Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for joining us today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope,
Speaker 1: the Bible teaching Ministry of Rick Warren. And today we're
Speaker 1: continuing our series called the Habits of Happiness. In this series,
Speaker 1: Rick dives into the Book of Philippians and helps you
Speaker 1: discover God's path to true and lasting happiness. And now
Speaker 1: let's get to Rick. Here's part one of a message
Speaker 1: called how to Keep from Stressing Out.
Speaker 2: I read a headline that said that personal stress worldwide
Speaker 2: is now at near record levels, near record levels, the
Speaker 2: highest it's been really since about World War Two.
Speaker 3: So I decided to do a little.
Speaker 2: Research on this, and I found out that today suicide
Speaker 2: has now passed car crashes as the number one injury
Speaker 2: death in America. The number one injury death in America
Speaker 2: is now suicide. I read another statistic that the top
Speaker 2: seven stresses in life are number one your job, number two, money, three, health, relationships,
Speaker 2: poor diet, media overload, lack of sleep, and parking at saddleback.
Speaker 2: I made up that last one. Obviously, maybe you could
Speaker 2: identify with this. I got this note Pestorick. A few
Speaker 2: weeks ago, I went to a doctor for some chronic
Speaker 2: aches and pains that seemed to be getting worse. I
Speaker 2: don't sleep well and I live in a constant state
Speaker 2: of fatigue. I told my doctor that I started a
Speaker 2: business seven years ago that's become very, very successful, but
Speaker 2: I now mist forced myself to go in to work.
Speaker 2: I feel overwhelmed. I feel overloaded. So my doctor asked
Speaker 2: me to list the stresses in my life and then
Speaker 2: think up some possible ways to reduce those stresses, and
Speaker 2: then write down a plan of attack. I'd like to
Speaker 2: know what the Bible says about stress management.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: We're going to look at the classic text in the
Speaker 2: entire Bible on how to keep from stressing out. We've
Speaker 2: been in this series through the Book of Philippians, and
Speaker 2: as we come to chapter four, Paul gives us in
Speaker 2: verses six to thirteen the classic anti stress management recipe.
Speaker 2: If you have a Bible, you can open the Philippians
Speaker 2: chapter four. If you then bring a Bible, that's okay,
Speaker 2: just pull out these notes. All the verses we're going
Speaker 2: to look at are inside your bulletin on this text
Speaker 2: passage outline. Now, the key to this is that this
Speaker 2: passage actually comes with a stress management guarantee and guaranteed
Speaker 2: by a doctor. It's guaranteed by God, So you really
Speaker 2: want to pay attention to this one if you want
Speaker 2: to lower the stress in your life. In verse seven,
Speaker 2: we have the promised guarantee. Here's what it says. If
Speaker 2: you do these things, you will experience God's peace. There
Speaker 2: you go, you will experience God's peace, which is far
Speaker 2: more wonderful than the human mind can understand. The Bible
Speaker 2: calls this the peace that passes understanding. How do you
Speaker 2: know when you have the peace that passes understanding.
Speaker 3: You're in a.
Speaker 2: Situation when you have no logical reason to be at peace,
Speaker 2: and you are. That's the peace that passes understanding. When
Speaker 2: you're in a situation where you're in total chaos, total meltdown,
Speaker 2: total stress, total tension, everything is going wrong at the
Speaker 2: same time, and yet you're at peace inside. That is
Speaker 2: the peace that passes understanding. And God says, I guarantee
Speaker 2: this for you. You do these things, you'll experience God's peace,
Speaker 2: which is far more wonderful than the human mind could understand.
Speaker 2: His peace will keep your thoughts quiet and keep your
Speaker 2: heart at rest. Wouldn't you like that to have your
Speaker 2: thoughts quiet and your heart at rest? As you trust
Speaker 2: in Christ Jesus. Now God promises a more peaceful, less
Speaker 2: stressed mind.
Speaker 3: Is anybody interested in this? Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2: Now you know that there are over seven thousand promises
Speaker 2: in the Bible. But with every promise there is a promise.
Speaker 2: God says, if you do this, then I'll do this.
