Stress is an issue that each individual must learn to recognize and manage. Stress is caused by past experience, by what’s happening now and what may happen in the future. Yet stress can provide opportunities to be creative in developing management skills for solving problems and making future plans.
Fortunately, the majority of stress can be managed rationally if care is given to preventing it from accumulating to the point where it becomes overwhelming. A negative attitude creates stress and perpetuates it by long established negative thinking.
God never intended for you to languish in negative attitudes and thinking. Even in the worst situations, hope for solutions is possible where faith exists for God’s intervention. When faith is activated, stress loses power to sabotage God’s plans for you. Hope centers on God to provide solutions while faith provides energy to press onward regardless of obstacles.
May the hope-inspiring
God so fill you with perfect joy and peace through your continuing faith, that
you may bubble over with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
~Romans 15:13 Williams
– New Testament in the Language of the People
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