WHAT
CHANGE DO YOU NEED TO MAKE?--PART II
SERMON
TITLE: STRESS IS NOT GOOD
SERMON
THEME: FAITHFUL WITH A LITTLE
MATERIALISM LEADS TO STRESS,
BECAUSE WE SEEK THE WORLD'S GOODS, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE FALLEN FOR THE DECEITFULNESS OF WEALTH.
MARK4:19
19 but the worries of this
life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in
and choke the word, making it unfruitful.
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NO MATTER THE TYPE
OF STRESS IN YOUR LIFE, THE STARTING POINT
TO DEALING WITH STRESS IS JESUS.
PROVERBS
22:7
The rich
rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
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GOD IS THE ONLY
ONE WHO CAN GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH TO COPE
WITH THE FINANCIAL STRESS IN YOUR LIFE.
LUKE
16:10
10 “Whoever can be trusted
with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest
with very little will also be dishonest with much.
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WHEN YOUR HEART IS ALIGNED TO GOD SPIRITUALLY, IT IS MUCH EASIER TO DO THE RIGHT THING IN YOUR
LIFE.
THREE PRAYERS TO HELP YOU COPE WITH FINANCIAL STRESS
I) FATHER HELP ME TO HAVE THE WILL-POWER TO SAY "NO."
PROVERBS
25:28
Like a city whose walls are broken through is a
person who lacks self-control.
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LEARN TO SAY NO
FOR THE SHORT TERM IN FAVOR OF SAYING YES
FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
JOHN
14:13-14
13 And I
will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified
in the Son. 14 You
may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
II) FATHER HELP ME
TO SEEK THE KNOWLEDGE TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS.
HOSEA
4:6
my people are destroyed
from lack of knowledge. “Because you
have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.
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MEDITATING ON GOD'S PROMISES CAN
DISPEL YOUR WORRY, DOUBT, AND FEAR.
I
PETER1:3
3 Praise be to the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us
new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead,
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LEARN SO YOU CAN HONOR GOD WITH WHAT HE HAS GIVEN YOU.
III) FATHER GIVE
ME THE INSIGHT TO MAKE A PLAN.
PROVERBS
21:5
The plans of the diligent lead to profit as
surely as haste leads to poverty.
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YOU CAN WANDER
INTO DEBT, BUT YOU WILL NOT WANDER OUT OF
DEBT.
CONCLUSION: WHEN YOU DO WHAT IS RIGHT,
TO PURSUE HIM, TO SEEK HIM, TO WORK
HIS PLAN, IT IS AMAZING HOW GOD HONORS
YOUR FAITHFULNESS.
PHILIPPIANS
1:6
6 being confident of this,
that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until
the day of Christ Jesus.