Speaker 2: There is a condition, and I want you to circle
Speaker 2: the premise for this promise, and it is those first
Speaker 2: several words. If you do these things, circle that. If
Speaker 2: you do these things, it's going to keep you from
Speaker 2: stressing out. You will experience God's peace. His peace will
Speaker 2: keep your thoughts quiet, keep your hearts at rest as
Speaker 2: you trust in Christ Jesus. If you do these things.
Speaker 2: What things, Well, that's what we're going to look at today.
Speaker 2: And there specifically are five things that God says to
Speaker 2: do in this passage. He says, I want you to
Speaker 2: worry about nothing. I want you to pray about everything.
Speaker 2: I want you to thank God in all things. I
Speaker 2: want you to keep your mind on good things, and
Speaker 2: I want you to be content in all things. Now
Speaker 2: we're going to look at these in detail, so let's
Speaker 2: get right into it. If you're taking notes, here's the
Speaker 2: first step. If I want to keep from stressing out
Speaker 2: number one, refuse to worry about anything. Refuse to worry
Speaker 2: about anything. Why Because the number one source of stress
Speaker 2: in your life is not work, It is worry. You
Speaker 2: may be overworked, but it's more likely you are over worried.
Speaker 2: Work doesn't keep you up at night. Worry does, and
Speaker 2: most of you are over worried. Now, God is very
Speaker 2: clear in the Bible what he thinks about worry, and
Speaker 2: that's the first verse, verse six. The first part of
Speaker 2: the first verse, verse six, Philippians sport says this, never
Speaker 2: worry about anything a circle, never encircle anything, never worry
Speaker 2: about anything.
Speaker 3: Question. Is there any wiggle room in that verse? No?
Speaker 2: Is there any exception? No, is there any exemption? No
Speaker 2: is there any reason where God says it's okay to
Speaker 2: worry in this circumstance. No, never worry about anything. That's
Speaker 2: about as big a blanket statement as you can make.
Speaker 3: He says, in no circule, Well what about no, never
Speaker 3: worry about anything? But what about no, never worry about anything?
Speaker 3: But what about no?
Speaker 2: Never worry about anything? Now, Jesus thought worry with such
Speaker 2: an important topic that He's spent a major section of
Speaker 2: his most famous sermons called the Sermon on the Mount
Speaker 2: talking about worry, and in that Sermon on the Mount,
Speaker 2: he gives a the four reasons you should never worry
Speaker 2: about anything. You might want to write these down. Number one,
Speaker 2: Jesus says about worry. Worry is unreasonable. It's illogical, it
Speaker 2: is unreasonable. It doesn't make sense. Matthew six twenty five.
Speaker 2: Jesus says this, don't worry about your life. Don't worry
Speaker 2: about your life what you'll eat or drink, or about
Speaker 2: your body or what you wear. Is not life more
Speaker 2: important than food, and is not the body more important
Speaker 2: than clothes. He's saying, this is not logical. You get
Speaker 2: your priorities out of order. It's irrational, it's it doesn't
Speaker 2: make sense. It's unreasonable. Now, why is worry unreasonable? No,
Speaker 2: there's a couple of reasons. First, because worry exaggerates the problem.
Speaker 2: It never makes a problem smaller, It always makes it bigger.
Speaker 2: Have you know somebody says something bad about you, The
Speaker 2: more you think about it, the bigger it gets. Are
Speaker 2: you got a problem you start worrying about. The more
Speaker 2: you worry about it, does the problem shrink with your worry?
Speaker 3: No, it always gets bigger.
Speaker 2: Worry exaggerates. It's irrational, it's unreasonable. It makes it bigger.
Speaker 2: It grows the problem out of proportion. And not only
Speaker 2: does is worry exaggerating your problem. Worry doesn't work, it
Speaker 2: never has worked. It is worthless. It is stewing without doing.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 3: In your life.
Speaker 2: See, to worry about something you can't change is useless,
Speaker 2: and to worry about something you can change stupid. Just
Speaker 2: go change it. In either case, worry is not the answer.
Speaker 2: Worry doesn't work. It's unreasonable. Second, Jesus says, worry is unnatural.
