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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Healing Broken Relationships

Keala Thompson

1. Soul Searching Our Emotions

2. Emotional Pain Relievers

3. My God, Where Were You?

4. Never Good Enough

5. A Safe Place

6. Why Can’t We Forgive

This message was presented at the GYC 2015 conference called Chosen Faithful in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Father, as your word is open, help us to see what you want us to learn this afternoon.

And may your spirit keep our minds alive and alert to what you want to say to us and help us to understand in Jesus name, Amen.

So Matthew chapter 22 verse 36 to 40 So the Bible says that in 1 John 4 verse 8 that God is love.

Now when the Bible says that God is love, what it really is saying that every motive and every purpose and the spirit of God is love.

In other words, everything that God does is because He loves.

Okay, so that's what God wants us to see is that everything that, so let me, there's a handout here and look at your handout and let me read this to you and you tell me if this is about your father and you tell me if this is a, is your father is a good dad or is a bad dad?

Your father drugs people to unconsciousness.

Then when they are helpless, he has them stretch out on a table in which he then cuts their bodies with knives.

Okay, already you guys think it's bad, right?

Okay, so what if I told you your father was a mass murderer who killed your mother?

Okay, what if I told you with the same statement, I said to you, your father was a surgeon.

Who had saved your mother's life, how would you now feel about your father?

So, is it the action that defines who someone is?

Can you just say, is it only the action that defines who someone is?

Some guy with a knife cutting your mom up on a table, right?

Is it the only, can you only rely upon the action to determine whether someone is good or bad?

And things that happened in the Old Testament, right?

So, the only conclusion is that we must come to the conclusion in our own minds that no matter what God does, whether we can explain it or we can or we cannot explain it, God has always got to be in your mind that God is love.

If that's clear, let me hear you say amen.

Otherwise, there's gonna be problem in your spiritual walk with God.

And it was we learned this morning, if you have problems in your spiritual walk with God and you don't love God, then there's gonna be issues in your life, right?

And you don't feel loved by God, then there's gonna be issues and then that's when addictions come in to numb the pain of not being loved.

So we have to look now we're going we're going back to 1 of the root causes of why we don't love God.

Why does addictions, okay, it's not that we need to stop just addictions and the symptoms, we got to go back, okay, we haven't been loved.

Or maybe we have been loved by God, but maybe we have not experienced that love of God, even though He loves us.

Do you always believe that God loves you?

But then sometimes there's issues that happen in our lives and bad things happen to good people and things can happen to Christian that cannot be explained, right?

And when you're asking those questions, Why did I go through this?

What happens, Satan starts to play with your mind.

If you don't believe in the foundation of God is love, Satan plays with your mind and now he's making you question, is God really love?

Yes, you know, and you may know intellectually, but something has happened in your past where you haven't really dealt with it in your heart, where really you don't really love God, though which amount you do, say you do.

And that's what we'll be looking at this afternoon.

You're going to get a more clear picture as you go through this.

It may not be so clear right now, but as you go through it, you're going to see a little bit more of what I'm trying to share.

A pastor shared his experience of himself, and he shared a story when he was a heartbroken 13-year-old boy.

His parents were getting a divorce and he remembers this look, his tears streaming down his cheeks as he stood on the front porch watching his father drive away from home for the very last time.

And He said, and I quote, all these years I've been angry at God for that.

I was mad at God for not keeping my parents together.

Now I see how it's been affecting my ability to trust and receive God's love.

How can you trust and love someone you're angry at?

Notice the Bible says here, it says, Jesus asked the question, which is the greatest commandment in the law?

Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord your God with all your, what?

Heart and with all your soul, with all your mind.

And the second is likened to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as yourself.

On these 2 commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

You see, the 10 Commandments reveal God's what?

So in other words, the 10 Commandments was given to us to show to us how to love God, right?

In other words, if you love God, you want to spend time with Him on His holy Sabbath day, right?

If you love God, you're not going to take His name in vain.

If you love someone, your wife, you're not going to cheat on her, right?

Series

Healing Broken Relationships

3. My God, Where Were You?

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Speak it in Love

49m

Jesus on Prophecy

55m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

5. Victory in the Final Conflict

1h 4m

Balm of Gilead- Part 1

47m

Knees, Keys, and Please!

2. Encountering God

1h 5m

Evening Plenary

03 Fully Connected

1h 13m

Morning Devotional

The First and Final Forerunners

1h 3m

Plenary

Israel’s Guardian Angel

1h 1m

GYC 2012 Seminar: Conversion - My Own, Around Me and On the Go

Sensitive Seekers

58m

GYC 2012 Seminar: A Revolution of Destiny - The Sanctuary Context

Act II: The Pentecostal Reflection in the Book of Acts

57m

Biblically Correct: How to be Male in the 21st Century

6. Review and Your Questions/Testimonies

1h 10m

The Art of End Time Preaching

6. Tools of Creative Language and Speech

1h 20m

Sound Doctrine