Tuff Stuff - Part 3 - Stress

 Tuff Stuff     Part 3                  Pastor David King  

The problem with stress.

My _______________ is lower. 

(Luke 21:34) “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

My ___________ are inconsistent. 

(Job 9:25) “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.

My life loses _________. 

(Psalms 39:6) “Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

My _________________ with God seems ___________. 

3 Main areas of stress

1. ___________________

Order:   (Matthew 22:37-40) 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Margin:  (Hebrews 10:25) not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

2.                          __________

Order:  (Ephesians 5:16) making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

Margin:  (Proverbs 19:2) Desire without knowledge is not good—how much more will hasty feet miss the way!

3.                          __________

Order:  (Matthew 6:21) For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Margin:  (Proverbs 21:20) The wise store up choice food and olive oil,
     but fools gulp theirs down.

The distance between the truth I ________ and the truth I _______ equals the pain I experience.

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