Speaker 2: There are no born worriers. You might think you are,
Speaker 2: but you're not. You're not a born warrior. You learned it.
Speaker 2: Worry is something you learn now. The good news is
Speaker 2: if you learn to worry, it can be Yeah, unlearned.
Speaker 2: Now you learned it. And actually to get good at it,
Speaker 2: you gotta practice it. Some of you are pros at worry.
Speaker 2: You have practiced it so much. You are so good
Speaker 2: at worrying.
Speaker 3: You are you?
Speaker 2: I mean, you get the PhD if you if they
Speaker 2: had Olympics on worry.
Speaker 3: You'd get a ten.
Speaker 2: Okay, because you have practiced it so much, but it's learned.
Speaker 3: Worry is not natural. No baby is born worrying.
Speaker 2: They pick it up from everybody else. Now, Jesus says
Speaker 2: in Matthew six twenty six, look at the birds of
Speaker 2: the air. They don't sow a reeve or store away
Speaker 2: in barns, and your heavenly father feeds them.
Speaker 3: Are you not much more valuable than they?
Speaker 2: If anybody's on God's welfare program, it's birds. They don't
Speaker 2: do anything except birdie things.
Speaker 3: Tweet that's it. Well, I tweet.
Speaker 2: Maybe they tweet too. Look at the birds of the air,
Speaker 2: they don't sew a reeve, But he says, your heavenly
Speaker 2: father feeds them. Notice you're heavenly fathers talking about the birds.
Speaker 3: Heavenly father. He's saying, you are heavenly father.
Speaker 2: Now, if God is your heavenly father and you are
Speaker 2: his child, children get special privileges, and children of royalty
Speaker 2: are treated royally. And he says, what are you worrying about?
Speaker 3: Birds?
Speaker 2: Don't worry, and they're not even God's not their father.
Speaker 2: God's their creator, but not their father. God's your father.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. Verse twenty eight, twenty nine. Jesus says,
Speaker 2: and why do you worry about clothes? And why do
Speaker 2: you worry about clothes? Look at the lilies of the field,
Speaker 2: the field lilies. They they don't worry about theirs. Yet
Speaker 2: King Solomon, in all his glory, was never clothed as
Speaker 2: beautifully as they are. He's saying, in all of God's creation,
Speaker 2: in the entire universe, only human beings worry. We are
Speaker 2: the only thing God made that doesn't trust him. And
Speaker 2: he says worry is unnatural. He says, God says, you're
Speaker 2: valuable or valuable than these things.
Speaker 3: I take care of them.
Speaker 2: By the way, since worry is unnatural, it's also unhealthy
Speaker 2: that He wasn't designed to handle worry. It wasn't design.
Speaker 2: When people say I'm worried sick, they're telling the truth.
Speaker 2: And doctors say a lot of people could leave hospitals
Speaker 2: today if they knew how to get rid of guilt, resentment,
Speaker 2: and worry, because that's what puts most people in. And
Speaker 2: see what I'm saying is it's not so much what
Speaker 2: you eat, it's what he's you. It's what he's you
Speaker 2: that makes you sick. It's the worry in your life.
Speaker 2: It's not just unnatural, it's unhealthy causes all kinds of
Speaker 2: health problems. The Bible says this Proverb's twelve twenty five.
Speaker 2: An anxious heart weighs a man down. Oh you know
Speaker 2: that one, and you feel like you're just pulled down
Speaker 2: by the worries. You know, the word worry actually comes
Speaker 2: from an old English word which means to strangle or
Speaker 2: to choke. That's what worry comes from, to strangle or choke.
Speaker 2: And when every time you worry, you are strangling and
Speaker 2: choking the life out of your life. An anxious heart
Speaker 2: weighs the men down. Look at the opposite Roberts fourteen
Speaker 2: thirty says, but a heart at peace gives life to
Speaker 2: the body.
Speaker 3: You want to be healthier, You need to.
Speaker 2: Stop worrying, never worry about anything. Why it's unreasonable and
Speaker 2: it's unnatural. The third thing, Jesus says, it's unhelpful. It's unhelpful.
