T: tell God exactly how u feel R: refuse to become bitter U: Unite with people who will encourage u to trust God S:Surrender to God & worship T: trust God for your future (comeback)
Bottom fell out ... and I used to complain bitterly to God, then I apologized. You know, I always feel that God can deal with my anger ... I would rather take my anger out on God rather than at some mere mortal who won’t be able to handle it. At least God can do something. Thank God I can be honest with Him. It’s very liberating.
I live in Scotland and I regularly attend church. However I've been suffering with grief from the death of my fiance, who wasn't a believer, depression and an eating disorder. This message came at just the right time for me as I've been taking myself away from church, from friends and drawing into myself. Pastor Rick, God used you to send me that message. It has made my heart feel joy, relief and enthusiasm for my comeback! God is good! All the time 🙏
Carol Blackley My heart is with you. I was quite young and newly wed (2 years) when my husband died. Before I met him I had eating disorder which he helped me recover from after being very underweight. God cares for you Philippians 4:6-9 and he is with you always. Surround yourself in good things and positive friendships of both young and older people. I got great comfort from older people who'd lost lifetime spouses and knew what I was feeling. I pray for you.
praying for you too! always know we are brothers and sisters in Christ, crossing all borders and time zones. i am praying for both of you tonight. God bless you and hugs you when we all cannot. stay in His light sis.
I have been feeling very in the dark with God, and decided to pull up any random sermon of yours to listen to. This is not a subject I normally would've clicked on, but I am so glad I did. Not only did this sermon help me with a few things, it allowed me to help a friend as well (which is something I REALLY don't do). Thank you for allowing God to speak to us through you!
Fear of the future, that's what we pray you to help us resolve Father God, we pray for your Holy peace to find us when we feel fear about our future in Jesus Loving name Amen
Thank you for this message Rick. I'm going thru a tough time with some medical issues. I'm starting to see my body returning to normal slowly but I really could use some prayer for, strength, healing, wisdom, guidance and relief from pain and feeling horrible. I'm sure in time I'll be back to normal. Thanks for the prayer, my friends of my Heavenly Father
I want to thank you Rick Warren for your ministry. I also have your devoutional app and has been a great blessing to me. This year has been a major set back for me. I am not yet ready to share but one day will make my mess my message and my test my testimony. I sometimes feel sorry for myself and for good reason but praising the Lord in the storm helps. He does bring peace, love , and joy un the darkest lowest places. With God all things are possible. I love the Lord and in the midst of my immense pain I give him the praise and glory. He is our hope, our refuge , and strength! All things work together for good for those that love the Lord. God Bless you all and God be the glory.
thank you. i hv been in a setback, due to my own great sins. your sermon helps me to learn to accept God discipline & my sins' consequences with the right attitude
Love this! My husband said he felt just like Job and that he felt like we were all pawns in a game between God and Satan and he didn't want to be part of it any more. He lost faith in God. I reminded him of Philippians 4:6-9 where we are told to cast all our cares on God and to focus on all good things and the God of peace will be with us. He was in a very dark place and I couldn't pull him out of it as he believed a wife should not preach to a husband. Now I see that I was right, as it is OK to tell God all our anger and emotions. He took his life after a very difficult battle with depression. I now suffer with anxiety and worry about my children becoming depressed, especially when they go off the radar, and it is quite intense and overpowering to the point that I felt faint with fear recently. I did tell God and asked him if fathers feel the amount of anxiety over their children as mothers do because I can't deal with it. I heard him say straight back "Do you not think I have experienced all of what you feel for your children? I know what you feel because I feel it over all of my children," and I was reminded of the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 and how the father was waiting and running out to his son the moment he saw him coming down the path towards home. He must've felt rejected by his son at first, then worried, then overjoyed to see him coming up the path. But every emotion we have, God has too.
Thank you pastor Rick for this series! It's perfect timing with all the changes going on in my life. I know we all go through tough times, what depresses me the most is when I reach out for support....I don't find it. I've gone to different churches and found judgement, and other people that I thought were supportive friends were going down path of self destruction (drugs, alcohol). Needing prayer to find the right supportive people in my life.
