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' 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 it 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. It's one of the ways to unload

your burdens. The Bible says in Luke 2239,

it was Jesus habit. Notice this on your outline. It was Jesus habit to go to the Mount of Olives

to pray and his disciples followed him. Circle the word habit. How do you develop a habit?

Well, habit is something you develop through practice

and through reputation. It's not a habit unless you do it over and over and over. It was his habit to go

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