If you’re honest, are you satisfied with the current state of your relationships?

This week on Live the Promise, several of our guests outlined four different things you can start doing today to improve your relationships with God and other people.

Start seeing fear for what it really is.

We often see fear as just another emotion that we have to learn to manage. However, Jennifer Kennedy Dean says that fear is not just another emotion, it’s actually a spirit from Satan. She quotes 2 Timothy 1:7 which says, “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” Fear is Satan’s weapon of choice he uses to attempt to hinder believers from completing the work God has for them. Not only is fear an evil spirit, Jennifer says it’s also always based on a lie that can be combated by God’s truth.

Jennifer Kennedy Dean is the author of 

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Start resting in your identity in Christ.

Do you find yourself striving to prove yourself to God, yourself, and others? Jennie Allen knows what it’s like to constantly strive to prove herself. She also knows how exhausting it is. Jennie encourages us to root the sin of striving out of our hearts and rest in our identity in Christ, knowing that we have already been proven enough by the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross for us.

Jennie Allen is the author of 

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Start accepting God’s unmerited love.

God really loves you despite all of your mistakes. Kevin Butcher says that once we learn to rest in God’s unmerited love for us, the result will be two-fold. It will not only make our lives better, but it will also enable us to love others as we have been loved by God. If we don’t know the love of God in our own lives, it’s harder for that love to spill out into the lives of those around us.

Kevin Butcher is the author of 

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Start being honest about your brokenness.

We are all painfully aware of our flaws and we’ve all become adept at hiding them from others. But, what if hiding our brokenness from others actually hurt us in the long run? Ann Voskamp says it’s in our best interest to be honest about our brokenness with ourselves, other people, and with God. She says that the only way we can live a life of abundance is by stepping through the threshold of vulnerability and admitting our own brokenness.

Ann Voskamp is the author of 

Listen to the conversation here.