{"id":331,"date":"2009-03-20T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=331"},"modified":"2009-03-20T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:52:11","slug":"enjoying-people-in-you-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"Enjoying People In Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of 4 keys that we see from Phillippians 1:3-11 on<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What does it take to enjoy people in your life<\/strong><\/em> :<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Be grateful for the good in people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the past , you have been hurt\u00c2\u00a0by someone @ work, a parent or a friend\u00c2\u00a0 and is still holding on to the hurt. As a result , you can&#8217;t enjoy them today! Who do you need to <strong>start and be grateful\u00c2\u00a0for<\/strong> the good in\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0them from today?<\/p>\n<p>Remember the BEST, forget the REST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Practice Positive Praying. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you <strong><em>pray <\/em><\/strong>for those around you <strong><em>everyday<\/em><\/strong>?Do you pray that they will be filled with love and make wise decision, do the right thing and live in the glory of God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Be Patient With Their Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Human are great starters but bad finishers. <strong>God Finishes what He Starts<\/strong>. The Bible says Jesus Christ starts working in your life. He\u00c2\u00a0will complete what he started.<\/p>\n<p>God is not finished with people.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be <strong>patient<\/strong> with <strong>people&#8217;s progress<\/strong>. To enjoy people, we must allow for <strong>growth and development<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Who are the 2 persons do you need to be patient with today?<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Love People from the Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heart love<\/strong> begins with <strong>understanding<\/strong>; knowing why someone feels or \u00c2\u00a0behaves in the way they do. You cannot love someone you don&#8217;t understand. The secret to enjoying people in your life is to <strong>be<\/strong> <strong>filled with God&#8217;s love.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who do you need to <strong>start loving<\/strong> from the <strong>heart and not the head<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Bb, in response to your blog on 18 Mar,<\/p>\n<p>I pray HE bless you with\u00c2\u00a0his LOVE and that everyday will be a day\u00c2\u00a0you look forward to ( not only the weekends) , be it @ work, home or with anyone in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Love;<\/p>\n<p>Fionn@<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of 4 keys that we see from Phillippians 1:3-11 on What does it take to enjoy people in your life : 1. Be grateful for the good in people. In the past , you have been hurt\u00c2\u00a0by someone @ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elm3.org\/?p=331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elm3.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}