Please Understand...

Understanding another person's needs and being committed to meeting those needs with love and care dismantle barriers that separate people. The more sophisticated a society becomes, the higher the demand for our needs to be satisfied. In less developed cultures, survival needs like food, clothing and shelter precede personal happiness.

 

Because our needs are more sophisticated, this then becomes the source for conflict. A significant problem in understanding the needs of another person is the lack of communication. Misunderstanding each other’s needs leads to conflict, which constructs a barrier to intimacy.

It's not easy to understand how to communicate your needs to an intimate other. It's appropriate to get help when conflict is suffocating your relationship. Christian counseling is designed to help individuals understand each other's needs and learn appropriate and acceptable ways to meet those needs. "Understanding is a fountain of life," contends Proverbs 16:22. It is the bridge to intimacy, peace  and happiness. 

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Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn away from them.

~Proverbs 4:5 New International Version

I ask the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, to give you His Spirit to make you wise and reveal the truth to you as you learn to know Him better and to enlighten the eyes of your minds so that you know the hope He called you to.

~Ephesians 1:17-18 Beck – New Testament in the Language of Today