loving Father in heaven, 26:31 I just pray dear Lord for our homes, 26:34 for our marriages, 26:36 that couples today will just have a softening 26:39 in their hearts towards one another 26:41 and realize that know what? 26:43 We had it one time, we can get it back. 26:47 Bless us, help us to put the energy in. 26:50 Give us your Holy Spirit. 26:52 Give us the desires. 26:54 Give us the tools 26:56 that we can do that and bless each other. 27:00 We love you. 27:01 We thank you for the hope you have given us. 27:03 We thank you for our spouses, 27:05 and help us to rejoice with each other 27:07 in Jesus' name. 27:09 Amen. 27:10 Amen, amen. 27:12 Well, Pastor, how did you... 27:14 First of all thank you for the prayer. 27:16 How did you discover all these wonderful love drops? 27:19 Did they just... 27:21 Did you go to class and study all that, 27:22 how did this come to be? 27:24 I did go to class, school, School of Hard Knocks. 27:28 That was a good one. 27:29 That's true. That is true. 27:31 So your life experiences. 27:33 Life experiences with my wife and I 27:35 learning to... 27:36 You're just saying the scripture is 27:37 coming alive to you. 27:39 My wife has been a blessing to me. 27:40 We've had our ups and downs like all couples do, 27:43 but we stuck together, we have a good marriage. 27:46 We love each other. 27:48 I feel fulfilled. 27:49 You know a lot of these were just, 27:51 just for my own personal struggle tackling these verses. 27:56 Well, thank you so much again for coming to the program 27:58 and sharing with us love drops. 28:01 Thank you. 28:03 Really appreciating for those of you at home. 28:04 I know, I learned something today. 28:06 I hope you did as well. 28:08 Let's put that love into the relationships. 28:11 Keep that love going as God would have us to. 28:13 God bless you. |
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