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Dina LaFargue Augusti (00:00):
Greetings and welcome to another episode
of the Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen, comealong this journey, allowing
love and truth to permeate yourentire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,
(00:24):
bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life and helping you movethrough the process
successfully.
We are all familiar with thephrase the survival of the
fittest, so my thoughts thisweek really reflect on why so
(00:46):
many relationships don't surviveMarriages, families, friends.
These days, it seems thatrelationships seem to fall apart
quicker and faster.
When I talk about survival ofthe fittest, the key word is how
(01:07):
do we survive?
And the other one is fittesthow do you become fit?
What does it take to be fit, tobe successful in any
relationship?
And I think my heart is reallyset on marriages, because
(01:28):
marriages grow into families ifthey last that long.
And when marriages are broken,families are still left behind.
They're often children that aresplit between parents or lose a
parent completely, that aresplit between parents or lose a
parent completely.
So how do we survive the stormsthat come in a marriage, or why
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do these marriages not survivethe storms?
I think that is a question thatwe have to ask.
How do we get into therelationship and why are we no
longer in that relationship?
Some marriages fall apartbecause people really shouldn't
(02:14):
have been together in the firstplace, and that could be a
strong statement.
How many of us enter into along-term relationship, a
committed one-on-onerelationship, a marital
relationship, without reallyunderstanding the other person,
without really understandingthat you can't change someone.
(02:39):
You can be responsible foryourself, for doing your own
introspection, yourself-analysis and making changes
, but are you making changes toaccommodate the other person's
flaws?
It's very important.
In a relationship, .
How necessary to understand thedynamics.
(03:02):
It's necessary to understandwhat makes that relationship
tick, what causes conflict inrelationship and how the two
people deal with conflict in therelationship.
There's too much tragedy,there's too much violence.
There's too much violence.
(03:47):
There's too much addiction,alcoholism and There are spousal
abuse, partner, parent but frommultiples, because it seems Now
there are statistics out therethat state that about 50% of
marriages end in divorce that'sthe first marriage.
That about 60% of secondmarriages end in divorce that's
the first marriage.
That about 60% of secondmarriages and in divorce.
That within 10 years there's a32% rate of divorce and
(04:12):
regarding domestic violence, onein four women suffer domestic
abuse, one in seven men sufferdomestic abuse, and the
alcoholism rates and addictionrates run into the double digits
.
Why, why is this?
Do we not know how to copeanymore?
(04:35):
Do we not have the innerstrength to know how to handle
problems?
Because storms do come in life,storms are inevitable.
So do we not know how to handlethe storms?
! T!Or is it so basic as the fact
that we don't know how to getalong, that we abuse don't
intimate relationship abuse;however its titled now.
There are so many children thathave step brothers and sisters
from multiple parents, multiplefamilies, not just from one
other parent, but to compromise,that we don't know how to share
(04:59):
, that we don't know how to love, that we don't know how to
share, that we don't know how tolove, that- the we don't know
of self without becomingexcessive or end or abusive to
our family and to our loved onesand to our spouses?
(05:22):
I call it tragic because it istragic.
We seem to have become afragmented society that indulges
in substances and behaviorsthat are symptomatic of deeper
problems within our own souls,are symptomatic of deeper
(05:48):
problems within our own souls.
Too many people are sufferingand too many people don't know
how to cope or to heal, and Ithink that's one of the main
reasons why relationships fail.
I think it's one of the mainreasons why so many men and
women are abused inrelationships and, of course,
(06:08):
I'm going to focus on the womenbecause we are physically the
weaker sex and, of course, moreabuse is reported by women than
by men, for various reasons, andwhen we look at the statistics,
we can be confident that mostwomen or men are not even
reporting the abuse.
(06:29):
They deal with it or theydisappear.
Whatever the reason, we need todevelop better people skills,
better coping skills, and learnhow to love and learn how to get
(06:49):
along and learn how to not letwhatever things that have
happened to us not manage ourbehavior and our relationships
(07:11):
our relationships In my ownexperience.
Yes, I've been at the hand of afist, I've been at the other end
of a fist and I've had to dosome introspection and some
inspection of the dynamics ofthe relationship, which I think
everybody needs to do, and Iknow that I wouldn't have
(07:33):
survived if it hadn't been formy faith and some common sense
to know the fact that you can'theal somebody to be helped.
You can be responsible foryourself.
