FEELING OVERWHELMED

Psalm 142:3 NLT When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn.

I was chatting with a friend recently whose life has become very complicated by various circumstances where she’s having to help look after some children in the family and she has days when she feels overwhelmed by it all. You may feel like that yourself at times.

But God wants to encourage us today to know that He still has us in the palm of His hand and He knows every detail of what’s going on in our lives. When Jairus came to Jesus he was overwhelmed with the worry of his daughter being at the point of death and yet Jesus calmly tells him to ‘only believe’ even when he heard a bad report!

Jesus is saying the same thing to us. He doesn’t say have more faith, He just says to not fall into unbelief but to keep our eyes fixed on Him and His word and keep believing. At no point does Jesus say, “You might as well give up now!” No, quite the opposite!😊

1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. As Peter wrote those words was he remembering the day he walked on water? He was doing fine while he ignored the storm and was looking at Jesus, but the minute he looked away to the circumstances, he became anxious and started to sink. It didn’t happen instantly, he ‘started’ to sink! Our unbelief does the same thing. We start off so well believing in faith, and then we start to sink, bit by bit, because we’ve listened to the enemy’s lies. 

So this is to encourage anybody who is feeling overwhelmed in any degree today, to keep believing in the power of God to hold you up, to see yourself as an overcomer in Jesus, so you rise back up above those circumstances with the help of His Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:37 NLT No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

So don’t forget we have the Greater One in us fighting your battles, going ahead of us into each new day. 😊Thank You Lord. In Jesus name.Amen.

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