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And amen.

I tell you the Lord has a sense of humor because of all the mornings for Lee and Robbie to both be out.

I'm preaching on how to deal with stress, with me, leading, the music and doing all the announcements.

The Lord certainly has a sense of humor, but really you think about this message?

You think about the subject of it?

It's really a timely message, as we enter into what many would we would say, the most

The most wonderful time of the year, is really the most stressful time of the year.

I mean, you were just in it and the announcements I gave you a lot of activities and events that are going to take place in the month of December.

You have your own activities and it in and events at that you have to to meet NMB at.

And so many times in December in in and of itself is a very frantic and stressful month.

And so I'm going to be dealing with this morning how to deal with stress how to deal with stress.

And we looking at what is stress, where does it come from?

Well, when we talk about stress, we're talkin about the condition of the emotional tension, or the emotional pressure, that is experience in the course of our everyday life.

Or stress can come from real expectations or the perceived expert expectations, that we place upon ourselves, or maybe others Place upon us.

So, just just by having the expectations and having that pressure can cause this thing of stress, I stress can be ordinary or stress, can be extraordinary.

Stress can be ordinary in that.

The things that we deal with on a day-to-day basis.

Is stressful, maybe our job.

Just driving through Conway traffic at 5 right causes stress.

The everyday ordinary things can cause stress.

Now, there is such stress as extraordinary stress, which is all of those ordinary things that you deal with day in day out.

But yet you have some other things on top of that.

That's, that is not ordinarily there.

Maybe there is a sickness that you have or maybe there's a sickness in your family.

You're dealing with death or something and that just is stress.

That is extraordinary, it's very substantial over and above the ordinary.

A stress can be felt.

Or it can go insane.

We may not feel it until it shows up.

In our body physically.

And and in our health will discuss that in just a moment.

Stress is the emotional and physical strain that we experience living in a fallen World under the pressures of sin and sinful people.

Job. 14:1 job said this man, that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of what trouble.

The job says hate life.

Even at its best is short man.

That is born of a woman is of a few days and in that lifespan The days are full of trouble and that were trouble, literally means in the Hebrew strain.

Stress.

Pressure turmoil.

He says, man, that is born of a man is of a few days is full of strain and stress and turmoil.

John 16:33 Jesus said in the world, you will have tribulation.

But be of good cheer.

I have overcome the world.

That word tribulation is the word turmoil.

It is a word pressure in Jesus said, you will have this stress, you will have it, but be of good cheer because I have overcome the world.

It's all this message.

This morning is very, very important because the effects of stress, Upon Our Life can be very harmful to our health.

High blood pressure increases when you are stressed out blood sugar Rises, your digestive system can slow, muscles can become very tense and people deal with back pain or neck pain deal because of that, immune systems can be compromised.

When you are under a lot of stress that you have been a higher sense of alertness there for you, have a very difficult time, going to sleep, your mind is always thinking about something.

You can never turn it off.

as matter fact, stress has been described as America's number one, health problem in our country, Here's a thing that we must understand, we cannot avoid stress.

You can't.

Don't let anybody tell you that you can live a stress free life.

Because you can't, you deal with everything in this world, even in the ordinary things that brings pressure and brings the man.

And with that comes stress, So we cannot avoid stress.

It's a part of life.

In this sinful Fallen world.

That the thing I wanted to focus on this this morning is how we respond to stress.

Is what is so important that we must, we must have it our minds, in our and our hearts, we're going to have stress.

So therefore, how are we going to handle it?

How are we going to manage it?

Well, honestly, just wanted two ways that you can handle stress.

You can either handle it positively or negatively, most Americans handle it negatively.

Because if you handle stress positively, you're going to trust the Lord completely in your stressful times of life.

Believing.

As a Christian, when we are stressed.

We must even believe that stress in and of itself is something that God is working for our good.

Did you know that stress brings good character?

so Paul said, Paul said a Romans five and verse to he said we glory in tribulations That is stress turmoil.

Why is the glory in these things?

Paul says, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance produces character in character produces hope.

Don't reality.

We ought to embrace the stress that we have, instead of denying that, is Steven there or it exists.

We ought to embrace it, but then handle it correctly, handle it positively.

James said this way and James 1:2, he said, count it all joy.

when you enter into various tribulations, Not a one of us counter Joy when we are stressed out, but James tells us it actually is because God is doing something in you.

He's working out something in you that you may trust him even more in your time of conflict and pressure.

Stress.

if you handle it negatively, Stress leads to anxiety.

And and anxiety will lead our can lead to depression.

And that's just not what a doctor has said.

That's what Solomon said.

Proverbs 12:25 Proverbs 12:25 Solomon said, anxiety in the heart of man causes depression.

Anxiety, in the heart of man causes depression, stress, left unchecked.

Left unmanaged will lead to anxiety in the heart anxiety, in the heart, left unchecked unmanageable lead to depression of the Soul.

so, when our text

We can just see.

And we can even feel this trash.

The pressure, the tension that our savior, the Lord Jesus Christ felt when he was on this Earth.

and if you know that as we have been preaching through this book, it is something that really started in chapter one, the moment that he started his public Ministry, it started out with a lot of stress and a lot of pressure.

But I want us to notice something in our taxes, how Jesus handle it.

How we ought to apply this to our heart and life this morning.

Notice number one, the cause of our stress, the cause of our stress.

All stress has a cause, okay?

All stress have a cause stress is a cause and effect scenario.

I noticed in our texts.

Let me see, Jesus.

Cause of his stress was due to demand and pressure demand and pressure and you know this to be true, right?

You've been maybe you, you're at a factory or a corporation who is demanding upon you Very demanding upon you and rightfully so to some degree.

But maybe overly demanding.

And you have the pressure of those who are above you, you have pressures of life and you feel like you're just being squeezed, on every side.