Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times bestselling author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series Prayers that Get Answered.

When we pray, our hope is our prayers get answers.

But what happens when they don't seem to?

It can be very discouraging, causing us to doubt, and we might even ask ourselves,

did I pray right? Did God even hear me?

The truth is, God loves hearing all our prayer, and He wants us to confidently come to Him.

Believing He will do great things.

Let's be encouraged with today's teaching and discover how we can have an exciting and powerful prayer life.

Now, here's Joyce with today's teaching.

Matthew 614 says,

If you forgive people their trespasses,

their reckless and willful sins.

So these are not even things that they did accidentally.

He's saying, even if somebody hurt you on purpose, they willfully hurt you.

You leave the situation, let it go, give up the resentment.

And can I just say that when you're angry with somebody, the quicker you let it go, the easier it is to do.

Always do it before it has time to get down inside you and take root.

And then your Heavenly Father will also forgive you.

You see, the one important thing about prayer when we go to God, we've got to have confidence that there's nothing between us and God to the best of our knowledge.

Something that I suggest doing is at night when you lay down, just ask yourself before you go to sleep.

Am I mad at anybody?

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