BROKEN TRUST (Part 4) PRACTICAL WAY FORWARD (part 2)

[Speaker 1] Church fellowships cannot be more spiritual than the individuals and families that constitute them. God greatly desires a godly home for us. These are words of restoration and instruction in righteousness from Family Tent Ministry. May you be blessed as you listen. [Speaker 2] Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We are grateful again to our God for his mercies, for his grace, bringing us again to another month, the month of September. And for the opportunity again to have another edition of our Marriage Forum. We thank the Lord for how it has been through January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, and now we are in September. To him alone be the glory and praise in the name of Jesus Christ. As we gather again this morning, we who are here physically and our brethren who are joining us online, either on Telegram or on Mixlr, we trust in the Lord that it will be a time of refreshing, a time of visitation, a time of mercy in the name of Jesus Christ. We have been on the matter of broken trust for some time now, a topic we started in the month of June. We have done issues of trust issues since June. And so we have looked at trust issues part one in June, part two in July, part three in August. In August, we started to deal with broken trust, or how to handle broken trust, the practical ways forward under trust issues. So we are looking at trust issues part four. We are looking at practical ways forward in dealing with broken trust part two for this month of September. And if you follow what I sent out yesterday, I said in the month of August we started considering possible practical ways forward when trust had been broken. We will continue with this for the September edition of our Marriage Forum. May the Lord in his mercy meet with us all in Jesus' name. So as we start this morning in trying to look at the matter of possible practical ways forward in dealing with the issue of broken trust, when trust had been broken, what are the practical ways forward? What are the things we can do practically? In the August edition, we tried to survey some important issues that I would like to call our attention to again today as we try to move forward. In the August edition, we looked at the need to understand the issues surrounding trust today. And in doing that, we considered four important things. The first one is trust, the changing dynamics today. And the changing dynamics is that it is becoming very difficult to trust anybody. It is becoming honestly very, very difficult. With what is happening around us today, it is becoming so difficult to trust anybody. I went for an outing and an incident was reported where the biological father of a girl sexually assaulted her and threatened her not to report to the mom. The father assaulted his own biological daughter and then threatened her not to tell the mom. So, I'm just saying that just to remind us of what we said in the month of August, that today things have become so dark, so wild, so scary that when you hear some happenings, you just wonder how. That is what we are facing today. And then we talked about the family situation in which the church is a part, where issues of divorce and marital instability are almost the order of the day. And the church is a part of the society. It is important to realize that what is happening in the society today, in a way, has its impact on the church. The people that are called the church are the called out ones, those who are called out of the world to live a peculiar life that glorifies God. The Bible says to show forth the praises of him who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. However, it is important to realize that what is happening in the society today has an impact on the church. When a husband or a wife is seeing what is happening, look at the case like I mentioned just now. The believers who are hearing this, it affects them and makes them say, "I need to be careful about my own home," and all of that. So what is happening around them impacts on their perception, on their imaginations, on their thinking, on their belief. Believers are also part of society where all of this is happening. So it will impact on their perspective, it will impact on their imaginations and on their emotions. Like I told you, I was just wondering when I heard it, "Where is this coming from?" The church is a part of what is going on, and this thing impacts on the church. Then we also mentioned the contradiction within the church system itself. Whereas apart from what is happening in the society that is impacting on the church, even those that you call the Christians, the church, you also find that even among their gathering, the gathering of Christians, the gathering of believers, what is happening in the world is also happening. That's the contradiction within the church system itself. And that is something that impacts on every home, on every marriage. You begin to wonder, "Does this happen inside the church? A believer is doing this." So all of these have an impact on how a wife sees matters when things happen in her own marriage, and how a husband sees them. When you begin to see that people who call themselves Christians are also misbehaving, one tendency is that you yourself as a wife or a husband will misbehave. Those are the things that impact on the perception of believers. However, we concluded with this very strong encouragement that because there are a lot of fake individuals in the church today—and I made this very clear last month that even inside the church you have both the good, the bad, and the ugly. And that is the nature of God's kingdom. The kingdom of God is like a net which a man threw into the sea. It catches all kinds of fish. And