Transformed Week 3 - FROM STRESSED TO BLESSED

TRANSFORMED – FROM STRESSED TO BLESSED

Message by:
Pastor Terry Crawford
Covenant Church
Shepherdstown, WV

1. Transfer the Stress
   
   Psalm 23:1-4 NIV
   The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
   
   LOOK TO GOD to meet all my needs.
   
   TRUST GOD in the Dark Valleys.
   
   EXPECT GOD to finish what he starts in me.
   
   
2. Get the right Rest
   
   Psalm 23:2a NIV
   He makes me lie down in green pastures…
   
   OBEY GOD’S instruction about rest.
   
   Exodus 34:21 NIV
   “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
   
   Three Things to Do on a Sabbath
   
   
   • Rest my body.
   • Refocus my spirit.
   • Recharge my emotions.
   
   
   
3. Trust in the Best
   
   Living outside of God’s wisdom and direction brings damage to my health.
   
   1 Timothy 4:8 NIV
   for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
   
   Proverbs 4:20-22 NIV
   My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body.
   
   Proverbs 3:7-8 NIV
   Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
   
   Proverbs 14:30 NIV
   A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
   
   You can’t disconnect your mind/stress from you physical.
   
   Wisdom says, eating/drinking good things for your body and exercise is helps with your health.
   
   Proverbs 17:22 NIV
   A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones

NEXT STEPS:

Today I commit to having a Sabbath rest sometime this month.
Today I commit to trust God with a current trial or through the next dark valley.
Today I am stepping away from an ungodly path and turning to a godly path.