Hey everyone, thanks for joining us here on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. Today we're continuing

with the series called Growing in the Seasons of Life. And in these messages, Rick's going to share

biblical wisdom that you need to live your best life no matter what stage you're in.

I know Rick's got some great things to share with you today,

so let's jump right in with part one of a message called

How to Reconcile a Relationship.

The Bible says in James chapter 3, verse 18,

it's up here on the screen,

those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace.

And it says they will reap, read it with me, a harvest of goodness.

Now that's what I want to happen in your life.

As your pastor, as somebody who loves you, I want your life to harvest a harvest of goodness.

I want there to be the results of your life, not badness, not evil, not a wasted life,

but that at the end of your life, they go, that man, that woman, harvested a harvest of goodness in their life. But in order to harvest something, you've got to

plant it first. And the Bible says, peacemakers plant seeds of peace. Do you know that in the last

300, 3,500 years on planet Earth, there have been only 286 years of peace between nations?

Out of 3,500 years of recorded history, only 286 years of peace between nations.

We live in a broken, divided, fragmented world that desperately needs to learn the skills of reconciliation, the skills of making peace.

Now, when we look at the cause of conflict, you don't have to go very far in the Bible, and it tells us that there are two causes of all conflict.

Between you and your husband or your wife, between you and your boyfriend or your girlfriend,

between you and your kids or your parents or your co-workers, between other people.

All conflict boils down to two words.

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