Complicated

LIMITED EDITION

Pastor Hope Flask

November 9, 2025

Main Scriptures: Matthew 4:1-11

Additional Scriptures: Hebrews 12:1-2, Genesis 2:16-17, 3:4-5, Matthew 3:17, 7:13-14, John 14:6, 17:4, 2 Corinthians 12:9

POINTS:

• Limit: a boundary; a point or level beyond which something cannot go.

• Burnout: when we experience prolonged or excessive emotional, physical, and mental stress and exhaustion.

• Dysfunction: when one person overfunctions while another person underfunctions.

• For every yes we say, there is a no that we give someone else.

• Fear causes us to control (overfunction) or disengage (underfunction).

• Limits are gifts.

• Satan tempts us to disregard and redefine God’s limits based on a distorted belief system so that he not only hinders our relationship with God but also our relationship with others.

• Jesus says that the path of real abundant life is limited.

• God places limits on us to protect, provide, and bring us into an even deeper relationship with Him.

• God never tells us to live up to our potential: instead, He tells us to live up to our purpose.

• God-given limits: personality and temperament, seasons, singleness or marriage, financial, physical, intellectual, and time.

• God shows up in God-given limits!

• Self-imposed limits are lies we’ve believed about who we are that cause us to say yes when we shouldn’t and no when we shouldn’t.

• Learning your God-given and self-imposed limits is hard work that can’t be done alone.

• No one will ever be pleased with you all the time.

• God loves you and is pleased with you.

• We practice limits daily through God-care.

• “Self-care is not the same as resting in God’s care. Trying to self-protect can be how we self-destruct. Trying to save oneself can be how to lose oneself.” -Ann Voskamp