Follow Along with the Message

How Is Your Connections?

Pastor Tom Lundeen

.Jesus experienced  levels of stress throughout every week of His earthly life. 

So when you feel stressed, know Jesus  what you're experiencing. 

Today our focus is on a powerful stress relief :

1.  (note Mark 1:35)

As busy and  as Jesus' life and ministry was, He took time to pray (note Matthew 14:23; Mark 6:46; Luke 6:12; 5:16).

Prayer is many things; but one thing for sure is that it is a tremendous tool God gives us to lessen our stress and  (note Philippians 4:6-7).

God has designed prayer to be a spiritual and emotional decompression .

You can't  stress and worry by just telling yourself not to worry. You have to replace the worry and stress with something  than it. 

Anxiety and prayer are two great  forces in Christian experience. (Gaffin)

The combination of prayer and gratitude is the powerful  for stress and worry (note Philippians 4:6; Luke 10:21; John 11:41).

Take the  it takes to worry and be stressed out and use it instead to pray and be thankful.

God's peace (not a temporary moment of human tranquility produced by  circumstances, but an actual inner tranquility based on a personal relationship with God because in Jesus, my sins are forgiven, and this God-given, supernatural peace is one of His incredible  to His followers). (Note Philippians 4:7).

God's peace places us in His  no matter what difficult and stressful circumstances we may be navigating.

So why is prayer something we don't practice very much? 

2. We don't Know How to Be  (note Psalm 46:10a)

...because of our  and technology, in our vehicles, homes, and just about anywhere we go, there's chatter, music, and noise of some kind. 

The reason why many people don't  is they can only hear noise and feel stress. 

It's the  habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way. (Rollo May)

From Stress to Rest in 2023: 

• We start our day wrong...
• Make a habit of starting the day by being still, being quiet, and talking to God and Him talking to you.
• Are you so overwhelmed by noise and stress that you don't know Jesus? 

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