Come To Me

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Come To Me!
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For Those Who Struggle
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• Im ready to throw in the
• Im at the end of my
• Im just a bundle of
• My life is falling
• Im at my wits
• I feel like resigning from the human

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Stressed?
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• Fatigue - being physically run down
• Anger at those making demands
• Feelings of being taken advantage
• Cynicism, negativity, and irritability
• A sense of being besieged
• Exploding easily at inconsequential things
• Frequent headaches/stomach problems Weight loss
  or gain
• Sleeplessness and depression
• Shortness of breath
• Feelings of helplessness

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• American would be working 22 hours a week within
  20 years. The great challenge, the experts
  said, would be to figure out what to do with all
  the excess time.

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• Im late, Im late, for a very important date!

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• Now here, you see, it takes all the running you
  can do to keep in the same place.
• If you want to get somewhere else, you must run
  at least twice as fast as that.

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Nicolas Cage

• I wonder if there is a hole in the soul of my
  generation.
• Weve inherited the American dream, but where do
  we take it?

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Matthew 1128-30

• "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
  and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon
  you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble
  in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

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• Jesus is inviting us
• Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened

Jesus is promising us I will give you rest.
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Come To Me!
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• all you who are weary and burdened

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Psalm 42

• As the deer pants for streams of water, so my
  soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for
  God, for the living God. When can I go and meet
  with God?

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• I will give you rest

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• His Godly Nature insures us that He can make His
  promises good.

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• Ephesians 115-19 - For this reason, ever since I
  heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your
  love for all the saints, 16 I have not stopped
  giving thanks for you, remembering you in my
  prayers. 17 I keep asking that the God of our
  Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give
  you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that
  you may know him better.

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• 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened in order that you may know the hope
  to which he has called you, the riches of his
  glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and his
  incomparably great power for us who believe.

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• Ephesians 314 - For this reason I kneel before
  the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in
  heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray
  that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen
  you with power through his Spirit in your inner
  being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts
  through faith.

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• And I pray that you, being rooted and established
  in love, 18 may have power, together with all the
  saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and
  deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this
  love that surpasses knowledgethat you may be
  filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
  

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• 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more
  than all we ask or imagine, according to his
  power that is at work within us, 21 to him be
  glory in the church and in Christ Jesus
  throughout all generations, for ever and ever!
  Amen.

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• Colossians 128,29 To this end I labor,
  struggling with all his energy, which so
  powerfully works in me.

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• His Good Name insures us that He will make His
  promises good.

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• What a friend we have in Jesus,
• all our sins and griefs to bear!
• What a privilege to carry
• everything to God in prayer!
• O what peace we often forfeit,
• O what needless pain we bear,
• all because we do not carry
• everything to God in prayer.

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• Have we trials and temptations?
• Is there trouble anywhere?
• We should never be discouraged take it to the
  Lord in prayer.
• Can we find a friend so faithful
• who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our
  every weakness take it to the Lord in prayer.

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• Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load
  of care?
• Precious Savior, still our refuge
• take it to the Lord in prayer.
• Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? Take it to
  the Lord in prayer!
• In his arms he'll take and shield thee thou wilt
  find a solace there.