An Appointment In Hell
"OVERWHELMED BY A RELENTLESS GOD"
The passages of scripture in Job is not often preached in the church at large, and I believe it is so because to understand it, you must know something deeper about God and His direct interaction with us. And certainly on this occasion with God and Job, you can believe I have never heard anyone say that they wish they could have taken Job’s place. But God loved Job in an overwhelming way!!!
There is certainly an awesome feeling we get just from reading how God questioned Job and the overwhelming aspects of the questions themselves. No one, but no one had ever even thought of questions such as what God asked Job, much less the answers.
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love for you.
3. God wants you to be overwhelmed with Him
Number one: Living in an Overwhelming World
It is a fact that we live in a world that simply overwhelms all of us from time to time. It’s either that we are OBE’d (overcome by events), as I sometimes will say, or that we simply run out of ourselves – we run out of us. We have no more to give, we can’t give anything more of ourselves, and we have no more to give to situations, issues, challenges, and please – please, no more crises for today!
We’re simply overwhelmed!!!
And there are other reasons and ways in which the “wagons of worldly weight” can overcome us is we’re not careful.
Well, we can all identify with the fact that we’ve seen a serious increase in the number of people who are right now overcome with all that is going on in their lives both at work and at home – and even at church – and then seemingly every facet of their lives it appears that things have almost gone crazy.
I have ...
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general things of this life, more and more we end up forgetting to remember:
1. Our spiritual health – what are we doing daily for our spiritual health
2. Have we broken/divided the complex things down into simpler parts
3. Have we looked for alternatives
4. Did we seek God’s help at all – or did we forget about Him
5. Whose battle is it – and whose job is it anyway
You know something, when we even FEEL overwhelmed, God is simply waiting on us to give Him a call, ask for help, and give it all to Him. Because, remember, His yoke is easy and His burdens are light! And He does this one thing for us– He takes the hardest, most difficult, most perplexing, the most mind-blowing ...
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