Ive been losing it a lot lately. Im 57, i have 18 months clean after 20 plus years heroin oxycontin addiction and abuse. Just spent the first Christmas with my kids in 20 years. I am homeless. I was in ministry yesrs ago. Ive been to seminary. I got mad at God recently for my selfish life. I screamed and cussed and shook my fist at God and said things im so ashamed of and im scared. I asked God if He could plz send me a message ot a sign to let me know He still loves me. That was yesterday. This morning i saw this
I love Rick Warren and I love listening to his inspirational messages every morning.. I do not understand why he was standing in an alligator infested pond for this message but I appreciate it and appreciate being blessed by God and his words.
I wish you had a church in Canada 😔 (maybe God wants me to help you with that 😉)so grateful you are on youtube, you have been such a blessing in some very dark times.
Thank you for this teaching man of God he's done so well with you and blessing others with god wisdoms and strength glory to you king Jesus ♥️❤️ always worthy to be praised
I definitely believe in holding onto faith, but I am tired/mad of nearly two decades of trials/rejections. I want to get on the other side to stable ground...
I'm the same. It seems like everybody else easily gets back from their setbacks even if it was their fault, and here I am working hard, praying hard to get back from this hole.
Thank you for the message. I really want to thank you for your thoughtful backgrounds. It’s small things that you think about that I appreciate. God bless!
Job didn’t lose everything. He still had his mind and sanity. When you have your mind sure it’s still saddening and depressing but you can rebuild your life. In a way I’m worse off than job. I lost my mind because of ECT and medications (forced onto me as I was so psychotic I was trying to commit suicide) and don’t know if I’ll ever be the same again. Sure I have support but I still feel so alone and in doubt. Please pray for me.
shadypenguinX I started taking EmpowerPlus from True Hope and it changed me completely. wellnessretailers.com/?rfsn=1643128.b09d6 God always sends his people. Stay Blessed 😉
I have given my life to Christ and asked for forgiveness of my sins. I've experienced constant failure (almost always having success taken from me at the very last minute due to circumstances completely outside of my control) for most of my life. I am very goal-orientated and work hard yet never succeed. After much research I'm convinced I have been living under a curse probably due to past involvement in the occult and new age. (Leviticus 20:1-9; Leviticus 26:14-39; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Kings 13:11-34) Even after I have confessed my sins and trusted in Jesus my bad luck has continued. I continue to trust in Christ.
I have been living in so much grief. I feel like I'm slowly drowning. I found out that my boyfriend has been having an affair after years of devotion towards him. I now reside temporarily in the spare room while he's out with her. I'm a believer of jesus christ. And I know that this kind of pain will pass. So I hope. I'm dealing with a thyroid problem in which I'm having a biopsy in two days. Stage 5 in volume and size. The syptoms are traumatizing me, and depression is only one. Trying to find a new job after graduating in the Nursing field but dont think I'm Good enough. Trying to find another vehicle, but struggling to believe gods going to help me here. I need to move and have no idea where I'm going to live. I'm struggling with life, but because of jesus christ. There has got to be a way. Please lord jesus, I need your help.
Since all these things occurred in which seemed like setbacks were irreversible. I can openly say that god has helped me to turn all the crisis around and there is more hope, love and endurance through what I felt was lost. I got more involved through church. Got into a small group, stayed surrounded by members, and prayed my way through all this in the name of jesus. I absolutely love Rick Warren's videos. And my new family at church. Devoted for life. God bless!
I’m too scared to surrender my future to God, I really want to have a specific job and live in a specific area but I’m so scared that that will change if I surrender
Job was better than me because I questioned and blamed God for the things that happened to me. I grew up in a very toxic environment with an absentee and irresponsible father, a very very very self-absorbed sibling and a very very very narcissistic mother that became the catalyst why I have been mentally ill and why I struggle to control my mind everyday just to get by and am tormented for more than a decade now. In a span of 20 years all I've had are neglectful family members and undependable / fair weathered and sometimes toxic friend ( and sometimes relatives too). I encountered several misfortunes already ( in my academics, community, career, money, health , love life, friendship and social life - yep you name it I've been there) and am currently unemployed and without any confidante at the moment. Why does God not change my situation for the better ? Why does his " good plan " take years ( and still not manifesting ) to happen ? It is easy to say that it will be ok eventually but when some other person experience problems like mine , when someone experiences days when they can take no more and they beg for their situation to change and still plans fail then it seems almost impossible to believe that someone cares. The worst of it really is that those people that I genuinely cared for repayed my kindness with backstabbing. When I see a homeless person I can't help but wonder why does God allow them to be like that
God can handle our emotions because he gave them to us and made us in his image; that's what makes us different from animals, is what I heard you say Rick, and right away I was wondering in what image did God make the animals? sorry if it's a bit off topic but this is still a question that kind of buzzes around if you know what I mean, many of my friends have animals and love them and wonder about there spiritual status, I wonder about there spiritual status?
