When your Setbacks Seems Irreversible by Rick Warren

now take out your message notes and on your outline we're going to look this weekend at how to handle the kind of setbacks that seem irreversible and on your outline I begin by defining setback a setback is a loss of progress a defeat of a plan or a reversal of good fortune in other words it's anything that sets you back that's setback and today we're gonna look at what do you do when your setback seems irreversible you just think the door is totally closed and it's never opening again what do you do when your setback appears to be permanent it looks irreversible you think I'm never gonna climb out of this hole well the answer that question is found in the life of a man in the Bible named Jobe there's a book by his name almost in the middle of your Bible if you open your Bible right in the middle you'll come to Psalms and the book right before that is Jobe it's probably the first book written in the Bible and it's about a man named Joe now in his day job was the wealthiest man in the world he's very powerful very famous very important very influential but on a single day he literally lost everything every one of his sons and daughters he had a big family were murdered by terrorists on a single day that's enough right there but then natural disasters wiped out all of his props and all of his livestock they all died on a single day it was a disaster he lost all of his wealth and he became deathly ill with an incurable and extremely painful disease I'm talking about having a bad day if you want to read that story and the story behind it it's in the book of Job but everything went wrong in his life that's a real setback and it seemed like it was irreversible Jobe chapter 30 verse 26 and 27 Jobe says I looked for good to come but evil came instead and I waited for some light but darkness fell instead and the churning inside of me you know that upsets never stops and waves of misery crashed over me I have no doubt in a crowd this size at Saddleback Church this weekend as some of you are feeling like Jobe and yet at the end of the story of the book of Job he has one of the greatest comebacks in history he loses it all health wealth family everything prosperity and prestige but at the end he gains it all back in even a greater way now this story's going to encourage you no matter what kind of setback you're experiencing today what we're going to do is we're gonna look at the five things that Jobe did with everything fell apart in his life you're gonna need this someday if you don't need it right now so I encourage you to write this down and to help you remember I've created a little acrostic around the word trust T R u st these are the five things that job did to trust God for a comeback when it's set back seemed irreversible so what do you do what do you do when you've been devastated by something so big that you think I'm never getting out of this I'm never coming back from this you trust and you do the five things that Jobe did so let's get right into it the T and our trust acrostic stands for tell God exactly how you feel that's where you start when you've had a major setback you start by unloading your emotions on God the first thing you do when you're in pain you tell God how you feel you don't tell him how you think you ought to feel you don't tell him how you should feel you don't tell what would be right to feel you tell him how you actually feel did you know that when God listens to you he wants you to be honest and that when you are honest to God about your emotions that's actually an act of worship even when you're disappointed even when you're expressing frustration even when you express doubt and fear or anything to God he said God I'm afraid God I'm guilty God I'm resentful God I'm sad God life sucks this is terrible I can't stand what I'm going when you're talking to God you're still focusing on him and that's worship and so you start no matter what's gone wrong in your life by telling God exactly how you feel now notice job's reaction to the disaster in his life job says this it says there's about job job stood up he tore his robes in grief that my way is a middle-eastern a custom and he shaved his head that's the Middle Eastern custom and then he fell to the ground and he worshiped God he's acting in total humility and in despair and in doubt and in frustration and anger anytime you have a loss of your life any kind of loss you're gonna have for emotions you're gonna have anger why did this happen to me you're gonna have grief what have I lost you're gonna have shock what's going on here and you're gonna and you're gonna have questions why did this happen I can't believe this is going on you're gonna have fear what's gonna happen next you know what you need to express every one of those emotions to God you know don't need to hold it in you don't need to say you know God I'm happy about this you can say god I'm angry God I'm fearful God I'm frustrated I'm scared you tell him exactly how you feel let me let you in on a little secret some of you I've told this to before but some of this is new for you God can handle any emotion you've got and you know why because he gave them to you the only reason you have any feelings you have any emotions is because you were made in the image of God so what makes you different from animals and God is an emotional God the reason you have emotions is because God has emotions all those