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Devotional: Rebuilding Broken Relationships with Biblical Wisdom · Divine515 Podcast

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  Welcome to the intercessor's corner where life's questions
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  and topics are met with biblical truth and
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  spirit led wisdom.
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  Here's this week's work to fuel and fortify
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  your prayer walk.
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  Hello, and welcome to divine five one five.
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  Last week, we started a new series on
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  building stronger relationships,
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  one prayer at a time, and we kicked
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  off the series talking about how to build
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  a stronger relationship with God through prayer.
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  This week, we're gonna be tackling how to
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  rebuild broken relationships
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  with biblical wisdom.
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  Some relationships don't shatter.
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  They slowly fracture under pride and silence.
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  Scripture reference today comes from Colossians three
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  thirteen.
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  Bear with each other and forgive one another.
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  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
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  Unforgiveness
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  is heavy.
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  It doesn't stay contained. It spreads.
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  It affects how we speak, how we trust,
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  and
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  how we see others.
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  Left undressed,
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  it quietly hardens the heart and builds walls
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  around places God is trying to heal.
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  One of the greatest challenges with unforgiveness
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  is that it feels
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  justified.
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  We replay the offense.
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  We relive the disappointment,
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  and sometimes
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  holding on to the hurt feels safer than
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  letting it go.
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  But
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  what we don't realize
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  is that unforgiveness
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  keeps the wound
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  open.
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  It actually blocks healing because pride resists
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  surrender.
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  It can even hinder our prayers because
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  a guarded heart struggles
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  to fully rest before God.
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  But prayer is the turning point.
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  When we begin to pray for those who
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  hurt us,
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  something shifts inside of us
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  before it ever shifts around us.
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  Prayer interrupts the replay cycle.
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  It softens pride.
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  It reminds us
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  how much we've been forgiven.
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  Forgiveness doesn't excuse the offense or erase accountability.
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  It frees the soul.
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  It releases the weight so that healing can
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  begin.
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  Strong relationships
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  are built on grace,
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  and grace
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  flows from prayer.
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  Let's pray.
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  Father,
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  you see the places in my heart that
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  still hurt.
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  I confess that I've held on to pain
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  because
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  it felt justified,
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  but I don't want bitterness to live in
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  me.
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  So I give it to you.
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  I surrender the offense to you today.
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  Soften my heart where it has grown hard.
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  Teach me to forgive as you have forgiven
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  me.
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  Heal the wound beneath the hurt and replace
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  resentment with peace.
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  I release all of these hurts and offenses
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  into your hands,
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  and I trust you to restore what I
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  cannot.
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  In Jesus' name, amen.
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