The Best Tool For Stress Management
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Let me give you this principle real quick. Selflessness is the most underused tool for stress management. Selflessness. I don’t mean thinking less of yourself; I mean thinking of yourself less. Selflessness is the most underutilized tool for stress management. Being at the center is keeping you stressed.
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I’ll show it to you from Moses, and then I’ll show you why, and then we’ll have a big party in the place and go home. Moses gets all caught up in main character energy, and we forgive him, because look. The Lord calls his name and says, “Moses, Moses,” and Moses is like, “That’s me. Here I am. I’m here in Midian.
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” “‘Do not come any closer,’ God said.” This is verse 5. “The place where you are standing is holy ground. Take your shoes off. You’re not going to run from this one.” Remember, Moses ran to Midian, fleeing and hiding, and then God is bringing him to this bush, and he says, “You’re not running away this time.
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” Now that he’s standing and not running, turning and paying attention to what God is doing, the Lord says, “The place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then, the next thing God said is, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” God has been doing this a long time, y’all. God’s miracles didn’t start with your mortgage payment.
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The God you prayed to has done much tougher stuff than what you’re asking him to do right now. This man led a nation out of slavery. You don’t think God will show you how to raise those kids? Have you lost your mind? You forgot who you’re talking to. You forgot who called you. You forgot who promised to keep you. You forgot who lives in you.
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But just about the time we get the perspective of who God is and what he’s come to do… Verse 8: “I’ve come down to rescue my people out of the Egyptians’ hands and to bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey.” Verse 9: “And now the cry has reached me.” Verse 10: “‘So now, go.