Stress Management

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DEFINITIONS

External pressure causing physical, mental, or emotional strain

Job 35:9 ESV
“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Self-induced internal pressure causing physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual strain

Hebrews 10:14 ESV
For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

Internal resistance responding to outside pressure

Psalm 38:7 ESV
For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Negative Pressure resulting in distress, danger, or destruction

Proverbs 1:27 ESV
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Positive pressure producing motivation and movement

Proverbs 16:26 ESV
A worker’s appetite works for him; his mouth urges him on.

What Is Unhealthy Stress?

Refers more to the duration of stress over a considerable period of time

Includes external or internal pressure that God does not intend for us to experience

John 16:33 ESV
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Causes detrimental effects to the body, as well as to the soul and spirit

Stretches us beyond the threshold of our physical, mental, and emotional limits that God established within us to protect from overload

Plunges us past a saturation point where nothing can be added without something else being eliminated

Ecclesiastes 4:1 ESV
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

What Does Scripture Say about Stress?

Distress

Implies an external and usually temporary cause of great physical or mental strain and stress.
Romans 2:9 ESV
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
Can be the result of severe, self-induced, internal stress
Lamentations 1:20 ESV
“Look, O Lord, for I am in distress; my stomach churns; my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death.
Is a state of anguish, vexation, or affliction
Acts 17:16 ESV
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols.
2 Corinthians 2:4 ESV
For I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Distress is often a translation from the Hebrew word tsarah, which means

Matthew 7:13–14 ESV
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Genesis 42:21 ESV
Then they said to one another, “In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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