How Can I Cope with Stress

How Can I Cope with Stress
Stress… everyone having difference problem, facing difference kind of stress…
How to handle our stress?
When we are stress, what we will do?
Cry, throw all our things, scolding people, angry, and argue with people…
Many many things that I will do without our controlling…
How to handle our stress?
How to don’t control by our own stress?
Let me share some principles of stress management la… it is a very good sharing :)
There eighth principle for handing stress in our life,
First principle is : Know who you are.
Jesus said, “I know who I am, I testify to myself.” If you don’t know who you are, you will let other people manipulate you and pressure you into being somebody you aren’t. Yup, I agree… when we lose our way, we will easily influence by people around us. Then worse will come upon us. Always remember this word: “I know who I am by knowing whose I am”, mean that before you get to know who you are, you need to get know you belong to whose. I know who am I, I am a child of God, I belong to God family :)
Second principle is: Know Who You’re Trying to Please, mean that we must know who we want to make them happy. Just like I study hard because want show a very good result to my parents. But I most important thing is we want to please God, so we do all good things. When you don’t know whom you’re trying to please, you cave in to three things: CRITICISM, COMPETITION AND CONFLICT. 1st - you criticism because you are concerned about what other people think about you.
2nd- you are competition because you worry about whether somebody else is getting ahead of you.
3rd – you conflict because you are threatened when people disagree with you.
A very powerful promise of God is “if you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, then all the other necessary things of life will be added unto me” mean that if we please God, it will simplify our life. Nice leh, God promise us to give us every good things if we please Him.
Third principle is: know what you want to accomplish. Mean that what is your goal, what your plan… In bible, Jesus said: “I know where I come from and I know where I am going.” Unless you plan your life, and set priorities, you’ll be pressured by what other people think is important. Encourage: spend a few minutes each day in prayer talking with God, tell him your entire schedule for the day. Then let God lead you and guide you…
Principle number four is: Focus on one thing at a time. When we not concentrated our efforts, we are ineffective. But when we concentrate our efforts, we are more affective. Some people are easier disturbed by people around them. When we face many problems at the same, try yourself to focus on one by one, settle your things one by one. Pay more time to concentrate that thing, don’t be easy give up hope… everything is possible if we willing to spend more time to find out the way to settle…
Fifth principle is: Don’t try to do it all yourself. Team work is very powerful; it can produce a very good result. Jesus trained His twelve disciples so that they could share the load. He delegated His work. We cannot focus on more than one thing at a time and do it effectively. When facing problem, just open out our mouth and ask people for help and let people involved, so that that thing will be done effectively. Don’t always have this kind of thinking: “nobody can do it like I can”… we need others strength and also God strength, bible said: we can do all things through Christ who strengthen us… Learn to put our faith in God that everything He can strengthen us…
The sixth principle is making a habit of personal prayer. We need have a quiet time to be alone with God. Talk with God in the prayer, tell Him what’s on our mind, and let Him talk to us. Sometime when we are facing problem, we only know how to keep on complaining, we complain and complain… never ever stop, at that moment if God has speak to us we also can’t hear one… so better let yourself to be silent and hear God words by open up your heart…
Principle number seven is take time to enjoy your life. Try to relax yourself when you feel stress… hearing some worship song is the best way for me to relax myself… we need to balance our life by enjoying life…
The last principle is giving all our stress to Christ, Jesus said: come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest… He said also: I want to give you rest. I am the stress- reliever. When you get in harmony with me, I will give you inner strength.
Wow!!! A very good lesson for Nicole… thank you for sharing me all this principles, it has been encourage me to handle my stress.
Father Lord, I know that You want to telling me something through Nicole, I give thanks to You. You take away all my stress, now I want to please you… Lord, please give me a new life. Replace the pressure I feel with the peace You offer. Help me follow Your principles of stress management. I love sooooo much..:) good night my father in heaven…