at the end of the day, the good ones will be put into a nest and we throw the bad ones away. But before that end of the day, both the good, the bad, and the ugly fish are living together as if they are all good. That's the nature of the kingdom of God on earth. And so, the fact that there are a lot of people who are not really Christians who claim to be Christians does not mean that you will not find a genuine sister or a genuine brother. All you need is to trust in the Lord and let the Lord lead the way. If the Lord leads the way and if you are genuine, you will find a genuine person. But if you are not genuine, except you repent, do not even pray that you will find a genuine person. My prayer is for everybody who is not truly genuine that is inside the church but is making a choice in marriage; except they repent, my prayer is that they will never get any of the genuine people in the name of Jesus Christ. This is how we concluded with that last month, that we don't need to be discouraged if you are a genuine person. Don't just feel that nobody's genuine again in the church or the fellowship, so I would rather not marry or I would rather not do this or that. I'm giving you an encouragement: no matter how it seems or how it looks, the truth is that there are people, there are individuals who are still genuine. And if you are genuine and you trust in the Lord, you will not miss marrying a genuine person in the name of Jesus. So we want to move on today from that point where we left it. That was just summarizing the whole of August. We want to move on from this point to practical ways forward in dealing with the trust issues. We have seen the issues that surround the matter of trust. So when trust is broken, what can we do practically? Let us have a word of prayer. Our Father, we are grateful. We commit this meeting into your hand, Lord. We pray that as we fellowship one with another as believers, you will speak to our hearts in the name of Jesus. You will meet with us where we need you most in the name of Jesus. Lord, our eyes on you; work in us both to will and to do of your good pleasure. Thank you, eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Now, we want to move forward with practical things that we can do. Number one, when trust is broken—we want to look at about four points again today. Eventually under this topic, we'll be looking at how to prevent broken trust. That may be in the month of October. We'll look at these practical things today and please don't forget that you can send in your question. Anytime as we are speaking now, if you have a question, please send in your question. The technical unit will handle it, I will get it here and we will respond to it immediately. Whether you place it on Mixlr, Telegram, or our WhatsApp page, we should be able to respond to your question. So, we want to look at about four things. And we want to ask ourselves: trust has been broken, what do I do? In my marriage trust has been broken. And the question in your heart is, "Sir, how should I handle it? The trust I have for my husband has been broken, the trust I have for my wife has been broken. Sir, what do I do? What practically can I do?" And let's look at four things around this today. I trust the Lord that it will be a blessing to you in the name of Jesus Christ. So let's look at the first thing I have here: who am I dealing with versus how did I get here? The matter of foundation. When trust is broken—because I know people listening to me have different situations in their marriages. I know that people from all walks of life are listening to me this morning. So that is why I'm taking the matter very deliberately, taking it from the very basic so that we will not leave out anything that would be important in dealing with the matter of when trust has been broken. Now, when trust is broken in a relationship, in a marriage. My wife did something and I just lost trust in her. Or my wife has done something that's affecting my trust. My husband did something that is affecting my trust for him. How should I handle it? The first thing I want you to do is to evaluate who you are dealing with. Who am I dealing with versus how do I get here? The matter of foundation. What I mean by that first point is that in order to know how best you can deal with a particular issue with regard to a particular individual, is first to know the nature of that individual. Not knowing who you are dealing with will not help you to know the appropriate step that you ought to take. And the reason why I'm talking about who you are dealing with is because of the matter that we raised in the month of August. Don't forget that in the month of August we made it clear—which I just highlighted now—that the nature of God's kingdom is that it catches all kinds of fish. Whether the fish is good, bad, or ugly, the kingdom catches all kinds. All the kinds that you have will move together, flourish together, and mingle together till the appointed time of judgment. You may not even be able to know that they are very different from each other because they all look like they are doing the same thing and saying the same thing at the same time. But as far as heaven is concerned, they are not the same thing. Not all the kinds of fish in the kingdom will be put into the vessel that will be rewarded. Some will be thrown away. Now it is because of that, that when you have trust issues in your marriage, it becomes important to ask yourself: who am I dealing with? Who am I, number one, and who am I dealing with is number two. You need to be able to evaluate. "Who am I?" simply means me, the offended. Am I a good fish myself? Am I sure that I am living right myself? Am I sure that what I am experiencing is not a fallout of what I am doing myself? What I am saying he or