Good morning my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. I want to start out

this morning by telling you a funny kind of little story that was told to be once

by a friend in one of our church families where we were attending.

She was experiencing some health issues that some of which were related to stress in her life.

And the doctor asked her as part of his diagnosis

process how much stress do you have in your life and she was telling them about all

these situations that were going on in her life and he said well I think you need to do everything you can

to reduce all stress in your life and she just looked at him with that deer

and headlights look and she said, should I kill myself now,

or do you want to do it?

You see, the point she's making is a very valid one.

We all experienced stress,

and it definitely feels to us like we cannot eliminate all stress from our life.

Now I'm here to tell you I'm one who struggles with this as well. In fact I'm

becoming aware more and more of the ways in which I experience what we call stress.

It's the pressure we feel internally because of external circumstances.

It may be situations that are going on, it may be responsibilities

that we carry or face. It may be tough conversations that elicit some kind of emotional response in us and it creates a

physical manifestation in our bodies that is also an emotional thing

that's called stress that's what we call it. And stress is something that does have an impact on us

both emotionally, physically and I would say as well spiritually. And I'm here to tell, because of the truth of what Jesus Christ has done in our lives,

we can stress no more.

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