Hello, I'm Creflo Dollar, and this is the Creflo Dollar Ministries podcast.

I want to thank you for joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,

builds your faith, and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.

Enjoy the message. Go with me to the book of Psalms 41 and verse 9 in the NLT,

and I've enjoyed this series on brokenness, but today we're going to really zero in on relationships.

And I want to talk to you about it. It's a kind of long title, but we want to talk about the day

when God doesn't restore a broken relationship. What happens when God doesn't restore a broken

relationship? Some people are just like, I really am releasing my faith for God to restore this

relationship, and you know, you name it and claim it, and you pray extra hour, and you come

to church, and you sit on, you know, as close to the pulpit as you can, because you're really

believing God to restore that relationship. And I mean, you're making your confessions over.

I mean, you're doing everything you know to do. And there's what we got to be careful. Are we

believing we receive something based on our efforts and what we can do? So the question I want

to bring up today is what happens when that relationship is not restored? What happens when God,

when God doesn't restore a broken relationship? Now, a broken relationship is one of life's most

painful experiences, a broken relationship. What am I talking about? I'm talking about maybe a breakup

of some sort in relationship, boyfriend, girlfriend, fiance, maybe a breakup. It's a very painful

thing, a divorce. That's what I'm talking about here in broken relationship, or even a death.

That's a broken relationship that's caused by death. And so what happens, a breakup, a divorce,

or death, or any situation where you're losing someone, you love that person. And what happens,

you know, your heart hurts, losing someone, you love, breaks your heart. That's what I'm trying to

say. Losing someone, you love, breaks your heart, whether it's through a breakup, whether it's

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