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Thursday, February 4, 2021

DOES GOD GIVE US MORE THAN WE CAN HANDLE? - Does God give us more than we can handle at times? - You might be surprised at the answer. But you can't argue with Scripture! - God assures us that He won’t let us be tempted beyond what we can handle. But He never promises not to give us too much to handle. In fact, God often gives us more pressure, stress, trials and difficulties than we can handle. So whenever we feel overwhelmed, let's remember this truth: God often gives us more than we can handle, but He never gives us more than we can handle when we depend on His strength instead of our own. - I used to tell people that God won’t give us more than we can handle. But that’s not scriptural. God assures us that He won’t let us be tempted beyond what we can handle (1 Corinthians 10:13). But He never promises not to give us too much to handle. In fact, God often gives us more pressure, stress, trials and difficulties than we can handle. In 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Paul says, “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself … But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God.” So whenever we feel overwhelmed, let's remember this truth: God often gives us more than we can handle, but He never gives us more than we can handle when we depend on His strength instead of our own. God often gives us more pressure, stress, trials and difficulties than we can handle.

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Does God Give Us More Than We Can Handle?

Does God give us more than we can handle at times?

You might be surprised at the answer. But you can't argue with Scripture!

God assures us that He won’t let us be tempted beyond what we can handle. But He never promises not to give us too much to handle. In fact, God often gives us more pressure, stress, trials and difficulties than we can handle.

So whenever we feel overwhelmed, let's remember this truth: God often gives us more than we can handle, but He never gives us more than we can handle when we depend on His strength instead of our own.

BibleLoveNotes

Gail Burton Purath

I used to tell people that God won’t give us more than we can handle.

But that’s not scriptural.

God assures us that He won’t let us be tempted beyond what we can handle (1 Corinthians 10:13).

But He never promises not to give us too much to handle.

In fact, God often gives us more pressure, stress, trials and difficulties than we can handle.

In 2 Corinthians 1:8-9, Paul says, “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself … But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God.”

So whenever we feel overwhelmed, let's remember this truth: God often gives us more than we can handle, but He never gives us more than we can handle when we depend on His strength instead of our own.

I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but

since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!
I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

https://biblelovenotes.blogspot.com/2013/03/too-much.html

1 Corinthians 10:13 English Standard Version

¹³No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10%3A13&version=ESV

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Saturday, January 9, 2021

OUR FIRST CHOICE - God should be the first place we turn to when we are facing struggles or problems - we need not wait until our circumstances look bleak and we are desperate. God’s help should be our first choice, not a last resort. Trying to control our own lives without God’s help leads to struggle and confusion. When we stay in close contact with God, we are less likely to create painful situations for ourselves. When life leads us into places of discomfort and struggle, God wants us to come to Him first, seeking His strength and guidance. For a length of twenty years the Israelites had been oppressed by the Canaanites ruler and his people. Yet not until Jabin, the king of Canaan, and Sisera, the commander of the army, prepared to slaughter the Israelites with an army of chariots did the Israelites cry out to the Lord for help. Why had these people lived in unbearable circumstances for so long without turning to God? Only when they knew they had no chance of survival against such a powerful force, did they finally turn to God. Why not before? God should be the first place we turn to when we are facing struggles or problems. Unlike the Israelites, we need not wait until our circumstances look bleak and we are desperate. God’s help should be our first choice, not a last resort. The Israelites chose to go their own way and got into a mess. Yet we often do the same, don’t we? Trying to control our own lives without God’s help leads to struggle and confusion.

Our First Choice

When life leads us into places of discomfort and struggle, God wants us to come to Him first, seeking His strength and guidance

God should be the first place we turn to when we are facing struggles or problems - we need not wait until our circumstances look bleak and we are desperate. God’s help should be our first choice, not a last resort. Trying to control our own lives without God’s help leads to struggle and confusion. When we stay in close contact with God, we are less likely to create painful situations for ourselves.

listenandprosper.com

‘Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.’ - Judges 4:3 (NIV).

For a length of twenty years the Israelites had been oppressed by the Canaanites ruler and his people.

Yet not until Jabin, the king of Canaan, and Sisera, the commander of the army, prepared to slaughter the Israelites with an army of chariots did the Israelites cry out to the Lord for help.

Why had these people lived in unbearable circumstances for so long without turning to God?

Only when they knew they had no chance of survival against such a powerful force, did they finally turn to God. Why not before?

God should be the first place we turn to when we are facing struggles or problems.

Unlike the Israelites, we need not wait until our circumstances look bleak and we are desperate.

God’s help should be our first choice, not a last resort.

The Israelites chose to go their own way and got into a mess. Yet we often do the same, don’t we?

God would have delivered His people earlier on, but ‘they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.’ (verse 1).

They refused to repent and turn to Him for help.

Trying to control our own lives without God’s help leads to struggle and confusion.

However, when we stay in close contact with God, we are less likely to create painful situations for ourselves.

This is a lesson the Israelites never fully learned.

When life leads us into places of discomfort and struggle, God wants us to come to Him first, seeking His strength and guidance.

Prayer:

‘Heavenly Father, forgive me for looking elsewhere for the help and comfort that I am searching for just now.

Thank you that you wait for me to return to you. Keep me close to you Lord and help me in this time of need.’

In Jesus’ Mighty Name,

AMEN!

Final Thoughts:

God never left the Israelites, though they often wandered far from His presence.

God promises to stay close to us (Psalm 94:14).

But how often do our hearts stray from Him?

Rather than forsaking our first love (Revelation 2:4), let’s return to our Father and make Him our first choice whenever difficulties arise.

To what or whom do we turn to when we encounter hardship or painful situations?

Nothing or no one else can provide the comfort and help like God. Can we allow God to be all that He is in our lives at this time?

Let’s lay our situation and His feet and trust Him to do more than we could imagine or hope for.

Return to Him and He will turn to us.

Be Greatly Blessed!

https://listenandprosper.com/our-first-choice/

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