Asking For A Friend #4
Part of Asking For a Friend—Finding Answers for Tough Questions
June 23, 2024

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I. What advice can be shared with a couple who no longer love each other and do not want their marriage to continue?
• Real love is first a

and second a feeling. (1 Cor. 13:4-8)
• God’s is love and he is willing to supernaturally deposit it in our hearts for relationships.
• Real love is not
.
• Mature love does when it doesn’t feel like it or the other person doesn’t do theirs.
• A four-part prescription for rekindling “want” in marriage: 1. for each other 2x’s weekly, have
conversation 2x’s weekly, be 1x weekly, 2x’s monthly.
• In God’s design follow , do not follow .

II. How would a person know if they have strongholds preventing them from deepening their faith?
• Every person has a

to sin due to the sin-nature, but no one has a
to a sin excusing a lifestyle.
• The perpetual presence of sin is not demonic, but rather
of a spiritual disease.
• A stronghold is a demonic
in a sin that shows little to no freedom or progress.
• Deliverance is required when there are
cycles of sin.

III. How do I know what career God wants me to go into?
• Every person is called by God to work for an

, contribute to , and build Christ’s . (2 Thess. 3:10-13, Gen. 2:15, 1 Cor. 12:7)
• We all have a S.H.A.P.E. (
,
, ,
,
) from God to work and do ministry.
•Some people get paid to do their or .
• Some people get paid to do their or to fund their gifts or passions.

IV. Is people falling down when prayed for a real thing? Why do some speakers seem to use extra force when laying on of hands? Why do some speakers make a blowing noise while praying for someone? Is there a Biblical precedent for all of this?
• If the Bible is in favor of something then we should be open to it even if it makes us

.
• Something is normal if it is or .
• When things are uncommon that does not make them .
• Physical contact with or causes acute physical response.
• Leaning, pushing, blowing, or snapping fingers is weird at best or pastoral malpractice at worst.