3 Steps to Heal a Broken Relationship
Welcome to Session 3 of the Discovering Hope in the Psalms online Bible study! In this video, we’ll how to heal a broken relationship. It’s not always easy, but God wants us to try as far as it depends on us, so let’s discover how.
Here’s how this will work:
- Watch this week’s video session above.
- Once you watch the video, answer the questions in the discussion section of this page. The questions relate to both the previous week’s study in the book as well as the video content. We hope these interactions will be both challenging and encouraging!
- After the video, we will let you know the personal study assignment for the next week in your Discovering Hope in the Psalms devotional book. That’s it!
Before next week, complete Chapter 3—Psalm 51: The Hope of Mercy in your creative devotional study book. See you next week!
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Discussion Questions
After watching 3 Steps to Heal a Broken Relationship, please answer the following questions in the comments below.
- What one thought stuck out to you in this week’s video? Why did it stand out?
- What one thought stuck out to you from this week’s chapter, Psalm 2: The Hope of Messiah’s Reign? Why did it stand out?
- Question 14, page 47: Adonijah and the chief priests were driven by envy. (a) What can we learn from these two stories about times when God seems to advance someone else in a position we hoped to have to ourselves? (b) What are ways you deal righteously with disappointment and envy?
- Question 17, page 48: (a) Why do you think God isn’t worried about what humans plan against him or those he’s anointed? (b) How does this comfort you?
1) The thought that is most meaningful to me is the importance of forgiving w/o excusing intentional sin. That was a hard lesson to learn!
2) The way Adonijah’s rebellion against Solomon foreshadowed the Jewish leaders’ rebellion against Jesus stuns me!
3) (a) I need to always thank God for any positions he does and doesn’t give me. Don’t go against God’s plan–be humble. (b) Thank God for his will and direction. Confess & repent from envy. Pray blessings on people who receive something I wanted. Thank God for all he’s already given me.
4) (a) God knows the future. He’s all powerful and can make his will happen. People’s lives are short. (b) It lets me know whatever bad things happen, God allowed them so he can work them for good.
I was struck by how we should use the scriptures to assess our behàviour and ask the ,Holy Spirit to show us where we are going wrong.
In the last chapter I was struck by how Jesus is God’s annointed King of Kings so earthly plotters are wasting their time. God is in cotrol and He is laughing at all those who think they are!
3a) When God seems to do something that is not what we hoped we can learn that ìf it is God’s choice and plan let it be – ‘Your will be done’.
b) The righteous way to ďeal with envy and dìsappointment ìs to ask God to bless the other person and to show me my place in His plan. To confess any bad feelings and sèek forgiveness.
4a) God isn’t worried about what humans plan agaìnst Him because He holds the future and is in control.
b) This comforts me because all their plotting is in vain, God wins in the end and the plotters get the wrath of God.
So well put, Jane!
2) I love Psalm 2. With all the turmoil lately, I refreshed it in my memory and have been reciting it regularly. It comforts me and gives me peace.
3) Yes–good words.
4) YES!
What stood out to me was how good and how great our God is. In His Grace He is always so willing to forgive us. David did some pretty bad things, and he felt bad about it once it sunk in, the depth of what he’d done. He repented and and begged God’s forgiveness. I of course don’t really know if at the time David knew God would forgive him, considering his crime, but what he did know was the character of God, His mercies and His love, and so he asked the Lord for forgiveness, and then followed Him, obediently every way he could for the rest of his life. That encourages me.
Revelations 21: 1-7. I read the whole chapter, not just vs. 27, it stuck out to me because I’m waiting in great anticipation.
(a) If it’s God’s will, I better buckle under to it.
(b) Keep my eyes focused on Jesus. Pray to keep my own attitude in check with what Jesus would want and expect of me. Pray for the other guy too.
(a) Their end will come. God’s still in control.
(b) God in control actually comforts me.
Hi, Yvonne! Revelation 21 is an amazing chapter–I keep returning to it.
3) Yes! Those are great ways to deal with disappointment and envy–thanks for sharing!
4) Yes–it comforts be too!
!) I was struck by how humility is a hallmark of Christ followers, how it is hard and unnatural but so beautiful when we can kill our pride and offer and seek forgiveness. I am really struggling with this in my children. I want to see more of it. Then I realize that I am not modelling humility and grace well to them when I get frustrated and angry with them. And I am humbled yet again.
2. I was amazed that this psalm speaks of both Solomon and Jesus. I didn’t even know what the psalm was about when I first read it, but I loved working through the other scriptures and history that illuminated its meaning.
4. Even though I know God is in control, I always seem to forget it. Doubt creeps in. Its so uplifting to read ancient trustworthy words that describe God as laughing at the raging nations.
Hi, Rachel!
1) I love how you put this: humility is hard and unnatural and beautiful.
2) I’m amazed at how Solomon’s situation illuminates Jesus’s future situation. Wow.
4) I’ve been reciting Psalm 2 regularly in response to the craziness of the world. It gives me peace.
Thanks for sharing!
!) I was struck by how humility is a hallmark of Christ followers, how it is hard and unnatural but so beautiful when we can kill our pride and offer and seek forgiveness. I am really struggling with this in my children. I want to see more of it. Then I realize that I am not modelling humility and grace well to them when I get frustrated and angry with them. And I am humbled yet again.
2. I was amazed that this psalm speaks of both Solomon and Jesus. I didn’t even know what the psalm was about when I first read it, but I loved working through the other scriptures and history that illuminated its meaning.
4. Even though I know God is in control, I always seem to forget it. Doubt creeps in. Its so uplifting to read ancient trustworthy words that describe God as laughing at the raging nations.