Refreshing Our Spirits With Scripture

 7.15- Great marriage is not just about finding the right person. It not just about being the right person. It is about these plus a partnership with your best friend, God. My wife did not sleep the night before we moved out of the home where we had lived for 30 years. 2013, July 9, 10 merged into a 48 hour day for her. Never afraid to have long deep discussions with me. Saturday, 1988, we spoke to each other and with each other for 5 hours straight according to her journal. What patience she had to try to understand me and help me the best she could. I spoke to a marriage counselor who has been doing effective work with couples who told me improvement was about better and deeper listening skills. 1 Corinthians 13 13  If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.   2  If I have  the gift of  prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have...

 7.15- All the wisdom of the Bible regarding proper conduct and good manners can be summed up simply. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Matthew 7 7  “ [ g ] Ask, and it will be given to you;  [ h ] seek, and you will find;  [ i ] knock, and it will be opened to you.   8  For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.   9  Or what person is there among you  [ j ] who, when his son asks for a loaf of bread,  [ k ] will give him a stone?   10  Or  [ l ] if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?   11  So if you,  despite  being  [ m ] evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12  “In everything, therefore,  [ n ] treat people the same way you want  [ o ] them to treat you, for this is...

Matthew 18 18  At that  [ a ] time the disciples came to Jesus and said, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”   2  And He called a child to Himself and set him among them,   3  and said,  “Truly I say to you, unless you  [ b ] change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.   4  So whoever will humble himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.   5  And whoever receives one such child in My name, receives Me;   6  but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to  [ c ] sin, it is better for him that a  [ d ] heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depths of the sea. Stumbling Blocks 7  “Woe to the world because of  its   [ e ] stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that  [ f ] stumbling blocks come; but woe to the person through whom the  [ g ] stumbling...

 7.13- 3,000 years ago one of the world's richest men said humans should live each day fully and enjoy their lives with an eye to the reality that life includes death and judgement for how you treated people. So stay in step with God. Steve Jobs who was one of the modern world's richest people got pancreatic cancer and found out his death was approaching. He is reported to have said that death is life's best invention because it teaches you to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose if you follow your best dreams. The teacher said live your life without worry. If you are a child of God, you should know that he is for you and if he is for you who could be against you. Romans 8 8  Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus.   2  For the law of the Spirit of life  [ a ] in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.   3  For what the Law could not do,...