Cry out

A pastor argues that God wants your raw anger and pain, not polished prayers. He shares how he escaped gang life in Queens after a bathroom encounter with God, and uses a GPS metaphor to explain how the Holy Spirit guides decisions about work, relationships, and faith.
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Does anybody know what it feels like to cry out to the Lord and he responds? Watch, because the Lord is attracted to brokenness and to humility and watch this word, honesty. This is why I keep encouraging you, stop sanitizing your prayers. Stop going into his presence with this laundry list of lies. He already knows that you're mad. He already knows that you're angry. He knows that you don't like your spouse. He already knows what you're battling with. Just go in there and be, watch this word, honest. You know how frustrating it would be for you to try to get from your house here in a new city with no GPS? And a lot of people live life that way, driving with no GPS, doing life with no guidance. The greatest GPS you will ever know is not on your iPhone. It's the Spirit of God ordering your steps, guiding you. Don't marry, marry. Take the job, don't take the job. Walk away from that career, knit your heart to that church. You have no idea what the Lord does on the other side of your instructions as you're following that GPS, man. He just leads you into everything that he has for you. I was in Queens, he knew where I would be right now. When I was gangbanging in the street, he knew where I'll be right now. When he rescued me in a bathroom over a toilet seat, he knew where I'd be right now. The greatest GPS you have is just the voice of the Holy Spirit, because you have no idea what's on the other side of obedience.
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