So I got this comment from a reader the other day he said yeah this really helped me but some
friend of my ran off with my money what should I do ohhh I don't know if you remember this
but when I was younger I sold someone guitar I do remember for $800 or $1000 or something
yeah he said well here I'm going to give you like $200 now and then I'll give
you the rest like next week and next rolled around and I'm like hey uh yeah just checking
on this well uh don't have it now I'll get it to you next week and this just went on
and on and on yeah and I ended up just never getting the money out of it and it's really
really hard but yeah one of the things that happened through that that as I was praying
about this because I was young and I really needed this money and well yeah and that's
a really difficult thing because you just feel betrayed yeah it was a friend from church
one of the things that was really that the Lord led me through with this was He showed
me that I don't have to be a victim I can chose to sow this guitar I can choose to give
this guitar to him and it's kind of like a posture of my heart you know and I actually
didn't communicate this to him but in my heart I let go of the unforgiveness I let go of
the bitterness and I just said alright God I'm choosing to give this to him rather than
letting him take it and steal it from me and you kind of stopped texting and asking for
it yeah stoped asking following up I just let it go the peace that that brought me you
know yeah I don't know what changed for him but for me it just changed everything and
it made everything so much more peaceful and I'm so thankful that I did that and you know
God took care of me and brought more money in various different ways and so my needs
were met but didn't you have an opportunity later to like kind of like minister to him
or something yeah yup yeah years later God opened up all kinds of doors for me to speak
into his life when he was kind of struggling with some things really interesting how all
these pieces work together but so but if you would of kept like fighting to try yeah and
get this money from him absolutely you wouldn't have had that opportunity to I would have
blown my witness and blown any credibility yeah I would've had with him so it's interesting
how God works but if you're dealing with something like that and how long of a process was that
for you from like you're feeling pretty upset about it and like you're owed this money to
God softening your heart and just being like hey why don't you just sow that into his life
yeah I don't know you can sow this as a seed really right I don't know I mean the whole
process was probably a couple of months because I thought I was going to get paid you know
it was like week after week after week you know he pretty much just said no this is not
going to happen and so it took a while for me to fully realize like because I was frustrated
took me a while to full realize it's not going to come in like there's nothing I can do in
my own strength that is going to make this money appear like I'm not going to go twist
his arm I'm not going to go slash his tires and it was in that that God said alright you
can let me take care of it if you want and I'll let you sow it and that way you're planting
seeds you know you're actually doing something positive with this instead of just being angry
and frustrated you know and we've had other situations like that since yeah and God keeps
bringing me back to that same thing He's like don't just stand there and be angry in unforgiveness
choose to give it choose sow a seed and watch what I can do with it yeah I just wanted you
to answer that question because I think it's really easy for the person hearing this to
just say oh well that's really easy for you to say you know what I mean yeah and it actually
was a process and it is it's easy to say it it's hard to do it but it actually is a process
and its ok that it's a process it's ok that it takes a little while it takes a little
time and but yeah it is amazing it like the Lord says that we should pray for our enemies
and I really think that there's the peace of that that God is trusting us enough to
be offended and to set that offense aside and actually pray for someone who needs it
people who don't understand that concept they just get mad and then that's just the end
of that it just ruins their life or whatever yeah it can ruin their life yeah and you look
how Paul the Apostle you know one of the most vigilant anti-christian people there were
holding the coats while you know christians were being stoned how he came to know the
Lord I'm absolutely convinced that some of those believers were praying for him and prayed
him in to the kingdom and God used their prayers God used them rather than just being spiteful
and cursing him to actually pray for him yeah and that's powerful to think about yeah you
know that's a lot that's a lot more intense even than having money taken from you oh yeah
having your life taken from you yeah so if you're dealing with that or you know anybody
that is um encourage them in that because that's a way out of this where you can avoid
some of the frustration yeah and God is God is not blind to it He's He's seeing what's
happening He's going to honor that He's going to honor that step of faith and that step
of generosity and choosing to not be bitter mm-hmm