Anger That Strengthens And Doesn't Destroy - Phil Ayres - 23 August 2026

Today I wanna speak on the topic of anger.

I wanna speak on the topic and the title of the message today is anger that strengthens and doesn't destroy.

Now probably everybody in this room at some point has experienced or been on the end of someone's anger.

And I was going to get a bottle of spray string.

You know that string? Because when you spray people, when you give them a spray of your anger, what you're doing is you're dumping the emotional tension that's in you and you're dumping it on them.

And sometimes that jumps on people and it sticks with them and we tend to pass on It's possible to pass our anger on in our responses towards one another, especially if you're growing up in a family or a home or a culture that promotes that or doesn't recognise that.

It can be unhealthy and it can perpetrate something that doesn't build relationships.

And so my prayer today is that as we discuss this, as I share this word, that it brings a sense of insight, confidence and hope to every person, whether you're in the room or whether you're online, that there'll be a sense of understanding how can we bring our anger before God and become something that builds and doesn't destroy.

Ephesians 4, verses 31 and 32 says, stop.

Everyone say stop.

Stop.

You know anyone like that? Don't put your hand up, all right.

Powerful words.

Great insight into the New Testament idea of how we should live towards each other.

Proverbs 19, verse 19 says, people with bad tempers are always in trouble.

And they need help over and over.

I'll put it in the Philip Ayers version, okay? Over and over and over and over and over and over again.

It's not like when anger is present in your life, you get into trouble.

if you don't know how to manage it and you don't know how to allow that to build people rather than break them.

Ephesians 4.26, interesting this verse, I never understood it for a long time.

It says, Hang on a second, I thought anger was sin.

You ever read a verse and thought, oh, maybe that's a mistranslation or something.

Be angry and do not sin.

We're gonna talk about this whole concept.

Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.