Have you ever had one of those nights where there was 1000 different things rushing through your head? You wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep because there’s a burden weighing on your heart, and it felt like all you could do was toss and turn? We live in a very busy, restless, overworked, overstressed culture. Research tells us almost 20% of the adult population in the US today suffers from some sort of clinical anxiety disorder, and that doesn't even include the pervasive day-to-day worrying that many of us experience. Many of us worry about things that we simply cannot shake loose, things that we simply cannot stop thinking about. Maybe it’s a problem at work…an unresolved relational conflict with a friend…a struggle with an addiction…a serious health issue…a personal crisis with a family member.Maybe you’re facing a stack of bills that keeps piling higher and higher or you are dealing with some debts where you feel like you keep sinking deeper and deeper. And because of these worries, your heart slips into this state of a perpetual tossing and turning, making for long sleepless nights and tiresome days. Psalm 127:2 NLT It is useless for you to work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones. Only God has an answer to the restlessness that we feel. So, for the month of September, our goal is to move from stress to rest as we are in this series called Insomnia: What keeps you up at night? We are examining some of the primary catalysts for stress and anxiety and tension in our lives, and we want to see what Scripture has to say about them.
Great message and testimony today! 90-day challenge to tithe is pretty big, God-sized, in fact.
Posted by: marina berryman | September 20, 2009 at 01:04 PM