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FLOATING AXE

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FLOATING AXE Devotional:- 2 Kings 6:1-7 “So the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float’’ (V.6) NKJV  Sometimes when we read about some great wonders of God in the Bible, something makes us feel it was because the people were very special. But we need to know that they are men of like passion (James 5:17-18). They were just exactly like we are, but they were only men of faith. This makes God to work wonders through them. The sons of the prophet needed a big place of dwelling. So they decide to cut trees to make a new home. Thank God they requested that Elisha should go with them. As they were cutting the trees, the axe head fell into the deep river. And the man of God asked the Holy Spirit for what to do. The Holy Spirit was what they also depended upon, and there was a miracle. Friend, you also have the Holy Spirit. That stick is the word of God. Speak to the sinking situatio...
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GIVING

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GIVING John 3:13-21 Devotional:- “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (V. 16).      One of the major responsibilities to cultivate in a good relationship is giving. This is very foundational; because it is on it every good relationship is built. Without it, no relationship will stand. People don’t often want to part with what they have, but love is the virtue that can draw it out. Most people treat their income as their life, but love is sharing our lives with others.
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BE AN EXAMPLE

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BE AN EXAMPLE 1 Timothy 4:11-16 Devotional:- Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity” ( V. 12 ).      Everyone involved in relationship should seek to be an example. To be an example is to be a model for what is right in the relationship. It is not enough for us to know or always say what we ought to do or be doing in our relationship. It is very important that we become doer of what we are saying. If you will not do what you are saying, nobody will do it. The right mind-set is that, I must be in front to do what I am asking others to do and not just do as I say.
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RESPONSIBILITY

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RESPONSIBILITY 1 John 3:11-17 Devotional:- “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” ( V. 16 )      Building a healthy relationship demands that each party is responsible. In a situation where a partner is not responsible, it can frustrate the one that is responsible. This is exactly the way we treat God a lot of time. Man is always discouraged by the devil not to be responsible towards God. Whenever we have needs, we always want God to be responsible towards us, but not us being responsible to God. This is always the bone of contention between man and God. To be responsible is to always carry out part of the relationship deal.
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COMMITMENT

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COMMITMENT Romans 12:9-21 “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another” (V. 10)      Most people want good home but do not want to pay the price for it. One of the major prices for a good relationship is commitment to each other. The parties must all embrace the spirit of commitment. Everyone is committed in one place or the other. If a man or woman is not committed to his or her spouse, he/she is committed to someone else somewhere. It is therefore very important for each member to be committed to each other.
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TRADING THE FLESH

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TRADING THE FLESH Romans 8:1-11 Devotional:- “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace (v. 6)            A major challenge of most relationship is our ‘self”. Each one is always trying to display and uphold his “self”. This causes much rift whenever any family is settling dispute or disagreements. It is also important that we remember that when we give our life to Jesus, we gave out our self and take his life. The flesh or self is the mind-set of our culture, tradition and nature. So as children of God we can no longer allow the flesh or our canal mind or self to rule our lives or ruin our relationship (Romans 6:14)
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CULTURE

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CULTURE Genesis 46:28-34 Devotional:- “That you shall say, “Your servants’ occupation has been with Livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians” (V. 34)      In managing our differences, one aspect we have to confront is cultural differences. These are differences resulting from our tribes and their nature. In some tribes, they eat some kind of food that is a taboo to another tribe. Some tribe wears some kind of dresses that is opposite of the other and so on. Apart from language differences, there are much difference from culture to culture. So, this becomes a strong factor to manage if our relationship will work successfully.
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TEMPERAMENT

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TEMPERAMENT Genesis 25:19-28 Devotional:- “So the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field; but Jacob was a mild man, dwelling in tents” (V. 27)      Everyone picks his temperamental nature from the parents. This is therefore, being passed to us through the blood. Since it is in our blood, it becomes our permanent nature. Temperamental nature is therefore one of the major factors to work on to make two to become one. Each temperamental nature has advantages and disadvantages. God consciously allow us to have these differences to create varieties in our world. If all of us behave the same way, the whole world will be boring.
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BACKGROUND

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BACKGROUND Proverbs 22:1-6 Devotional:- “Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it” (V. 6)          Everyone grows up from a background. Our background is the nature and the behavioral attitude of people we grew up with. Our background is the lifestyle of our parents and our relations. This goes a long way to affect our beliefs and our concepts of life. It registers in our mind permanently as what we belief that life should look like. Our background often becomes so difficult to change because they are what we are introduced to in our early learning years.
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LABOUR OF LOVE

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LABOUR OF LOVE Hebrews 6:1-12 Devotional:- “For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor o love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister” ( V. 10 )      There Is a need to have the understanding of the labour of love. Cultivating quality relationship is a lot of work. Most people are just looking for pleasure. They do not know that to build a good relationship of any type demands some kind of labour. This is because we all come from different background. To become one in understanding, view and focus is a lot of work. To reform an adult is virtually one of the greatest works on earth. Even, God don’t find it easy with man ( Genesis 6:5-8 ).
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UNITY