Make decisions, can beresponsible for yourself, make
decisions, and the best route tosurvival is to put your hand
and your relationship in theLord's hands.
Now, in this one relationship,faith saved both of us.
(07:58):
Faith was the key.
Did the tragic, last?
No, but did we kill each other?
No, did we destroy one another?
No, because faith became thefoundation of us moving forward
where to ask why are you in thiscommitted one-on-one
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relationship or marriage?
Why are you getting married?
Why are you moving in with thisperson?
Is it financial?
Is it for convenience?
Or is it because you at somepoint hope to get married?
Those are.
And very important questions.
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Also, is it because there's achild on the way?
The next question, and allthese don't have to go in a
specific order, but how are yougoing to manage the relationship
?
What are your expectations forthe relationship?
or.
(09:07):
And when conflicts experience,yes is it something that's bound
to happen in a marriage?
Little things like well,someone lost a job, that's not
(09:28):
so little.
But there are other problemsthat grow deeper, I would say,
like alcoholism, addictions andabuses.
.
But And when things start goingwrong and you can't work
together.
Do you know what's reallyhappening?
Are you aware of the diseasethat has infiltrated the
marriage, that may have beenthere all along but is now just
(09:51):
beginning to surface?
Do you know who you are in thisrelationship yourself, make
this marriage, thinks of you init?
How do they perceive you?
What are you to them?
These are so important tocontemplate, to ask and to
(10:15):
understand In this relationship.
Are you bringing insecuritiesthat have never been dealt with?
Are you self-aware?
Are you allowing fear to runyour decisions and manage your
(10:37):
behavior?
Are you putting in 2,000%, notcaring what the other person
puts in, because you just wantto be there and you think it's
going to be okay?
Are you just a roommate or areyou a true partner?
(10:58):
Are you loved and appreciatedor are you a convenience?
es are your expectations andwhat do you think committed,
expectations your spouse has ofyou?
Are you expecting your spouseto be perfect?
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Are you expecting everything torun smoothly?
Have you planned for futureevents?
Have you all set goals?
Who's going to take the lead inthe finances?
Who's going to take the leadwith the children, if children
are something that you all havedecided on in the future.
Have you discussed these thingsCareer plans, family plans,
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lifestyles.
Have you observed and shared indecision making Meaning?
Have you observed how the otherperson makes decisions?
Have you observed orcontemplated what their true
goals are, what theirself-identity is, how they feel
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about themselves?
All these are very important.
How does your partner handlestress, and is God involved at
all?
Are they of another faithsystem that conflicts with
together, do Are you able totolerate that?
They are another faith system?
Do you think it won't impactyour relationship?
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Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
Sure, there are many successfulrelationships where faith is
not an issue.
But I challenge you to thinkthat, to consider, actually,
when things do go wrong andnowadays they seem to go wrong
faster than ever and couplessplit faster than ever that
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faith can contribute ask, thesuccess of in relationship.
So what does faith do?
Faith gives you and yourpartner or your spouse common
ground.
It gives you a common beliefsystem.
It gives you core values.
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It gives you identity.
It gives you strength.
Faith gives you the word of Godthat feeds your soul.
Faith gives you strength.
Faith gives you the word of Godthat feeds your soul.
Faith gives you direction.
Understanding who God is andhaving a basic understanding of
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his will for anyone and his willfor you as an individual is a
game changer.
Faith gives you the identity ofhaving a family already, before
you even have a spouse, becauseGod says he is your father, he
is your creator, he is yourmaker, he is your savior, he is
your comfort, he is your teacher, he is your provider, he is
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your ever-present God in thetime of trouble, he is your
shelter in the storm, he is theway out, he ?
the plains level before things: . (14:15):
undefined
career So when storms come, when?
tragedy comes, when conflictscome, you and " spouse can truly
rely on the word of God.
You can truly rely on the wordof God, you can truly rely on
the promises of God.
You can rely on the strength ofGod, the wisdom of God, the
knowledge of God to move forward.
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You have the intimacy of thatrelationship to know that you
can bring any problem to thethey god of another get an
answer, and that if you praywith your spouse and seek God's
word with your spouse, you bothhave something common to rely on
, something that is infallible,something that is unbreakable,
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something that is unchangeable,something that has been proven
to carry you through.
