Hello Everyone,
Last week we continued our look at the Happiest Book of the Bible, Philippians. If we work at building character traits that are going to yield more happiness and we are going to work on developing the habits of highly happy people, then we are going to see a harvest of happiness in our lives. God's Word is true, and His promises are true! So when that happiness comes, we also want to protect it. One of the biggest happiness hijackers is stress. And the biggest feeder of stress is worry.
The Bible is loaded with admonitions to not worry and not stress, and one of the most helpful is found in Philippians 4. It's not only an admonition but also both a formula and a guarantee against stress and worry. It consists of 5 steps:
- REFUSE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING
- TALK TO GOD ABOUT EVERYTHING
- THANK GOD IN ALL THINGS
- THINK ABOUT GOOD THINGS
- BE CONTENT WITH ANYTHING
If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:7
If you've been doing it your way and aren't seeing results, why not give God's way a shot? What do you have to lose, stress? Sounds good to me!
If you missed any of the Get Happy messages, you can find them online
HERE, or on the SVC podcast
HERE.