Just Friends~Chapter 6~

CHAPTER 6-A wonderful "Someday!"
1 Corinthians 2:9

• God is working on your someday,and your going to love it!-Pg. 55

• Everything you do today is about preparing for the future.-Pg. 55

• The struggle with sowing and reaping is waiting!-Pg. 56

The Truth of Sowing and Reaping:
1.Harvest always comes
There's no avoiding it.
2.Harvest always requires a wait

• There's always a gap between planting the seeds and reaping the harvest.Usually the wait is years,not months.

3.Harvest requires tenacity

• Keep sowing the right seeds and don't get weary with well-doing.

4.Harvest always reflects the seed.

• You get what you plant.

5.Harvest always involves outside forces

• Like the sun and rain affect the farmer's seeds,so your friends,your church,your influences(music,entertainment,etc.),and your daily lifestyle impacts the seeds you are planting.

• In every area of life,you are sowing seeds-and one day you will reap a harvest.-Pg. 57

Galatians 6:9

• If you rush God's timing,get into serious relationships too soon,and try to reap fruit too early,you will forever change what your life could have been.-Pg. 58

A Wonderful "Someday" Comes  by Sowing the Right Seeds

• Love is a choice-you plant it.Grow it.Harvest it.-Pg. 58

• That's how a great marriage happens-by choice.It's a desicion that starts now-long before you are married.-Pg. 59

• If you want to arrive someday at a lifetime love and great marriage,you have to get the road map and start the journey in the right direction.-Pg. 59

1. A great marriage is made of TRUST

• Trust is about believing and relying upon your spouse.

• Start planting the seeds of honesty in your life.

2.A great marriage is made of COMMITMENT

• If you can't trust God with your life and commit completely to Him,you will never commit completely to another human being.

3.A great marriage is made of INTIMACY

• Intimacy means "just the two of us"

• You grow intimacy in your marriage by planting purity in your youth-by reserving your self for just one person-physically and emoitionally.

4.A great marriage is made of LOVE

• True love is a choice to give.True love is sacrificial and lives for the honor of another.

• When you choose to love Christ,His love will find it's way out of your heart toward others.

5.A great marriage is made of SUBMISSION

• Submission is learning to give in.Submission is letting the other person win.Submission is saying "I'll let your desires become mine,and I am happy to let you have your way."

• Let others have their way and to sacrifice yourself for someone else-you are preparing for the great harvest.

Romans 12:10
A Wonderful "Someday" Comes by Waiting for the Right Season

• Patience is one of God's big requirements-He likes to work by His timetable,and He's not in a hurry.He's more concerned with who you are becoming than how fast you are getting there.-Pg. 63

Philippians 1:6

• The point is,the best marriage comes  to those who during their youth are willing to wait on God's timing.-Pg. 63

• Plant your heart in the Word of God and let God bring forth fruit in the right season.-Pg. 63

James 1:4

• One reason to become the right is so you will be attracted to someone with the right qualities,and they will be attracted to you.-Pg. 64

Spiritual people influence their friends to a greater spiritual growth.-Pg. 64

• Find someone you can be like and hang around them!-Pg. 64