Because the word says thatGod's word is swift and powerful
, sharper ever, than anytwo-edged sword to dividing of
soul and spirit, marrow and bone, discerning the hearts and
minds of men.
The word of God also says thatnothing is impossible with him.
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The word of God also says thatnothing will ever separate his
love from you.
So we need to be acquaintedwith who God is to carry us
through.
I mentioned earlier in thispodcast that relationships fall
apart because people don'tunderstand who they are.
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People don't have coping skills, people don't know how to love.
But when you link up with God,when you make a decision to
trust God, to believe in God, toget to know who your maker is,
your creator is, then you have afoundation foundation, you have
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a guidebook, you have truth tofill your soul, to feed your
soul.
You have an idea of who you arenow because you belong.
If you never had a parentbefore, you have the perfect
parent.
If you never had a friendbefore, you have the perfect
friend.
If you never had a counselorbefore, you have the perfect
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counselor.
If you never had a counselorbefore, you have the perfect
counselor.
If you never had the perfectcoach before, you have the
perfect coach.
You have a blueprint in theword of God for life.
You have an unendingrelationship for life.
You have the most solid friendfor life.
You have the most perfectparent for life, the most
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perfect advisor.
So in entering into relationship, you should enter in with God.
In entering into a relationship, you should enter in knowing
who you are, knowing how to cope, knowing what your strengths
and weaknesses are, knowing thatGod will be your strength in
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your weakness, knowing .
manage guidebook and to managea relationship, you have a
guidebook.
God says the men are to lovetheir wives as God loves the
church, and the women are torespect their husbands.
So I ask who are you marryingand why?
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Are you able to love this woman?
Are you able to respect the man?
Are you able to trust hisrelationship with God?
Are you able to trust hisrelationship with God?
Are you able to trust hisdecision-making?
Have you experienced his copingskills and does he include God
in his life?
Are you able to haveconversations about God?
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Are you able to pray together?
Do you read the word together?
Can you?
Is church an option.
Is church a priority?
All of these things contributeto the success of a relationship
.
Now, do God-fearing people breakup?
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Yes, they do.
Do.
I think that they should reallybreak up Truly?
I'm an idealist and I would sayno.
And then I would say well, isthat the one that God chose for
you, and was that other person,or were you really trusting in
God to bring you through?
So I know there's a lot ofquestions, a lot of skepticism
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and a lot of believers out therethat would agree with me, and
the skepticists and the others,the pessimists, would say no, no
, no.
But I know my God never changesand I know he is truth and his
promises are yea and amen.
And he didn't make us to fail.
He made us to go forth and befruitful and to multiply, and I
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believe he totally equipped uswith everything that we need to
be successful in this life andGod our relationships and love.
And in selflessness, with himbeing the lead.
So when I started this podcast,I started it just being sad,
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because a month are, people back, a woman was killed in my old
neighborhood at the hands of herhusband, and a neighbor was
also killed, and it just breaksmy heart that this woman had no
help, that it ended this way,that even her husband didn't
have help, he was just somentally disturbed and
emotionally ill-equipped to onlyknow violence as a way to solve
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his problems or to end amarriage.
We've got to do better.
So I'm speaking to everyone outthere who's listening.
What are you in now and how areyou handling it?
Are you involving God in it?
If you don't know God, why not?
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Because he loves If you neverhad the he can before you have
the perfect coach, becausenothing is impossible with him.
So what's the lack?
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Where's the lack?
Lack?
And if you find yourself in astorm, how are you going to get
out of the storm?
How are you going to navigateyour way through it and come out
of it alive and thriving,despite the trauma?
And I was saying include God init, bring God along, put him
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first, because he heals thebrokenhearted and he binds up
all your wounds.
His word is true and faithful.
He will do that.
If you put your hands in his,he will carry you through it.
So, before you destroy arelationship everything and
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destroy the partner in a breakup, consider doing it God's way.
Don't destroy yourself or theother person in the process of
ending it or terminating therelationship.
It's not necessary.
Vengeance is in the hand of God.
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Vengeance doesn't reallysatisfy we think it does, but it
doesn't.
Vengeance only makes thingsworse, and You vengeance can
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backfire.
So in closing, I would say whenyou find yourself in a
relationship that isself-destructing, and Get out
well, get out So,.
Navigate wisely, involve God inthe process, even if your
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partner isn't.
Involve God, because he willnot let you down.
