How I Torpedo the Very Love I Want

Understanding Love

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Understanding the Human HeartGenesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.“

Deep Longings

*Security: Loved, appreciated, cared about, understood, heard.

*Significance: important, respected, valued, matter

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* Arrogant (Wrong) Strategies:

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Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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Fool:

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Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

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Psalms 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.

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Jeremiah 2:13 My people have committed two sins. They have forsaken Me, the spring of living water and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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Forsaking God:

Digging wells:

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Jeremiah 2:13 My people have committed two sins. They have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

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John 4:14 “… but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

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38Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him."

Isaiah 55:1 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”

What’s Your Real Trust?

Isaiah 55:2 “Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.”

What’s Your Real Trust?