Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

So today is part two of our relationships conversation, and yesterday we talked about what to do with the hard feelings we get from people

who betray us or let us down and today we're going to talk about how to know when it's time

to end a relationship or really bring anything to an end. We'll come right back to it in just a minute.

Just recently I was doing a social media Instagram live and someone asked me this question,

how do I know when it's time to end something?

I thought it was a great question, and it's an important question because the truth is a lot of us don't really know how to

end things well, or even when or if to end things. We focus a lot, I think, on starting things

and doing that right, but we just let things kind of drift off or come to an end without a lot of

thought or care or attention. And I really believe we should honor ends,

just like we do beginnings, because how we handle ending things determines a lot about the health

of people moving forward and the condition of our own heart as well, I believe. I've talked on here

before about how my husband and I started and closed a church in 13 months, which

by the way, is really hard on your heart. I don't necessarily recommend it, but it is what happened.

And how we actually took more care in ending this church than we did in starting it, which I also

don't necessarily recommend. I think you should really take equal care in both.

But we did understand that the way that you end things must be done right in order to honor God.

That's true in church plants and relationships. And if you think about it, even a good book or

movie ending, right? Who likes a terrible ending of an otherwise

awesome movie? It literally ruins the whole thing, I think. So when it comes to relationships,

I think there are definitely times we need to bring them to an end. It doesn't mean we don't

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