Sure, the pain is there thereand it may do end, that people
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don't destroy themselves or killthemselves in the process,
literally and figuratively.
?
Matthew, chapter 26, verse 38,reads my soul is exceedingly ,
even unto death.
This is the Lord?
Truly, before he knew he wasgoing to be arrested and
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crucified.
And what did he do after that?
He prayed.
Become acquainted with?
God's And word to feed yourwith hope for your future.
In Psalm 121, verse 7, So, saysthe Lord shall preserve you
from all evil.
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He shall preserve your soul.
Nahum 1 and 7 says the Lord isgood, he is
skepticists(skeptics) astronghold.
in relationshipsSo, 34 says when the righteous
cry for help, the Lord hears anddelivers them out of their
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troubles.
The Lord is near to thebrokenhearted as saves the
crushed in spirit.
So when all else has failedkilled, And you don't know the
Lord, try Him.
Preserve your mind in the storm, because the battlefield is in
the mind.
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And when you're faced withtroubles in your household and
you're filled with stress andfear, the Word of God is calming
.
The Word of God providesstrength.
Psalm 42 says why, my soul, areyou so troubled?
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But then, at the end of thatPsalm, david turns to the Lord
and realizes that he need not beso troubled because the Lord is
forever with him.
So try God out.
Don't turn away if you alreadyknow him, but turn to him and
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read his word over and over.
Speak his word over and overuntil it fills you up, until you
feel strength coming back in,you
feel like you can make it,until you know that God has
heard you and that he goesbefore you because he does.
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So what does it mean to be fit?
So what does it mean to be fit?
Remember, at the beginning ofthe podcast I said, or I coined
the term, survival of thefittest.
What is going to make you fit,what is going to help you .
survive We Pure and simple, theLord, god yourself over to the
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Lord, developing a relationshipwith him, knowing his word, know
what his word says about yoursituation.
And becoming an intimatepartner imploding on itself, get
with God, allowing him to takethe leading, him enough to
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involve him in your situationand in your life.
What makes you fit for thislife is knowing the Lord, god
Almighty bI know there are listeners here
that don't have thatrelationship or don't believe or
don't believe, but most peopleknow that there's more to life
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than what we see.
There's more to this world thanwhat we can see with the naked
eye.
And what's beyond the naked eyeis our God.
But he has given us enough tosee, to know that he is.
And our battles are not justagainst flesh and blood.
No, they are not.
(26:55):
In Ephesians 6, it will tell usso.
Our warfare, our storms, ourdramas, the battles that we
fight are manifested firstbeyond what we can see with our
naked eyes, and that's whyprayer is so important.
We are fit, we are built withthe word of God and with prayer.
(27:19):
We can be dressed for thebattle when we're dressed in his
word.
We can win the battles, when wehave his word upon our lips and
written upon our hearts.
It's true, survival of thefittest means surviving every
battle in the fittest waypossible, meaning we can thrive,
(27:43):
we can overcome, and God sayswe are always victorious in him.
David We are always victoriousin him, and that's what it means
to be your survivor, that'swhat it means to be an overcomer
, that is what makes you fit.
So if you want to be one ofthose a survival, a survivor
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that is fit then this is whatyou must do.
In closing, I'll read one of mypoems how did I get there?
Where is the there?
How did I get there?
Where is the there?
How did I you, get there?
Did I stay too long?
How do I get there?
And where is this there?
What do I want to get to?
And how did I get to my here?
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traveled, or did it have toomany twists and turns?
Did I get tangled in the brushor wrapped up in the jungle and
all of its vines?
Or did I find myself slidingdown a muddy precipice, or did I
run and fall off a cliff to Goddespair - knowing have to be
(29:11):
far from here, from where I am,I have to make it out, but not
the ends.
Same way.
I'm looking back, situation;and tears and less often with
glee.
All I know is I'm out lead oftrusting him, wanting to be away
(29:31):
from there Definitely anddefiantly.
I say that was then and not mylife, now.
That journey was there God andnot my here.
I have taken a new direction, anew latitude and longitude.
My Jehovah Shammah correction,my mind is tuned in to the John
(29:55):
1 station.
Now I can thrive in his chosenlocation.
Wherever I am, there he is andhe has a mansion prepared for me
, and to this divine locale iswhere I shall forever be, until
(30:17):
next time.
Be blessed, be at peace and bein love.
Truth Drips.
