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The 5 Love Languages

10 Thursday Feb 2011

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4    Words of Affirmation
12   Quality Time
2    Receiving Gifts
4    Acts of Service
8    Physical Touch 
Quality Time
In Quality Time, nothing says “I love you” like full, undivided attention.  Being there for this type of person is critical, but really being there – with the TV off, fork and knife down, and all chores and tasks on standby – makes you feel truly special and loved.  Distractions, postponed activities, or the failure to listen can be especially hurtful.

I thought that physical touch would come out the highest for me, because that is definitely something that I would consider to be a top love language, but according to the assessment it is quality time.  Now that I think about it, that makes sense.  I really don’t like it when I am talking to someone and they are doing something else at the same time.  Are they really listening to me?  I also get distracted when I am trying to listen to someone and I do other things at the same time.  I would prefer to sit at the table to eat so that I can talk with the person instead of in front of the tv or wherever else.  I guess I would have to say that I like the persons undivided attention or I feel like they are not listening or they don’t care what I am talking about.

What happens when I feel this way?  I stop talking.  I don’t share.  I pull away.  Why would I continue to talk about something that I feel the person clearly does not appreciate or is interested in.   I realize some people are great multi-taskers, and that is great.  I just feel more loved when I have undivided attention of the person who is close to me.  Is that not so hard to ask?  I don’t think so.

It’s interesting that the others are so low.  I like to show others love by giving them little things or by doing things for them, but they are not high on my list.  I guess I prefer quality time and physical touch.  I already thought this about myself, but it was nice to do the assessment to confirm my thinking.  

What’s your love language?  Visit www.5lovelanguages.com/assessments/love/  to find out.  I would be curious to know.  
P.S.  Just because receiving gifts is only a 2 doesn’t mean I don’t like getting gifts! 🙂
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God, I love you too

22 Friday Jan 2010

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How do we respond to God’s love? 


We say all the time, “God, I love you!”  

Wait a second, he loved us first.

As my prof said the other day, how about saying, 

“God, I love you too.”

Hmmm….

1 John 4:19  We love because he [God] first loved us.

So, the prof explained that when someone tells you they love you first and you love them back, you say I love you TOO.  

It made me wonder why we don’t do that?  Is it because we don’t actually hear Him say that too us?  We know that he loves us and does love us first.  I wonder what it will be like to add the “Too” as I tell God I love him.  Will it change my love or make me think more intentionally that he loved me first.  

Why not try telling God you love him too and see if it makes a difference in your life.  It makes me think more of his love for me and reminds me “that this is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”  (1 John 4:10)  

Check out 1 John 4: 7 – 21 or really all of 1 John.  It’s not a long read.  5 chapters, one chapter a day… and don’t just read it through, really think about what you are reading!   Extra challenge:  Count how many times the word “Love” is used.  

Extraordinary: The Life You’re Meant to Live

07 Thursday Jan 2010

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I’m reading the book of the above title written by John Bevere.  It is quite interesting so far.  I want to share little things that popped out to me that made me think about God in a different way.

John writes, “We can’t do one thing to make God love us any more than He already loves us, and conversely, we can’t do anything to make HIm love us any less.  However…we are responsible for how pleased God is with us.

2 Peter 1:3 says, “We have everything we need to live a life that pleases God.  It was all given to us by God’s own power.”

We can please God through his power because it’s hard to please a perfect God when we clearly aren’t perfect.  Thank you God for your grace!  That’s his power that he has given us to be able to please him!

Titus 2:11-12 – “For God has revealed his grace for the salvation of all people.  That grace instructs us to give up ungodly living and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this world.”

John says, “Grace not only instructs but also empowers us to live above our own human potential – extraordinary.  We’ve been born again; we’re brand-new people; we’re sons and daughters of God.”

I know that without God’s grace it is hard to keep self-control, it is hard to live upright, and it is hard not to go back to old habits.  We need God’s grace and to fully receive it to get the strength we need to pull through our trials and tough times and struggles.

I feel like I am learning about God’s grace all over again and how to please him and where the strength comes from to do that.  It’s not from myself, but from God.

1 John 3:1-10

02 Monday Mar 2009

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Sin….
Born again…
to know if you are born again and not to be deceived by false teachers…
how to deal with sin…

I just listened to a sermon by John Piper about the above. It was good because it was talking about if you are born again (believe in Jesus that he died on the cross, rose from the dead and is still alive in heaven today) then you should not be practicing sin. But everyone sins. So we all do wrong things. The difference is that if we are born again then we won’t want to keep on sinning and doing those wrong things. We have someone to come to when we do those things and can say sorry and ask for forgiveness. We don’t have to keep the guilt hanging on our shoulders because we have an advocate that can take that away…Jesus Christ.

I know I have done something wrong and asked God for forgiveness and then did it again. Not because I was going against him, but because it happened. one of those addictions that is hard to quit. But as I continued to seek God and ask his forgiveness I conquered that sin. 🙂 And now it is so much better. We probably all have something in our life that we are dealing with like that, but doesn’t mean that we are not born again believers. If we do something wrong and know it is wrong and continue to do it with out remorse and don’t care…then we need to re-evaluate and see what is going on there.


1 John 3:1-10

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. 4 Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that he appeared to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. 7 Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. 10 By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

If your interested in listening to the sermon, visit
http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/BySeries/83/2665_No_One_Born_of_God_Makes_a_Practice_of_Sinning/
He has a bunch of other sermons on different topics. He is a good speaker!

With a bit deeper thoughts today,
Jackman <