What do you do when you're feeling anxious?

How do you handle being tempted?

And where do you go when you're feeling guilty?

These are just three of the hard emotions that we struggle with on a regular basis.

And this season on the Prayers of Rest podcast, I want to invite you to be honest with God about the hard emotions in your life.

We'll be praying through those emotions that I mentioned,

and disappointment, anger, envy,

feeling judgmental toward others or annoyed,

times when you might be lonely or depressed,

or just burdened with sorrow. You know, there's this myth that good Christians

shouldn't struggle with hard emotions. We should always be joyful and at peace and everything should go

great. But the truth is that we live in a fallen and broken world and bad things

happen to good people. And not only that, but our emotions, God created us to be able to feel

emotions. There's a time to feel sorrowful. And there's a time for us to wrestle

and grapple with the envy or the depression or the anxiety that shows up. The problem is not

feeling these emotions. The problem is stuffing them down and pretending they don't exist.

When we ignore what our emotions are trying to signal us, we are blocking out God's spirit from working inside us.

But when we bring these emotions to God, when we are honest with Him about the hard things

that we're facing and the uncomfortable feelings that are arising in our hearts, when we bring

those to Him, we can invite him to

work in our hearts.

So in the place of anxiety, we can give that to Him and He can give us in exchange his

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