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Reproduced below are excerpts of a sermon delivered by Emmanuel Makandiwa on October 20, 2015.
Relationships are so much valued by God to an extent that you cannot imagine. If God values relationships there is need for you to do the best you can to maintain any relationship brought to you by the Lord. Relationships are very important and wisdom is needed for their maintenance.

During the time when Jesus was on this earth there was a man, who was sick such that he could no longer do anything for himself. He got into a situation whereby if he was to move from one place to another there was need for friends to help him.
It was his friends that brought him to Jesus and they had to tear the roof and let him down through there and present him to Jesus. Jesus had to also consider the faith of his friends before healing him.

(“And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.” Luke 5:20). This story shows us how important friends are at every moment. Even if the man knew that Jesus was able to help him, still he could not reach Him without the help of his friends.

There is need for you to have people that are important and relevant at every point. There are those moments when you get stuck and it takes not only the hand of God, but the hand of God through your friends to deliver you from a particular situation.

There is also another man in the Bible, who had a legion of demons and of all the things he lost, the most important were relationships.

When demons entered his life, the first thing they eliminated were friends and relatives. Every connection in his life was disconnected. The people in his life did everything that a friend can do to help but it never worked.

With the assistance of demons, he worked against plans of his friends and relatives to free himself from every relationship until they were tired of him and he went his way. He went and lived in the graveyard away from relatives, who tried their level best to help him, but he could not respond to their assistance in a positive way.

When God really wants to deliver us from situations, you will never see Him in person coming down. He will always find someone, who loves you to come and deliver you from any situation.

The most common problem with people is that we have done everything to make sure that we are ready to receive from God and yet we have not done much to receive the vehicle through which God brings blessings in our lives. Anything that God want to give us we are so ready; we have prayed and fasted enough in preparation of receiving from God, but we have not prepared enough to receive the person God is going to use.

We are ready to receive money from God, but we are not ready to receive the person that brings money in our lives. When God wants to bless you, the blessing will not come like a mist, but there are carriers of that blessing. God has to find a vehicle through which he can transport a blessing into your life and yet most people have not done enough in terms of knowing how to receive that vehicle.

There are people sent by God into our lives to come and bless us. If help is to come in form of money we are quick to receive it, but the person that God is sending to bless us we have not done much in terms of accepting them. If we are to really look into your life and see any area where you have lack, we can honestly trace that lack to a relationship you did not maintain.

If you are lacking something in your life it is most likely that a relationship you lost caused that lack. Had you not lost that relationship, you would not have had that lack. Whether it is a condition you have or poverty, there might have been a person in your past that was sent by God for that particular area and you were only ready to receive the help and not the helper.

There is a relationship you resisted and frustrated that should have been working for you now against a particular situation.
There is a person who came in your life when you were not yet in need of him; he came way before the problem and was out of context and irrelevant at that particular moment. God prophetically knew that you were going to need somebody at a specific moment, who works at a strategic place to help you when you are in need of a particular service.

There are people that seem to be useless at certain moments in your life; you will be so much in a hurry to meet another person, who seems to be more relevant at that particular moment and you would not want to allow any other person to disturb you and take your time.

There are people who come into your life and they sort of interfere with other relationships, you then push them aside until a certain moment you will realise that you need their services.

That is when you will begin to pray for connections and yet the connection was already given to you before you even prayed for it. Such prayers become dangerous now, especially if they are answered before you even pray.

When an answer comes before you ask a question many people do not know how to handle such scenarios. The person was already given to you before you even asked, but you did not know he was made for a particular situation you will later go through. The problem you have right now, which seems difficult to solve can be traced back to a relationship you ignored.
The person you need right now God knew that you will need him and was provided long back. He might already be out of the country right now with others, who utilised the opportunity you did not realise.

There was a time when the relationship was supposed to be established, but you did not have enough wisdom at that time. We have all prayed for helpers in the past and they have been coming, are still coming and will be coming even tomorrow.
The value God places on relationships is unbelievable. If you find yourself not respecting what God respects, everything will begin to go against you.

You have to begin to value what God values, respect what God respects, honour what God honours, cherish and appreciate everything that God cherishes and appreciates because His eyes are so perfect.

When God looks at something and appreciates it, no matter you cannot see the beauty of it, the fact that a better eye is looking at it you should just copy. If God respects relationships, every person has to also respect them.

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