emotions came from him and he could handle them he could handle your anger he can handle your doubt he can handle your fear he can handle your complaints all of that back job was brutally honest with God in job chapter 7 verse 11 he says this I can't be quiet I'm angry I have to speak he's saying god I'm ticked off and if you read the book of Job you will actually see a progression in his reaction to his giant setback where he literally lost everything devastated first he expresses confusion what's going on in my life ever felt like that yeah then number two he starts complaining then he starts blaming God for all this pain and at one point says God you didn't do this right you handled it wrong you let all this bad stuff happen to me and God I don't like it or like you right now well God can handle that emotion the right response to loss or to tragedy or to disaster is not to grin and bear it the right response when someone you know causes a setback in your life you God never wants you to fake an emotion remember that God never wants you to fake emotion he doesn't want you to put on a happy face that's faking it never never never he doesn't want you to fake emotion doesn't want you to say pious platitudes what you think you ought to say to God in prayer he wants you to honestly tell him how you're struggling God I'm grieving right now God I'm hurting right now God I'm I'm in a lot of pain I'm depressed I'm discouraged I'm having some doubts you tell it all to God and God can handle it I'm just wondered how many of you who are listening to me or parents because if your parent you know what I'm talking about now this may have never happened to you but it certainly has happened to me sometimes my children I know this will shock you actually question my judgment sometimes my kids Christ in my judgment now my kids never question that I love them they know I love them they've never doubted that and they don't question that I've been around a lot longer than they have that I've experienced a lot more in life than they have but sometimes they do question my wisdom daddys wisdom you know what I'd rather have an honest conversation with my kids than have them stuff it I'd rather have my kids say you know dad I think you're way off on this why did you do that think that was a dumb thing to do I'd rather have my kids talk to me honestly than the stuff it down and so would God lamentations 2:19 says this cry out in the night pour out your heart like water what's that mean spill your guts pour out your heart like water in prayer to the Lord but God honesty is always the best policy and at the end of the story God actually commends and praises and encourage his job because he did this first step in the trus D he told God exactly outfield he was honest Joe never stopped trusting God even when he was angry even though he was upset even when he didn't understand it when he was confused when he had doubts even when he thought God had messed it all up he still kept trusting God but he was just honest now the Bible gives us a lot of examples of many godly people who express their frustration to God one time there was a guy named Jeremiah and he gets upset at what god days as God you have deceived me he's a prophet Jeremiah the Prophet II's as I think you've lied to me God and things haven't turned out the way you told me they were gonna turn out and I'm mad at you God allows that in the Bible another time there's a woman named Naomi and things don't go well first she says call me bitter because God has made my life bitter it's in the Bible another time there's a guy named David he says Lord I've taken the worst from you and I've taken all you can give and I'm fed up I've had it and God says you're a man after my own heart these people were trusting God to handle their emotions and job did that too now although these suppresses fear and his questions and his frustrations and his doubts he says I'm still gonna trust you Lord even though I don't understand and and I'm gonna do exactly what you tell me to do even though I feel like blowing it all off but and I'm gonna tell you how I feel because I know you can handle it you know there's another guy in the Bible named Habakkuk I'd like to have that name about ya the same problem about to groped a little short book in the end of the Old Testament of the Bible it's called the book of you guessed it Habakkuk it's only three chapters long and you can summarize the whole book in one word why why God why is this happening to me you've ever felt that question why is this happen to me why God why me why not then you need to go reading the book of Habakkuk what happened in his lifetime is that about cux all his nation being overrun by terrorists that sound familiar and they were just devastated in the country and they were brutal and they were destroying his nation right in front of his eyes and Habakkuk was really upset about it he complains to God he says God I don't know what I'm gonna do and he's asking why there's another guy who did that named David David went through a really tough time and he didn't know how to handle it and here's what he says in Psalm 116 verse 10 the middle of his setback is deep despair David says I believed so I said I'm completely ruined now that sounds like a contradiction look at that verse on your outline David says I believed so I said I'm ruined what in the world he talked about what is he saying well what he's saying is