Relationship Rehab Part 2: Restoring Harmony

RELATIONSHIP REHAB

Part 2: Restoring Harmony

February 11, 2024

2 Corinthians 13:11 (NIV) “Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.”

All relationships have .

Great relationships have .

Four Causes of Conflict

1. Poor .

Psalm 141:3 (NIV) “Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.”

2. Unfulfilled .

James 4:1-2 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you?

James 4:1-2 (NIV) “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight.”

3. Despising .

Mark 3:25 (NIV) “If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”

4. nature.

Romans 3:23 (NLT) “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.”

Four Ways to Deal with Conflict

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Ephesians 4:3 (AMP) “Strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony of the Spirit.”

Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 (NIV) “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them.”

Genesis 31:46 (NIV) “He said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.”

Conflict cannot without my .

4 Decisions to Restore Harmony

1. I will not .

Ephesians 4:26-27 (NIV) “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. 

Never put it off.

Never call names.

Never raise your voice.

Never get historical.

Never say never or always.

Never threaten divorce.

2. I will on the in you.

Philippians 4:8 (NIV) “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.”

3. I will God’s grace .

Romans 12:19-21 (NIV) “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

4. I will God’s grace .

1 John 4:8-11 (MSG) “The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’ve done to our relationship with God. My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.”