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The Man God Has For You by Stephan Labossiere

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I’ll go even further with an analogy.

Let’s say you and this person decide to build a house

together. You show up at the site with the tools and materials,

while he comes through with a drink, a sandwich, and his lawn

chair, then sits there and watches you do the work. This is

happening in so many situations. He’s sitting back and you’re

doing the work.

That’s not building with someone.

Building with someone means you and that person equally

bring something to the table. They match your effort. Where

the dynamic is that you’re more well-off than he, there’s no

reason for him not to pick up the slack in other areas, while

you two are “building” together. He should contribute to the

relationship equally. This doesn’t mean you have to call each

other a certain amount of times per day, or spend this amount

of money on each other, that’s not the case. It means you’re

fulfilled from him, just as he’s fulfilled from you. If you aren’t

content where things are in the relationship, that’s not where

you need to be.

#3 –Don’t Neglect Yourself

The third and key reason why you shouldn’t build a man is

that you stop building yourself. You become so focused on this

man and the energy you’re putting into him, you forget about

you. And you believe that you’re good and you have it

altogether, but you don’t.

Not sorry.

I have to be honest with you, there’s still room for

improvement. There’s still some things you need to learn. You

even entertaining a situation like this indicates corrections that

need to be made, along with the healing and growth that needs

to occur. So while you’re busy pouring into this man, what are

you pouring into you, and are you still connecting with God?

We often become consumed with the person we want to be

with, we don’t realize we’ve put them above God. We’re

worshipping them more than

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