Stress: Understanding Stress (Part 3)

Stress is

• Normal part of life

• Caused by change

Stress is a never-ending condition of life caused by change, wrong beliefs, and/or unsolicited events—and all of them demand adjustment in life (of some sort)

Stress from the outside

• Stress is unavoidable

• We always have choices on how we respond

1) Self-control is not contradictory to Spirit control

When under stress, we need to learn to talk to someone.

• God is the first person you talk to

• Phil. 4:6—stop worrying/being anxious

• The way you stop worrying is prayer and supplication—v. 6b

• First place you go with the problem is God

• Worry is not solved by a “don’t.” It is solved by a “do.”

• The promise if we will—v. 7:

1) Take care of your emotions

2) Take care of your mind

• Talk to a friend: 2 Tim. 4; 2 Cor. 7, I Pet. 5

When under stress, we might need to change the scene.

• Matt. 14:23, for example

• Get away--to think and to pray