7 Handling Overly Needy People How to Set Healthy Boundaries

Coming in number 7 is 7 Handling Overly Needy People: How to Set Healthy Boundaries, with nearly 5,000 YouTube views. Handling Overly Needy People How to Set Healthy Boundaries teaches that overly needy people will drain your emotions, time, and resources if you allow it. They often refuse to help themselves, creating constant crises. Without boundaries, you enable their habits and addictions. Christians should be generous, but wisdom must guide generosity. Healthy limits protect you from guilt and burnout. When you set clear boundaries, you help others grow rather than contribute to their ongoing dependency.

Here at Life Gate, we do a good job giving help to needy people. We have our alms account specifically set up to help, but I must admit that often we give to the “OVERLY NEEDY” and not those in need. What I mean by OVERLY NEEDY PEOPLE is people we attempt to help, but who do not help themselves. They are the habitually needy. They consistently find themselves in constant need and if you allow them, they will suck your life and your resources out of you.

HANDLING DIFFICULT PEOPLE
By Pastor Delbert Young

7 Handling Overly Needy People How to Set Healthy Boundaries

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Scriptures: 2 Peter 2:19, 1 Corinthians 6:12, Romans 6:12-14, James 5:16, 1 John 1:9, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, 1 Corinthians 9:27

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We usually first think of OVERLY NEEDY PEOPLE in a financial way, but there are many different types of OVERLY NEEDY PEOPLE, Let’s list and discuss a few. We will begin with some not so serious, but humorous and move to the more serious and not humorous. There is the BLABBER who is the person who will not shut their mouth – blab, blab, blab. The Blabber has the habitual need to talk and give you details.

They tell you about themselves and people you never met. They tell details that do not matter and seem not to even relate to their point. Then, before you know it, they have somehow begun talking about someone or something else. You wonder when they will come up for air and stop talking? Do you know a Blabber? Are you… (continue sermon notes)