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As we look further at the story of Esther, we’ll learn more about how God brought her to a specific time and place in order for her to fulfill her destiny.  Pastor Ford will encourage us to consider how God wants us to use the time He’s given us in our lives to fulfill our own destinies and to do great things for Him. As...

The elements of communication include tone, body language and words.  And Pastor Ford will explain today that if your attitude is bad, then you can assume that your body language, your tone and your words, may not be fit for good communication. To hear more, join us for today’s Treasured Truth.

Pastor Ford will urge us to understand that we ought not deprecate how another person feels.  We should let them express their feelings.  And then when we communicate, we must own our feelings.  We shouldn’t say, “You did this to me.” Instead, we should say, “What you did made me feel this way.” Find out more on today’s Treasured Truth.

Sometimes we need to try and connect to how a person is feeling.  If they’re feeling a certain way, they feel that way, simply because they feel that way.  So, sometimes we need to connect to that and understand there are some things that may be going on that we just can’t solve.

In our relationships, we want to be able to get along, to understand each other, to be able to communicate something to someone and to be able to understand exactly what they’re saying and where they’re coming from.  Find out some tips about how to do all of that on today’s Treasured Truth.

Honest communication is so important in any relationship.  When we lie and when we get angry, we give the devil an opportunity to get into our relationships.  And that’s exactly what he wants.  And so, when we do those things, we’re actually playing into the devil’s hands. That’s on today’s Treasured Truth.

To communicate is to share information with someone, that is either verbal or non-verbal, in a manner in which the person understands.  But Pastor Ford will explain, if there isn’t any understanding, then there hasn’t actually been any real communication.

Pastor Ford encourages each of us to ask ourselves, “Is there something or someone that’s in the way, causing my communication to fail?”  Because a lot of times we really have to be careful about who we’re allowing to give us input into our relationships.

If we’ve been untruthful, and we’ve told someone a lie, then we need to be forgiven of the lie so effective communication can be restored.  As long as the lie is between us and the person we are trying to communicate with, we can go back and forth with them all we want to, but we still have to deal with the lie.  Once it’s dealt with, then...

The biggest communication problem is that we do not listen to understand. Instead, we listen to reply.  We’re waiting so that we can say, “Oh no, that was not what you said, or that didn’t go down like that.” So, we’re actually preparing our reply rather than trying to understand what the other person is really trying to communicate.