she did is what me too I've done here and there but I was not caught. We need to be able to evaluate. Now if you have evaluated who you are, the next thing is: who am I dealing with? Who is your spouse? Am I dealing with a fellow believer? Am I dealing with a merely religious person? Am I dealing with a stark unbeliever? These are very important questions to be answered. Because when you don't answer these questions and don't try to evaluate things very well, you will end up coming up with a solution that cannot work for the type of person. The solution that will work for persons who are children of God, truly children of God, will be different from the solution that will work when you are dealing with an individual who is not a child of God. So it becomes very important to ask yourself: this marriage, how did I get in, sir? Who did I marry? Who am I myself? You need to sort that out. And I want to us to look at scriptures to see why this is very important. Let's look at Acts chapter 8. Acts chapter 8. I want us to see what happened in this place between Philip and those in Samaria. Now let's look at I take it from verse 5. It says, "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. And the multitude with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. And there was great joy in that city." Verse 9. "But there was a certain man called Simon, who previously practiced sorcery in the city and astonished the people of Samaria, claiming that he was someone great, to whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, 'This man is the great power of God.' And they heeded him because he had astonished them with his sorceries for a long time. But when they believed Philip as he preached the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. Then Simon himself also believed." I want you to notice this story very well. "Simon himself also believed. And when he was baptized, he continued with Philip and was amazed, seeing the miracles and signs which were done. Now the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, who when they come, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. For as yet he had not fallen upon none of them, they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, 'Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.'" But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart is not right with God. Repent therefore of your wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity." Now when you look at what happened in this place, eventually Simon asked, "Please pray for me that what you prophesied will not come to pass," and all of that. But what I want you to see in this story very importantly is that Philip came out and preached the gospel. But when you look at Simon believed and he was following along with Philip as a disciple. What became very clear to us from what happened in this story is that when Simon believed, it is not as though he believed as to becoming born again, to become somebody that will be having a walk with Jesus. Rather, he was astonished by the power that Philip demonstrated. That was what he was astonished at, and the reason for coming close is so that he could have that power. What am I trying to say? Peter was able to discern the situation. That this situation is not a case of somebody who wants better understanding of anything. It's a case of somebody who wants to use God as a means to an end. Peter was able to discern who he was dealing with. And that is how he handled the matter practically. Now the same thing I'm trying to say, when there is issue of broken trust, one thing that can be of great help to you is to be able to discern: who am I dealing with? That is a very crucial question. Not being able to answer that question will only end up leading you to commit all sorts of blunder in dealing with the matter. In this case, it was Simon the magician. Now when you look at Simon Peter, in terms of this refined life—look at what the Bible said in Galatians chapter 2 verse 11 to 17. Compare with Acts chapter 4 and Acts chapter 5. Galatians 2:11 to 17. Let's go to that place quickly. Galatians chapter 2. Let's look at it from verse 11 just to see what happened in this place. "Now, when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face." That one was Simon the magician, this one is Simon Peter, the apostle. Simon, but they are two different people. So that you are Brother John and you see another Brother John does not mean that Brother John is anything serious at all. That you are Brother Innocent does not mean the other Innocent is as innocent as you are innocent. So there was one Simon who was very corrupt, that was Simon the magician. Now, another Simon, Simon Peter. I just want to show you something about this Peter so that for the same incident of hypocrisy, you may not handle it the same way, depending on who you are dealing with. Somebody played hypocrisy, and you can see how the judgment of God was brought upon that man. Another person here is playing hypocrisy. You will see how it happened here. But what I want you to see is that the two people—one did not have his heart with God, he never became born again. He was just there among them, he too was baptized, and everything was looking like he played the hypocrisy. We have seen similar thing again from that person, Simon Peter. Even the very person who went to minister Holy Spirit to people and by the laying on of hands the Holy Spirit came on them, a man now is playing hypocrisy. It says, "And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, 'If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of a Gentile and not as a Jew, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews?' We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not!" Look at how Paul rebuked Peter. Now look at what I want to tell you about this Peter. Look at something in Acts chapter 4, Acts chapter 5. Acts chapter 4:8. "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, 'Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stood here before you whole. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders.'" This is Peter, standing before the Sanhedrin, standing boldly for the gospel, facing the rulers of the land. It was this same Peter who saw brethren in Galatians—these are not the Sanhedrin, brethren that he is their leader. He saw them, but he doesn't want them to see that he has been playing with Gentiles. You know Jews and Gentiles don't do things together. But you know Christ made the difference; there is no Jews and there is no Gentile. Peter knew that before these people came, Peter was mixing with the Gentiles. When they came, he now began to behave as if he have never been with them, and he was acting just to please those people. Are you understanding what is happening in this situation? Look at the mighty Peter, a man that was given such a trust, trust of the gospel, scattered the trust. I want to show you something again about Peter, this mighty Peter. And I say "mighty Peter" not as if any man of God is mighty. There's no man of God that is mighty. The actual truth about our lives is that we are men of a mighty God. It's only God that is mighty. There is no man that is mighty. We work by the working of God that works in us mightily. So when the working of God works in us mightily, you say mighty men of God—it's not correct. It's supposed to be the men of a mighty God. But I want to explain two different persons in the same situation and how the treatment of the matter practically had to be different. That's the point I want to make. When there's issue of broken trust, one thing that can be of great help to you is to be able to discern: who am I dealing with? That is a very crucial question. Not being able to answer that question will only end up leading you to commit all sorts of blunders. In this case, it was Simon Peter. In dealing with Simon Peter, he was rebuked. You know why the Bible says? The Bible says rebuke the upright and he will gain more wisdom. How do I know that Peter gained more wisdom from the rebuke of Paul? You will notice that later in second Peter, Peter was commending Paul. He said our brother Paul wrote some things that are difficult to understand as some people have twist those things to their own destruction. Even though Peter did not completely understand the writings of Paul, you can see the acknowledgment: "our brother Paul." Look at the affection, look at the deference for that brother. Paul did not become his enemy by that rebuke; Paul was his brother still. He learned from the rebuke; he became a better person for it. But when you are dealing with Simon the magician, it's a different thing altogether. Simon the magician never got anywhere in the kingdom. In fact, he was just a crafty man. He was able to escape the discernment of Philip, but he did not escape the discernment of Peter and John. Philip baptized him, but Peter and John were able to discern that his heart is not with God. So you see a different thing. That of Ananias and Sapphira—we saw individuals who sinned and who were covering the sin. The husband died, the wife came again, and instead of not covering sin, she too was covering the sin. Judgment came, and she died. So you see that one incident—hypocrisy in Galatians, hypocrisy in Acts with Ananias and Sapphira, hypocrisy in Simon the magician—but look at how different judgment came because of the nature of the persons that we are dealing with. My brother, my sister that is listening to me wherever you are, I don't know what is happening in your own marriage, maybe trust had been broken. Maybe trust had not been broken but you are dealing with broken trust. If trust had been broken in your marriage, and you are looking like, "Okay, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that," my advice is be careful. Maybe what you are intending to do and how you are doing it is not the way you should have done it because of the person that you are dealing with. And maybe the way you are handling it and you are not getting a solution is because you are using a good method for a wrong person, or a wrong method for a right person. I'm just trying to say that maybe the method you are using for the person is not the type of method you use for that kind of a person. Maybe how you ought to have handled something is not the way you have handled it because the person you are dealing with—the way you should have dealt with it is not that way you are dealing with it. That is one thing I would have also said. And I would still come back to this—maybe I should just add this second one to it to conclude that point one. Let me move to point two about dealing with issue of broken trust, which is: face the issue and communicate it. Those two words are deliberate. Face the issue. You see, sometimes when things are happening in your marriage, instead of us facing the issue—I mean taking up the matter with the person—some of us begin to have what I call we also become insincere about how we are dealing with the issue. Maybe you notice something about your spouse. Instead of saying, "Dear, yesterday we were both in the dining. As we were eating, a phone call came and you just stood up and you went into the room to answer the phone call. I don't understand. You should have answered that phone call just at the dining when we are both there. It made me feel somehow as if something is wrong. Please, what is it?" Some of us don't face issues; you just assume, "Okay, point number one, hiding. I will catch him, I will get him." That's a stupid way of dealing with things. Why are you