Rick: I would like to use my business as a platform for Jesus message and work in the world, I own a design/product development company in florida, let me know how to go about this.
I suppose Job's wife was thinking, "whatever your issue is with God, it is affecting me and I don't want any part of that."? Her "for bitter for worse" didn't go very far.
No ! Job's children were not murdered by terrorists. See Job 1:18-19. A storm caused the house his children were having a party in, to come crashing down and killed them all that way. It's wise to check the word for yourself, even with Pastor Rick. And. Please know. I am grateful for him because God has used him to speak to me.
I love absolutely everythin' that is uploaded on this account, this kind of energy inspired me to do my channel, check it out and see what u think, would mean a lot to me👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
T: tell God exactly how u feel
R: refuse to become bitter
U: Unite with people who will encourage u to trust God
S:Surrender to God & worship
T: trust God for your future (comeback)
Bottom fell out ... and I used to complain bitterly to God, then I apologized. You know, I always feel that God can deal with my anger ... I would rather take my anger out on God rather than at some mere mortal who won’t be able to handle it. At least God can do something. Thank God I can be honest with Him. It’s very liberating.
I’m trusting jesus with every detail of my come back amen
I live in Scotland and I regularly attend church. However I've been suffering with grief from the death of my fiance, who wasn't a believer, depression and an eating disorder.
This message came at just the right time for me as I've been taking myself away from church, from friends and drawing into myself. Pastor Rick, God used you to send me that message. It has made my heart feel joy, relief and enthusiasm for my comeback! God is good! All the time 🙏
Carol Blackley stay strong carol. praying for you.
Carol Blackley My heart is with you. I was quite young and newly wed (2 years) when my husband died. Before I met him I had eating disorder which he helped me recover from after being very underweight. God cares for you Philippians 4:6-9 and he is with you always. Surround yourself in good things and positive friendships of both young and older people. I got great comfort from older people who'd lost lifetime spouses and knew what I was feeling. I pray for you.
praying for you too! always know we are brothers and sisters in Christ, crossing all borders and time zones. i am praying for both of you tonight. God bless you and hugs you when we all cannot. stay in His light sis.
Carol Blackley I'll pray for you
Yes I love God what ever happens good or bad cause my heavenly Father's he knows everything about me...
Amen
I have been feeling very in the dark with God, and decided to pull up any random sermon of yours to listen to. This is not a subject I normally would've clicked on, but I am so glad I did. Not only did this sermon help me with a few things, it allowed me to help a friend as well (which is something I REALLY don't do). Thank you for allowing God to speak to us through you!
Shelby Smith I can deeply relate, but you still have belief in God and He will help and change your ways in a Great Way.. Stay safe and bless you! 🙏🏿
Father I Surrender , your will be done. ! Thank you Jesus 🙂
Fear of the future, that's what we pray you to help us resolve Father God, we pray for your Holy peace to find us when we feel fear about our future in Jesus Loving name Amen
Thank you for this message Rick. I'm going thru a tough time with some medical issues. I'm starting to see my body returning to normal slowly but I really could use some prayer for, strength, healing, wisdom, guidance and relief from pain and feeling horrible. I'm sure in time I'll be back to normal. Thanks for the prayer, my friends of my Heavenly Father
I want to thank you Rick Warren for your ministry. I also have your devoutional app and has been a great blessing to me. This year has been a major set back for me. I am not yet ready to share but one day will make my mess my message and my test my testimony. I sometimes feel sorry for myself and for good reason but praising the Lord in the storm helps. He does bring peace, love , and joy un the darkest lowest places. With God all things are possible. I love the Lord and in the midst of my immense pain I give him the praise and glory. He is our hope, our refuge , and strength! All things work together for good for those that love the Lord. God Bless you all and God be the glory.
I thank god every day for you as my pastor.we speak to god every day through his word.as you have taught me.thank you and praise god AMEN.
Congratulations everyone who just prayed with Rick.
