Verses for When You're Overstimulated
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Lambano
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Lambano
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Here's an over-worked lady. I think Jesus is also calling her to take a little time-out from all the work that needs to be done to spend a little time with Him.
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quietthinker
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Ephesians 1:1-5 The REMEDY Bible ( comandreason.com )
1 As for you, you were terminal and dying in the distrust, fear and selfishness 2 in which you used to live when you followed the survival-of-the-fittest principle of the world instituted by the ruler of the kingdom of the air–the intelligent being whose principles are now at work in all those who reject truth, love, and freedom. 3 All of us also were born infected with this destructive survival-of-the-fittest principle and at one time gratified its selfish and unhealthy desires and thoughts. Like the rest of humanity, we were born infected with this principle which — if not removed — would result in our self-destruction. 4 But because God is love, because he is merciful, gracious, forgiving, patient and kind, and because he truly loves us, 5 he removes the infection of distrust and selfishness and heals us through Christ. It is because God is gracious, loving and kind that you have been healed and set right with him............
1 As for you, you were terminal and dying in the distrust, fear and selfishness 2 in which you used to live when you followed the survival-of-the-fittest principle of the world instituted by the ruler of the kingdom of the air–the intelligent being whose principles are now at work in all those who reject truth, love, and freedom. 3 All of us also were born infected with this destructive survival-of-the-fittest principle and at one time gratified its selfish and unhealthy desires and thoughts. Like the rest of humanity, we were born infected with this principle which — if not removed — would result in our self-destruction. 4 But because God is love, because he is merciful, gracious, forgiving, patient and kind, and because he truly loves us, 5 he removes the infection of distrust and selfishness and heals us through Christ. It is because God is gracious, loving and kind that you have been healed and set right with him............
Debp
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When we are stressed and feeling overburdened, "overstimulated" .... the answer of course is to go to Jesus Christ, our Lord.
So the verse provided in the OP is excellent, but what about the concept in the OP of looking to a verse?
I guess if a verse helps us remember to go to Jesus, fine, but do we really need a verse to remember that He is there to go to? It's kind of like remembering to go to place to remember. I know for me, what usually happens when I get into those situations, is that a verse might come to mind. But verses to go or come anywhere; so what I mean is that the Spirit of the Lord will sometimes pop a verse into my head to get me to seek my Lord Jesus Christ. But perhaps more often I will hear that small voice telling me, "Karl, do you want to talk?"
This brings me to a problem that I see in Christianity today. We tend to make everything about the Bible instead of about the Lord. That being the case they for God to get us seeking Him, He Himself has to use the Bible to point us back to Him, that He is really there, that He speaks, that we can seek Him and find Him. That can be done with or without the Bible. I mean, how many times to we have to read in the Bible that we can go to Him and get rest before we realize that He is not the Bible but the One we call our Lord and supposed listen to, as His sheep?
So what verse should I add to the thread? How about:
Is 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
and why do we get "overstimulated"?
I really needed it at the time and couldn't come up with much on my own, but was secretly hoping others would contribute to give me some kind of hope - and you all did!
I was overstimulated because I have a lot going on and a lot to take care of.
A couple of days ago, I went to Mr. Duck crying because of the overwhelm and asked why God wouldn't take care of certain things that were breaking me down both mentally and physically, so he counseled me and told me I needed to stop asking for those things to end, and instead to ask God for grace and to give me the strength (and other things) for what I needed to do.
It worked. I was able to get some things done and even *want* to do those things, which I hadn't, in a long time.
At one point the Lord asked me to help in a Christian healing ministry. Indeed, He had told me years before - that He was going to have me in a Christian healing ministry, but I didn't want it. I didn't want it then either. And that is because I can see that I am not the best at dealing mercifully with other people. And so I would talk to Him about 'WHY ME?'. His reason was simple; He told me "Because you listen to Me."
It goes back to this verse:
Exo 15:26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
The point I am making is that we all need to listen to Him, Jesus Christ our Lord!!!!
That is to say that why would we seek anyone before Jesus Christ????
He has the words of God that we need to hear. Those words are healing and life to us!!
Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
So the very extremely obvious conclusion it of course; ask our Lord Jesus Christ and listen to what He has to say!!
The problem is that we tend to be men and women of little faith - which is to say we have a hard time actually believing Him as the Great I AM, and Word of God!!
FACE IT - we don't really think He is there, or we don't think He will talk to us personally - do we? It is hard to believe that, isn't it?
Never-the-less, Jesus Christ is always there, as the Great I AM, and He is always standing there speaking to us!! We just don't open up to Him.
Rev 3:20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
So, while I am not all that good at dealing with people, I didn't make it about me dealing with them, I made it about them seeking Him and listening to Him!!! That was my secret that I used in the Christian healing room ministry that He had me in. And I have to tell you, He did incredible things in front of me every night I worked there.
So you know what I never did was tell them to go to other people! I always tried hooking them up with "the LORD who heals you".
Now there were some advantages we had at the ministry that I don't have hear, to be sure. One was that we prayed over the place and the ministry about an hour before we prayed and ministered to anyone. We also usually had a group of 2 or 3 people for each person we prayed for. And we made it about listening to the Lord before we prayed for them and while we prayed for them. Jesus Christ Himself, had to be the leader, even though I was called a leader of the 2 or 3 of us who were praying. He would tell me, and each of us, how to proceed. That is to say that He would give each of us something, and would tell me which order He wanted the others to give what they had.
