We all have these days…
You know them…
Days where it’s hard to move forward…
Hard to smile…
Hard to function…
Not because of the weather, or something that just happened, but because something is bothering you…
Something is causing you to be emotional…
Something that makes you want to quit…
To say, “I’m done.”
It makes you vulnerable and turns everything else into a big deal too…
Capable of snapping on someone…
You hold back…
Shut down…
Pull back the tears…
And run inside where no one but God can see you…
And while there…you say…
“God why?!”
Everyone around you thinks they know, but they have no clue…
If you are like me, you realize…
THIS IS OVERWHELMING!!!
STOP!!! STOP RIGHT THERE!!!
What is the problem? Who is the problem? Why is there a problem? Why such great turmoil, pain, agony…Why?
We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood…No
We wrestle against the principalities in this life, against rulers, against the powers, against the world forces in this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places… That’s what Ephesians 6:12, 13 says.
They make themselves known and affect us by whispering things in our ears, throwing destructive darts at our minds, and aiming their blows at our hearts…
But we have a choice…
Say this with me…
OVERWHELMED!!! YES, I AM OVERWHELMED!!!!
I am overwhelmed with emotions, but I will decide why I am overwhelmed… and it is not because of what these forces have to dish out against me…
NO!!!
I am overwhelmed because I serve a great God that is more than able to take care of me and everything that attempts to overwhelm me.
I am overwhelmed because of His great salvation. I am overwhelmed because of His love. I am overwhelmed because of His heart for me.
I am overwhelmed because of His power and His might…
I am overwhelmed because in the midst of my emotions, He makes Himself known…through the trees, the wind…
Through the birds…
Through the color of everything around me…
He whispers in my heart…
FEAR NOT!!! I AM HERE AND I HAVE ALREADY OVERCOME THEM!!! HAVE COURAGE AND HOLD ON TO ME…I AM HERE AND I’VE GOT THIS…
You just don’t know how completely overwhelmed I am right now…
I can feel His love…can you?
In the mist of my brokenness…in the midst of my ache…I know He is all-powerful.
My husband said “Don’t let anyone mess up your day! Have a good one…”
That was God, speaking through Him…
The “let” in his statement said “take authority…don’t let it have power over you…put on the armor of God and stand”
Today, I stand on my knees…worshiping HIM.
I will choose what overwhelms me. It will not be the cares of this life, or the problems…or the people…It will be God! He will overwhelm me…
Have you ever felt overwhelmed?
How do you handle it?
Are you able to take control of your emotions and focus on Him?
Try it! Next time let Him overwhelm you…it may take a minute, but whisper “God help me to be overwhelmed by you.” and I promise you will experience a great and powerful overwhelming that you will yearn for again…
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