I don't know if you're aware of this, but there's a pandemic going on, right?

I'm not talking about the pandemic in the world.

I'm talking about there is a pandemic going on in the nation of our emotions.

There's a pandemic going on in the nation of our emotions, our emotional state.

In this particular virus, this particular virus is responsible and has taken more lives unexpectedly than our minds can fathom.

I'm talking about the virus of stress, stress, stress.

And as I was preparing for this Sermonic journey on this afternoon, there was a scripture that I was reading this morning,

Proverbs chapter 12, verse 25.

It says, anxiety in the heart, certain translations say turmoil or stress, stress in the heart of man causes depression.

It's in the Bible, y'all.

Anxiety, stress, turmoil in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word, a good word makes it glad.

So my prayer this morning was I said, God, would you anoint my tongue as your paintbrush not to just give an opinionated word but to give a good word,

not to give a plagiarized word but to give a good word, not to give my viewpoint, my perspective or political views.

We have enough of that. We need sound doctrine.

I believe you came here to hear a rainbow word from God to hear the soundtrack of heaven.

God said, would you use me as your vessel and your vessels all over the world to give a good word?

Somebody say stress.

Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, for the next several weeks, we are going to war with stress.

And I'm going to challenge your perspective each and every week this word is going to come for your averages and your life.

I'm going to challenge your perspective for starters, many of us think we're stressed out because of what's happening.

What if I told you you're not just stressed out over what's happening but you're stressed because of your perspective over what's happening.

Could it be that stress does not just rob you of tomorrow's joy but stress vandalizes your opportunity to experience peace on today.

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