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All of your problems are relationship problems.

Not belief systems. Not personality. Not circumstances. Relationships.

Whether it's your marriage, your kids, or your team, every wall you keep hitting comes down to a relational root.

In this episode of the Breaking Chains Podcast, I'm walking through three relationships you need to revisit if you want to build something extraordinary in your marriage, your family, or your business: your relationship with the truth, your relationship with the past, and your relationship with the future.

You can't give what you haven't received. If you haven't received forgiveness, you can't extend it. If you haven't received truth, you can't lead from it.

This Episode Is For You If:

• You feel a wall between you and your spouse, your kids, or your team, and can't quite name why
• Your teenage or adult children are pulling away and it feels like you're losing the closeness you used to have
• You find yourself hiding, people pleasing, or performing instead of showing up as who you really are
• You're still measuring your marriage or your family against who you all used to be
• You think about the future with more anxiety than anticipation
• You want to build something extraordinary and know it starts with getting honest

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Why every problem is ultimately a relationship problem
• Why we hide the truth, and what it actually costs us
• The difference between truth, capital T, and our own opinions and judgments
• Why some of us live in the land of nostalgia, and others in the land of regret
• How to release the past without pretending it didn't happen
• Why your relationship with the future shapes how you show up today
• What Matthew 6 and Jeremiah 29:11 actually say about anxiety and the future
• Three questions to check your relationship with truth, the past, and the future

Powerful Quotes

"All of our problems are actually relationship problems."

"What you create from fear creates more fear."

"We can't give what we haven't received."

"Our past was an equipping season."

"I'm doing a new thing."

What is your relationship with the truth, capital T? Do you know it? Do you lead from it? Or are you still hiding, people pleasing, walking on eggshells?

What is your relationship with the past? Are you still holding yourself, or someone else, hostage in a prison of unforgiveness, judgment, or shame? Or have you received enough mercy and grace to extend it?

What is your relationship with the future? Are you looking at the next ten, twenty, fifty years with anticipation? Or are you bracing for what you might lose?

This is a real check in. Not a rhetorical one.

How you operate today is directly related to your relationship with tomorrow. What you create from fear creates more fear. What you create from peace creates more peace.

The past was not a life sentence. It was an equipping season, if you let it be. And the truth was never meant to expose you to shame. It was meant to set you free.

If you want to build something extraordinary in your marriage, your family, or your business, it starts here. Not with a new strategy. With three relationships worth revisiting.