Making Peace with What I Can't Control

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My Efforts to Control Do Not Prevent My Fears from Coming True

It’s not that we want to be controlling people; we’re just desperate to prevent another hardship, more heartbreak, and all the emotional turmoil that feels so unnecessary. And we’re especially afraid of what God seems to be allowing. So we come up with plans and try to make everyone around us line up with what we really think is best.

But this only leads to a false belief that everything depends on us—a crushing weight we were never meant to bear. In this book, Lysa TerKeurst addresses the tension so many of us live in when we fear what will happen if we don’t take matters into our own hands. In Making Peace with What I Can’t Control, Lysa will help you:

• Identify the core fears that fuel you to reach for control but only compound the chaos.
• Know when you’re crossing the line from healthy responsibility into the dangerous territory of fear-driven control.
• Recognize specific tactics of the Enemy that keep you in spiritual confusion (about God) fueled by emotional exhaustion (from the relentlessness of life).
• Stop allowing the decisions of others to rob your peace by learning what to do when you feel tempted to inappropriately intervene, rescue, or control the narrative.
• Wrestle honestly with the Lord about hard questions like, Why aren’t you doing more to change this person or these circumstances?

Together, we’ll learn that it’s not too late to take the weight of the world off our shoulders and hand over to God what was always supposed to be His to carry.

Bible verses and reflection prompts can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.