Dear Overwhelmed,

I am sorry you are in this pit, but reading your Bible and praying is the right way to get out of it. Overwhelming means shroud or to be covered over, darkness, fainting, feeble! This is a feeling and we cannot go by feelings, but by what the Bible says. Your faith comes from the Bible, not a feeling. We live in this world, but we are not of this world. This is a fallen world so we have to look at everything through the eyes of Jesus and how He would see our situations and circumstances. If we don’t do this, everything will overwhelm us! We will not see properly!

The Psalmist David got overwhelmed and said in Psalm 102:1 “…when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to You.” So this feeling you are having is certainly not new to God’s people.

When we read the Word, we have to do the Word! The book of James 1:22-23 says, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.” This means we can read but we have to do something with what we just read or heard.

The root cause of being overwhelmed is anxiety! The Apostle Paul says in Philippians 4:6,7: “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

This shows us our part and God’s part. Peace comes after we do our part and do not allow our minds to be anxious no matter what comes our way. We do that by finding the promise attached to the problem and keep speaking it out and thanking God for the answer! You will begin to see that overwhelming feeling leave you and your faith will grow stronger each day. Speak the promise, not the problem!