Speaker 2: Worry cannot make you one inch taller. Worry can't make
Speaker 2: you one inch shorter. Worry can't take ten inches off
Speaker 2: my waist. If it could, it would have. Worry cannot
Speaker 2: lengthen your life. It can shorten your life. Though we
Speaker 2: know that worry cannot change the past, and worry cannot
Speaker 2: control the future. It messes up today. That's all it does.
Speaker 2: It doesn't change the past, it can't change control the future.
Speaker 2: It just messes up today. It's kind of like sitting
Speaker 2: in a rocking chair. You expend a lot of energy,
Speaker 2: but you don't make any progress. You're just It's useless.
Speaker 2: The only thing that worry changes is you. It makes
Speaker 2: you miserable. He has never solved the problem. It's unhelpful.
Speaker 2: And then the fourth reason why the Bible says never
Speaker 2: worry about anything is because it's unnecessary. God says, what
Speaker 2: in the world you're worrying about? Don't you think I'm
Speaker 2: going to take care of you? Don't you think I'm
Speaker 2: going to meet your needs. I made you, I created you,
Speaker 2: I saved you, I love you, I put my spirit
Speaker 2: in you.
Speaker 3: Don't you think I'm going to take care of your needs.
Speaker 2: It's unhelpful, but it's also unnecessary. There's no need to worry.
Speaker 2: Jesus says this in Matthew six thirty. You know, if
Speaker 2: God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today
Speaker 2: and gone tomorrow, think of all the beautiful flowers that
Speaker 2: are never seen by human beings, but God takes care
Speaker 2: of him. He said, if God cares so wonderfully for
Speaker 2: flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won't he
Speaker 2: most surely care for you, oh you of little faith.
Speaker 2: The Bible says this one Peter five seven. Unload all
Speaker 2: your worries on God, since he is looking after you.
Speaker 2: And I love that word unload because literally, in the
Speaker 2: original Greek, it means to just drop. It's not like
Speaker 2: take a long throw of it, like you're throwing a
Speaker 2: baseball or throwing a rock across the lake.
Speaker 3: It just says unload. It means let it go, let
Speaker 3: it go.
Speaker 2: And God says, you know, all those things you're stressing
Speaker 2: about this morning, all those things you're anxious, you're worried,
Speaker 2: you're fearful, you're uppied about.
Speaker 3: Let it go. Let it go. Never worry about anything,
Speaker 3: because it's not going to do any good anyway. So
Speaker 3: what do you do? Anyway?
Speaker 2: You do the next step, and that's the second part
Speaker 2: of this verse. First part of verse six says never
Speaker 2: worry about anything. The second part is talk to God
Speaker 2: about everything. That's the second step. You talk to God
Speaker 2: about everything. Don't panic pray, don't worry, worship, stop talking
Speaker 2: to yourself about all the stuff to stress you out,
Speaker 2: and start talking to God. Talking to yourself won't do anything,
Speaker 2: but talking to God will. He's saying, talk to God
Speaker 2: about everything. This is the second part of this verse
Speaker 2: Philippians four to six. Never worry about anything. Instead, in
Speaker 2: every situation, let God know what you need in your
Speaker 2: prayers and in your request. You know, I got to
Speaker 2: thinking yesterday, if you prayed as much as you worry,
Speaker 2: you'd have a whole lot less to worry about. And
Speaker 2: by the way, God, since God has promised to care
Speaker 2: for you, if it's not worth praying about, it's not
Speaker 2: worth worrying about. He says, talk to God about everything.
Speaker 2: God knows what you need in your prayers. You know,
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, anytime I had a need
Speaker 2: in my life, I would I'd go talk to my dad,
Speaker 2: say Dad, I need this. And sometimes it was something
Speaker 2: that cost, something that's expensive, and I said, Dad, I
Speaker 2: need I can distinctly remember that not once as a
Speaker 2: kid when I said God, Dad, I need this. Never
Speaker 2: once did I worry about where my father was going
Speaker 2: to get the money. Never once, because that's not my job.
