Monthly PollRodney Winters | July 5, 2010The results of last month’s poll indicated that responders viewed communication as the key to marital longevity. This month, we pose a follow-up question: How important is counseling to the success of a relationship? Choose your answer at the bottom right, and feel free to add a comment. 2 CommentsLeave a comment |
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Hi Rodney! Where do I start with your great poll question. Counseling is extremely vital to any relationship. especially, engaged couples. Actually, I would recommend counseling to preengaged couples as well. The counseling provides the couple the opportunity to examine and address issues that may impact the relationship both healthy and unhealthy. In addition, I believe its helpful to have another pair of eyes to objectively help the couple in the process of building a hopefully healthy relationship. that’s my two cents!
Hi Rodney! I made a present of your book to a male friend of mine who was and is in need of some direction as he has experienced the devastation of divorce as well. Three or four days after giving him the book was his final court date for his divorce. He called me and said he had read maybe about a quarter of the book and he had to just close it and allow some of it to marinate and then digest. His response was, “Linda, I thank God for you allowing God to move on your heart to get this book for me and I thank God for this brother who wrote it.” My friend said it was like you were peering directly into his life and guiding him. I told him that was and is the Holy Spirit that makes those connections in the realm of the Spirit because God uses people, even in their pain, that make themselves available to Him. I also shared with him, that although God allows us to go through things that are sometimes, unpleasant, painful and not even our fault, we are not simply going through for ourselves. God expects us to pass those tests because we are the ones that are going to have to help the next one out. Rodney you did and are doing just that with your book. I further shared that, by you sharing your story through writing this book, it will continue to help others out of that place of pain and devastation because you paved the way and passed the test first.
For me personally, the book revealed many things about my own life, our relationship with God and what God really desires to do for us even through the things we suffer though it may not be relationship issues or divorce. One of the most astounding things I keep coming away with after almost the “third read” is that “God Will Part Your Red Sea, But Not Until You Are Willing To Stand Before The Waters.” That is one of the messages that “Go Into The House” repeatedly sends to me. You have a precious gift in that book that keeps on giving. I really thank God for you and your fearlessness to expose yourself and in doing do delivering others.
Allow me to encourage others with my own personal quote of which it is abundantly clear that you have implemented in writing “Go Into The House” which simply is this: DON’T ALLOW LIFE’S CHALLENGES TO ABORT YOUR KINGDOM ASSIGNMENT. DIVINE PURPOSE HAS A WAY OF BRINGING US THROUGH UNCOMFORTABLE, UNFAVORABLE, PAINFUL AND UNPLEASANT SITUATIONS. KNOW THAT YOU ARE DIVINELY POSITIONED FOR PROMOTION! Here’s to you Rodney!