RT:RickWarren: It's stupid to let people from your past continue to hurt u today thru memory. They can't hurt u anymore unless u allow it.

Matt5:5 "Your're blessed when u'r content with just who u are. That's when u find urself proud owners of everything that can't be bought."

Malachi 3:8 "Do honest people rob God?" Tithing (giving $) is worship from the heart because it denies our independent, controlling nature.

Malachi 2:15-"So guard yourselves in ur spirit, and let none of u be faithless to the wife of ur youth." Guard against loss of affection!

Habakkuk 2:4- "but the righteous shall live by their faithfullness to God" = 2 kinds of people- "puffed up" trusts in me & humble trusts God

Micah 6 - What does God require of his people? "be fair, just, & compassionate; walk humbly with God = take God serious, not yourself.

I pray for every marriage to stand firm in unselfish love, patience, & long suffering - while Christ stands firm to enable what's unnatural