assuming? Why don't you just say the way you feel to the person you have married? Why don't you just take it outrightly and say, "Dear, but why do you have to?" Because many times things get more complicated by all these kinds of assumptions. Things get more complicated in two ways. Number one way is that nothing may be happening. The intent was not to hide anything, and it is not exactly what you are thinking. But you have assumed something and you did not raise it. Complicated in another way: things may be happening actually, and the person is hiding. You could have nipped the problem at the bud. The saying "a stitch in time saves nine"—that "What is it?" could have saved the person going down the drain. It could have saved the situation. But you continue to assume and assume and assume. By the time you now want to talk in six months' time, matters become too complicated for anybody to even find a solution to it. That's why I said in two ways. You could be painting what is not existing at all. Or where something is existing, you are not there to help it. That's what I mean by face it. Communicate it. By "communicate it," what I simply mean by that is that there's a difference between talking and communicating. In your bid to face issues, please be sure that you are communicating. Some people talk, but they don't communicate. The difference in the two is that in facing a matter, you must be sure you are clear in making your spouse properly understand what you are saying. With what we call the art of communication, you are able to make the person not to misunderstand what you are saying. It happens a lot in communication. I give you this practical example of something that happened between me and a friend. Me and my friend were walking down the road. We were students in the same campus. As we're walking down the road, we were just discussing. We met one other person. As we met that person, I said, "Good afternoon oh, this and that," they greeted. So we moved on. As we move on, he now said, "You know that person that passed now, yesterday night, he was my study partner. While we were studying, so and so and so and so came up and all of that." When he finished speaking, I responded, "Ah, that is interesting. Do you now have a study partner? I know of prayer partners, I know of marital partners. This one as she is now study partner, which one again is that one?" You know we're just speaking on a very light mood. And he said, "Ah, Bowale, you are misunderstanding me. What I meant was that that person, we were in the same classroom yesterday when we were reading, not that we are two people that know each other that we are partners that goes to read. I was trying to say that yesterday night, when I went to read, that was where I met that person that I just greeted." I'm telling you about talking and communication. So you discover that what I understood from what he said at first was that he and that person normally meet in the night to study. But what he was simply saying was that he met that person in the same classroom yesterday to read. You can see two different things that was meant. That's what I mean by don't just face the matter, communicate it. Be sure you are communicating with your spouse. You ask some people, "Have you discussed the matter?" "Ah, I've told him! I've mentioned it, mentioned it, mentioned it, mentioned it!" You may not be communicating. Communication is an art that must be learned. Many times spouses just talk, talk, talk, and they don't communicate. You have not really brought the matter to bear before the person you are discussing the matter with. The person is still misunderstanding what you are saying. When the person wants to give judgment on what you have said, he will be judging based on what you did not mean. Many times in handling broken trust, I discover that people don't communicate. Some face it, but they don't end up communicating. Some don't face it, and so they don't even communicate at all. But if you are facing it, I'm just saying: communicate it. It's very important for for us to note this very well. And in facing it and communicating it, you see how our Lord Jesus gave us what looks like a format, a template. You will find that in Matthew chapter 18:15 to 17. This may be where we might be closing for today. The other things under this we'll move on from. I know that the issue of broken trust is a very serious thing today in many marriages. And like I said, please feel free to bring in your question or to tell us how you see this. Feel free to send in your comment; we would like to hear from you. Now look at Matthew chapter 18 verse 15 to 17. The scripture reads: "Moreover, if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he did not hear, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. If he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. If he refuses even to hear the church, let him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector." I read that verse 17 in another translation. "If that person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. If the church decides you are right, but your spouse won't accept it, treat that person as a pagan or a tax collector." And another translation: "If he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as a pagan and as a tax collector." I take that again in the amplified translation. "If he pays no attention to them, refusing to listen and obey, tell it to the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a pagan and a tax collector." Now you can see a format here in handling issues. Is there a matter between you? Somebody has done something, and it has to do with trust being broken. So it is in that matter that he sinned against you. The Bible says go and tell him his fault. That is why I said what the