hi it's Jennifer LeClaire you probably know me from books like the spiritual
warriors guide to defeating Jezebel or the making of a prophet is one of my
latest ones probably also reading my stuff on charisma magazine probably just
read an article and found this video at the bottom but anyway I want to talk to
you today about being mad at God being angry with God and I wrote an article
this week in charisma called when the devil accuses God when the devil accuses
God because you see you know the enemy is called in Revelation that 12 and 10
the accuser of the Brethren the accuser of the Brethren but I found in my
experience and if you listen to your thought life you'll just discern this as
well that God that Satan is actually also in his demons the kingdom of
darkness and the demons and the kingdom of darkness the fallen angels they are
also accusers of God they hate God and they hate you and so the devil is not
only an accuser of the Brethren he's also an accuser of God he's an accuser
he's a false accuser and so I want to talk to you about that today you know
Satan the devil will do anything he can to drive a wedge between you and God he
does not want you to get closer to God he does not want you to get more
intimate with God he doesn't want you to trust God more he doesn't we want you to
turn your back on God he wants you to curse God and die he'll do anything he
can to drive a wedge between you and your loving creator he points a finger
at God when tragedy strikes or even when circumstances arise that you don't like
you know the enemy is right there to whisper you know maybe the enemy just
whispers at war or suggest to your soul that God doesn't really care about your
problems or maybe he's blaming God because your loved one didn't get healed
or because you didn't get that promotion or because whatever when we have a
disappointment or disillusioned man or or something of that nature when tragedy
strikes when something bad happens we are human nature we tend to look for why
it happened why God why you know and many times the enemy is right there took
to blame God in our hearing and if we take that bait
my goodness being offended with God it cuts off that fellowship not because
God's cutting it off because we're cutting it I'll think about it for a
minute when you're mad at somebody you don't want to talk to them and the enemy
loves it because if you're not talking to God if you're not fellowshipping with
God if you're not communing with God you are short short circuiting your power
your revelation your strength I believe God is so gracious and so merciful and
and he knows when you're mad at him whether you tell him or not and he's
gracious and any still he's protecting you and he's loving you and he's waiting
for you and he's drawing you to him he really is but we've got to take action
so listen nothing is ever God's fault the enemy wants to make you bitter
toward God when you feel disappointment disillusioned you feel deceived by God
you feel betrayed by God you feel like you put your trust in god I believed I
fasted I pray it i worshiped i praised I did everything in the Bible that David
did I did everything that Joshua did I meditated on the word day and night I'm
not seeing good success what is going on I did my part God you didn't do your
part I mean can you tell I've been mad at God before you know and I'm not
ashamed to admit that because relationships you know these things do
happen although again I want to stress it's never God's fault god is good all
the time all the time god is good Oral Roberts used to say God is a good god
and the devil is a bad devil and that just about sums it up and again the
enemy wants to turn you away from God he's the source of life the source of
power the source of peace the source of love the source of grace the source of
Mercia he is dl shed I he is our source for everything and there's nothing worse
really the being mad at God it just doesn't feel good so now nothing has
ever God's fault but the devil can certainly introduce that doubt he can
ask a well-timed question or arrange some circumstantial evidence to set God
up I speak from experience listen don't fall for it I have fallen for it in the
past don't fall all for it Satan is trying to get you to
turn your back on the one who has the ability to help you out of the tragedy
to help you out of the disappointment to help you out of the disillusionment and
the deception that you've now fallen into by being angry and blaming God for
something he didn't do God is ready to deliver you from the gall of bitterness
that's the good news here if you're mad at God he's not mad at you and he wants
to restore that relationship he wants to show you he might not have all the
answers as to why that tragedy struck as to why you didn't get that thing you
were believing for maybe you just need to believe a little longer maybe God
will tell you why but that's up to him you know trust means not always having
the answers and God is trustworthy he is good he is righteous all the time so
let's look at some examples in the scripture just a couple of how Satan
uses Satan accuses God now first of all we know that God does not lie okay but
here we see in Genesis 3 and 1 right in the beginning the scripture says now the
serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made
and he said to the woman listen has God indeed said you shall not eat of every
tree in the garden now this was an accusation against God it might have
been a slight one but he was planting that seed the serpent was planting that
seed in Eve's mine are you sure that's what God really said are you sure that's
what he meant are you sure it's true and this subtle accusation led to the fall
of man I mean you know the story Eve told the serpent we may eat the fruit of
the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden God has said you shall not eat it nor shall you touch it lest you die it's
Genesis 3 2 now God actually didn't say Alisa's not recorded that he said that
you shall not touch it he just said don't eat from it so there was obviously
