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These are excerpts from messages given to those in a recovery program.

Most of the subject matter in these clips applies to all Christians.

 

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

LOOK FOR LOVE   (Audio)   1:41

And that's the attitude that we have to have, is

 

   things are messed up and don't expect things to be better.

 

(John 16:33) Okay? Don't have a negative view of things. The view you have is you keep looking around at everybody around you and say,

 

   God, are you going to minister your love through somebody else today and touch me?

 

(1 John 4:7) Because I'm always looking for that, that goodness and that love and where it may come from.

 

  Instead of looking for who's messing up and who's not loving me. Look for the little bit that you get.

 

Oh, I just got some food.  Well, that was nice. Well, I just got, I can just crawl into bed and I'm warm and it's quiet. Well, that's nice. Thank you, Lord. Or that person said goodnight to me or said good morning to me. That was nice.

 Audience: Very good. 

Whatever we do, we're looking for love and we're looking to receive the good, instead of focusing on the bad. (Phil 4:8)Because the bad's there. Just accept that. So what we're doing in the world as we're going through is we're,

 

  it's just us and God. And we interact with different people as we're going through.  

 

And they're either ministering Jesus or they're not. And so when they're ministering Jesus, we get blessed by it. When they're not ministering Jesus, we go, well, that wasn't any fun

Then it happens. You go, am I okay? Yeah, I'm okay. Why am I okay?  Because God loves me and he allowed this thing to happen to me. (Eph 1:11) Amen. He allowed me to get a whack in the head. Oh, well, what did Jesus go through? A whole lot worse. He got disrespected.

 

   He went to the cross, he did all this stuff. And I'm supposed to expect an easier life?

(1 Pet 4:13)