Im lookin through my prayer/notes journal and all the ATF sessions are in it. So i thought i'd write the notes down of what Joel preached on Romantic Love and about our Identity. Their just a few notes so may be kinda hard to understand, sketchy, and jumps around a lot, but its good stuff. =] So much more to say about all of it, but in a nutshell, here's what we talked about.
ATF (Session 3) Joel Johnson.
Romantic Love
Romantic love is a special type of love. Its like a fire. Fire is awesome, fun, amazing, beautiful.. in the right context. If you take the fire out of your fireplace and put it on your living room floor, it is a lot more dangerous, and it will burn. Dating is not a practice for marriage, its practice for divorce. You need to know how to be a good friend, and know how to make sacrifices to be in a healthy romantic relationship. Sometimes we fall in love with the idea of falling in love, rather then sacrificial love. Where your body goes, your heart follows. Where your heart is, your body follows. Women of God don't dress trashy, they dress classy. Modest is hottest ;) The bait you use, determines the fish you'll catch.
ATF- Morning message- Joel Johnson
The worlds screams to us that we are worthless. That no one is ever going to love us. Were not gonna do anything in our life. And we start to believe it, and it starts to become our identity. Our identity gets stolen, and we become someone were not. God put us here for a reason, with a mission, and an identity. Our identity is not in skating, cheerleading, or anything. It is in Christ. We begin to feel empty, and it ruins our self-esteem when we find it in someone else. Maybe someone has said something to you, ever just joking around, but it has effected your life and self-esteem. Thoughts lead to actions, actions lead to habits, habits lead to lifestyle, lifestyle leads to destiny. We have to make a deciscion everyday to listen to what God says about us, not the world. And then we need to open up Gods FaceBook (The Bible). Will you lay down your old identity for your identity in Christ?
The Romantic Love part, SO GOOD! and so true, its amazing. I'd never look at dating as a set up for Divorce..
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