Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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


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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.
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          • 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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            Living on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.

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