Greetings and welcome to another episode
of the Drip Line, where love andhealing will flow into your
soul.
Tune in and take a listen, comealong this journey, allowing
love and truth to permeate yourentire being.
Hopefully, the message sharedtoday will touch your heart,
(00:24):
bringing you closer to yourhealing, empowering you for your
daily life and helping you movethrough the process
successfully.
We are all familiar with thephrase the survival of the
fittest, so my thoughts thisweek really reflect on why so
(00:46):
many relationships don't surviveMarriages, families, friends.
These days, it seems thatrelationships seem to fall apart
quicker and faster.
When I talk about survival ofthe fittest, the key word is how
(01:07):
do we survive?
And the other one is fittesthow do you become fit?
What does it take to be fit, tobe successful in any
relationship?
And I think my heart is reallyset on marriages, because
(01:28):
marriages grow into families ifthey last that long.
And when marriages are broken,families are still left behind.
They're often children that aresplit between parents or lose a
parent completely, that aresplit between parents or lose a
parent completely.
So how do we survive the stormsthat come in a marriage, or why
(01:52):
do these marriages not survivethe storms?
I think that is a question thatwe have to ask.
How do we get into therelationship and why are we no
longer in that relationship?
Some marriages fall apartbecause people really shouldn't
(02:14):
have been together in the firstplace, and that could be a
strong statement.
How many of us enter into along-term relationship, a
committed one-on-onerelationship, a marital
relationship, without reallyunderstanding the other person,
without really understandingthat you can't change someone.
(02:39):
You can be responsible foryourself, for doing your own
introspection, yourself-analysis and making changes
, but are you making changes toaccommodate the other person's
flaws?
It's very important.
In a relationship, .
How necessary to understand thedynamics.
(03:02):
It's necessary to understandwhat makes that relationship
tick, what causes conflict inrelationship and how the two
people deal with conflict in therelationship.
There's too much tragedy,there's too much violence.
There's too much violence.
(03:47):
There's too much addiction,alcoholism and There are spousal
abuse, partner, parent but frommultiples, because it seems Now
there are statistics out therethat state that about 50% of
marriages end in divorce that'sthe first marriage.
That about 60% of secondmarriages end in divorce that's
the first marriage.
That about 60% of secondmarriages and in divorce.
That within 10 years there's a32% rate of divorce and
(04:12):
regarding domestic violence, onein four women suffer domestic
abuse, one in seven men sufferdomestic abuse, and the
alcoholism rates and addictionrates run into the double digits
.
Why, why is this?
Do we not know how to copeanymore?
(04:35):
Do we not have the innerstrength to know how to handle
problems?
Because storms do come in life,storms are inevitable.
So do we not know how to handlethe storms?
! T!Or is it so basic as the fact
that we don't know how to getalong, that we abuse don't
intimate relationship abuse;however its titled now.
There are so many children thathave step brothers and sisters
from multiple parents, multiplefamilies, not just from one
other parent, but to compromise,that we don't know how to share
(04:59):
, that we don't know how to love, that we don't know how to
share, that we don't know how tolove, that- the we don't know
of self without becomingexcessive or end or abusive to
our family and to our loved onesand to our spouses?
(05:22):
I call it tragic because it istragic.
We seem to have become afragmented society that indulges
in substances and behaviorsthat are symptomatic of deeper
problems within our own souls,are symptomatic of deeper
(05:48):
problems within our own souls.
Too many people are sufferingand too many people don't know
how to cope or to heal, and Ithink that's one of the main
reasons why relationships fail.
I think it's one of the mainreasons why so many men and
women are abused inrelationships and, of course,
(06:08):
I'm going to focus on the womenbecause we are physically the
weaker sex and, of course, moreabuse is reported by women than
by men, for various reasons, andwhen we look at the statistics,
we can be confident that mostwomen or men are not even
reporting the abuse.
(06:29):
They deal with it or theydisappear.
Whatever the reason, we need todevelop better people skills,
better coping skills, and learnhow to love and learn how to get
(06:49):
along and learn how to not letwhatever things that have
happened to us not manage ourbehavior and our relationships
(07:11):
our relationships In my ownexperience.
Yes, I've been at the hand of afist, I've been at the other end
of a fist and I've had to dosome introspection and some
inspection of the dynamics ofthe relationship, which I think
everybody needs to do, and Iknow that I wouldn't have
(07:33):
survived if it hadn't been formy faith and some common sense
to know the fact that you can'theal somebody to be helped.