because I believe in God I know I can complain to God you ever thought about this booth is an atheist complain to himself I mean if you complain to God about your life it means that you at least believe there's a god and David says I believed so I complained and I kept on believing even when I said I'm completely crushed there's no contradiction in that question what frustrations have you never talked about let me ask you that question again what frustrations have you never talked about you've never talked to God about a much let's talk to a counselor about it or whatever that frustration at work that frustration in your marriage that frustration with your body that frustration in a relationship a friendship with your parents what that frustration with that wacko relative of yours and your feeling I don't like this god but you've never talked to God about it God can handle it the first step to trusting God on the road to comeback is to tell him exactly how you feel that's the T tell him exactly how I feel now the second way to trust God for a comeback when everything looks fatal final and no way out of it is the are and trust that stands for refused to become bitter refuse to become bitter now it's okay to tell God you're mad or you're sad or you're angry or you're depressed but you don't let that grief or frustration or worry turn into resentment and bitterness because really what bitterness is is the bitter saying I don't trust you God business is saying I don't see the big picture when those flames are coming around my life and I'm getting burned on every side how could God allow this to happen to me bitterness is really saying God I don't understand what you're doing and I'm not just mad I'm bitter and resentful and that is like poison now Jobe did not get bitter he saw the big picture and for some of you today the first time you're gonna see the big picture with joke you're gonna read job there was nothing about marketplace in his life but you're gonna see the picture the big picture of that God is still in control and on job what he says this but everything bad happened to him I came naked from my mother's womb and I shall have nothing what I died now let me just pause there you know I I have three kids I was there when they were all you know born and they did come in with nothing they none of them brought toys none of them brought a portfolio none of them had a briefcase and so I know nobody comes into this world with something you tell me naked and also I would say that I have done hundreds maybe thousands of of funerals and I've never seen a u-haul parked on a gravesite so in this passage you come enough and you leave with us and that's true he says the Lord gave me everything I have and and he it's his right to take anything away blessed be the name of the Lord and it says in all of this I want you to underline this job did not sin by blaming God you know if you're to study the book of Job you'd find that the main question of the book is will you love God and will you trust God no matter what happens why do you worship God why do you love God only when things feel good or will you love God and serve God no matter what happens friends this is the ultimate test of your faith well you worship God even though everything's going wrong in your life you see you are not promised a perfect life this is not heaven this is Earth and and so your your faith will be tested and untested faith is really no faith at all a lot of times things happen in your life in fact most of the time we don't have an explanation and you're never gonna get an explanation when bad things happen there may be times you just have to say I don't know I don't get the big picture but I trust that God is good life is not always good but God is always good and when I'm in the presence of God in eternity one day in heaven then I'm gonna fully understand it right now my brain isn't big enough to comprehend it how do you trust God when your heart is breaking how do you put your eyes on God when they're filled with tears well the antidote to bitterness is not to just say I don't want to be bitter the antidote to bitterness is actually praise it's worship what is worship it means focusing on God now if you are sitting here today listening to me talk to you and maybe you've never even been in church before maybe that's the first time you hear there are some things you need to know that we as Christiane's no matter what happens in life are thankful for job talks about these things in in his book here's some facts of life that I know are true no matter what happens to me number one God will never stop loving me that's a big deal number two God has a plan for my life and your life number three God cares about every detail of my life and your life number four God is in control of things even when I don't understand it and number five God will protect me those are things that I can build my life on which I don't understand why things are happening in my life God is here God is near God cares God is powerful God can change it God has has a plan purpose and he's going to use it all for good you know earlier I mentioned that guy named Habakkuk and I said that in the first three chapters of that book they're all about the question why why God well looked at this first on your outline about at 3:17 and 18 is what vaca did but he had a setback that looked like was irreversible he says this even though the fig leaves have no fruit