Thank you for remembering those who are suffering
thank you. i hv been in a setback, due to my own great sins. your sermon helps me to learn to accept God discipline & my sins' consequences with the right attitude
Love this! My husband said he felt just like Job and that he felt like we were all pawns in a game between God and Satan and he didn't want to be part of it any more. He lost faith in God. I reminded him of Philippians 4:6-9 where we are told to cast all our cares on God and to focus on all good things and the God of peace will be with us. He was in a very dark place and I couldn't pull him out of it as he believed a wife should not preach to a husband. Now I see that I was right, as it is OK to tell God all our anger and emotions. He took his life after a very difficult battle with depression.
I now suffer with anxiety and worry about my children becoming depressed, especially when they go off the radar, and it is quite intense and overpowering to the point that I felt faint with fear recently. I did tell God and asked him if fathers feel the amount of anxiety over their children as mothers do because I can't deal with it. I heard him say straight back "Do you not think I have experienced all of what you feel for your children? I know what you feel because I feel it over all of my children," and I was reminded of the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 and how the father was waiting and running out to his son the moment he saw him coming down the path towards home. He must've felt rejected by his son at first, then worried, then overjoyed to see him coming up the path. But every emotion we have, God has too.
Thank you pastor Rick for this series! It's perfect timing with all the changes going on in my life. I know we all go through tough times, what depresses me the most is when I reach out for support....I don't find it. I've gone to different churches and found judgement, and other people that I thought were supportive friends were going down path of self destruction (drugs, alcohol). Needing prayer to find the right supportive people in my life.
Ive been losing it a lot lately. Im 57, i have 18 months clean after 20 plus years heroin oxycontin addiction and abuse. Just spent the first Christmas with my kids in 20 years. I am homeless. I was in ministry yesrs ago. Ive been to seminary. I got mad at God recently for my selfish life. I screamed and cussed and shook my fist at God and said things im so ashamed of and im scared. I asked God if He could plz send me a message ot a sign to let me know He still loves me. That was yesterday. This morning i saw this
I love Rick Warren and I love listening to his inspirational messages every morning.. I do not understand why he was standing in an alligator infested pond for this message but I appreciate it and appreciate being blessed by God and his words.
I stood and prayed. It's a different date today and the wonderful thing is that it doesn't matter. It's still God's word. Amen
I wish you had a church in Canada 😔 (maybe God wants me to help you with that 😉)so grateful you are on youtube, you have been such a blessing in some very dark times.
Thank you for this teaching man of God he's done so well with you and blessing others with god wisdoms and strength glory to you king Jesus ♥️❤️ always worthy to be praised
God Bless you Pastor Rick thank you for this video it helps a lot especially those who needed comfort
Ps Rick you are AWESOME!
I prayed that prayer. God Bless and thank you Rick
I receive in Jesus name amen amen
I definitely believe in holding onto faith, but I am tired/mad of nearly two decades of trials/rejections. I want to get on the other side to stable ground...
Amanda Anima I will be praying for you
You will get there
I'm the same. It seems like everybody else easily gets back from their setbacks even if it was their fault, and here I am working hard, praying hard to get back from this hole.
Ps Rick
Thank u . I feel very encoraged listening to all yr sermons and share with all my friends the same sermons so they nay be encouraged too😇👍
Please pastor please pray for me and my son please
I'll also pray God bless
Hymns on Piano thank you
Me too
Praying for you right now!
We will all pray for you sister !amen
Please help me and pray for me why my problems from one problems I'm nearly to stop praying but I'm fear GOD. please pray for me.... thank you
Thank you for the message. I really want to thank you for your thoughtful backgrounds. It’s small things that you think about that I appreciate. God bless!
Thank you Pastor Rick,im so bless this message so much.
Job didn’t lose everything. He still had his mind and sanity. When you have your mind sure it’s still saddening and depressing but you can rebuild your life. In a way I’m worse off than job. I lost my mind because of ECT and medications (forced onto me as I was so psychotic I was trying to commit suicide) and don’t know if I’ll ever be the same again. Sure I have support but I still feel so alone and in doubt. Please pray for me.
shadypenguinX I started taking EmpowerPlus from True Hope and it changed me completely. wellnessretailers.com/?rfsn=1643128.b09d6
God always sends his people. Stay Blessed 😉
We almost have the same problems
I have given my life to Christ and asked for forgiveness of my sins. I've experienced constant failure (almost always having success taken from me at the very last minute due to circumstances completely outside of my control) for most of my life. I am very goal-orientated and work hard yet never succeed. After much research I'm convinced I have been living under a curse probably due to past involvement in the occult and new age. (Leviticus 20:1-9; Leviticus 26:14-39; 1 Samuel 15:1-9; 1 Kings 13:11-34) Even after I have confessed my sins and trusted in Jesus my bad luck has continued. I continue to trust in Christ.
irishsolar juu
So true! Thank you Pastor Rick again for your words of truth and wisdom
Thank you for this great video. I think that maybe a clearer explanation on being bitter and what bitterness is would be helpful.
