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Reaching Nations
Keep Hope Alive
Hopelessness begins with a thought that manifests in a feeling that can infiltrate and destroy your spirit. Once hopelessness has found a home in your spirit it will impact everything you see and do. Unfortunately, when your hope is shaken your faith is impacted. And without faith you cannot advance any further in the kingdom of God. So fight to keep your hope.
Many of you are simply going through the motions of life. The initial drive and determination you once had to believe God and to stand on His Word are gone. Yes, you are getting up in the morning, going to work and coming home; but that is it. You are only doing the things you need to do to make it, but you are not going beyond that. You don’t have the energy or the spiritual strength you once had. When you hear or read a scripture that tells you “you can make it” or “God will make a way,” you are not excited because you feel as if you heard it before and that the word does not work. But you must pick yourself up and believe again. You can not stop believing and trusting in God and his Word. Your season and your time is coming.
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Stress
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Stress by IGBATTMHO (All Rights Reserved)
Stress can be simply defined as any demand placed on the body good or bad. Our response to stress is not necessarily triggered by a specific event; instead, it is our own unique view, or appraisal of a particular situation or event that causes stress. Just because a situation is stress full for me does not meant that it will be for you. But whenever our mind does perceive a situation to be stressful, it sends orders to the rest of our body. Our body then responds to the orders that it receives, by becoming both emotionally and physiologically aroused. For instance, have you ever almost had a car accident? Or have you ever been startled by something that seemed to come out of nowhere? Well if so, you may have experienced a sudden increase in your heart rate, sweating, muscle tension, and an increase in your blood pressure. Those symptoms were designed to prepare the body to either flee, or to face the situation that was triggering the response. When the event that caused your body to be aroused was removed, those symptoms diminished. Unfortunately, some of us live in a constant state or near constant state of arousal or stress. Our bodies and emotions don’t get a chance to relax, so we are always on guard. The longer our bodies are subjected to stress, the more detrimental the impact will be. For example, ongoing symptoms of stress can trigger a whole host of negative symptoms to include: increased sleeping, overeating, depression, muscle tension, ulcers, nervousness, loss of sexual appetite, exhaustion, and memory loss. So for the sake of the kingdom and our loved ones, we must learn to decrease the impact of stress on our lives.
How? There are many strategies that we can use to manage our levels of stress. However, there is no one strategy that will work for everyone in every situation. So in order to manage your stress, you must look at the specific situation that you are facing, and choose a strategy that will work best for you. For example, changing jobs, learning how to relax, and learning better communication techniques may be appropriate strategies for one situation, but making diet changes, learning assertiveness skills, and exercise may be more appropriate in another. While there are many ways a person can manage stress, the one strategy that we want to focus on here, is the strategy of changing the way we think. Lets face it, many times we may not be able to change the situation that is causing us stress, but by changing the way that we think, we may be able to decrease the impact of stress on our lives.
Managing Stress – Changing how we think
- Face reality, there are some things that you may not be able to change.
- Learn to release feelings of anger in appropriate ways before it builds up.
- Evaluate the things that cause you to worry. Instead of letting your mind focus on the problems, spend some time trying to identify ways to solve the things that cause you to worry.
- Learn to see a crisis as a chance for change.
- Learn to see both sides of a problem. Remember there may be three sides to every situation, your side, my side, and the right side.
- Instead of meditating on negative things, meditate on ways to solve your problem using the Word of God and His principles.
- Eliminate thoughts that distress you. Challenge negative thoughts that come to your mind. Are those thoughts balanced? Are they accurate?
- Think about the consequences.
- Have realistic expectations.
- Realize that there may be times that you will have to say no.
- Realize that there may be times that you will have to make a decision.
- Realize that there may be times that you will not get what you want.
Questions
What are your stressors?
Why are they stressors?
What are your stress symptoms?
Meditation Scriptures
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. Jeremiah 17:7
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. Psalms 37:23
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