Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

And today we're continuing with this powerful series called The Jesus Model.

In this series, Rick will walk you step by step through the process of true biblical discipleship.

Rick's giving you practical tools to grow spiritually,

experience God's peace, live with greater purpose, and become more like Jesus in every area of your life.

So let's jump right in. This will be the final part of a message called How Jesus Handled Stress.

Would you agree that noise is a stress?

Yeah, it's a stress.

And would you agree that the world is getting noisier?

Yes.

So you have to make intentional times of quietness and solitude in your life, are you going to go batty?

And if there's always noise in your life and the TV is always on and the radio is always on

and the earbuds are always in your ear, you're not going to have the spiritual and emotional

resources to handle the stress in life.

If Jesus knew he needed to get alone and pray and listen to God, so do you.

So let me give you a little suggestion.

Start your morning with the good news, not the bad news.

See, the reason why you're cranky all day is because you start your day the wrong way.

In the first place, you wake up to an alarm clock.

So you start the day in a state of alarm!

And I'm alarmed!

Okay, get rid of that thing.

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