How to Handle Haters | GHOSTED | Part 2: You Can’t Change People, So Change You! Speaker: Pastor Mike Signorelli V1 Church, New York City
We spend our energy fighting AGAINST our relationships, instead of fighting FOR our relationships. We see this all the time in marriage- people spending energy to be right, but not spending energy to be one. This talk is the second installment in our new relationship series, GHOSTED.
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.’” John 15:12-15 ESV
We need to have HEALTHY relationships, marriages, and friendships. And this isn’t just cutting out the UNHEALTHY people, but also making the existing relationships healthy from within. You have a responsibility to practice RADICAL SACRIFICE, to exchange disunity for unity. Sometimes, you must sacrifice your pride to have crucial conversations, saying things in love with the purpose of reconciliation.
(See Galatians 5:19-26, 2 Kings 6:15-17, Galatians 6:7-8, Matthew 5:23-24)
You get HIS provision, protection, and peace when you fight a battle in HIS strength. How do you fight for unity? You fight the spirit of disunity with its opposite.
1. Unity against division 2. Empathy for contentment 3. Vulnerability for isolation 4. Encouragement for gossip 5. Prayer for opinions
Put your energy into fighting the RIGHT FIGHT!
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