Have you ever had one of those days when the only prayer you want to pray .... is a bad prayer?  I mean, a mean prayer....  Like you're mad... at the world, at God, at everything....   and the only prayer is a mean-spirited, mad prayer?

Pray it.

And when you pray it, give it to God.  Give God all that anger, all that mad, even the anger and mad toward God.

God can handle it.  God .... will love you through it.  Let it go.  Give it to God.

Have you read the Psalms?  There's some nasty stuff in there.  It's not all about green pastures and still waters.  There's a lot about beating up on enemies, too.  The psalmist knew to give even the bad prayers to God, because God knows how to turn them into something good.

Just like any prayer, you have to let it go.  You have to give it to God.  So it is with the "bad" prayers.....

Give it to God... all of it.  All of you!   God can make something wonderful out of anything, even your prayers, even you.

 

Peace in our journeys,

Pastor Steve Melde