Welcome to Day 19 in our 31 Day series on A Mom’s Guide to Getting it All Done. In case you missed yesterday’s post you may want to go and read it first. Or just jump in right here with us today.
Sometimes the biggest hindrance to getting things done is the lie that we are overwhelmed. I cannot tell you how many days I’ve been weighed down with the intense burden of feeling overwhelmed. I couldn’t seem to come up for air and no matter what I did I couldn’t seem to get on top of anything.
Overwhelmed is not a condition though. It’s a feeling. And usually it’s a feeling birthed out of a lie meant to keep you entangled and struggling to keep your eyes on what really matters.
Overwhelmed
It’s a depressing sounding word isn’t it?
It reeks of things left undone, weightiness and being all encompassed by pressures.
But here is when it isn’t a depressing word: When all that overwhelms you is lying at the feet of Jesus.
This is what I have been a student of lately.
I feel the tightness in my chest of the overwhelmed. I hear the thoughts that I am overwhelmed and I begin to repeat them but then I stop. That doesn’t sound like Truth. It sounds like a lie. The enemy has been telling me on repeat that I am overwhelmed. I believe him and began to confess those same words “I’m overwhelmed.”
The Holy Spirit always sounds like Love. He IS love. Even His conviction is covered in love. He doesn’t come to tell you that you are overwhelmed because you should only ever be overwhelmed with Him.
So I take the depressing word, the feeling and lay it at His feet. And do you know what He does with overwhelmed?
He leaves me undone, takes off all heaviness and encompasses me with love. He leads me to discover the greatness He has placed inside of me and gives me the power to rise up and overcome.
Overcomer
Sounds like an encouraging word doesn’t it?
This is the kind of word that the Holy Spirit will speak to us.
It’s a word seeped in hope, it challenges me to rise up and surrounds me with power.
Perhaps we all need to do some laying down of overwhelmed? What thoughts can you take captive right now to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5)? If you have been feeling overwhelmed what is the truth in opposition to that lie?
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Just came across this post and am so thankful for it today. Thank you! I feel like I have been listening to the same lie for days, weeks, months… Years!! That awful word has defined my life, and yet recently I too have been trying to lay it at the foot of the cross… Where it belongs. Thank you for these words… They were powerful!
Sweet words; thank you. {and now I’ve got Mandisa’s “Overcomer” playing in my head. :)
Really needed to hear this today. So refreshing!!
So glad it’s helpful Denise! <3 Blessings, Kristin