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    Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships
    Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships
    Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships
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    Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships

    By Phillip R. Link

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    In Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships, you will learn the essential ingredients needed to create a healthy, lasting, home-cooked relationship. This book reveals that the Chef and King is none other than God, who will feed you through His limitless spiritual provisions as your Chef and lead you in every aspect of your life as your King. This book further points out that all good relationships are like well-prepared food. In order to get the most out of each relational dish, the right ingredients need to be taken from the refrigerator and pantry and intentionally placed into the pots of patience and the pans of priority. As each chapter of this volume unfolds, you will discover that if the right relational components are added and maintained from the start, success is imminent. However, if the wrong ingredients are added to a relationship, failure will result. After considering all that God has to o?er, will you allow Him, as Chef and King, to serve you, feed you, and lead you now and throughout eternity?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateMar 13, 2014
    ISBN9781490820729
    Chef and King: Fundamental Ingredients for Healthy Relationships
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    Phillip R. Link

    Phillip Link is a native of Washington, DC and the founder of Chef and King International, a non-profit that provides a variety of resources for college students, families, churches and businesses. He has recently begun his journey to link others to the love and restorative power of God through the art of writing. Consequently, Phillip realized that by sharing God’s Word with others, in this first volume of Chef and King, the hearts and health of readers can and will be spiritually restored.

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      Chef and King - Phillip R. Link

      Copyright © 2014 Phillip R. Link.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      WestBow Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

      WestBow Press

      A Division of Thomas Nelson & Zondervan

      1663 Liberty Drive

      Bloomington, IN 47403

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      1 (866) 928-1240

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Edited by: Nancy A. Link, PhD

      Back Cover Photo by: Duran Miller

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2071-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-2072-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013923126

      WestBow Press rev. date: 3/13/2014

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Prologue

      Background Information

      A Letter from Chef & King

      Section I: The Primer of Prayer, the Pots of Patience, and the Pans of Priority

      Chapter 1:   Heart Maintenance

      Heart Maintenance by the Holy Spirit

      Heart Care and Maintenance through Daily Prayer

      Let God Serve You

      Heart Care (Poem)

      Chapter 2:   Just Wait

      A Paroxysm of Unhealthy Passion

      Patience Terminates Toxins in the Kitchen

      Cardio-Peek-a-Boo

      Slow Cooking Enhances the Flavor

      Avoiding Artificially Preserved Relationships

      Forming Healthy Soul-Ties

      Chapter 3:   Seek Ye First

      Priority

      Chef & King – Front and Center

      Pleasure

      Section II: The Vital Ingredients: Love, Self-Control, Border Patrol, and Manna

      Chapter 4:   An Equation for Success = Love + Respect

      The Cooking Equation

      The Love Equation

      Righteousness

      Constant Respect in the Relationship

      The Silver Cups of Sacrifice

      The Need for Humility

      The Hindrances of Pride and Self-Exaltation

      Compatibility-Yoke: How Can Two Walk Together Less They Agree?

      The Necessity of Wisdom and Understanding

      Organic Righteousness ≠ Toxic Words & Toxic Meals

      Balanced Diet = Daily Servings of the Fruit of the Spirit

      Chapter 5:   Sweets and Desserts

      Lethal & Lifeless Without Chef & King

      An Unruly Atmosphere

      The Saturating Nature of Sweets

      Not Giving in to Temptation

      Chapter 6:   Third-Party Ingredients

      What Are Third-Party Ingredients?

      Protecting Borders

      Origin of Third-Party Ingredients

      Guarding the Kitchen against Toxins

      Allowing the Enemy Access into the Kitchen

      Protecting the Borders against Snakes

      Protecting the Borders against Negative Emotions

      Should Forgiveness Be An Option?

      Relationship Inventory

      Chapter 7:   Dinner Served

      The Cuisine of Christ

      Partaking of the Bread of Life in Heaven’s Kitchen

      Enjoying Food that Never Spoils

      Jesus, Our Bread of Life

      The Word of God, Chef & King’s Grocery Store

      Hunger Shall Be No More

      Home-Cooked Relationship Nutrition Facts

      The Chef & King Glossary

      Acknowledgements

      I dedicate this book to God, whose love is beyond

      anything I could ever fully comprehend. Without God, the completion of this book would not have been possible.

      I also dedicate this book to my family, friends, and professors who encouraged and uplifted me throughout this journey.

      From my heart to yours,

      Thank you!

