The Fear of Punishment and Your Relationships

So what I want to first bring out here is this sense of like, I'm going to get in trouble or I'm in trouble, trouble's looming.

You constantly feel like you're in trouble, on the verge of getting in trouble, and it can relate so much to how you do relationships.

So before I get into this and helping you see a bit of your journey, let me first say this.

This is what we need to understand.

First of all, a punishment-based relationship with God.

is gonna impact how you do relationships here on earth with those around you, okay? So you got God and you got others.

So punishment-based is gonna impact how you do these relationships.

But the second thing we need to understand is a punishment-based relationship with God is often formed out of your relationships with other people in this life.

Do you understand that? So how we see God is going to impact our relationship world, but how we see God has been formed by our relationship world.

So I want you to understand this connection because we're not just healing how we see God.

We're also healing and renewing how we relate to the world around us.

Because when a punishment-based relationship infects that relationship, It will want to get into everything.

And so many of you are going to recognize in your journey how you see God has been highly impacted by how you grew up, how you were taught in the faith, the experiences you've had in your life, the good, the bad, the ugly, okay? But what I want to narrow in on is your relationship world, how you relate to people around you, because this is really important in our healing and our freedom journey.

in our recovery journey, in our development, in our maturity, to start to understand, okay, these are patterns that I'm needing to learn to recognize so I can walk in some new patterns now that I'm aware.

And what I want to get into is the relationship struggles that come out of this.

And many, many of you are going to relate to these as well as I have.