Ever feel overwhelmed by stress? Ever felt like you could never make it all fit? You’re not alone. This subject was the number one subject people recently responded on a survey about what they’d like to hear a message about. Check out the outline below, along with the video of the message!
Join us this coming Sunday for the 4th of 6 parts to this series. This weekend will focus on the question of how to forgive.
Q Series—How Can I Deal With My Stress?
(Job 9:25 NCV) My days go by faster than a runner; they fly away without my seeing any joy.
Principles for a Better Life
- Quality over quantity.
(Ecclesiastes 4:6) Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
- On purpose over on accident.
(Psalm 139:16) All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
If you don’t plan your life, someone or something else will.
- Right things over more things.
(Proverbs 17:24 GN) An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.
Marathon Living
(Hebrews 12:1) Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
- Regularly take inventory and purge.
(Psalm 39:4-5 NLT) LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath.
- Make tough decisions with a view on God’s
(Psalm 90:12 LB) Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.
- Focus on what matters
(Matthew 6:33) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
- God matters.
(Luke 12:15) Then Jesus said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
(Luke 12:20-21) But God said to him, “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.
(Philippians 3:7-8) But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
- People matter.
(Galatians 5:13-15) Serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
(Ecclesiastes 4:12 NLT) A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.
- Eternity matters.
(Matthew 13:44) “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.”
The right sacrifices result in increased joy, not in a wasted life.