If a relationship between you and someone else isn't going well, you may need to add a third party.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth to explain.

You won't have the resources you need to be the wife God wants you to be, or the mother, or the friend, or in any other human relationship, until you have focused on your relationship with God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude for February 20th, 2020.

I'm Dana Gresh. Do you want to have truly meaningful relationships with others?

Before we can do that, our relationship with God has to be our first priority.

When we come to him first, we connect better with others.

Today, Nancy DeMoss-Walgamuth explains how three people need to be involved in every relationship,

you, your friend, and God.

We've been considering what our relationships are like and the pain and the problems of human relationships,

as the writer of Ecclesiastity says, under the sun. If we live our lives without God,

apart from taking God into consideration, apart from thinking and responding his way, apart from a

relationship with him, then we're going to have what we've been studying in the first part of

Ecclesiastes chapter 4, and that is the pain

of injustice and the problem of isolation. We're going to either have broken, painful, sinful,

unhealthy relationships, or no relationship at all. But we're going to struggle in the relational area as long as we're

trying to make our relationships work without God. Now, I know that sounds like, duh. I mean, of course.

And if you're a child of God, maybe that doesn't sound very profound, but it's amazing to me how

much we try to make

our relationships work without God. How much we try to fix and repair and change our relationships

without bringing God into the equation. And so now we've come to a part of Ecclesiastes chapter 4,

beginning in verse 9, where we have

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