Keeping Love Alive - Volume 4 - A Healthy Relationship with Yourself, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you love how God made you? Or are you overly critical and harsh with yourself? Often feeling like you never measure up. In this program, Chip stresses that a thriving marriage is built on a healthy view of ourselves. Wanna learn more? Then join us as we continue Chip’s series, Keeping Love Alive, Volume 4.

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	Do you love yourself in a healthy way, or are you critical down on yourself?
0:07.0	Feel like you never measure up.
0:09.0	Do you realize that great marriages begin with a healthy view of ourselves?
0:15.0	We're going to learn how to get that today.
0:17.0	Stay with us.
0:22.0	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip and Greg.
0:27.0	Living on the Edge is an international discipleship ministry focused on helping Christians live like Christians.
0:33.0	Today we're continuing our newest series, Keeping Love Alive Volume 4,
0:37.0	with the second part of Chip's Talk, a healthy relationship with yourself.
0:41.0	But before he dives in, if you've missed any program in this series,
0:45.0	catch up any time at livingontheedge.org or by using the Chip and Greg map.
0:50.0	We'll chip as a lot of advice and insight to share on this topic, so let's begin.
0:56.0	Second way to get a healthy relationship with yourself is doing an honest self-assessment,
1:03.0	an honest self-assessment.
1:06.0	In other words, not just your physicality, but to look at your life.
1:11.0	Remember Romans 11 chapters of grace, then verse 1 of chapter 12 was,
1:18.0	what is it that God really wants?
1:20.0	You, all of you, so he can give you the best.
1:24.0	How do you get the very best from God?
1:26.0	Oh, that's verse 2. Don't be conformed to this world.
1:29.0	Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
1:31.0	The God who made all that there is says, I want you to get what's good.
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