some sort of confusion in Eve's mind as it was and the enemy was playing on that
I don't know if you've heard it or Adam told her or you know we can dig a little
deeper there in Scripture and see the once there but here's what the enemy
said to her the serpent said to the woman Genesis 3 & 4 you will not surely
die there it is you will not surely die now God already told them don't eat of
this tree or you will surely die now the the enemy is basically accusing the
serpent is accusing god of lying you shall not surely die for God knows
here's their here here's Satan's setting up the reason God's motive for lying he
accused God and then he gave a motive you will not surely die for God knows
that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God
knowing good and evil so the devil accused God of lying to a de but we know
that God is not a man that he shall I according to numbers 23 and 19 and more
than that the devil accused God of withholding something good the devil
accused God of withholding that blessing withholding something good that man
would want and benefit from and need to be like God but without with us part of
the deception is that they were already like God they were created in the image
of God they were led by the spirit till they ate that that forbidden from that
forbidden tree they were led by the spirit their spirits dominated their
flesh in their soul they were created in the image of God and would it become
more and more like God and in the knowledge of God as time went on so the
double accused God of withholding something good from them and God is not
withholding anything good from us we might think it's good we might think
it's good and it might be good five years from now or it might be good after
some other things and us change but if God is is is not giving you something
that you're asking for it's because either a is not the right time or B you
don't really need it you don't really want it if you knew what it would lead
to you wouldn't want I mean we have to trust God we have to trust God the Satan
was accusing him God the serpent was accusing God of withholding something
good and in doing so opressing his creation when it's actually this serpent
this the Satan that the devil he is the one who brings opression the demons the
kingdom of darkness brings opression God does not oppress us God sent us free
from the law of sin and death God sent us free in Christ and so really the
serpent really mixed it up and of course we know that that Eve took the 28 of the
tree and she gave Adam and he partook they were both in rebellion and when God
arrived on the scene listen when God arrived on the scene he asked Adam what
have you done it already he already knew but he had to confront it what have you
done so then Adam believed blamed Eve Eve blamed the serpent but it all
started with the serpent blaming God it all started and so you see this this
chain of blame it all started with the serpent accusing God and you know the
rest is as human history mankind has lived in a corrupted sinful flesh ever
since until we get born again we're completely subject to that step that
flesh now we have the power to crucify the flesh by the Holy Spirit of being
we've been born again we've been renewed regenerated and we're renewing our minds
but but but Eve believed this lie about God so here's another example Jobs wife
she told Joe curse God and die can you imagine that's that's pretty hardcore
curse God and die now you have to understand giving her a little credit
although it's never right to just there was a wrong thing to say but but she was
going through an especially painful trial it wasn't just joked that was
going through a trial think about it for a minute job lost his children in all
his possessions well so did she they were her children too there were her
possessions to she was in covenant relationship with job she was in
covenant relationship with God through job so what's going on here she's
probably you know grieving she's shocked and she blamed God now I know in
scripture doesn't show this but i'm sure the serpent was right there to make that
accusation against God which was she voiced she voiced that accusation
essentially she voiced that now what I found particularly interesting is that
joke didn't fall for it and not only did job not fall for it but he said to her
in job two and ten he said where you speak as one at you speak as one of the
as one of the foolish women speaks shall we indeed except good from God
shall we not accept an adversity and that's a real key scripture now of
course it was Satan that was bringing the adversity it wasn't God God did
allow it but God has reasons again we've got to trust God we can't blame God
please if you're mad at God to hear me hear me but this is what I find
interesting is that in the Bible job's wives sinned with her lips she cursed
God and dies she sinned with her lips and job call Durrani said you're
speaking like a foolish woman but the Bible says that job did not sin with his
lips and that's noteworthy because one of the first things we do when something
bad happens is we sin with our lips we sin with our lips we sin with our mouth
we complain we murmur we grumble we look for somebody to blame we go down the
chain whose fault it is and we end up with God because the serpent the Satan
the devil is is is whispering blame toward God accusations toward God in our
ears well God could have kept her from dying you know God could have prevented
that tragedy you know God could have paid that rent God could have done
whatever well yeah he could have I don't know why he didn't I've wrestled with
these questions before I don't know you know I remember if you know my testimony
at all you know that my husband abandoned me with my two and a half year
old daughter our two and a half year old daughter we were married and he
abandoned me and I was so mad at god I was so and I wasn't even saved at the
time he was a returned missionary I wasn't even stuff I was so mad at God I
remembered kneeling down I was crying and sobbing and I remember looking up
and shaking my fist at God and said why did you do this why did you let this
