Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle,

and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Now, here's something hard. What about when someone criticizes you or accuses you

of something, sometimes very wrongly? Well, we've all had that happen, I know. I want to talk

about what we really need when that happens, more specifically, what we really need from God.

So happy February and officially happy one month anniversary to us on this show.

What a joy it's been for me to do this with you every day. I hope you're enjoying it as well.

Well, we've all been criticized, right? And it never feels any better the second or tenth or a hundredth time this happens. Neither do we get callous to it the older we get. I hate to tell you

that, teens and 20-somethings listening, but it's true. We may be able to maneuver it a bit better,

but it hurts no matter where we are in life. And the times that someone really jabs

at us are hard to forget, aren't they? I don't know that I'll ever forget some years ago.

I got a really harsh email from someone who was mad at me about a choice. Actually, my husband and I had

made, and she accused me of something that was, to be honest, pretty out there.

Pretty much blamed me for the problem she had incurred because of our decision,

and she went on to threaten an action that she was going to take against me at that time

that I knew in my heart was pretty far-fetched, but it also hit close to home, like I believe she knew

that it would. It was just an unfair email, and to be honest, it hurt me, which I know was her intent.

So I've been reading it in my driveway, actually, on my phone, and I remember going inside and going into my office

and physically kneeling down and after processing through some anger I asked the Lord is this true

is any of this true about me because if it is you and I have some work to do on me, on my heart. Now listen, don't think

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