Keeping Love Alive - Volume 4 - A Healthy Relationship with Yourself, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Where do you find security and identity? In this program, Chip says – ‘If it’s in your spouse.. your relationship is in trouble!’ He’ll explain why couples who look to one another for wholeness won’t survive. Join us as we discover how to develop a healthy view of ourselves and the impact it can have on our marriages.

Main Points Great marriages are characterized by couples who individually find their identity in Christ and don’t expect their spouses to meet all their personal, spiritual, relational, and emotional needs.

Translation = We are commanded by Jesus to “Love our neighbors as ourselves.” If we don’t love ourselves in a healthy and non-narcissistic way, we will continually ask of our spouses what they can never deliver. --Matthew 22:37-39
The principle = An accurate self-perception demands we know who we are and whose we are. --1 John 3:1

Developing a healthy relationship with yourself requires:

Getting a glimpseof your beginning. --Psalm 139:13-16
Doing an honest self-assessment. --Romans 12:3
Believing who God says you are. --Ephesians 1:3-14

What do we need to believe about God’s character to develop a healthy relationship with ourselves?

His wisdom. --Romans 11:33-36
His gentleness. --Matthew 11:28-30

Conclusion: So often we want our marriage to change by what we think our mate needs to do; when in reality a healthy, self-love for who we are and whose we are frees us from demanding what our mates can never supply. Broadcast Resource

Additional Resource Mentions

"Marriage that Works" Book

About Chip Ingram

Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.

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0:00.0	Great marriages don't ask the other person to make them home.
0:07.9	Their identity and security come from the one who never changes.
0:13.2	How does that happen?
0:14.9	That's today.
0:15.9	Stay with us.
0:22.5	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Angra.
0:26.4	The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through
0:30.5	the Bible teaching of Chip Angra, and where in the middle of his newest series, Keeping
0:34.8	Love Alive Volume 4, discovering the key relationships great marriages have in common.
0:40.1	And if you're curious about the helpful advice Chip covered in the first three volumes
0:44.4	of this series, go to Special Officers at LivingonTheEdge.org or the Chip Angra map and catch
0:50.7	up whenever you can.
0:52.4	Okay, let's join Chip now for his message, a healthy relationship with yourself.
0:58.6	Great marriages are couples that find their identity who I am and my value as a person in
1:05.4	their relationship with Christ, and as a result, don't expect their husband or their wife
1:12.0	to meet all their personal, spiritual, relational, and emotional needs.
1:18.9	And we're commanded by Jesus to love our neighbors as ourselves.
1:22.7	If we don't love ourselves in a healthy, non-narcissistic way, we will continually ask our
1:29.2	spouse what they can never deliver.
1:32.0	Jesus was asking Matthew 22, it's in your notes, what's the greatest of all the commands?
1:37.1	And he says, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all
1:40.6	your mind, with all your strength, and love your neighbor as your self.
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