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Day 20, restoring relationships..good one

Day 20 25/2

Don’t have much time going to a sleep over but I’ll try my best.

Restoring Broken Fellowship

To peace make is not to avoid conflict, it might mean creating it, avoiding it, or resolving it. It isn’t appeasement either.

Must pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance

How to restore a relationship

Talk to God first

Take the initiative

Sympathize

Confess your part of the conflict

Attack the problem not the person

Cooperate as much as possible

Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution

Pray to God about the problem, he’ll probably change the way I look at it and I won’t even realize. Tell him everything I feel, there is nothing to hold back.

Longer we wait, the worse it’s going to get so take the initiate and fix the problem!

Listen to what the other person is saying, you may not agree with them, I find that happens with me a lot and then I get mad and well, don’t really want to bed involved.

You can understand but not agree

Guilty of this myself, I need to take responsibility for my part in the conflict, ask God, or a third party what they think. Accept responsibility, ask for forgiveness

How I say it…yes one I can relate to. I’ve really got to learn to work on not only what I say but the tone and manner in which I do so…

Compromise and sacrifice

Reconciliation is do with the relationship and yeh… you don’t necessarily have to solve the problem.

Q/A

Parents…parents, parents, parents.
I’m so glad this chapter came; I really got a lot out of it because I related to a lot of it. Hopefully my parents can one day come to this as well.
Frustration (with them) is a big one with me these days, and I’ve really got to get over it with God’s help I know I can. Even though I’ve been trying to make things better, after reading today’s devotion, I’m guilty of most. Hopefully today marks a change…

Have a good weekend everybody!

posted by Andrew @ 12:41 PM