After we have gone through the healing process, we need to know how to put ourselves back in a relationship with our family members when there may have been some distance, conflict or unresolved issues. God wants restoration and we believe in restoration. We also believe in guarding our hearts. Here are some ways to put yourself in relationship with people while guarding your heart at the same time. • Make regular phone calls to the family member as the Holy Spirit leads. Keep the conversations simple and effective. Be Christ on the phone and just love them like Jesus would. Make an effort to pick up the phone and put yourself in relationship with them as long as you have an open line of communication. If you are in a situation where the person doesn’t want to talk to you or it will become non productive, I don’t recommend this. • As you need to visit your family and you are still having feelings arise you need to deal with, I suggest that you continue to visit your family but inside distance yourself. You can put your physical body into their home or the situation, at the same time separating your emotional and spiritual being. I recommend having your intercessors and friends pray for you while you are visiting your family. Find people who will pray while you are actually at the event. Keep yourself guarded, at the same time not too protected. • Establish healthy boundaries such as how often and when you will see them. • Develop new family traditions with your spouse and children so that you are not always obligated to go to family events at holidays and other times of the year. • Pray in the spirit (tongues) before and after you go to their house. Spend some time in prayer before you leave in order to keep you uplifted and covered in prayer while you are at the family function. • Cast off any ungodly spiritual attachments afterward. Pray against things such as disunity, dissension, unloving spirits, demonic assignments and family and territorial spirits. Come against familiar spirits and anything else that could inhabit the future relationship. • Find a place of peace inside your spirit and soul to draw into while in their presence. Rely on the Spirit of God inside of you to get through time that seem difficult and unbearable.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:00:00 +0000
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