Reflecting the God who Holds and Carries Us: Isaiah 46:1-6

Isaiah 46:1-6

1st God Holds You, Carries You with Love and Affection All Your Life!

Psalm 135:15-19
How He Carries You and Handles Your Heart:

With Love and Affection:

He Shepherds You All Your Life: Genesis 48:15 He blessed Joseph and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day.

He Carries You Like a Father Carries His Son: Deuteronomy 1:30-31:

He Handles Your Heart With Goodness and Lovingkindness:
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and lovingkinness will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

He Speaks Kindly To You.
Hosea 2:14 Therefore behold, I will allure her and bring her back into the wilderness and speak kindly to her. (I will speak to her Heart)

He Calms Your Heart.
Zephaniah 3:17 The Lord you God is in your midst. A Victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy. He will be quiet in His love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.

2nd How You Handle the Hearts God Has Entrusted To You:

The Heart of Your Spouse:

Husbands: This is How You Handle Your Wives Hearts:

Ephesians 5:25-31: You Love her like Christ loved the church, a love so Great that You lay down your life for her: You Nourish and Cherish

1 Peter 3:7 You live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Wives: This How You Handle Your Husbands Hearts

Ephesians 5:22 Wives Be to Your Husbands as you are to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:33 See to it You respects Your husband

The Heart of Your Children: How We Handle Their Hearts:

Colossians 3:21: We Do Not exasperate them, so that they will not lose heart.
Ephesians 6:4: We Do not Provoke them to anger but we bring them up in the
discipline and instruction of the Lord.

The Hearts of One Another: How We Hold and Handle One Another’s Hearts:

1 Peter 3:8-12

Because What He Holds is Precious:

So Precious, He will not let you Go: John 10:27-29
How You Provoke Our Children to Anger: Supplement

When You Correct the Speck in Their Eye & Fail to Remove the Log in Your own Eye: Matthew 7:1-5

Practice Obedience and Remove Judgmental Attitudes

Study Your Children’s:

– Temper: Your Outbursts of Anger
– Rebellion: Your Disregard for Authority
– Failure to Obey: You Dragging Your feet to Carry out Assignments & Daily
Responsibilities

– Whining: Your Self Pity, Complaint or Grumbling
– Failure to Get Along: Your Relationship w/ Spouse, Family, employees & Others
– Daydreaming: Your Idleness
– Lack of Spiritual Discernment: Your Preoccupation w/ Temporal Over the Eternal
– Lack of Desire to Be In Church: Your Inconsistencies in Attendance
– Fear: Your Worry, Anxiety and Fear
– Lack of Compassion: Your Critical Spirit

You Provoke them to Anger:

When You Refuse to Admit When We Are Wrong: Luke 18:10-14

Practice Humility, Receive Grace!

When You Say “I love you” and your Actions do not Show It: Love From the Heart! Matthew 15:8

When We Break Promises: Fulfill Your Word

When We Discipline In Anger: Discipline In Love