Techniques for moving beyond hearing to start understanding. Realizing the Holy Spirit must guide our hearts, our eyes and our ears. For couples, parents and anyone who wants to remove the barriers to communication and strengthen their relationships.

1. COMMUNICATION
HOLY SPIRIT GUIDING IN OUR RELATIONSHIPS

2. The biggest obstacle to stronger
relationships is a lack of understanding due
to a breakdown in communication

3. GOD GIVES UNDERSTANDING
And Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all
that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh
and to all his servants and to all his land, the great trials that your
eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or
eyes to see or ears to hear.”
DEUTERONOMY 29:2-4

4. COMMUNICATION
 A HEART TO UNDERSTAND
 EYES TO SEE
 EARS TO HEAR

5. HEART TO UNDERSTAND
The heart is deceitful above all things, and
desperately sick; who can understand it?
JEREMIAH 17:9

6. HEART TO UNDERSTAND
You aren’t ready to see or hear until
you have a heart to understand.

7. HEART TO UNDERSTAND
And the peace of God, which surpasses all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds
in Christ Jesus.
PHILIPPIANS 4:7

8. EYES TO SEE
The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy,
your whole body will be full of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
MATTHEW 6:22-23

9. EYES TO SEE
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things
out of your law.
PSALMS 119:18

10. EYES TO SEE
Don’t look at things the way you see them. Don’t
look at things the way someone else sees them.
Pray that God will show you how HE sees them.

11. EARS TO HEAR
Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention
ISAIAH 32:3

12. EARS TO HEAR
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has
made them both.
PROVERBS 20:12

13. COMMUNICATION
STOP THINKING…START UNDERSTANDING

14. COMMUNICATION
STOP THINKING…START UNDERSTANDING
STOP LOOKING…START SEEING

15. COMMUNICATION
STOP THINKING…START UNDERSTANDING
STOP LOOKING…START SEEING
STOP HEARING…START LISTENING