scripture expects from you is face it and communicate it. It says go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. That is when things happen. And this brings me to something about what I said earlier. I mentioned earlier that don't assume, face it. Another problem that assuming causes is that instead of discussing the matter with the person, you consolidate your assumption. Now when it is solidified, you begin to articulate it to other people. You begin to discuss it. "Do you know this my wife or this my husband? We were eating at the dining and he just stood from that place to receive a call. I don't understand. Why should he have answered that phone call just at the dining when we are both there?" Some of us don't face issues. You just assume. You begin to talk about what you think is going on, and before you know it, you're backbiting. That's what you call backbiting. That's what you call gossiping. That's what you call evil speaking. You have not discussed the matter with the person, but 101 people already know that so and so is going on in your marriage. That is not the right way to handle matters. It's not the correct way as believers. And I'm making this point anyway, that you notice that the Lord Jesus said if your brother sin against you. He's talking about when you have an understanding that you are dealing with somebody that you see as a friend, someone close to you. When such a thing happens, face it; meet the person face it. Say it between just you and him alone. If he does not listen, that is when you now need intervention. You want to bring in one or two people so that perhaps maybe you are the wrong person in what you are assuming. Maybe the other person is the right person. Other judgment can come into it to help the two of you look at the matter. If those two people come and they look at it and they say, "Ah, look, what this person raised in this thing, the person is right. Bro," or if it is the wife that called the two that want the intervention, or if it is the husband, say "Look, your spouse is right on this matter that he called us to; please make an adjustment about this thing, it's not correct." If he says no and still insists, the scriptures still give room again to move on to another level. That thing that binds you together, the church. That communion, the church, the body of believers. And that is why I begin to wonder, when some people say that they are members of a church and the church does not mediate in their matters, I wonder what kind of Christianity is that. For me, there seems to be a gap somewhere. When we belong to a community and that community cannot mediate in our matters—I'm talking about the church, the body of believers. I'm always wary when you have couples that don't have authorities over them. It's not something good, it's not something helpful. Those of you who have not yet entered into marriage, please don't enter into a marriage where the marriage doesn't have authority figures that the husband and the wife look to. When a young man says, "Look, I don't have any authority figure in my life. I've run my life all alone. I know myself and my God knows me," be careful with that kind of brother. The same thing when a sister makes such a statement—when nobody can speak to them, nobody has authority over them, nobody can recommend them, be wary of such people. Because authority figures in our life are relevant, and that is what we are seeing in Jesus' format in this place. We will leave the matter here today. Technical, do we have any question? Please check all the platforms quickly before we will leave. Okay, there is no question, thank you very, very much. So let's go ahead to close this morning. Let us pray. Wherever you are listening to me, I want you to talk to the Lord this morning. I want you to pray. Ask the Lord. What is your own situation? What is happening around you? Talk to the Lord this morning. Our Father, we thank you again for another time in your presence. We bless your holy name, we give you praise, we give you glory, we give you honor, we give you adoration. We appreciate you again for this time together listening to your word, learning from scriptures how to handle issues. Lord, I just pray, beyond my voice, cause the people to hear your voice. More and more, Lord, I pray you will perfect us in this truth. Thank you, eternal Father. We pray for every troubled marriage out there. Lord our God, let there be peace. We pray for every troubled home. Lord, we pray, intervene for them. Precious Father, we are asking: Lord, mediate for marriages where trust issues are become a problem. Lord, mediate for them. And for those where there is no problem, Lord, we have prayed, help the journey be smooth in the name of Jesus. Thank you, eternal Father. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. [Speaker 1] This message is coming to you from Family Tent Ministry, a Christian ministry involved in reaching the lives of singles and married through preaching and teaching of God's word, discipleship, family life enrichment, social and community development, and mission heat. Our regular activities are discipleship class every Monday 5:00 p.m., adolescent and singles club every first Saturday of every month at 10 a.m., marriage forum second Saturday of every month at 10:00 a.m., family life seminars, regular school outreaches, and everyday counseling. For further counseling, you can reach us at our location, Life Camp by the First Bridge, Illera community, opposite Very Joy Filling Station along Idjara Road, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. You can also reach us through our social media handles: familytent@yahoo.co.uk, familytentministry01@gmail.com, www.familytentministry.org. Our phone numbers are 08033861136, 07033613848. God bless you all.