Condition: Exhaustion

No one should teach that you can knowingly overwork your body, intending to “claim” healing from the exhaustion that you brought on yourself.  However, in Philippians 2:25-30, Epaphroditus allowed himself to get exhausted in the ministry, and God in His mercy healed him when he was at the point of death.  God can show you mercy, too, but His will is for you to live by FAITH, not strictly by MERCY.

Don’t believe the Christian cliché that it is better to burn out for God than to burn out for the world or for the devil.  Jesus does not want you to burn out at all.  His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11:30).  If you think His instructions are burning you out, you’ve missed it somewhere.  God does not burn out anyone.  Unwise Christians burn themselves out.  Because Jesus doesn’t burn people out, you’ll never get burned out doing what Jesus tells you to do.  However, it is very possible to get burned out trying to do what Jesus told you to do plus a number of “good” Christian things that Jesus never told you to do.