Good morning everyone and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast for Chad and

Tori happy Monday. Happy Monday. You guys, I don't even think you're ready for this

devotional. Truly. Yesterday's devotional was so powerful we need you to go back and listen

to it and also go back and check out Saturday's long form with Amy, her assistant. She talked about

getting married young and all that type of stuff but we actually loved yesterday's devotional

which is Sundays. We loved it so much we're actually going to read it again. Yeah. Because

Tori and I could have talked for like an hour on it. It's that good. It's that good and so.

It means another moment. It needs another moment. So we are redoing day four of our finding

freedom from stress devotional in the Bible app. There's a link in the description to fall along

with us. I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori's going to read the Devo. The scripture

is first Peter five verse seven. Give all your worries and cares to God for he cares about you.

The devotional says stop giving stress power. I'm stressed seems to be a pretty standard

greeting these days much like I'm busy and if we're honest we can often use our stress as a

source of pride saying where stress can make us feel important because even though we may not

like the feeling stress gives us we like the status boost it brings and our fast paced culture

stress is seen as a norm. It's losing its negative connotations and has instead become

associated with hard work ambition and success. We assume successful people are stressed people

so we strive harder and a lack of stress can make us feel lazy or unmotivated. The result

we're constantly trying to do more and be more which brings you guessed it more stress.

We're over committed because we can't say no we're settling for superficial connections online

instead of carving time for meaningful conversation and we're building stress into our identities

but stressed out max out lives are not what God had in mind for us. Jesus said that our enemy comes

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