You can be responsible foryourself.
Make decisions, can beresponsible for yourself, make
decisions, and the best route tosurvival is to put your hand
and your relationship in theLord's hands.
Now, in this one relationship,faith saved both of us.
(07:58):
Faith was the key.
Did the tragic, last?
No, but did we kill each other?
No, did we destroy one another?
No, because faith became thefoundation of us moving forward
where to ask why are you in thiscommitted one-on-one
(08:25):
relationship or marriage?
Why are you getting married?
Why are you moving in with thisperson?
Is it financial?
Is it for convenience?
Or is it because you at somepoint hope to get married?
Those are.
And very important questions.
(08:46):
Also, is it because there's achild on the way?
The next question, and allthese don't have to go in a
specific order, but how are yougoing to manage the relationship
?
What are your expectations forthe relationship?
or.
(09:07):
And when conflicts experience,yes is it something that's bound
to happen in a marriage?
Little things like well,someone lost a job, that's not
(09:28):
so little.
But there are other problemsthat grow deeper, I would say,
like alcoholism, addictions andabuses.
.
But And when things start goingwrong and you can't work
together.
Do you know what's reallyhappening?
Are you aware of the diseasethat has infiltrated the
marriage, that may have beenthere all along but is now just
(09:51):
beginning to surface?
Do you know who you are in thisrelationship yourself, make
this marriage, thinks of you init?
How do they perceive you?
What are you to them?
These are so important tocontemplate, to ask and to
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understand In this relationship.
Are you bringing insecuritiesthat have never been dealt with?
Are you self-aware?
Are you allowing fear to runyour decisions and manage your
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behavior?
Are you putting in 2,000%, notcaring what the other person
puts in, because you just wantto be there and you think it's
going to be okay?
Are you just a roommate or areyou a true partner?
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Are you loved and appreciatedor are you a convenience?
es are your expectations andwhat do you think committed,
expectations your spouse has ofyou?
Are you expecting your spouseto be perfect?
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Are you expecting everything torun smoothly?
Have you planned for futureevents?
Have you all set goals?
Who's going to take the lead inthe finances?
Who's going to take the leadwith the children, if children
are something that you all havedecided on in the future.
Have you discussed these thingsCareer plans, family plans,
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lifestyles.
Have you observed and shared indecision making Meaning?
Have you observed how the otherperson makes decisions?
Have you observed orcontemplated what their true
goals are, what theirself-identity is, how they feel
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about themselves?
All these are very important.
How does your partner handlestress, and is God involved at
all?
Are they of another faithsystem that conflicts with
together, do Are you able totolerate that?
They are another faith system?
Do you think it won't impactyour relationship?
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Maybe it will, maybe it won't.
Sure, there are many successfulrelationships where faith is
not an issue.
But I challenge you to thinkthat, to consider, actually,
when things do go wrong andnowadays they seem to go wrong
faster than ever and couplessplit faster than ever that
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faith can contribute ask, thesuccess of in relationship.
So what does faith do?
Faith gives you and yourpartner or your spouse common
ground.
It gives you a common beliefsystem.
It gives you core values.
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It gives you identity.
It gives you strength.
Faith gives you the word of Godthat feeds your soul.
Faith gives you strength.
Faith gives you the word of Godthat feeds your soul.
Faith gives you direction.
Understanding who God is andhaving a basic understanding of
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his will for anyone and his willfor you as an individual is a
game changer.
Faith gives you the identity ofhaving a family already, before
you even have a spouse, becauseGod says he is your father, he
is your creator, he is yourmaker, he is your savior, he is
your comfort, he is your teacher, he is your provider, he is
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your ever-present God in thetime of trouble, he is your
shelter in the storm, he is theway out, he ?
the plains level before things: . (14:15):
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career So when storms come, when?
tragedy comes, when conflictscome, you and " spouse can truly
rely on the word of God.
You can truly rely on the wordof God, you can truly rely on
the promises of God.
You can rely on the strength ofGod, the wisdom of God, the
knowledge of God to move forward.
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You have the intimacy of thatrelationship to know that you
can bring any problem to thethey god of another get an
answer, and that if you praywith your spouse and seek God's
word with your spouse, you bothhave something common to rely on
, something that is infallible,something that is unbreakable,
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something that is unchangeable,something that has been proven
to carry you through.
