When God Answers Your Prayer the Hard Way: Anger, Growth & Honest Faith (Minisode)

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Are you angry with God right now?

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Like right now,

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like this minute?

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Did God do something just now in your life that's making you mad at Him?

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Not mad,

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like shake your fist and cuss at Him mad,

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but maybe you're just irritated.

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I have a perfect example of this.

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I asked God to help me with my patience.

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I didn't use that specific word because I know you're not supposed to do that.

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But I did ask him to help me with it.

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And boy,

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did he do that all day.

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It was irritating.

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Slow drivers,

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people not knowing what to do,

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things not working right.

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My kids having meltdowns.

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By the time I got home in the mid-afternoon,

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I actually said to God,

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OK,

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I failed today.

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I have been snapping.

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I have not had a good attitude.

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Can you just stop?

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Help.

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helping me work on this today.

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I've clearly failed.

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We can try again tomorrow.

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Do you think he listened?

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No,

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no,

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he did not.

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In fact,

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I continued until I went to bed.

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I had trials.

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When my husband got home,

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I told him,

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I said,

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I just need you to hug me right now.

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I had a day and that's what he did.

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And

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I used the last few hours of my night to just relax.

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to apologize for the blowups that I had had and thanked him for listening and answering my prayer,

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even though it was an extremely difficult day.

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But that's what I mean by angry at God.

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Are you angry at God right now?

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It's okay.

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It is okay.

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These are human emotions that we have,

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and he has big enough shoulders to handle it.

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You are allowed to say,

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okay,

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God,

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let go today.

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Can you Just stop.

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Please,

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I beg you.

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We do that with our friends and our family.

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You know,

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the whole,

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say uncle,

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if you're a boy and your dad is,

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you know,

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wrestling with you and you want him to stop or someone's tickling you and you want him to stop,

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you say,

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okay,

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uncle,

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That's just a way of saying,

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okay,

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please stop.

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Please.

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We can do that with God.

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He is our father and we are his children.

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And sometimes when you...

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ask him to help you with something,

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he's going to do it.

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If you're going to ask him to help work on your attitude,

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he's going to give you opportunities to do that.

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He's not just going to poof,

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here you go,

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your attitude's better now.

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So that was a lesson learned that if I plan on asking him for help with my anger fits,

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I better be prepared for what's to come.

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And I was not even close to prepared for what was to come with that.

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Today,

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I want to talk about anger.

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It's something we all have.

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Don't deny it.

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You have it.

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Maybe you stuff it down deep,

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dark,

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tight,

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but we all have anger at some point in our life,

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and that is okay.

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Again,

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it is a human emotion.

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Even Jesus had anger.

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His anger was righteous,

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and that's where we need to focus today is on having that righteous anger.

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Again,

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like I said,

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it's okay to be frustrated and angry at God.

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But shaking your fist and cussing at him might not be ideal.

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I know he can handle it,

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but that might not be the best way to handle the situation.

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We need to confront these emotions that we have,

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these frustrations,

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the hurts,

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the anger that we have about whatever's going on and figure out,

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are we really mad at God?

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Or are we mad that he's not doing what we asked him to do or what we want him to do?

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Maybe he's just not taking away the pain of the situation.

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Maybe somebody you work with is absolutely irritating.

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He just won't let that person go away.

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Why do they have to irritate you?

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Okay,

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but maybe he's growing you through that season.

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Maybe there's a reason for it.

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And what I learned through this week's guest with Weston Brandon is that despite what our religions believe,

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what we subscribe to religiously,

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God pursues all of us.

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because he wants us all to be his children.

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He wants us all to do what he's calling us to do.

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And Brandon's story is heartbreaking,

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but it is also inspiring in the fact that through the sadness of losing his wife at such a young age,

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he still managed to be able to hold on to some form of his relationship with God,

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even though he was extremely angry with him.

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He still held on to that faith.

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that God is there and he cares about him and he's got a plan.

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This was so impactful for me because as I was listening to his story and I was cheering him on and I was blessed and encouraged,

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I realized that he's from the LDS church and I am not.

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But yet.

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Things he was saying resonated with me so much.

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How could that be?

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That doesn't make any sense in my brain.

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That's what I was thinking.

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I understand we are all human beings and we all have human emotions.

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And it does not matter what religion you are.

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You feel things.

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You feel anger when things don't go your way,

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when things seem like they are out of character for someone.

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This is an injustice.

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This isn't right.

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We all feel these.

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It does not matter what you believe in.

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And I just want to encourage you today that despite what you believe spiritually about God,

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about religion,

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God is pursuing you.

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He loves you.

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He wants to help you.

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Listen to the story with Weston Brandon.

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Listen to his heart.

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Listen to how he was able to come back from this tragedy and become 10 times who he was back then.

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That will give you an encouragement for who you can be.

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We all are struggling on this earth.

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We are not promised to have a perfect,

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wonderful life.

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You will have moments where you're mad at God,

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where you're frustrated because he answered your prayer that you weren't quite.

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wanting him to answer,

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maybe not that quickly,

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but he loves you and he's going to do what he needs to do to help you be the best version of who you need to be.

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So if you need to sit in your anger for a little bit,

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okay.

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But remember what the Bible says,

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don't give the devil a foothold.

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So release your anger to your heavenly father who loves you and is there for you.

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And even if you aren't a believer who's listening right now.

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He still wants to hear from you.

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Release your anger.

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Release your confusion.

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Release your heartbreak.

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Whatever emotions you are feeling,

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release them to God.

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He is our source.

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He is going to heal you.

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He is going to transform you.

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So why not give him your baggage and move forward feeling lighter and free?

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If you were impacted by this mini-sode,

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please let me know.

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The link to comment is in the show notes.

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Also in the show notes will be the link to West and Brandon's full story.

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I highly encourage you to listen to it.

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It is very encouraging and impactful.

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Until next time.