single adult heart part 2

Setting: Single Adult Conference
Length: 24:57

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Occasion: An inter-church Christian single adult conference in Southern CA in January 2009
Title: The Heart of a Christian Single Adult, part 2 "The Operation"

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General Introduction

Operation

______________ the negative feelings

Set aside the _________ feelings
Unloved, Left out, Pressured, Desperation, Repressed

                        Focus on the __________ feelings
                                    Loneliness, Unsettledness, Discrimination, Regret, and Neglected by God

Feeling lonely is ______________

-they miss the most basic issue about loneliness
-that it is an emotion created by God

-remember that Adam was perfectly happy in the garden

-it was God who said that it is not good for the man to be alone

-Genesis 2:18

-so, loneliness is the FIRST ______________ emotion in the Bible

Loneliness is to be a ______________

* for more insight into Genesis 2:18, click: Did God create the woman to be inferior?

* click also: Created Inferior?

Feeling unsettled is ______________

Feeling discriminated is to be a ______________

-I am going to give you two biblical responses to discrimination felt by singles
-I will give one of them here and the second one in Part 7 when we talk about the church life of singles and the discrimination that singles face there.

-here’s the first response: ______________

-Ephesians 4:26 “In your anger do not sin”

-saying: squeaky wheel gets the oil

-it is God’s will that you use injustices as motivation to do the right thing
-Luke 18:2-7
2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' 4 "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "
6 And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night?

Feeling regret should be ______________

-the clearest example of this comes from the story of a single adult

* for more insight, click: Reconciling the Past

Feeling neglected by God is ______________

-40% of the Psalms are lament psalms, complaining about God not being there

-So, we focused on the major emotions
                        * all that was part of organizing the negative feelings
                        -the next step is to develop the positive feelings

* the following portion was not recorded for some reason...a true mystery. I hope to provide an audio for this portion very soon...as it presents the POSITIVE feelings that single adults should have.

Develop the ______________ Feelings

Feel ______________

-1 Cor.7:32   I would like you to be free from concern


Feel ______________to God

-what comes with the freedom is clarity of thought and clarity of devotion

-1 Cor.7:35   “undivided devotion to the Lord”