Because the word says thatGod's word is swift and powerful
, sharper ever, than anytwo-edged sword to dividing of
soul and spirit, marrow and bone, discerning the hearts and
minds of men.
The word of God also says thatnothing is impossible with him.
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The word of God also says thatnothing will ever separate his
love from you.
So we need to be acquaintedwith who God is to carry us
through.
I mentioned earlier in thispodcast that relationships fall
apart because people don'tunderstand who they are.
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People don't have coping skills, people don't know how to love.
But when you link up with God,when you make a decision to
trust God, to believe in God, toget to know who your maker is,
your creator is, then you have afoundation foundation, you have
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a guidebook, you have truth tofill your soul, to feed your
soul.
You have an idea of who you arenow because you belong.
If you never had a parentbefore, you have the perfect
parent.
If you never had a friendbefore, you have the perfect
friend.
If you never had a counselorbefore, you have the perfect
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counselor.
If you never had a counselorbefore, you have the perfect
counselor.
If you never had the perfectcoach before, you have the
perfect coach.
You have a blueprint in theword of God for life.
You have an unendingrelationship for life.
You have the most solid friendfor life.
You have the most perfectparent for life, the most
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perfect advisor.
So in entering into relationship, you should enter in with God.
In entering into a relationship, you should enter in knowing
who you are, knowing how to cope, knowing what your strengths
and weaknesses are, knowing thatGod will be your strength in
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your weakness, knowing .
manage guidebook and to managea relationship, you have a
guidebook.
God says the men are to lovetheir wives as God loves the
church, and the women are torespect their husbands.
So I ask who are you marryingand why?
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Are you able to love this woman?
Are you able to respect the man?
Are you able to trust hisrelationship with God?
Are you able to trust hisrelationship with God?
Are you able to trust hisdecision-making?
Have you experienced his copingskills and does he include God
in his life?
Are you able to haveconversations about God?
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Are you able to pray together?
Do you read the word together?
Can you?
Is church an option.
Is church a priority?
All of these things contributeto the success of a relationship
.
Now, do God-fearing people breakup?
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Yes, they do.
Do.
I think that they should reallybreak up Truly?
I'm an idealist and I would sayno.
And then I would say well, isthat the one that God chose for
you, and was that other person,or were you really trusting in
God to bring you through?
So I know there's a lot ofquestions, a lot of skepticism
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and a lot of believers out therethat would agree with me, and
the skepticists and the others,the pessimists, would say no, no
, no.
But I know my God never changesand I know he is truth and his
promises are yea and amen.
And he didn't make us to fail.
He made us to go forth and befruitful and to multiply, and I
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believe he totally equipped uswith everything that we need to
be successful in this life andGod our relationships and love.
And in selflessness, with himbeing the lead.
So when I started this podcast,I started it just being sad,
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because a month are, people back, a woman was killed in my old
neighborhood at the hands of herhusband, and a neighbor was
also killed, and it just breaksmy heart that this woman had no
help, that it ended this way,that even her husband didn't
have help, he was just somentally disturbed and
emotionally ill-equipped to onlyknow violence as a way to solve
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his problems or to end amarriage.
We've got to do better.
So I'm speaking to everyone outthere who's listening.
What are you in now and how areyou handling it?
Are you involving God in it?
If you don't know God, why not?
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Because he loves If you neverhad the he can before you have
the perfect coach, becausenothing is impossible with him.
So what's the lack?
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Where's the lack?
Lack?
And if you find yourself in astorm, how are you going to get
out of the storm?
How are you going to navigateyour way through it and come out
of it alive and thriving,despite the trauma?
And I was saying include God init, bring God along, put him
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first, because he heals thebrokenhearted and he binds up
all your wounds.
His word is true and faithful.
He will do that.
If you put your hands in his,he will carry you through it.
So, before you destroy arelationship everything and
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destroy the partner in a breakup, consider doing it God's way.
Don't destroy yourself or theother person in the process of
ending it or terminating therelationship.
It's not necessary.
Vengeance is in the hand of God.
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Vengeance doesn't reallysatisfy we think it does, but it
doesn't.
Vengeance only makes thingsworse, and You vengeance can
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backfire.
So in closing, I would say whenyou find yourself in a
relationship that isself-destructing, and Get out
well, get out So,.
