Children are very sensitive and children sense the bitterness or they become very sensitive to the mother and father and the stress that they themselves are carrying.

And that puts more stress on the kids and that's why kids sometimes go to drugs and alcohol and they escape because they don't see peace in their mother and father's life.

I am falling.

I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling in love. I am falling to have you along with us. Somebody Lives You Radio, the Bible teaching ministry of Roll Rees in Diamond Bar, California.

It's good to have you along with us today for Roll's continuing series focused on nurturing a strong, godly family.

Today, you'll be reassured that the Lord can heal and restore the fractures in your home

if you're willing to be honest with him and submit to his

instructions. Keep listening for encouragement to equip your heart with scripture and strengthen

your spirit with prayer as you look to God for his help for your family. Here's Roll Rees with our

study, Family Life. If you have your Bibles, turn to the book of Proverbs chapter 27.

I am pretty amazed at how many marriages are breaking apart.

And how many homes are in real trouble today.

I am very concerned because I know that not everyone here has it altogether in their marriages.

And this is a situation where God really wants to speak to our own hearts concerning our family lives.

And there's a lot of people that are really hurting men and women are hurting tremendously.

And one of the things that we need to understand is by coming on Sunday mornings or Sunday

nights or Wednesday nights, if we're really coming to seek the Lord and we're coming to seek answers and solutions to our problems, then God's going to meet us.

But if we're only coming to become hearers but not doers of the Word of God, then we're wasting our time.

You have to be honest with yourself and you have to be honest with God.

If you really want God to change your life.

And we were actually sharing last week concerning the exhortation that Solomon was given to us

to know the condition of our flocks, or that is to know the condition spiritually of our wife

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