and even though no grapes grow on the vine and even though the olive crop fails and the fields produced no grain and even though the sheep all die and the cattle stalls are empty what he's saying there even though everything we're in my life is a disaster he says this I'll still be joyful and glad because the lord god is my Savior what do you bitter about today what is some bitterness that you've allowed to take root in your life said it earlier bitterness is a poison bitterness destroys it will eat you alive it's like a cancer that will take over your life when you are bitter it always hurts you more than it does the person you're bitter it problem with bitterness is it doesn't hurt anybody else it only hurts you you can be better than the person you're bitter at they don't even know it they can be out having a party eat the steak celebrating and it's destroying you now if you've got to break through the setback he'll come back you got to tell God exactly how you feel but then you got to resist bitterness and you need to realize two things first in an imperfect world everything has been broken by sin and there's always gonna be plenty of disappointments to become bitter about so don't be surprised at that Jesus said in the world you will have tribulation and trials but second you need to remember that both bitterness listen both bitterness and happiness are choices at every moment of your life you're always choosing one or the other and if you choose to be bitter at the same moment you're choosing to not be happy because you can't have both the same time in your heart and your mind so my question is your pastor someone who loves you is this which one do you want happiness or bitterness job said the Lord gave me everything I've ever had and if he allows it to be taken away I'm still gonna trust him because I wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for God I refuse to be bitter because of the setback now here's the third step in trusting God it's T are you this is the you and Trust when you want to have a comeback from a setback that seems irreversible the T and Trust tell God how I feel the r refused to be bitter and the you entrust frosting stands for unite with other people who will help me focus on God unite with people who will help me focus on God and I want you to get this as grand port for any comeback you're gonna need other people with faith to back you up you're gonna need other people in your life who can actually believe God for you when your faith is shaky this is why you must be in a small group of believers for regular fellowship why talk about the importance of a small group practically every other week it's why this church is built on small groups we have over 7,000 these small groups they will be your safety net when your setback happens in your life and you cannot isolate yourself now god never intends for you to go through life on your own he never intends for you to go through grief or sorrow or tragedy or loss or difficulty or setback by yourself he made us for each other he wired human beings to need each other we're better together we're better in community and the first thing God said to man when he created man is it's not good for a man to be alone here's the problem when you have a setback or I have a setback when we're going through pain or suffering or sorrow or sadness or loss the problem is our natural reaction to pain is to withdraw from others to pull back and we want to build the wall around ourselves we want to build a shell we want to put up barriers we want to keep people in distance we don't want anybody close to us when we're in deep deep pain and God says no no no no no that's the exact opposite of what you need to do one of job's friends gave this wise advice in job no the cyst on your outline his name was Elihu and in job 36 he says to job job don't let your anger and the pain that you've endured make you sneer at God reputation and riches can't protect you from distress nor can you find safety in the dark world below he's talking about the occult don't turn to evil as a way of escape but God's power is unlimited others have praised God for what he has done so join with them if you're taking notes I want you to circle the phrase join with them he says other people who praise God join with them he said that's how you're gonna make it to the next step you got to unite with others who are gonna support you encourage you pray for you be with you they'll help you out now where do you find those kind of friends who will lift you up when you're down well couple places first at weekend worship it's where you are right now that's why I by the way for those of you are watching online I want to actually encourage you to come to a church service because there are about a dozen more benefits that you receive by actually going to a church service and participating with other people instead of just watching remotely you don't get all those benefits just by watching remotely you he says join with others in worship and then the second place that you find he's kind of encouraging people is in a small group Bible study that meets on a weekly basis at a home or an office or dorm room and you need a small group for your setbacks I could give you dozens of examples from my own personal life about out my small group has helped me through setbacks now job's friend notice in that passage he points out a couple of very important truths in what