Amen
I have been living in so much grief. I feel like I'm slowly drowning. I found out that my boyfriend has been having an affair after years of devotion towards him. I now reside temporarily in the spare room while he's out with her. I'm a believer of jesus christ. And I know that this kind of pain will pass. So I hope. I'm dealing with a thyroid problem in which I'm having a biopsy in two days. Stage 5 in volume and size. The syptoms are traumatizing me, and depression is only one. Trying to find a new job after graduating in the Nursing field but dont think I'm Good enough. Trying to find another vehicle, but struggling to believe gods going to help me here. I need to move and have no idea where I'm going to live. I'm struggling with life, but because of jesus christ. There has got to be a way. Please lord jesus, I need your help.
Deonna Dockery nothing is too big or impossible for God 🙏
Since all these things occurred in which seemed like setbacks were irreversible. I can openly say that god has helped me to turn all the crisis around and there is more hope, love and endurance through what I felt was lost. I got more involved through church. Got into a small group, stayed surrounded by members, and prayed my way through all this in the name of jesus. I absolutely love Rick Warren's videos. And my new family at church. Devoted for life. God bless!
In my gutter are piles of doubt that needs to be cleared out. Satan was the rogue responsible for piling those doubts in the gutter.
I’m too scared to surrender my future to God, I really want to have a specific job and live in a specific area but I’m so scared that that will change if I surrender
I worry the same thing, but it could avoid trouble if you don’t get what you want. Or often, after we surrender He gives back what want.
Job was better than me because I questioned and blamed God for the things that happened to me. I grew up in a very toxic environment with an absentee and irresponsible father, a very very very self-absorbed sibling and a very very very narcissistic mother that became the catalyst why I have been mentally ill and why I struggle to control my mind everyday just to get by and am tormented for more than a decade now. In a span of 20 years all I've had are neglectful family members and undependable / fair weathered and sometimes toxic friend ( and sometimes relatives too). I encountered several misfortunes already ( in my academics, community, career, money, health , love life, friendship and social life - yep you name it I've been there) and am currently unemployed and without any confidante at the moment. Why does God not change my situation for the better ? Why does his " good plan " take years ( and still not manifesting ) to happen ? It is easy to say that it will be ok eventually but when some other person experience problems like mine , when someone experiences days when they can take no more and they beg for their situation to change and still plans fail then it seems almost impossible to believe that someone cares. The worst of it really is that those people that I genuinely cared for repayed my kindness with backstabbing. When I see a homeless person I can't help but wonder why does God allow them to be like that
God can change them. Pray and wait on Him. He changed mine. Hallelujah!
God can handle our emotions because he gave them to us and made us in his image; that's what makes us different from animals, is what I heard you say Rick, and right away I was wondering in what image did God make the animals? sorry if it's a bit off topic but this is still a question that kind of buzzes around if you know what I mean, many of my friends have animals and love them and wonder about there spiritual status, I wonder about there spiritual status?
Rick: I would like to use my business as a platform for Jesus message and work in the world, I own a design/product development company in florida, let me know how to go about this.
ok
I suppose Job's wife was thinking, "whatever your issue is with God, it is affecting me and I don't want any part of that."? Her "for bitter for worse" didn't go very far.
i need to be part of a support group but dont know how
No ! Job's children were not murdered by terrorists. See Job 1:18-19. A storm caused the house his children were having a party in, to come crashing down and killed them all that way. It's wise to check the word for yourself, even with Pastor Rick. And. Please know. I am grateful for him because God has used him to speak to me.
❤
What if I could hardly trust God?
I have tried filling in the online form to communicate with you but it didn't work, would still love to be in touch so please help me.
The Bible says it is not good for man to be alone (in Eden), so God gave Adam, Eve. How'd that work out? Ha!
will the AUG 16th meeting be record and post here in youtube ?
Jo _ I hope so too.
I love absolutely everythin' that is uploaded on this account, this kind of energy inspired me to do my channel, check it out and see what u think, would mean a lot to me👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Amen