Latest / High Level Wife Podcast with Chelsey Holm / Right Order Changes Everything
Transcript
- 0:33SPEAKER_00: I'm back with another high level wife espresso shot.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: And today we're getting back to a cornerstone, a foundational truth, pillar, if you will, of high-level wife.
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: Right order changes everything.
- 0:49SPEAKER_00: I truly believe that most marriage problems aren't actually marriage problems.
- 0:55SPEAKER_00: They're worship problems, they're order problems.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: When God is first, everything else finds its proper place.
- 1:03SPEAKER_00: But when something else takes his place, everything else begins to drift, right?
- 1:09SPEAKER_00: The things dethrone God in our hearts, right?
- 1:13SPEAKER_00: Not actually in reality.
- 1:15SPEAKER_00: And then everything else begins to drift.
- 1:17SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't say seek a better marriage first.
- 1:21SPEAKER_00: Okay, let that hit you and sit with it.
- 1:23SPEAKER_00: Jesus did not tell you to seek a better marriage first.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: He said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
- 1:33SPEAKER_00: When I put my husband first, I become disappointed because he can't do what only God can do.
- 1:40SPEAKER_00: When I put myself first, I become selfish.
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: Right?
- 1:44SPEAKER_00: When I put my kids first, I put pressure and expectation on them that they can never measure up to.
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: But when Christ is first, I can finally love everyone else rightly because it's about overflow.
- 1:58SPEAKER_00: Right order isn't about rules, it's about relationship.
- 2:02SPEAKER_00: It's about the vertical enabling us to be filled to overflowing then on the horizontal or other relationships.
- 2:13SPEAKER_00: So today ask yourself, what's first in my heart?
- 2:16SPEAKER_00: All right, get nitty-gritty with this.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: Let the Holy Spirit search you and know you and reveal any wayward desire within you.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: Go read Matthew 6, 25 through 34 and notice what Jesus says about seeking Him first.
- 2:34SPEAKER_00: Everything changes when the order changes.
- 2:37SPEAKER_00: I will preach this until the day that I die because I've experienced it.
- 2:42SPEAKER_00: I've watched marriages transform when they make that shift.
- 2:49SPEAKER_00: It's powerful and it is key.
- 2:51SPEAKER_00: I'll see you on the next espresso show.