he says first he points out that pain is a great equalizer in other words disaster is impartial and suffering is random it hits everybody when you're in pain your possessions in your position and your power are worthless it doesn't matter how much money you've got if you're going through a marriage crisis that's tearing your heart up it still hurts reputation and riches he says can't protect you from stressful setbacks it'll help but then job's friend gives two pieces of very wise advice and this is what you need to do when you have a setback it seems you know your ear aplay scible or you know you've irretrievable you can't come back from it first he says this here's his first advice never use evil to escape pain so you know you know don't try to avoid it with you know doing drugs or getting drunk or doing something foolish like having an affair you know a lot of people become self-destructive when they're in pain they know it's wrong but still do it anyway trying to relieve or escape their pain the Bible says you know what you're only gonna make it make the problem worse so he said don't run from it doing something stupid second jobs friend says a better alternative is to increase the amount of time you spend hanging out with God's people he says join with them get with God's people who praise God who are focusing on God that's what worship is and he says join with them when you are needing a comeback don't try to do it on your own get with people who are God's people who can build you up encourage you help you focus on God when your hearts breaking when you're confused when you're down when you feel like you're about to lose it all you have lost at all don't turn from God turn to God if you turn away from God what's the alternative bitterness despair hopelessness first chronicles 16 11 says go to the Lord for help and worship Him that means focus worship means focus on God's goodness life is not always good I said that but God is always good now what should you ask for when you're when you're talking to God about a comeback when you've had a big setback seems irreversible like job well you ask God to do a couple things and they're right here in this passage you ask him for wisdom so you can have a clearer perspective and you ask God for strength because you're gonna need both God's wisdom and God's strength for your comeback you can't do it on your own job 12 verse 13 says this true wisdom and real power belong to God from him we learn how to live and also what to live for you want to know how to live you want to know what to live for you're gonna need God's wisdom where do you get that from God the second thing you ask God for is not just wisdom but you asking for strength there's chronicles 1611 there on your outline says this go to the Lord for help and worship Him do you know that where should be God actually relaxes you studies are showing it actually slows your heartbeat down lowers your blood pressure people go to church studies have shown this every week live longer Psalm 69 verse 32 says this those who worship God will be encouraged worship makes you wiser worship gives you strength worship relaxes you from stress worship encourages you because you remember that God is bigger than the problem and a setback you're facing and no TV program could offer that so to come back from a setback especially one that needs to do you need to do what David did he went to church he went to worship and Psalm 63 David says this Here I am in the place of worship eyes open drinking in your strength and glory that's what you do in worship you put your eyes on God your problem gets smaller God gets bigger and you gain strength you know same thing happened over in Philippians chapter 1 in the Bible verse 19 all talks about the benefit of having people pray for you in a small group and he says this to the Philippian Christians because you're praying for me and the Spirit of Christ is helping me I know that this trouble will bring my freedom Circle that word freedom what does Paul say here he's saying that prayer is the path back to your comeback prayer is the path back to your comeback so you want to join a small group where you've got people praying for you when you're going through tough times now you know here at Saddleback Church and our family we pray specifically for people in pain in all of our 7,000 plus small groups sometimes we like to do it right here on the weekends in all of our campuses together as a large group and I'd like to do that right now so what I'd like everybody do is just bow your head get all of our campuses if you buy it for a minute and if you're going through a time of grief or you going through a big conflict or you a big loss you feeling lonely or you deal with chronic pain whatever stress you might be facing right now a health setback a financial setback kind of setback I want to lead our entire Saddleback Church family in all of our four different continents to pray together for you right now and what I want to do as a statement of your faith with our heads bowed no matter what campus you're at if you are going through a major problem right now and you need prayer from your church family I'm gonna ask you to right now to just quietly stand with your head bowed you don't have to say anything just quietly stand with your head bowed as our entire church family prays together for you now people are standing up at all of our campuses right now and if you're sitting