(Romans 12:2 MSG) Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. ||| You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. ||| Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

• The best you can give to a relationship is the God Best You.

(Jeremiah 31:3 NLT) . . . I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

World's Way for love
1. Find the "right person." 2. Fall in love. 3. Put all hopes and dreams on them. 4. When it fails, repeat steps 1, 2, 3

God's Way For love
1. Become the right person. 2. Walk in love. 3. Fix all of your hopes and dreams on God. 4. If failure occurs, repeat steps 1, 2, & 3!

(Hebrews 13:5 NIV) . . . "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

• Breaking His commitment is never an option

(Ephesians 5:312-32 NLT) As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." ||| .... it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.

• ExtraOrdinary can never happen with out covenant commitment.

• Commitment means sticking to what you said you would do long after the mood you said it in has passed.

(Philippians 4:13 NLT) For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

1. I commit to prioritize you.

(1 John 3:16 NLT) We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.

2. I commit to pursue you.
(Revelation 3:20 NLT) "Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends

3. I commit give you a place to belong.

(1 Peter 2:9 NLT) . . .for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God's very own possession….

4. I commit to protect you.

(Psalm 91:3 NLT) For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease.

(Psalm 91:11 NLT) For he will order his angels to protect you wherever you go.

(Psalm 91:14 NLT) The LORD says, "I will rescue those who love me. I will protect those who trust in my name.

5. I commit to purify you.

(Micah 7:18 NIV) you.. delight to show mercy.

(Ephesians 5:25-27 NLT) For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

(Ephesians 5:26 NLT) to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word.

(Ephesians 5:27 NLT) He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and