Scripture: Jn 2:13-22

¹³ When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ¹⁴ In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money...

Scripture: 1 Thes 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Scripture: Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

*Thrust*: Gaining God's power and strength in my inner life by regaining my first love for God.

Scripture: 1 Sam 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone—but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find . . . Joy - Walter Anderson

A loving relationship can only be achieved through trust. 

Scripture: Luke 17:3-4

Take heed to yourselves. “If your brother sins against you, rebuke him, and if he repents forgive him. And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day return, saying, “I repent” you shall forgive him.

Scripture: Matthew 18:15-17

¹⁵ “If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. ¹⁶ But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’(cf. Deut.19:15) ¹⁷ If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

Scripture: Jas 1:22-24

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

Scripture: Exo 34:6-7

₆ And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, ₇ maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

Scripture: John 13:34

So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.