next to someone who stood up just now you might want to just reach over and you know Pat them on the back or grab their hand and squeeze their hand just to say we're with you we're a family we're in this together and we're supporting you let's pray together as a church family for all of our brothers and sisters who are standing right now Heavenly Father we don't know all the needs that are being represented by those standing but you do and just as you care about them we care about them our brothers and sisters so thank you for creating these we're standing right now thank you for bringing them to be a part of our church family we ask for the things that the job asked for we're asking you to give these people wisdom in their situations give them strength in their setbacks for those who are in pain right now give them relief for those who are having a hard time sleeping because they're worried help them to sleep better together as a church family we pray that you would encourage the hearts of our friends and our family members who are standing right now and we ask your blessing on them turn their setbacks in the comebacks in Jesus name Amen you may be seated if you're facing a setback I will all just say it this way if you're facing a setback the path back is to get back to Saddleback every week okay so you got to join with other people who are gonna support you now here's the fourth letter of our trust acrostic which is the s and that stands for surrender here's the fourth step I surrender my future to God this is exactly what job did in his comeback anytime you have a loss anytime you have a failure or setback what paralyzes you after that is actually not grief griefs a good thing what paralyzes you is fear it's fear of the future sometimes when you've had a setback people will give you the wrong advice and that makes you even more fearful sometimes that wrong advice would come from friends that you've trusted or even family members who love you can sometimes give you the wrong advice in Joe's case he got some bad advice from his wife and in job chapter 2 verse 9 and 10 it says this job's wife said to job are you still trying to maintain your integrity why don't you just curse God and die just end it you know that may be the first recorded incident of encouraging a suicide but she was dead wrong on that one joe replies to his wife you talk like a godless woman should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never accept anything bad so when all of this job said nothing wrong and notice job's response to the problem the setback in his life that seems irreversible his total surrender he says I don't like it I don't understand it but God I surrender my future to you after this major loss in fact he says in job 1315 well the most famous verses the Bible where he says even if God takes my life I will still trust him though he slay me I will trust him that is surrender that's surrender no matter what happens in my life I may not understand it but I belong to God and I know those things that are true that God made me he loves me he has his best interest my best interest in his heart I know that God is in control I know that this life is not all there is I know there's more to life than just here and now I know that one day I'm gonna eternally be with God in heaven these are things that give me hope and comfort but I've lost everything I know God is a good God and I don't understand it and it doesn't look good and it's not good and I'm in a lot of pain but even if God allows my life to be taken I'm still gonna trust him because I know the kind of God he is and I know what he's got planned for me in heaven friends that is the ultimate expression of a mature faith how mature is your faith it's like a fair-weather faith that you only trust God when things are going good or is it a Wimpy faith like a washed out baby diaper faith or do you have the mature faith of a man of God or a woman of God that can handle setbacks or do you just flip out and flake out the things go wrong do you by the way how do you know when you got a weak faith do you know what the sign of a weak faith is one word worry worry is the warning light that your faith is weak Matthew 632 in the CEV translation says this people who don't know God are always worrying when you have a setbacks in your life listen you're either gonna worry or you're gonna worship worry or worship and the more you focus your life on God the less worry you're gonna worry during the during the setback now I want you to see the fifth and final step and you've got to do this if you've had a setback seems irreversible okay here's the last way that you show your trust in God that you're relying on him the last T in trust is this well let's first review tell God exactly how you feel that's t our refuse to be bitter you unite with people who help me focus on God s surrender every detail of my future to God and T is trust Jesus for every detail of my comeback trust Jesus for every detail of my comeback you have to trust Jesus with every detail of your life for him to turn that setback and to come back now you know some of you around when this happened but many of you were not many many years ago here in the Saddleback Valley we had a devastating wildfire that's Fred all across the Saddleback Valley and many of our members had homes that burnt down and what was puzzling is that most of those homes that burned down actually had fire resistant