Each and every one of us has skeletons in our closet. I prefer to call them demons from within. The reason being is that spirits travel from one generation to the next or from one person to the other.
How Much
We as Christians constantly ask the Lord, how much more of this can I bear? The answer to your question is God will put no more on you than you can bear. You see, we have a tendency to walk by sight and not by faith. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) If you see things, then why do you yet hope for them? If you see it not, then you will patiently wait for it. How much time do I have to put into this? As much time as it is needed until you have accepted what I have in store for you and know that the trying of your faith worketh patience. I have created you for my purpose. I paid the price for your sins; when I died on the cross at Calvary. I will never leave you nor forsake you. I am there with you always even unto the ends of the earth. My child be not decieved by the craftiness of Satan. Satan has a trap set and he is waiting for you to give in to your flesh. You can conquer your flesh by staying submissive to me. You can overcome the wiles of the devil by staying in the word of God and applying the word to your every day life. I have given you are charge and the time has come for you to fulfill that charge. No more excuses is to be offered up to me. You must fulfill my will for your life.
The Storm
Everyone in life has a storm that they must go through and in going through the storm; you must ask the question How would Jesus handle this storm? The storm comes in your life to make you strong. The storms come to build you up, as you seek God as to how to handle the situation (before we as Christians act on the situation), when you seek God for an answer to the problem, the outcome is far greater than if we would have handled it in the flesh. Flesh wants to act unseemly (you know make a scene) any way. So, therefore, you must counter act the flesh. In other words, you must do the opposite of what flesh is wanting to do. For example: if flesh wants to hit someone, go stick your head in the freezer of your refrigerator or deep freezer and scream and then watch the reaction of those that are around you. Satan will send storms back to back to catch you off guard and guess who gets the glory when he does? Satan gets the glory and then you are looking crazy because, (remeber all eyes are on you). You see, to some you are the only Bible that they will every read or pick up. In the mist of your storms whether good or bad, bitter or sweet, ask God to help you stay in the right frame of mind. Remember your storm is to help you to help someone else that maybe going through what you are going though.