Navigate wisely, involve God inthe process, even if your
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partner isn't.
Involve God, because he willnot let you down.
Sure, the pain is there thereand it may do end, that people
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don't destroy themselves or killthemselves in the process,
literally and figuratively.
?
Matthew, chapter 26, verse 38,reads my soul is exceedingly ,
even unto death.
This is the Lord?
Truly, before he knew he wasgoing to be arrested and
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crucified.
And what did he do after that?
He prayed.
Become acquainted with?
God's And word to feed yourwith hope for your future.
In Psalm 121, verse 7, So, saysthe Lord shall preserve you
from all evil.
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He shall preserve your soul.
Nahum 1 and 7 says the Lord isgood, he is
skepticists(skeptics) astronghold.
in relationshipsSo, 34 says when the righteous
cry for help, the Lord hears anddelivers them out of their
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troubles.
The Lord is near to thebrokenhearted as saves the
crushed in spirit.
So when all else has failedkilled, And you don't know the
Lord, try Him.
Preserve your mind in the storm, because the battlefield is in
the mind.
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And when you're faced withtroubles in your household and
you're filled with stress andfear, the Word of God is calming
.
The Word of God providesstrength.
Psalm 42 says why, my soul, areyou so troubled?
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But then, at the end of thatPsalm, david turns to the Lord
and realizes that he need not beso troubled because the Lord is
forever with him.
So try God out.
Don't turn away if you alreadyknow him, but turn to him and
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read his word over and over.
Speak his word over and overuntil it fills you up, until you
feel strength coming back in,you
feel like you can make it,until you know that God has
heard you and that he goesbefore you because he does.
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So what does it mean to be fit?
So what does it mean to be fit?
Remember, at the beginning ofthe podcast I said, or I coined
the term, survival of thefittest.
What is going to make you fit,what is going to help you .
survive We Pure and simple, theLord, god yourself over to the
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Lord, developing a relationshipwith him, knowing his word, know
what his word says about yoursituation.
And becoming an intimatepartner imploding on itself, get
with God, allowing him to takethe leading, him enough to
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involve him in your situationand in your life.
What makes you fit for thislife is knowing the Lord, god
Almighty bI know there are listeners here
that don't have thatrelationship or don't believe or
don't believe, but most peopleknow that there's more to life
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than what we see.
There's more to this world thanwhat we can see with the naked
eye.
And what's beyond the naked eyeis our God.
But he has given us enough tosee, to know that he is.
And our battles are not justagainst flesh and blood.
No, they are not.
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In Ephesians 6, it will tell usso.
Our warfare, our storms, ourdramas, the battles that we
fight are manifested firstbeyond what we can see with our
naked eyes, and that's whyprayer is so important.
We are fit, we are built withthe word of God and with prayer.
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We can be dressed for thebattle when we're dressed in his
word.
We can win the battles, when wehave his word upon our lips and
written upon our hearts.
It's true, survival of thefittest means surviving every
battle in the fittest waypossible, meaning we can thrive,
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we can overcome, and God sayswe are always victorious in him.
David We are always victoriousin him, and that's what it means
to be your survivor, that'swhat it means to be an overcomer
, that is what makes you fit.
So if you want to be one ofthose a survival, a survivor
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that is fit then this is whatyou must do.
In closing, I'll read one of mypoems how did I get there?
Where is the there?
How did I get there?
Where is the there?
How did I you, get there?
Did I stay too long?
How do I get there?
And where is this there?
What do I want to get to?
And how did I get to my here?
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traveled, or did it have toomany twists and turns?
Did I get tangled in the brushor wrapped up in the jungle and
all of its vines?
Or did I find myself slidingdown a muddy precipice, or did I
run and fall off a cliff to Goddespair - knowing have to be
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far from here, from where I am,I have to make it out, but not
the ends.
Same way.
I'm looking back, situation;and tears and less often with
glee.
All I know is I'm out lead oftrusting him, wanting to be away
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from there Definitely anddefiantly.
I say that was then and not mylife, now.
That journey was there God andnot my here.
I have taken a new direction, anew latitude and longitude.
My Jehovah Shammah correction,my mind is tuned in to the John
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1 station.
Now I can thrive in his chosenlocation.
Wherever I am, there he is andhe has a mansion prepared for me
, and to this divine locale iswhere I shall forever be, until
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next time.
Be blessed, be at peace and bein love.
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