God's Conduit for Information and Insight

A basic principle for effective communication is realizing interactions with others serve as a potential for change. Communication becomes an agent for change as it serves as a conduit for the flow of information and insight. Complex problems can be solved through communication.

Gaining knowledge through communication can be deliberate or incidental, but either way it’s an agent for change. Bible study and worship can offer wisdom and comfort for living in our complex, complicated world. The quest for insight is a necessity through each phase of development.

Proverbs 2 gives us a formula for finding helpful insight. "If you cry out to the Lord for insight and cry aloud for understanding and if you look for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear and respect for the Lord and find the knowledge of God…For wisdom will enter into your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul." Here communication with the Lord God is the agent for managing life’s problems.

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 For the Lord grants wisdom! His every word is a treasure of knowledge and understanding. He grants good sense to the godly – his saints. He is their shield, protecting them and guarding their pathway. He shows how to distinguish right from wrong, how to find the right decision every time.

~Proverbs 2:6-9 The Living Bible

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Communication: An Agent for Change

One of the key purposes for counseling is to help individuals, couples, and families change the way they communicate. Communication has always been an effective agent for change. As individuals relate their experiences to a counselor and as they are met with understanding and acceptance, hope for change seems possible.

It's not unusual to grow up feeling ineffective, or unworthy. These negative perceptions are powerful because a negative self-judgment believes that others have the same negative assessment of yourself. This judgment is then responsible for limited motivation to communicate because failure seems inevitable.

 A personal objective is to eliminate this negative concept of self. As persons come to see themselves as valued children of God, they receive power and confidence to interrelate with others in a way that pleases the Lord God.  It is possible to change a negative self-image by God’s transforming power that he bestows on those willing to receive it. 

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 Become new in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, which is created to be like God, righteous and holy in the truth. So don’t lie anymore, but tell one another the truth, because we are members of one another.  

~Ephesians 4:23-25 Beck – New Testament in the Language of Today

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