This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the audio broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today we bring our series called Strategies for Stressful Times to a Close.

In these lessons, Rick shares biblical wisdom

for navigating difficult and stressful times so that you can experience God's

peace and thrive in any situation.

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Now here's Pastor Rick Warren

with the final part of a message called

Jesus's Secrets of Resilience.

And here's the sixth secret of resilience

that we learn from looking to Jesus as our model.

This is a big one.

Number six, Spend time alone with God. Now this secret of

resilience and this secret of stress resistance may be the secret that you do the least spending enough

time alone with God and yet is absolutely essential to building a resilient

spirit and managing chronic stress. It is the principle of meditation.

You know, prayer is a great stress reliever. It's a decompression chamber. It's cathartic.

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