Here is Nancy Lee DeMauze.

I would say it's clear that relationships matter to God.

And they need to matter to us.

God never intended that you should be a lone ranger Christian.

You have a need, as do I, to cultivate and nurture relationships with other believers.

And to safeguard and protect those relationships with other believers.

And to safeguard and protect those relationships from falling apart.

Our natural selfishness, our natural sinfulness, works against relationships.

It's Wednesday, November 7th, and this is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-D-Moss.

We're in the middle of a series called Seeking Him, all about personal revival.

One of our listeners wrote to say,

Your Seeking Him series has been indescribable.

It has touched my heart in so many ways.

Now, you should know that this listener has faced serious problems with an unfaithful husband and a son in jail.

But she continued to say, I'm asking for prayer for me to

hold faithful to God, for my marriage and for my husband. How can a woman respond like this without

bitterness? That's our topic this week, since one of the marks of personal revival is forgiveness.

Here's Nancy. Let me ask you to open your Bibles to the book of Philemon. Philemon. It's the little one chapter book right before Hebrews,

just toward the end of the New Testament. While you're turning there, let me just give you an

overview of a storyline because this one chapter is a story.

Philemon was a man who lived in the city of Colossi. He was apparently wealthy. He was influential. He and the Apostle Paul were friends.

Filemon had actually come to know the Lord years earlier under Paul's ministry. He was a devoted believer.

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