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SEEC Magazine 9 February/March 2017
may sabotage a loved one or confront them? There is no pat answer. The place
to start is prayer. One prayer I have seen God answer many times is, “Lord,
please change them or change me so your peace can cover this relationship.” We
can trust His wisdom and His faithfulness to address the problems in wise timing.
What we cannot do with behavior or personality issues is fight fire with fire.
Fighting negative behavior with negative behavior is using a carnal weapon that
does not pull down strongholds. Nor will any good fruit come from confronting
others out of frustration rather than love. While we should not presume to con-
front without God’s instruction, neither should we be too cowardly to talk it out if
He so directs. We can be confident that the place to start is prayer. Then we fol-
low God’s instructions and timing to a God-outcome of healthy and meaningful
and fulfilling relationships.
Kathy will be speaking at Kingdom Congress 2017. For more info call 936-
856-2455 or go to www.martygabler.com/kec2017/

Apostle Hodges will be speaking at Kingdom Congress 2017.

One of the greatest examples of covenant relationship in the Bible is
the friendship of David and Jonathan. We can learn from the covenant
they walked in and apply its practical components: 1Sa 20:1 -3, Then
David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, "What
have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before your father,
that he is seeking my life?" He said to him, "Far from it, you shall not die.
Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it
to me. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!" Yet
David vowed again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found
favor in your sight, and he has said, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, or he
will be grieved.' But truly as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there
is hardly a step between me and death."