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UNITY Psalms 133:1-3 Devotional:- “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!” (V. 1)      Every attempt should be made to maintain unity in every good relationship. Please know that unity is not uniformity but oneness in understanding and focus. God made us in a variety. So, we should not see uniformity as unity. Our variation must be appreciated. That variety makes the world worth living, the same thing in your home. That is why it takes much maturity to attain unity and not hindering people’s peculiarity.
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CORRECTION

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CORRECTION Ephesians 4:1-6 Devotional:- “with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love” (V. 2)           As human being, we grow into maturity when we make changes from our wrong attitude to the right one. For change to take place, there is a need for us to be corrected in such area of change. If we are going to be corrected, God is going to use men to do so and we are also to be used to correct others. Since no correction; no change: then, we cannot avoid been corrected by people around us. If our relationship will grow then, the approach to correction must be very mature.
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AGREEMENT

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AGREEMENT Amos 3:1-6 Devotional:- “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (V. 3)      Journeying together in good relationship will be difficult except the parties come to terms of agreement. As powerful as relationships could be to the life of man, as important is agreement to make it strong. A family relationship without agreement will be full of argument always. This is because; people don’t know the power of agreement. That is why many are forced into agreement like master and slave relationship.
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ACCEPTANCE

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ACCEPTANCE Genesis 24:54-67 Devotional:- “Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death” (V. 67)      For any relationship to be strong, it must start on the foundation of acceptability. Relationship could sometimes be very challenging when the level of acceptance is not all that strong. Some people go into relationship when they are not really ready to accept each other. Others consider entering into relationship based on a shallow acceptance. Such relationship will get to the middle of existence to discover they didn’t consider it deeper before saying, I do.
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UNDERSTANDING

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UNDERSTANDING 1 Peter 3:1-12 Devotional:- “Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding. Giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered” (V. 7)      Here is a great need to be of understanding if relationship will not be like a trap. To live together with understanding is to tolerate each other with maturity. This is to understand that we are people raised from different background, yet, brought together by divine arrangement. It is therefore very important that we wisely handle our relationship with understanding.
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ONE LANGUAGE

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ONE LANGUAGE Genesis 11:1-9 Devotional:- “And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them” (V. 6)      As people who have agreed to live together in relationship, we must truly be one so much that we can always speak one language. To speak one language is not just about the same dialect, but rather it is speaking the same thing together in love. It is for the two to speak in the same direction and the same focus. To speak one language is to speak as agreed by the parties.
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OPENNESS

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OPENNESS Proverbs 18:19-24 Devotional:- “A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother” ( V. 24 ) NKJV      The principle of relationship demands that we are open to receive the other person we have decided to relate with. Openness has to do with allowing the one you accept to love into your privacy. Without privacy, you cannot have access to the heart of most people. People need to see the genuineness in someone before they can open up the secret of their lives. Yet, one must allow the other in, before intimate relationship can begin.
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LOVE LANGUAGES

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LOVE LANGUAGES 1 John 3:1-3 Devotional:- “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on Us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him” ( V. 1 )      Words are powerful. Words are seed ( Luke 8:11 ). The word of God creates and so are our words ( John 1:1-3 ). If our word creates, then, it is the seed for all that were produced in this world. It is important we know that, there are angels of God to carry out our words especially when we are speaking the word of God ( Psalms103:20 ). That is why there is no one who can keep speaking hatred that will have love around him/her.
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TOTAL LOVE

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TOTAL LOVE Proverbs 5:15-21 Devotional:- “Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you” (V. 17)      Everyone who wishes to cultivate good relationship must learn to give total love. There are different types of relationship, yet they all need the virtue of love. The word of God says our love should not be with hypocrisy (Romans 12:9). Half love is no love. To get the best of any relationship, you have to give it total love. If not, the other person you are relating with will soon discover that you are not genuine and will also withdraw from you.
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TIME TOGETHER

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TIME TOGETHER Genesis 26:6-11 Devotional:- “Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife” ( V. 8 )      Time is another critical factor in building a healthy relationship. Good relationship does not just evolve in a single day, it takes time. Those who want to have effective communication need time to build it up. Time is an opportunity to communicate in relationship. You cannot grow your relationship together with someone you don’t have time for.
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PRINCIPLE OF COMMUNICATION

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PRINCIPLE OF COMMUNICATION Colossians 4:1-8 Devotional:- “Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one” ( V. 6 )      Communication is a singular factor that is so much needed to build and grow any relationship. When people don’t take this serious, they will struggle in their relationship. No matter the kind of relationship, Communication is the key. Since we know how important relationship is to each of us, we must therefore give attention to learning the principle of communication.
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