Overcoming

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Overcoming the Cares of the World
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What is Stress?

• Stress A physiological mechanism that responds
• and adapts us to change.
• Tied with the fight or flight response.
• Can be positive or negative.
• Unique for each person affected by ones
  threshold, physiology, attitude and
  personality.
• Often negative stress is caused by our inability
  to control a situation or the outcome.

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Symptoms of Being Over-Stressed
Physical Headaches Exhaustion Cancer Weight
Changes Heart Irregularities Heart Attacks
Increased Infections Unexplained
Fatigue Gastrointestinal Problems Excessive
Muscle Tension 75 90 of the visits to
primary care physicians are for stress related
problems.
Psychological Feeling Out of Control Confusion Exc
essive Worry Difficulty Making Decisions Mental
Fatigue Chronic Anxiety Depression Apathy
Impatience, Anger, Hostility
Behavioral Irritation with Friends Outbursts of
Temper Withdrawal Detachment Change in Sleep
Patterns Change in Eating Patterns Accident
Prone Change in Sex Drive Compulsive
Shopping Reversals in Usual Behavior Increased
Use Alcohol Addictions Excessive
Crying Inappropriate Laughing
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Sources of Stress

• Unrealistic Expectations
• Relationship Issues
• Unfulfilled
• Core Identity Issues
• Fallen World The Enemy
• Loss, Abuse, Tragedy, Trauma
• Change
• Progress Modernization

Some researchers believe fear to be the root
cause of all stress reactions. (Swensen).
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5 Environments

• Most Progress
• Material, physical world wealth, technology,
  health
• Cognitive, intellectual world knowledge,
  education, information, intellect
• Most Pain
• Social world family, friends, neighbors, church
• Emotional, psychological world feelings, and
  attitudes
• Spiritual world feeling distant from God, and
  loss of faith

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JOB STRESS
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Overcoming Stress
Reduce Stress
Manage Stress
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LOVE
Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and
with all your soul, and with all your mind, and
with all your strength Mark 1230
Love your neighbor as yourself
Mark 1231
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WWAD?
What Would Aslan Do?
Walt Disney Pictures
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What Did Jesus Do?
Maintained Balance
Stayed True to His Mission
Modeled Forgiveness
Grieved, Wept, Got Angry
Told Us Not to Worry
Celebrated
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What Did Jesus Do?
Sent the Holy Spirit
Asked for Prayer
Rested in the Storm
Fought the Stress of Temptation with Scripture
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What Did Jesus Teach?
Rest
Forgive Maintain Unity
Not to Love Money
Not to be Distracted
Not to be Anxious or to Worry
Seek First the Kingdom
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Do Not Worry

• "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your
  life, what you will eat or
• drink or about your body, what you will wear. Is
  not life more important
• than food, and the body more important than
  clothes? Look at the birds of
• the air they do not sow or reap or store away in
  barns, and yet your
• heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
  valuable than they?
• Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to
  his life?  "And why do
• you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of
  the field grow. They do not
• labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even
  Solomon in all his splendor was
• dressed like one of these. If that is how God
  clothes the grass of the field,which
• is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the
  fire, will he not much more
• clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not
  worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?
• or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we
  wear?' For the pagans run after all
• these things, and your heavenly Father knows that
  you need them. But seek
• first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all
  these things will be given to
• you as well.
• (Matthew 625-33)

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Overcoming the Cares of the World