Rick Warren - A Peaceful Prayer for Broken Relationships

Have you ever been prideful.

And so prideful that you could not compromise on something

even though you should?

Yeah?

Have you ever been in an argument with your spouse

where you knew you were wrong, but you just couldn't

admit it? Yes, everybody, raise your hand. Okay, that's why

James makes a big deal and a big emphasis on humility.

Colossians three point fifteen says this.

Let the peace that Christ gives, He's the principiece. You

want peace in your relationships, Let the peace that Christ

gives control your thinking, because as members of Christ's body,

you are called to live in peace. Are you a

member of Christ's body? What is Christ body? It's the church.

Are you a member of christ Church? He said, if

you're in God's family, if you're a believer, if you've

been born again, if you are in the family of God,

the flock of God. If you're a member of Christ Church,

he says, you you you.

Are called to live in peace.

I like to ask you to think about somebody you

may be having a quarrel with right now. Okay, just

think about somebody that you may be having a quarrel

with right now, all right, Got that person?

In mind.

Now, I want you to think of Jesus Christ sitting

with you as you talk to them. Remember, fight can

be physical, but a quarrel is always verbal.

And as you.

Talk to them, how would things change? How would things

change if you visualize Jesus Christ sitting next to you

and letting Jesus coach you on what to say and

how to say it and when to say it. Imagine

yourself sitting there and whoever it is, he or she

is across from you, and you're in a quarrel about it,

and then you go, now, Lord, how would you respond

to that?

What would you say to that? And tell me what

I need to say.

That's what it means to make Jesus the manager of

your thoughts and your words. Now, of course, if you've

never opened your life to Jesus Christ, you don't have

the peace of Christ in your heart.

You don't.

It's not there because he's not in your heart. So

his peace is not in your heart. But you can

get it. You can get it today, You can get

it right now. It'd be my honor to help you

invite Christ into your life with his peace.

And when he comes in.

And you let him manage your thoughts and your mind

and your words and your motions.

It just changes everything.

So I'd like us to bow our heads right now,

and I'm going to pray for two different groups. First,

I want to pray for those of you who you

know the Lord, but you know you still haven't surrendered

this area. Would you say, God, I'm fed up with

being a quarreling person. I don't like the arguments in

my life. I don't like the conflict in my life.

I don't want to be a quarreling person anymore, and

so I want to repent of it. I realize it's

a big deal. It's a sin. I realize that it

can cause enormous destruction. I realize that it's caused by

the conflict in my own life and my battle with you.

If I want to be my own God, sometimes I

want to do what I want to do, not what

you want. So today I want to humble myself before

you just say that. I want to humble myself, and

I want to ask you to be the manager of

my mouth, the manager of my brain, the manager of

my emotions. I want the peace of Christ to rule

in my heart. And when I start dropping out of

that smart brain that you gave me into the emotional brain,

and I start getting all excited and my words get

faster and I get louder. Help many just paused to stop,

to calm down until I can go back up into

the smarter, clearer thinking, and Lord, help me to treat

other people the way you would. I'm going to treat

everybody with respect and a lot a lot of stuff

slide that doesn't.

Really even need to be mentioned.

I'm not the manager of the universe, and so I'm

turning in my resignation today.

You are the manager of the universe.

Now, if you've never opened your life to Christ, why

don't you just add Jesus Christ.

I want to get to know you.

And I want to ask you to put your peace

in my life. I need the peace of Christ in

my life because I've had a lot of conflict. And

I ask you to clean out all of the sin

in my life, and the garbage in my life, and

the regrets in my life, and just make me a

new person inside, as you've promised to do. I want

to be born again. I want to know you in

a personal way. I don't understand it all, but I

want to start the journey today, So I humbly ask

you to accept me into your family and to forgive

me for the things I've done wrong. And I'm asking

to guide me the rest.

Of my life. In your name, I pray Amen.