Overwhelmed
About this sermon
In “Overwhelmed,” Pastor Dean Odle presents a Scripture-centered message about David’s example, faith, worship. Drawing especially from Revelation 12, Psalm 55, Psalm 51, 1 Peter 4, the teaching emphasizes that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. Odle connects that foundation with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises.
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Odle focuses on worship while working through Revelation 12. The message argues that true worship centers on God and is expressed through reverence, surrender, and obedience. It connects this with the conviction that faithful endurance is necessary when obedience brings testing, opposition, or suffering. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on faith. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that the message connects prayer for healing with faith in Christ, pastoral care, and submission to God. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on faith while working through Psalm 55. The message argues that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. It connects this with the conviction that Scripture is presented as the standard for doctrine, discernment, and daily obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on David’s example while working through Psalm 55, Psalm 51. The message argues that David’s choices are used to examine leadership, testing, repentance, and renewed dependence on God. It connects this with the conviction that prayer expresses dependence on God and prepares believers to hear and obey Him. The practical emphasis is to seek God in prayer and act on what Scripture requires.
Odle focuses on family discipleship. The message argues that faithfulness in the home requires instruction, loving correction, protection, and a consistent Christian example. It connects this with the conviction that biblical faith trusts God’s character and acts upon His promises. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on marriage and covenant. The message argues that marriage is treated as a covenant requiring faithfulness, sacrifice, truth, and biblical order. It connects this with the conviction that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. The practical emphasis is to test the teaching by Scripture and apply it through faithful obedience.
Odle focuses on Satanic opposition while working through Psalm 51. The message argues that Satan’s work is described through deception, accusation, temptation, and opposition to God’s purposes. It connects this with the conviction that God’s grace forgives and also trains believers to leave sin and live in obedience. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
Odle focuses on the condition of the church while working through 1 Peter 4 and Matthew 24. The message argues that the church is called to recover biblical faithfulness instead of accommodating compromise. It connects this with the conviction that thankfulness remembers God’s mercy and guards the heart from entitlement and complaint. The practical emphasis is to trust God’s promises and refuse decisions governed by fear.
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praise your name hallelujah lord we worship you this morning we give you praise and we give you glory lord we praise you lord we worship just worship him for another moment here just worship jesus he's our only hope he's the only hope for anyone now the blood of jesus the power of his holy spirit to be our deliverer to be our refuge to be our healer lord you are all those things we worship you and praise you that you are savior and redeemer that by your blood lord you have made a way to deal with sin and by your stripes you have you have dealt with sickness and disease and by lord your resurrection from the dead you have destroyed death and you have made a way for eternal life lord we're praying that that so many more people will be awakened lord that they'll be drawn they'll be convicted they'll be saved in this time god that's so overwhelming lord we ask you to move in a fresh new way god even in our midst lord we need you we need you to move lord we thank you god that through that your death on the cross and resurrection from the dead in your power jesus that you've also dealt a blow to satan and he will ultimately be completely defeated and cast into the lake of fire lord we praise you this morning that you are the victor jesus you are the one who will return and take the earth as your kingdom again you will destroy the wicked satan the demons the fallen angels will all be locked away the antichrist the false prophets those who take the mar all of it lord you will deal with it all thank you lord you are the victor jesus we praise your name jesus wonderful foreign for i'm not finished with this generation i am the lord thy god and i called you to be your first special purpose that you never dreamed of i am with you to the end my signs and wonders will return to my people of full strength i am with you i love you and i will give you the strength the courage to overcome this world
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[Music] praise you lord praise your name praise you jesus your kingdom come lord your will be done praise you jesus praise you lord thank you lord thank you jesus we praise your name we worship you can you play you jeremy campbell overcome just keep praying for a minute we're going to do another song we overcome and we're going to have a lot to overcome but we overcome the bible says by the blood of jesus by the word of our testimony and because we love not our lives even unto the dead when things are overwhelming that's what you have to remind yourself it's good to know that we may be overwhelmed at times but he's never overwhelmed [Music] it's a simple song here by jeremy kemp from revelation 12 verse 11 that i just said about overcoming by the blood of jesus word of our testimony [Music] praise you jesus hallelujah we praise you this morning we thank you lord praise your name lord hallelujah hallelujah you may be seated this morning we'll get started praise the lord
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the title of uh the message this morning the lord just kind of has dropped this in my heart but we're just i'm just going to address it but overwhelmed overwhelmed um jesus is not overwhelmed amen doesn't mean we won't be see this is the misnomer in american prosperity gospel christianity and that everything you know if if you uh believe in jesus and go to the local mega church and tithe and do everything just right that you know you'll have your best life now and everything will be hunky-dory every day a friday right you know and you know it's just not the way it is and that's why our faith is not in ourselves you see if i had to have faith in my ability to not be overwhelmed sometimes if that's what made me right with god uh yes even pastor dean would not be right with god you understand but because jesus overcame sin death hell the grave that's the only reason we can overcome anything and our faith in him and our faith and what he has done and what he will do is what will get us through if we don't turn loose of our faith it's all we really have in this world honestly i know maybe some of you think that i'm a strong christian sometimes i think i am and sometimes i think i'm not which means i'm just like you sometimes you think you're strong and sometimes you realize i can't do this at all sometimes i feel like i'm superman in christianity and sometimes i feel like i'm a total failure but thank god it's not dependent on me that is not dependent on how i feel or how you feel see we are being overwhelmed by the enemy right now and that's only going to increase
- 0:09:14
and so i don't want you to be under any illusions that something is wrong with you if you feel overwhelmed or you feel stressed out or you feel that the attack is almost too much to bear or if you feel like there's just too many things going on in the world you just can't take it i'm going to show you one of the greatest men of god that ever lived stated i am overwhelmed you see folks i'm just going to be honest with you this in the past few days and i'll try to be as easy about this as i can but these are the facts you know when you see the videos and yes i watch them sometimes maybe i shouldn't but when you see the videos of isis lighting up 1700 students young people like you guys laying them out on the ground and killing every one of them when you see what they're doing to women and children so you look at that aspect of what's going on you see what is happening in africa with ebola and now we have another confirmed case in dallas texas a health care worker that took care of the first patient and these are the people that take precautions and now we have a health care worker in dallas with ebola we don't really know yet because look at how many days it's been we don't really know yet how many people are infected and i can tell you this from my reading and studying and research that this is the avenue that the evil aspects of our government and the u.n and everything is going to use to institute martial law and take over america this is it this is why they have done nothing to stop it from getting in here they wanted it to get in here as a matter of fact and then probably tuesday night maybe even next week i'm going to just show how it's all been planned it's been planned for over 20 years to bring ebola into the united states to take it down it's been a plan of the satanic global elite to do just this to use ebola to prove it to you i watched some things last night that blew my mind this is a manufactured crisis and it's brilliant they're going to force vaccinations and then i found out something even more disturbing
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