how to hug a vampire

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HOW TO HUG A VAMPIRE (Learning To Love The People Who Suck The Life Of You!) (3) Suck Proof Soul The BIG QUESTION today is this…

DO YOU WANT… TO WALK… IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST? TRUTH #1…

NOBODY CAN TAKE… WHAT YOU’VE ALREADY GIVEN AWAY! John 10:17-18… The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life - only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” Acts 20:33-35… I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. 35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” GIVE IT AWAY… GIVE IT AWAY… GIVE IT AWAY! TRUTH #2…

NEVER WRITE ANYBODY OFF… BUT ALWAYS WATCH YOUR BALANCE SHEET! Matthew 13:1-9… That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. 4 As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. 5 Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. 6 But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. 7 Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop - a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. 9 Whoever has ears, let them hear.” 2 Timothy 4:9-15… Do your best to come to me quickly, 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is helpful to me in my ministry. 12 I sent Tychicus to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments. 14 Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will repay him for what he has done. 15 You too should be on your guard against him, because he strongly opposed our message. “You have to have enough people in your life that… IRRIGATE your life… to offset the people… who IRRITATE you in life!” TRUTH #3…

REAL LOVE DOESN’T LEAK… IT OVERFLOWS! Matthew 14:13-14… When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick. Vss 22-24… Immediately after… Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.

Jesus KNEW… that the only place that He could GET… what He NEEDED to GIVE… TO OTHER PEOPLE… was only found… in the PRESENCE OF HIS FATHER! John 13:1-5… It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus KNEW that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

YOUR REWARD… COMES FROM THE LORD… it doesn’t and never will… COME FROM PEOPLE!

HE… IS… MORE… THAN… ENOUGH!