Thoughts and Considerations

  Biblical Anger Management Index Introduction 1-4 Part 2 – Basic Anger Management “ I get angry easily.” 5-7 You lose control 7-9 Get angry easily and over little things- irritable 10-13 The Anger of Unkindness 13-16 Situational Occurrences “I am angry now, but not hostile. What do I do.” 17-18 You are angry, by yourself, and you are about to lose control…. 18-20 Angry now and in a potentially explosive situation… 21-22

                          WHY MY PRAYERS AREN’T ANSWERED                                        (For the local newspaper)                               Years ago I was encouraging a colleague to turn his life to Jesus. He told me that God doesn’t answer his prayers. He went on to state that he had asked God for five things and never got them. I replied, “What did you pray for?” As he attempted to rebuttal my position, each time he was about to speak, he said, “Well, He did answer that, and that, and that one too… but I asked Him for a car and never got one.” I suggested, “Why don’t you just go and buy one?”   We often expect our prayers to be answered on our terms. As with this fellow, how many of our prayers have been answered and we simply did not recognize it. We know that God is not some big genie in the sky who is there to answer our every beckon and call. We can see throughout creation, and the Biblical morals, that God is a God of laws and principles. Certainly, if we want our p