Speaker 2: It's my dad's job to figure out where the money
Speaker 2: is going to come from. It was my job as
Speaker 2: a kid, as a child, to simply ask. It's not
Speaker 2: your job to figure out how God's going to do it.
Speaker 2: It's your job to ask, to ask your heveny fellows, father,
Speaker 2: I need this help you. See, when you worry instead
Speaker 2: of asking, you're acting like an atheist. Worry is practical atheism.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. It's acting like I don't have
Speaker 2: a heavenly Father in my life. It's acting like God
Speaker 2: doesn't exist. It's acting like I'm a spiritual orphan. Worry
Speaker 2: is practical atheism. God says I'll take care of you.
Speaker 2: It's acting like God can't be trusted. Now here's what
Speaker 2: the Bible says. Look in your outline, James four two.
Speaker 2: You do not have because what you do not ask,
Speaker 2: you do not ask God. So here's the second key
Speaker 2: to stress management. Worry less, ask more, worry less, ask more.
Speaker 2: Instead of worrying, pray, worry about nothing, pray about everything.
Speaker 2: He said, Well, I don't want to bother God with
Speaker 2: this little bitty, tiny little thing. There's nothing tiny to God.
Speaker 2: Every problem in your life is tiny. To God, there's
Speaker 2: no big problems in your life. There are no little
Speaker 2: problems in your life, because all of them are tiny
Speaker 2: to God. Now here's what the Bible says in Romans
Speaker 2: chapter eight thirty two. Since God did not spare even
Speaker 2: his own son Jesus, but gave him up for us.
Speaker 2: All he died on the cross for us. Won't he
Speaker 2: give us Christ? Who won't he who give us Christ
Speaker 2: also give us everything else we need?
Speaker 3: What's he saying here? Follow the lodge?
Speaker 2: Your biggest problem is getting into heaven, because heaven's perfect
Speaker 2: and you're not, and neither am I. I stopped batting
Speaker 2: a thousand about breath number three, and so God came
Speaker 2: up with plan B. He came to Earth in human form,
Speaker 2: and he said, I'll live a perfect life and I'll
Speaker 2: die for you, and you can get into heaven on
Speaker 2: my ticket. It's grace. I don't work it, I don't
Speaker 2: earn it, I don't deserve it, I don't buy it.
Speaker 3: It's just grace. I told you last.
Speaker 2: Week that one of my mentors was Peter Drucker, and
Speaker 2: I asked Peter one time. Peter, at one point, did
Speaker 2: you step across the line and accept a relationship with Jesus.
Speaker 2: He said, you know, Rick, the day that I understood
Speaker 2: Grace for the first time, I realized I'm never getting
Speaker 2: a better deal. There was no way I'm getting into
Speaker 2: heaven on my goodness. I'm not good enough.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 2: If God did not spurs on Sun but gave him
Speaker 2: for us, won't he give us everything that Christ has
Speaker 2: given to us? Won't he give us everything else we need?
Speaker 2: If God solved my biggest problem, everything else is small
Speaker 2: by comparison. If God loved you enough to die for
Speaker 2: your sins, don't you think he loves you enough to
Speaker 2: help you with your finances?
Speaker 3: Don't you think he.
Speaker 2: Loves you enough to help you with your health, with
Speaker 2: your relationships, with the career decision, with closing a deal,
Speaker 2: with making a sale. Yeah, there is no area of
Speaker 2: your life that God is not interested in. The Bible
Speaker 2: says he has the hairs on your head number now
Speaker 2: for some of this that's not too hard. But God
Speaker 2: knows every hair in your head, and even the ones
Speaker 2: you left in the sink this morning.
Speaker 3: That's how detailed. I don't even know how many hair
Speaker 3: is on my.
Speaker 2: Head, but God does. God says, I all care for you,
Speaker 2: and I'll care for all of your life. So one
Speaker 2: of the dumbest things you can say is God, I'll
Speaker 2: handle this. Really, when he's offered to take care of
Speaker 2: every air of your life, to say, God, I'll handle this.
Speaker 2: Why you want to lower the stress in your life.
