Happiness: Managing Stress | Pastor Mike Popenhagen
Happiness: Managing Stress
Mark 14:32-36 ”They went to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and Jesus said, “Sit here while I go and pray.” He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he became deeply troubled and distressed. He told them, “My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me.” He went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that, if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting him might pass him by. “Abba, Father,” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”
Stress and Anxiety Are Different
Stress: When external pressure is greater than your capacity to deal with it.
Anxiety: An internal feeling of fear or worry, but without the an actual circumstance to fear.
Philippians 4:13 For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
6 Stages of Stress
Shock: The event or circumstance catches you off guard.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.” NIV
2. Sorrow or scared: An emotional response to the event or situation.
Isaiah 53:3 NIV “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.”
Philippians 4:13 NLT For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.