      Prologue

      C hef & King is a world class Chef, the One who guides us in the kitchen of relationships. He is an expert in creating a meal in the kitchen, where the foundation of a relationship is established and cooked with the proper time and necessary ingredients, just as a home-cooked meal is cooked in the kitchen of an experienced well-seasoned chef. Chef & King is none other than God, Who has the lead role of guiding each of us step-by-step through the detailed relational cooking process. He is omniscient and knows just how to help us learn what to use and what not to use in establishing and maintaining the foundation of a lasting relationship. Just as there are many ingredients needed to cook a successful home-cooked meal, developing successful relationships require just as much attention to detail. God Almighty is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and the key factor in teaching and guiding the preparation and process of a healthy, lasting, home-cooked relationship. We must let God take complete control as Head Chef of all of our relationships and as King of the hearts placed into any particular relation ship.

      The ingredients needed for the home-cooked meal of relationships come directly from God’s Word. As you read each chapter, you will see the ideal relationship that God wants us to have with Him through the Biblical stories of recipes for success and recipes for disaster. If the principles found in this volume of Chef & King are thoroughly applied to a relationship, you will get 100% satisfaction. God, undoubtedly, will provide you with all that is needed to establish that solid foundation of a home-cooked relationship. He is able to provide each of us, as we deal with relational issues, with the proper health, nourishment, and strength to make it through each day, each week, and onto a lifetime of satisfaction. If a home-cooked relationship is prepared correctly with the help of Chef & King, individuals will be completely satisfied with each other as they partake of a healthy, lasting taste of heaven on earth.

      Background Information

      A ll good relationships are like well-prepared food. To get the most out of each dish, the right ingredients need to be taken from the refrigerator and pantry, and then they must be intentionally placed into the pots and pans. If the right components are added and maintained from the start, success is imminent; however, if the wrong ingredients are added, failure will arise. What you put in is exactly what you get out! In this first volume of Chef & King, you will learn how to use the Biblical Pantry of Ingredients needed to create a healthy, lasting, home-cooked relationship. The structure needed for the foundation of a relationship is necessitated by constant care and consideration, intentionality, and attentiveness to detail instead of just letting it happen or going with the flow. Why? It’s because you never know if you have missed an ingredient or if the food is burning due to inatte ntion!

      As soon as a man and woman step together into the kitchen of each other’s lives, the process will be underway of establishing the foundation for their relationship. In order to get the best results out of the relationship, a couple will have to work together in the kitchen mutually adding the right ingredients to the foundation. There will be countless opportunities to nurture and share many delightful moments with each other while Chef & King is relentlessly providing a healthy, lasting, home-cooked relationship. The home-cooked relationship can act either as a taste of heaven on earth prepared by God, the true Chef & King, or it can be served by the devil, the false chef, as a meal that leaves an utterly disappointing taste of disgust in your mouth.

      On the kitchen counter, you will see all the ingredients that are needed for the preparation of a home-cooked relationship. You will also see the toxic ingredients that can make the potential meal rancorous and unfavorable, which can bring lack of fulfillment. Toxic ingredients will further destroy any potential success that the relationship can have. Thus, the fundamental ingredients that are added from the foundation of a relationship in the kitchen, which is the heart of the relationship, will have the greatest influence over the success that this potentially healthy and lasting, home-cooked meal can have. With a very critical choice to make, two hearts in a kitchen will either choose to use healthy, lasting ingredients for their relationship, or they will impulsively use toxic ingredients for the foundation of the meal by rushing the cooking process. Moreover, there is a vital necessity to add the right ingredients from the very start of a relationship. Yet, the decision that holds even more weight in the process of building the relational foundation is the choice of who will be invited into the kitchen to help with the process of making the healthy, lasting, home-cooked meal of relationships.

      Chef & King, the Connoisseur of all healthy, lasting relationships, should always be consulted within the process of the development and maintenance of any relationship. As previously noted, God is Chef & King, and He has years of culinary relationship experience developing the foundation for strong relationships. He also knows exactly what ingredients are needed to make any relationship last with eternal flavor. Most of us realize and understand that a chef is a professional culinary artist, who is in charge of the kitchen and prepares, cooks, and serves food for a living. A king, on the other hand, is the ruler of a kingdom, who leads those under his rule in the kingdom, and he is constantly providing safety, care, and security for his people. As the Chef & King, God reigns supreme and pre-eminent as the embodiment of the love He wants His citizens to have for each other, and He provides, as King, fulfillment and pleasure to all those who acknowledge Him in their lives and relationships. The Most High God is the ultimate Chef & King, and He will provide an eternal All You Can Eat gourmet feast that will satisfy every hungry soul forever and ever and ever!

      Chef & King will teach you, through His Holy Word, the necessary health principles and fundamental ingredients to use in the kitchen of relationships. Yes, Chef & King is none other than the Most High God, Who is the Lead Consultant and Spiritual Dietician in all healthy, wholesome, and lasting relationships. The kitchen for relationships is the main place where God helps the two hearts of a man and a woman come together as one in order to potentially make it to the Dinner Table of Marriage and throughout life together.

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