My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:12-13 NIV
Relationship is a thing of God and so we need to allow Him to direct our actions.
Let God release you. Regular relationships such as marriage, business and even friendship can break out of sheer circumstances, just like that. The origin of a relationship is God. Until God releases us, we cannot quit the relationship but today it does not take us anything – just disagreement, misunderstanding and conflict – we quit the relationship. You cannot do it alone. You keep quitting relationships, business partners, marriage, and friendships.
Do not end relationships because of disagreements or fights, such scenarios create tension and stifle the spirit of forgiveness.
You move from one Church to another, it does take you anything and you leave. Without God releasing you, the question is: when are you going to settle with the relationship? God led you to that Church where your assignment in life can be accomplished. The Devil is against everything of God’s interest and will be using every means to sabotage God’s purpose.
You can count how many business partners you have had in the past, friends. The Bible says relationships begin with God and then to humans. If a relationship begins with God, we cannot just quit under any circumstances.
Something that you are not its origin, you can’t just quit under any circumstances. Unless you are released, you cannot quit. Why? Because God can speak through disagreement. God can speak through conflict, through tribulations, adversity – God can speak through them. He can speak joy through sadness. God sometimes uses foolish things to prepare us for a future victory and or success. He sometimes uses foolish things to preserve us. If God does not release us and we quit the relationship because of misunderstanding, disagreement, conflict and whatever – the way you quit is the way you will enter the next relationship. So let God release you.
We don’t leave a relationship as a Christian because of fight, disagreement, misunderstanding, adversity or conflict. We don’t leave relationships because the man you think is your enemy today can be your saviour tomorrow. Many have destroyed their future helpers. The man who is your enemy today can be your saviour tomorrow.
John 20:23 “If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
What the Bible is saying is “If you forgive the sins of any, their sins are forgiven; But if you retain the sins of any, they are *retained”* This means we preserve the sin of other people when we pick up an offence, we harbour resentment.
It is impossible to establish a healthy relationship, a good relationship with a person who has left another relationship resentful and offended. Someone who breaks a relationship because of misunderstanding, disagreement or conflict now becomes your friend – there is no friendship there; you are destroyed.
You may be wrong or right, but you have no right to pick an offense.
Someone who breaks a relationship because of misunderstanding, disagreement or conflict that has not been resolved to start a new relationship with another who also might have left an unreconciled relationship. This new relationship is dead at the start because they are filled with infections of past hurts and unforgiveness.
Can you see the reason why we are facing relationships that are not lasting nor rewarding?
It is wrong for Christians to carry their offences into new relationships after they have ended with previous ones. The same way you quit your previous relationships is the same way you will quit the new ones if you hold onto offences. Whether you are wrong or right, you have no right to go away with that conflict and establish another relationship.
No one succeeds alone, hence the need to put away offence, forgive and forget in order to move ahead into a brighter tomorrow.
Our Lord Jesus knew that principle; that was why He had disciples. You cannot succeed alone; you need people. Jesus knew this; that was why He had disciples.”
Many have lost their opportunity for divine visitation by taking offence and pulling out of the place God had destined for them to succeed. Know and realise that the devil will always throw offence your way whenever you are in the right place where God wants you to be. If you are in a place where God wants you to be, the devil will want to offend you to pull out.
Beloved, wait for God in all circumstances rather than to take rash decisions instigated by your human faculties. No matter the crisis, don’t quit; wait patiently for God’s release. Let God release you.
LET’S PRAY.
Heavenly Father, connect my heart with Your Word for revelation and direction in my relationship to make right choices that glorifies You in Jesus Name. Endue me with strength and wisdom from on high to endure in my relationship to glorify You.
O Lord, make me a channel of shining light where there is darkness. Make me a channel of love where there is hurt, misunderstanding, disagreement, conflict and adversity in Jesus Name.
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