At first when I read about Gods fire burning with
Anger because of the grumbling I started to worry and prayed to God, Lord I complain all the time. Forgive me. I must repent as you can become frustrated for my ungrateful heart. We must look to God and praise Him for taking us out of slavery we were in chains before we were saved. We now live in the light. It’s so easy to look at the world and all the things that are luring us. Drag us away from Him. Lord let us look to you. You have given us true water of life!
9 When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies.
This verse jumped out at me today while I was catching up on my readings. The sounding of the trumpet (shofar/ ram’s horn) is a beautiful picture of Jesus and His victory. Whenever we remember Jesus and His finished work, God will remember us and move in to rescue us from our enemies or give us the victory Jesus died to give us :)
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles and he be holds the form of the Lord. Numbers 12:8. I thought of the New Testament and how God has given all of us his Holy Spirit. We now behold the form of the Lord which is so encouraging. God speaks to us mouth to mouth when we pray.
So grateful for all these insightful comments. I’ve been having a very hard time with my newborn 5 week old and have been very quick to complain. God won’t give me more than I can handle — I will rest in that <3.
I’m sure everyone has heard the saying “God will never give me more than I can handle.”
I’m struggling with believing that because my anxiety is beginning to be something I can’t bear on my own, and now it’s turned into what I believe to be a panic attack. I had my first the other night and it was terrible.
I just can’t believe that God would give me that and expect me to be able to handle that by myself. I think he gives us more than we can possibly or humanly handle because He wants us to turn to Him and He wants to share our burden, take it off our shoulders, just like He did when Moses said the burden was far too much for him to bear alone and he would rather die than continue to live with this huge burden. So God put the burden on 70 other people so that Moses could bear it, not alone, but with others. I identity a lot with Moses right now, which is comforting.
Lauren a couple years ago I was thinking about that phrase and decided to look it up. And there is no scripture that says God doesn’t give us more than we can handle! The only one that comes close is 1 Corinth 10:13 which says the Lord will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear (and beyond that, when we are tempted He will give us a way out). All that to say…I agree with you! I think God chooses us and our weaknesses to show His power and work in our lives. So much of what Paul wrote in the NT gives evidence of that, especially 2 Corinth 12:8-10. I’m praying for you Lauren. Praying that the Lord would overwhelm you with his peace and power.
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor 12:9
Here’s another promise you can claim. I understand. Praying for you. JESUS IS sufficient.
I know I’m a year past when you posted this but I still felt led to post :) I can relate a lot to what you are going through. A few months ago I had such bad anxiety that I found myself digging my fingernails into my palms (not to the point of breaking skin, but enough to leave an impression) It wasn’t until I had the revelation that God does not give us anxiety. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but he has given unto us a spirit of power, a spirit of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 I kept repeating that promise over and over and it would help so much! Praying for you! Just remember “perfect love casts out all fear” We need to fix our eyes on Jesus because he is love and will cast out all fear. :)
13: …from the beginning God chose you
I am awestruck that He would choose someone like me, so undeserving, so sinful. I fail Him repeatedly yet before I was conceived He knew me and loved me. I am so thankful to be His today!!
Numbers 11:1 – Now the people complained about their hardships in the heading of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. — Oh Father forgive me for the multitudes of times I’ve complained about all sorts of things. Help me to remember you have me exactly where you want me and everything I have or don’t have is exactly how you want it. You are God, I am not.
“10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,”
PLEASE God, help those we love that are deluded and not believing the truth to turn and believe, through the power of your Spirit, amen!
At first when I read about Gods fire burning with
Anger because of the grumbling I started to worry and prayed to God, Lord I complain all the time. Forgive me. I must repent as you can become frustrated for my ungrateful heart. We must look to God and praise Him for taking us out of slavery we were in chains before we were saved. We now live in the light. It’s so easy to look at the world and all the things that are luring us. Drag us away from Him. Lord let us look to you. You have given us true water of life!
Amen! I complain a lot too. Praying that my heart would find more contentment in life and less to grumble about!
9 When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies.
This verse jumped out at me today while I was catching up on my readings. The sounding of the trumpet (shofar/ ram’s horn) is a beautiful picture of Jesus and His victory. Whenever we remember Jesus and His finished work, God will remember us and move in to rescue us from our enemies or give us the victory Jesus died to give us :)
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles and he be holds the form of the Lord. Numbers 12:8. I thought of the New Testament and how God has given all of us his Holy Spirit. We now behold the form of the Lord which is so encouraging. God speaks to us mouth to mouth when we pray.
So grateful for all these insightful comments. I’ve been having a very hard time with my newborn 5 week old and have been very quick to complain. God won’t give me more than I can handle — I will rest in that <3.
I’m sure everyone has heard the saying “God will never give me more than I can handle.”
I’m struggling with believing that because my anxiety is beginning to be something I can’t bear on my own, and now it’s turned into what I believe to be a panic attack. I had my first the other night and it was terrible.
I just can’t believe that God would give me that and expect me to be able to handle that by myself. I think he gives us more than we can possibly or humanly handle because He wants us to turn to Him and He wants to share our burden, take it off our shoulders, just like He did when Moses said the burden was far too much for him to bear alone and he would rather die than continue to live with this huge burden. So God put the burden on 70 other people so that Moses could bear it, not alone, but with others. I identity a lot with Moses right now, which is comforting.
Lauren a couple years ago I was thinking about that phrase and decided to look it up. And there is no scripture that says God doesn’t give us more than we can handle! The only one that comes close is 1 Corinth 10:13 which says the Lord will not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear (and beyond that, when we are tempted He will give us a way out). All that to say…I agree with you! I think God chooses us and our weaknesses to show His power and work in our lives. So much of what Paul wrote in the NT gives evidence of that, especially 2 Corinth 12:8-10. I’m praying for you Lauren. Praying that the Lord would overwhelm you with his peace and power.
Thank you so much for your insight and kind words. They mean a lot ❤️
I know what you’re going through Lauren and I’m praying for you!
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 2 Cor 12:9
Here’s another promise you can claim. I understand. Praying for you. JESUS IS sufficient.
I cannot tell you how relatable this is to me right now. Thank you for this! I will be praying for you. God bless!
Thank you sweet ladies for all your words and prayers. You have no idea how much that means to me! I’ll be praying for you all!
I know I’m a year past when you posted this but I still felt led to post :) I can relate a lot to what you are going through. A few months ago I had such bad anxiety that I found myself digging my fingernails into my palms (not to the point of breaking skin, but enough to leave an impression) It wasn’t until I had the revelation that God does not give us anxiety. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but he has given unto us a spirit of power, a spirit of love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7 I kept repeating that promise over and over and it would help so much! Praying for you! Just remember “perfect love casts out all fear” We need to fix our eyes on Jesus because he is love and will cast out all fear. :)
13: …from the beginning God chose you
I am awestruck that He would choose someone like me, so undeserving, so sinful. I fail Him repeatedly yet before I was conceived He knew me and loved me. I am so thankful to be His today!!
Numbers 11:1 – Now the people complained about their hardships in the heading of the Lord, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. — Oh Father forgive me for the multitudes of times I’ve complained about all sorts of things. Help me to remember you have me exactly where you want me and everything I have or don’t have is exactly how you want it. You are God, I am not.
“10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. 11 For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,”
PLEASE God, help those we love that are deluded and not believing the truth to turn and believe, through the power of your Spirit, amen!