1. Four Big Secrets of a Happy Family

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Four Big Secrets of a Happy Family


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“You shall love your neighbor as… yourself.”

Matthew 22:39


The 3:6 PrincipleSee Acts 3:6

I can only give what I have





“Forgetting those things which are

behind and reaching forward to those things which are

ahead, I press toward the goal…”

Philippians 3:13,14



“I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully

made”Psalm 139:14




“Tell me, what do you have in the

house?”2 Kings 4:2




“I can do all things through

Christ who strengthens

me.”Philippians 4:13



“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting

love” Jeremiah 31:3





“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Matthew 22:39


““And who is my neighbor?”And who is my neighbor?”Luke 10:29,36,37Luke 10:29,36,37


Far AwayFar AwayNeighbor!Neighbor!

Next Next Door Door

NeighborNeighbor



“So husbands ought to love their own

wives as their own bodies; he who loves

his wife loves himself.”

Ephesians 5:28





““We then who We then who are strong are strong

ought to bear ought to bear with the with the

scruples of the scruples of the weak, andweak, and

not to please not to please ourselves.”ourselves.”

Romans 15:Romans 15:11



“For even Christ did not please Himself”

(Romans. 15: 3)




If my spouse is my first

neighbor, my child is my second neighbor!


While my spouse is my “second self”, my child is my

“third self”!“Bone of my

bone and flesh of my

flesh”!


The Lord’s Prayer illustrates our

love relationship.I say to God: “My Father.”My child says to me:“My father.”My child says to God: “My Father.”Therefore my child and I are brothers and sisters!


“Fathers, do not provoke your

children, lest they become

discouraged.”Colossians 3:21

God advises:



“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and

with all your mind.”Matthew 22:37


In the beginning

God Created

Our World


Size of our Milky Way Galaxy is100,000 light years!

Speed of light is186,282 miles per second!186,282x60x60x24x365 =5,874 billion miles a year!So, 100,000 light years is

587,458,000,000,000,000 miles!That’s only one galaxy!

And there are millions of galaxies!

There is a God in heaven!


Then God Then God Made MarriageMade Marriage


Since God manufactured Since God manufactured marriage,marriage,

He knows about its maintenance!He knows about its maintenance!






If you invite Christ into your home,He’ll turn your


Water into wine!

Challenges into victories!

Sadness into gladness!



1.Love myself.2.Love my

spouse better than myself.3. Love my

child as part of

myself4. Love God

best of all.



The Happy Family“Happy the home when God is there,And love fillsevery breast;When one their wishand one their prayer, And one theirheavenly rest.” Henry Ware



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