Common things He would have us do were things like: Forgiveness. Many people think God would not talk to them because of the things they have done and the things they fell about others. That is not actually true; He is willing to talk to you at anytime, because He forgave you at the cross, but we tend to believe that is the case, so He would often have us lead people through forgiveness, so they didn't fell like He wouldn't talk to them. It was simple. We would have them ask Jesus Christ if there was anyone they needed to forgive.
Simply put, we would lead them to pray, "Jesus Christ is there anyone I need to forgive?" and have them listen inside, because the Word of God we preach is found in your mouth and heart (you spirit). And almost without exception the person would pick up in them that they needed for forgive someone. Then we would have them pray it again, because almost always there are others. And each time it because easier and easier to hear what the Lord was telling them. Indeed, it was very common to have someone tell us they had never heard from the Lord before, and after we went through this I could and did often point out to them how well they were at hearing the Lord, considering they never thought they had heard from Him before. And the expression on their face was something like, 'Yeah'.
Often people received their healing right then in that process, and almost everyone would tell us how much "lighter" they felt after that.
So I don't know about this " I went to Mr. Duck crying because of the overwhelm and asked why God wouldn't take care of certain things", in the above post. What makes you think God wouldn't take care of certain things????? That is not exactly putting a lot of faith in the Lord, is it? Why don't you ask Him??
I am not saying that He doesn't leave some tests and things about. He all battle with the powers, principalities, and dark forces of this world, but who can be against you if He is for you?
Ps 91:1-3 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust!”
For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.
Ok, I am being honest - I don't always listen to Him like I should. I don't always dwell in that shelter like I should. But "I will say to the LORD, “My refuge and my fortress,"!!!
But still I know that He 'Jesus Christ' is the Lord my God! I know that He will talk to me, when I stop being stubborn and decide to listen to Him!
Therefore my favorite verses are not what I seek, though I have them. I seek the voice of the Lord my God, Jesus Christ! Not as much as I should, but I do that. I don't go to other people, though I do believe He can use them. I go directly to Him, and listen to HIm, and advise others to do the same!! What sense does it make to do otherwise?
I'll answer this because maybe someone else can use it.
I have prayed for a cure for someone in my family. Acting as a caregiver is a full time job in itself.
I was thinking of this today and another time where my selfishness wanted more than the answer that was given, which was a no. Other prayers were answered right away, but not this one. If I had known what God was doing was greater than what I was asking for, I would have stepped back, but I wasn't accepting of that no. So why shouldn't I trust him now.
I waited years for something that would not come and leaned on Habakkuk.
"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights."
If we had listened to God in the beginning...
Habakkuk 1:5
“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told."
While there is difficulty now, I will put my trust in the Lord. We know that God is good and reliance on him is good faith. The thing that will keep me strong isn't getting what I want. It's knowing his faithfulness is greater than what I can ask for.
Lambano
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DuckieLady said:
Very wise, Mr. Duck is.
So here's a scripture about God giving strength for the tasks at hand:
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Lambano
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And here's a verse for unanswered prayers (which I am well-acquainted with):
Having faith in Jesus Christ means believing He is there for us. And that means we can hear from Him.
So if we ask Him for someone to be healed, could that answer be "no". It certainly could be, but why? So listening to Him means more than just hearing yes or no, but also involves reasoning with Him, and that so we might learn from Him. He is the Teacher, right? And we are all supposed to be taught of God, right?
When He had me working in the Chrisitan healing ministry for five years, He also had me go and get something to eat afterwards and we talked about how the night had gone. Mainly, it was about learning. It turns out that we have a lot to learn, and that means reasoning with Him!! So not just yes or no, and absolutely does not mean leaning on our own understanding. It all comes down to listening to Him.
How do we miss that, even when we read the Bible?
Jn 9: 2,3 And His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Do we not see that "His disciples" jump to conclusion? So we have to listen to Him to know what is going on and what we need to do!! It is not simply a matter of saying we have faith in Him, it is actually turning to listen to Him by faith!!
Gal 3:5 So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
We tend to make assorts of little rules and laws according to our religion (our understanding of God) instead of simply make it about talking back and forth with Him!
Is 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
Face it, we just don't know all we need to know. For example, my wife when I meet her had a problem with her knee. She had gone through surgery on it in the past, and it didn't work all that well. She had to be helped going up or down stairs. So I prayed for her, but she did not get any healing. So I talked to the Lord, but I had trouble hearing Him on this issue. That did not mean He didn't want to help her, but I had trouble believing that He could tell me how to get it healed. We all have trouble hearing Him for things when they are extremely important to us. Now the Lord had my mom take us to a Christian convention. While there the speaker at the time (Bill Johnson) got a word from the Lord that He wanted to heal people who had problems from surgery where they had to remove cartilage from their joints. So he had people around them pray for them, reminding them that we are not praying for healing, but for a creative miracle, because God had to replace the cartilage.
Oh wow, I had never thought about that. So, my wife got prayer and her knee was good again. Obviously, Bill Johnson had heard Him better than me, and was reasoning more with the Lord than I was. That was the lesson, that I needed to reason more than I was, and even stop leaning on my own understanding about how to pray for others. And I learned a lot more on that lesson while working in the healing ministry during the five years after that time. Indeed, I believe the Lord timed even that lesson to prepare me for the years I spent afterward in the Christian healing ministry.
We need to stop thinking we have it all figured out and start practicing seek Jesus Christ our Lord to listen to Him, reason with Him, and learn from Him! So it is not about seeking a verse, favorite or not, and start seeking Him like the verses tells us to do!!
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