happen and I was mad so mad for years I ventually got saved and I'll never
forget it i was in my shower and I was just you know taking a shower and
praying whatever and I heard God say something to me he vindicated himself at
this point I wasn't really I wasn't mad at God anymore but there was something
still down in my heart in my soul why I questioned you know wasn't even
conscious this point I hadn't thought about it in
years everything was great but God said to me you know I didn't make him leave
and I'm not bringing him back and so he made it very clear look it wasn't my
fault that he left so if you're holding on any of that let it go and by the way
I'm not bringing him back so don't hold on to that hope either and so you know
God made it very clear and that it changed my life it changed my thought
process it delivered me from from from wrong thoughts I'd had for years that I
didn't even know I had anymore you know it's possible that you've got some small
grudge against God that you forgot about you don't even realize it's there
anymore but it's still there pneus it's affecting your relationship with God
shammy go to church you may praise and sing and worship for real and study your
Bible and do good works for real what is it possible if that's so i hope the Holy
Spirit showed you because it can hinder the the pure flow of relationship with
God so now although God never does anything wrong and he really doesn't
need to be forgiven because he hasn't done anything wrong it wasn't his fault
whatever it was we can sometimes feel like God betrayed our trust you know we
stood on his word we believed with all our heart all our mind all our soul our
strength we we loved him and we believed he was good and that can leave us
resentful bitter and and unforgiving so so what are you supposed to do what's
the solution Jennifer what am I supposed to do here yeah I want to give you a pat
answer I know what I did think about it like this so let's get real practical
what would you do if you're mad at your husband your wife your brother your
sister your mother would you just never talk to them again would you just write
them off would you just sit there and stew well I hope not and sometimes we do
that for a while you know we need some time to process God gets that people get
that but I'd hoped that you'd eventually get it out in the open I hope that you'd
as they say in some Latin American countries put all the knives on the
table I'd hope that you get it all out there and talk it out hash it out that's
what you need to do with God again it's not his fault he didn't do anything
wrong but see he knows you're mad at him you know he knows you're angry with him
he knows why but you need to go to your father you need to express that and
verbalize that tell him like did in so many songs he told God the way
that he felt you need to tell God the way that you feel I can tell you this
he'd much rather you talk to him and hash it out with him that then shut him
out he longs for a relationship with you he loves you and he wants you to talk to
him about it so if you could communicate with God even when you're angry you know
he can reach you he can heal you he can deliver you like he did me ultimately
listen ultimately we need to repent for buying into the devil's lives because
that's what we've done we bought into the devil's lies that's really what
we've done if we're angry with God we have believed the accuser of the
Brethren we believe the accuser of God we need to repent but it won't come that
repentance that true repentance can't really come until we've wrestled with
God over this a little bit you know gone back and forth with God and tell God how
you feel you know he will we'll help you through those feelings of disappointment
and disillusionment and he'll break that deception off your mind if you'll let
him well we've got to be humble so if you're mad at God be humble be honest go
to him you know it's not like he doesn't already know you're mad like i said
before give him that anger give him that anger tell him give it to him say God
take this anger from me i rationalize see here's the thing many of you even
watching this video even now you know we rationalize we know it's not God's fault
we know we shouldn't be mad at God we know it wasn't him that did it but
somehow we're still mad at God he'll help you through that process give him
that anger give him that that reasoning and he'll turn that into something good
he really well because romans 8 28 says says what one of my favorite scriptures
god works all things together for the good to those who love him and are
called according to his purposes so he'll turn that anger into a greater
peace he'll turn that revelation he'll turn that anger into a revelation of how
sovereignty is and how good he is if you'll let him he'll work it for good
just let him so forgive God he doesn't even do anything wrong but but but
forgive them because that's what we do as humans that's our understanding
forgive him forgive him there's something so much better waiting on the
other side for you even now I mean it could just be as simple as as just turn
it around so you can see it right now the enemy
has you focused on the wrong thing look to God I looked at Jesus he is good I
want to pray for you before we go father I thank you right now in Jesus name that
you are full of mercy and full of compassion and that you love us with an
everlasting love you died for us and you understand that we're emotional beings
you gave us emotions you gave us the emotion of anger the father right now we
repent for believing that the lies of the enemy the accusations that he's made
against you we didn't recognize it we didn't know we made a mistake we ask you
to forgive us in the name of Jesus God show us if it's your will show us what
we need to see that will bring our heart piece I mean maybe you won't give us all
the answers as to why but you give us something that we could hold on to give
us a greater revelation of you in the name of Jesus amen we'll be sure to
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