roofs so they thought that they were safe from the fiery embers you know when it went as a fire going on embers float through the sky and the winds take them and when those embers land on the roofs they set the roof on fire and then the house burns down in this area many of the roofs were fire resistant and fire retardant roofs but still burned down why well what happened is that many of those hot embers landed in the roof gutters and the roof gutters were filled with dry leaves that had not been cleaned out and had piled up and piled up piled up for months and months and months and those leaves ignited instantly and the fire got so hot in those roof gutters that it melted those gutters on those houses and that fell down and burned the entire house down now really that's a parable of life and as your pastor who loves you and doesn't want to see your life go up and smoke let me ask you a straightforward question what's in the gutter of your life that's waiting for just one little spark to burn you down what's in the gutter of your life that's waiting for just one little spark that will burn you down on the outside you may be look looking like you got it all together like your front yard it's perfectly manicured you've got great curb appeal in your life outwardly you look great you look successful but in the gutter of your life there's some stuff that's been piling up and it may be bitterness and it may be worry and it may be a loneliness or confusion or tension or guilt or fear but it's just waiting for one of those little embers to ignite and it could burn you down friends you need to give what's in that gutter in the gutter of your life to Jesus Christ right now and you need to ask him to clean it out so when the fires and the storms come along you're not vulnerable I want you to look at what Jesus promises in John 16:33 he says by trusting me you will be unshakeable and assured deeply at peace in this world you will continue to experience difficulties but take heart because I have conquered the world that's the promise of Jesus Christ that is the path back to your comeback this is what job did when he lost everything he lost his family he lost his health he lost all his wealth he lost his prestige he lost his power his influence but he trusted God and God engineered the greatest comeback imaginable look at the last first on your outline at joke chapter 42 verse 10 the story ends like this after Jobe prayed for his friends why was doing that because he knew God was going to take care of him so he's praying for his friends after Joe prayed for his friends the Lord gave him yes again that's the comeback in fact the Lord restored to job twice as much double of everything that he had been blessed with before that's a comeback God doubles what he lost in the setback in the comeback because God is a faithful God and Joe but trusted God's goodness would you like to have double for your trouble that's what happened to Joe he got double for his trouble well there's only one person who do that Jesus Christ so I want to lead you in a comeback prayer would you bow your heads as we close together and all of our campuses and those of you watching online just bow your head and and first tell God exactly how you feel about what's going on in your life oh god I'm I'm sad or lonely or I'm mad or I'm frustrated or I'm doubting tell God I'm angry I'm starting to get resentful tell tell God whatever you're feeling right now just do that be honest to God about the setback the problems that you're facing with your heads still bowed I want you to now tell God that you're gonna refuse to be bitter that you're gonna be better not bitter and that you're gonna trust God for the things that you don't understand that have happened in your life say god I know that was not good but you're good and I'm gonna trust your goodness even in the bad that's happened just do that now now tell God that you're gonna get serious and I mean really serious about the you and trust you 19 with people will help you focus on God you need more worship in your life you need more fellowship in your life you need a small group in your life you need to be more faithful in your attendance at worship because that's where you're gonna get wisdom and the strength and encouragement that you need say God I haven't been faithful to you in worship I'm an faithful and fellowship but I want to be I want to unite with others if you're not a member of Saddleback Church we invite you to join us sign up for the class that's class 101 which is discovering my place in the body of Christ and the family of God discovering my role we welcome you to join the membership of this church now the s and Trust is surrendered say in your prayer dear God I surrender my future to you I surrender my future to you I don't know what it is but I surrender I'm not gonna worry about it and finally the last T is trust say Jesus I'm gonna trust you with every detail of my comeback I trust Jesus for my comeback I trust Jesus for my future I trust Jesus to get me out of this mess I'm giving every area of my life to you father you hear these prayers and I ask you to bless them and give them a sense that you have heard the prayers as they began the next step to their comeback in Jesus name Amen

Channel: Saddleback Church Hong Kong

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Length: 45min 32sec (2732 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 12 2018