Speaker 2: Worry about nothing and pray about everything. Number three, The
Speaker 2: third thing he tells us to do is to thank
Speaker 2: God in all things. Thank God in all things. Now,
Speaker 2: I doesn't say thank God for all things, because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of things you shouldn't be thankful for. There's
Speaker 2: pain in the world, there's evil in the world. Somebody
Speaker 2: gets cancer, you don't have to thank God for cancer.
Speaker 2: Somebody dies, you don't have to think thank God for
Speaker 2: their death. But it says in all things, give thanks,
Speaker 2: which means even in the bad times, I can find
Speaker 2: something good. Now here's the third part of that verse
Speaker 2: Philippians four to six. He says, you know, worry about nothing,
Speaker 2: and then he says, when you ask God for what
Speaker 2: you need, also thank him. Circle that thank Him for
Speaker 2: all he's done. Always ask with a thankful heart. Today's
Speaker 2: English version said, now, I'm not going to belabor this
Speaker 2: point because twice already in this series, we've talked about
Speaker 2: the connection between gratitude and happiness. You cannot be happy
Speaker 2: and ungrateful at the same time. Happy people are grateful people.
Speaker 2: Unhappy people are ungrateful people. Study after study after study
Speaker 2: has shown that the healthiest emotion known to human beings
Speaker 2: is the attitude of gratitude. And the more you build
Speaker 2: gratitude in your life, the more happy and the more
Speaker 2: healthy you're going to be. And the in fact, study
Speaker 2: is shown that having an attitude of gratitude actually raises
Speaker 2: your immunities, and being ungrateful and being resentful actually lowers
Speaker 2: your immunity to other things in life. We know that
Speaker 2: gratitude is one of the remedies for depression because it
Speaker 2: gets my eyes off myself and gets it on other people.
Speaker 2: Instead of looking at what I don't have, I look
Speaker 2: at what I do have. It's a stress reliever, gets
Speaker 2: the focus off me. Ungrateful people are unhappy people. He says,
Speaker 2: when you ask God, don't just ask, but also thank him.
Speaker 2: Always ask with a thankful heart. Now, the fact is
Speaker 2: I can always find something to be grateful for. We've
Speaker 2: talked about this for on the cover of K's last
Speaker 2: book on choosing joy. There is a pair of railroad tracks,
Speaker 2: and it's representative of life that on in your life.
Speaker 2: You're always you've got two rails at the same time.
Speaker 2: One rail of the good things that are happening in
Speaker 2: your life, and the other rail are the bad things
Speaker 2: that are happening in your life. Now, I used to
Speaker 2: think that life was a series of hills and valleys,
Speaker 2: mountaintops and load times, and you know, you have all
Speaker 2: of these good times and you have all these bad times.
Speaker 3: But that's not really true.
Speaker 2: The fact is you get them both at the same
Speaker 2: time all of your life. In other words, there's no
Speaker 2: time in your life when everything is good and there's
Speaker 2: nothing bad in your life, and there's no time when
Speaker 2: everything is bad and there's nothing good in your life.
Speaker 2: No matter how good things are going on in your life,
Speaker 2: there's always something you need to be working on. And
Speaker 2: no matter how bad things are in your life, there's
Speaker 2: always something you can be thankful for. Be grateful for,
Speaker 2: and so I can always find something. And this is
Speaker 2: the third step for stress reduction. Be thankful and thank
Speaker 2: God in all things. This is exactly what the Bible says.
Speaker 2: First Thessalonians five eighteen says this in everything circle that.
Speaker 2: Now it doesn't say in most things. It says in everything,
Speaker 2: not four, but in everything give thanks for This is
Speaker 2: the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. You know,
Speaker 2: people ask me, not time Rick, I'm just trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what God wants me to do with my life.
Speaker 2: What is God's will for my life? There it is
Speaker 2: right there. This is the will of God for you.
Speaker 2: And before God shows you step two, you need to
Speaker 2: take step one. God does have a will and a
Speaker 2: plan for your life, your marriage, your career, your education,
Speaker 2: and everything else. Before we get to those specifics, Gods says,
Speaker 2: let's work on the general. The first thing is I
Speaker 2: want you to learn to be grateful in every situation.
Speaker 2: This is the will of God for you. You know.
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