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 the 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. How many times

have you wanted God to just make sense? How many times have you wished he would just be on your

timetable? Yeah, me too. Well, today, as we continue our conversation in the I Want

God series, we're going to dive into that, and we're going to talk about what it's really about

on our end and what we have to get rid of to want him more than our control.

I think I've told you this before, a saying that my husband has for me.

You can tell me what to do or how to do it, but not both.

Yeah, he really says that.

And here's the thing that's true about control.

All of us have control issues, but none of us like to admit we do, right? Control issues are for our mother-in-law or our spouse or that neighbor

or someone at our church, but the truth is we all struggle with wanting to control outcomes and

situations, and yes, even God. We want to have things turn out the way we want them to, and we want people

to do what we tell them, and even laid back people aren't immune to this. However, your

control issues manifest, rest assured they're in there, and I think it's a matter of maturity as to

whether we are willing to admit we have them or not. This topic is really wide open, but I want to talk about one key way I think our control

issues manifest when it comes to God and really getting in the way of wanting God the most,

and that is in our desire for God to make sense.

Logic and reason is what I call it in the book I Want God, but it's basically just wanting God

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