BOUNDARIES for healthy relationships Week 1 Emotional boundaries

BOUNDARIES for healthy relationships

Week 1: Emotional boundaries Week 2: Financial boundaries Week 3: Physical boundaries Week 4: Time and energy boundaries

GALATIANS 5: 1 -5 NIV Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves. 4 Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, 5 for each one should carry their own load.

GALATIANS 6: 2 & 5 NIV Carry each other’s burdens. Each one should carry their own load.

John exclaimed in John 3: 1, “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

John 3: 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 29: 11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

God is love. He didn’t need us. But he wanted us. And that is the most amazing thing. ~ Rick Warren

God’s unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God’s love, nor does our faith create it. It originates in the very nature of God, who is love, and it flows to us through our union with His beloved Son. ~ Jerry Bridges

Our Father in Haven sees us and has a dream for us….

As a Parent what dream do you have for your child….

How do you want your child or a child you love to be treated?

Why do we set boundaries for our children?

What boundaries do you set for children?

How do we teach our children their boundaries: how to protect themselves?

Because God is a loving father he sets boundaries for us. What are some of those boundaries?

BOUNDARY No coarse joking, not a hint of sexual immorality (Ephesians 5: 3). Treat younger men as brothers and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity (1 Timothy 5: 1 -2). Keep the marriage bed pure (Hebrews 13: 4). Learn to control your body in a way that is holy and honorable (1 Thessalonians 4: 4).

1 CORINTHIANS 6: 18 18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

What boundaries do we need to set up to live a Godly life?

1 CORINTHIANS 6: 9 -11 9 Surely you know that the wicked will not possess God's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual perverts 10 or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards or who slander others or are thieves— none of these will possess God's Kingdom. 11 Some of you were like that. But you have been purified from sin; you have been dedicated to God; you have been put right with God by the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

How do you get right with God?

Confess your sin Repent (Turn from your sin) Pick up your cross daily and follow Jesus!