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Question - Help me with My Stress
Even though you may be working to reduce stress, our culture is offering more and more.
Earth is offering you more.
Gen work 181 hours more than previous Generation … 1 extra month in the same year
Mothers - 80% feel unbearable amount of stress and 70% are sleep deprived.
You want me to help you cope with the lifestyle that you have.
Coping mech are temp and until we change we will be stressed
Truth - It will never fit.
Time Management tries to help you make everything fit, and it will never all fit.
It might be doable, but it’s not sustainable.
Many of us feel this way.
We are running all over the place, but we never experience joy in our lives.
Why are we so busy?
We have too many choices.
Life was simpler when there were on 3 channels on the TV… We didn’t play video games, we played out in the dirt.
We drive around and have hundreds of restaurant choices, activity choices...
There is too much social pressure.
We believe we can have it all.
We have access to Credit.
Americans spend 117% of income
It’s going to catch up with you.
God offers A Better Life
It’s Better to have less of what doesn’t matter and more of what does.
It’s better to have less.
Wisdom has to do with the elimination of non-essentials.
If $1 is good, two are
If one donut is good, two are
If car is good, two cars are ...
If one kid is good, two are… crazy
If one wife is good, two wives are… wrong.
Just to show you some of the “more” we have going on...
We eat out at 14,411 times including 1811 trips to McDonalds.
You will spend 13 years and 4 months watching TV
You will spend 5 years waiting in lines.
You will spend 1 year looking for things you have lost
You will attend 35 weddings
You will drive 627,000 miles (25 times around the world)
You have plenty of time, it’s just going to all the wrong places.
What do we do.
This is a belief system we have to buy into.
Less is better.
It’s better to live by design not by default.
It’s better to know what my life is all about and live that way.
Runner - we are designed to run, just not in every direction.
You only have so much energy and you can’t spend it going in all different directions.
We want all of our energy going in the direction God wants us to go in.
One reason we should want to connect with God is that we can connect with the one who created us and had OUR owners manual.
Too many Christians will go through life never finding the purpose God created for them.
Listen,
If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
CC will, school systems will, Work will.
Growth Trac will 4 Sundays and we can help you understand your God given steps.
You have days that are ordained for you to live.
Now, I am living by design and not by default.
It’s better to get the right things done, not more things done.
I am going to live my intentionally.
On purpose.
I can be a one handful person and be more happy.
I have a design, set and ordained days that God wrote for me.
We need to stop measuring our lives by how much we do, but by doing the right things.
We need to stop having the response to how are you doing.... good just busy.
That’s not a status symbol of success.
So what do we do?
You have to believe the principles, but you have to have a plan or a path to execute it.
How do we run our race?
Sin - headed in the wrong direction
If you don’t you will be easily entangled.
Here are three ways you can do this.
1. Regularly take inventory.
Stop and evaluate where you are.
Church isn’t just about going to church.
It’s a sabbath day.
Find some time, and evaluate where you are.
Ask, am I doing the right activities?
Am I in the right activities?
Here is the prayer we need to pray...
James says it’s a mist.
Take time to evaluate your life… look at and talk about about the coming week...
Wayne Cordero --- Leading on Empty, talked about the power of reflection.
Take 10 minutes and grade yourself in 12 dials.
Faith Marriage Family Work/Job Technology Ministry Social Attitude Finances Creativity Physical Travel
This would give you less stress.
When you do this, it will cause you to …
2. Make tough decisions.
All of us have something in our life that if we would let it go, our life would be better.
Parenting - You may need to say no to your kids.
ie: not letting them spend the night out
I need help.
It’s easier to let them do everything.
You can’t do everything.
Maybe you need to invite your friends into your world.
Evaluation / Eliminations then
3. Focus on what matters most.
It’s ok to do things that don’t matter, just don’t do them first.
Essentialism, the disciplinednpursuit of less… (Greg McKwown)
Jesus did one sermon on Stress…
Find what matters the most and do them first.
What matters?
Will it matter 100 years from now?
Three things that matter most.
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