Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

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Okay, welcome back to the program. This is our Monday morning edition, and thank you for joining in.

We started something last Thursday. We're continuing today, and I guess really a lot of episodes

connect to this, we want to live stress-free lives. I've never met anyone who enjoyed stress

or being worried about things or feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders, or feeling

pulled in every direction, or like they're never good enough,

or it's never going to all work out, nobody enjoys any of those stresses and anxieties.

And I'm just here to tell you that is not the life that Jesus died to give you.

He wants us to live without worry.

You've heard me talk before about Matthew chapter 6. He said it three times in the

sermon on the Mount. Do not worry. And he was talking about the basic stuff like what you would eat or

where you would sleep or what you would wear. He said, I take care of the birds. I take care of the

grass. I can take care of you. All I need you to do

is every day. Each day has enough issues of its own, so do this one day at a time. I need you every day

to seek first God's kingdom. Let me rule your life and let me show you the way of righteousness, and I promise

everything else going to work out. Now, I know everybody wants that. If you're a Christian and you're

listening, you're thinking, yep, I know that verse. I've heard that preached a hundred times,

but what does that look like? How do you do that when you're raising kids? How do you do that when

you're working 60 hours a week? How do you do that when you're raising kids? How do you do that when you're working 60 hours a

week? How do you do that when you're dealing with health problems that slow you down? You see,

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