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 Prayer Email archive:(08/07/2001) understanding stress
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| Hello prayer warriors,
1. Prayer note: understanding stress [Ecclesiastes 5:12] The sleep of a labouring man is sweet. I have this dream that one day I'll leave Malaysia and move to Monterey Bay with a few friends. Get a Labrador there and start a Chinese restaurant. It's one of my ways of escaping from my world. It's really kind of a silly dream. Things won't be easy in Monterey, especially if I start a Chinese restaurant. My family has started restaurants before and I see them toiling day and night for the business. Why do I have this dream? Because I want to escape the stress of my world and I think that packing my bag and moving elsewhere would help. I've recently learned that I need crisis or stress to grow. It takes crisis to shake me out of my comfort zone to move to the next level. It's just like exercising. If I don't exercise, I will grow flabby. I have to exercise and subject my body to stress in order to get fit. If I want muscles to grow, I need to create a small crisis in my body to stimulate muscle growth. It is the same with my life. A life without stress is a life without growth. Rest is only sweet when I live with stress and have overcome. Rest is only sweet in the context of growth. Stress creates opportunities for me to overcome and grow. It's the same thing with work and labour. It's good to take a holiday after working hard on the job. But if you find yourself unemployed for months, it wouldn't be so much fun after all. Rest is only sweet in the context of stress. The bible also teaches us that in order to grow, we need to prune and remove parts of our lives that is hindering us from growth. Every pruning process involves a crisis. That crisis creates the opportunity for us to grow. [John 15:2] He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. If we start looking at stress at the right perspective and start welcoming a certain amount of stress into our lives, we will learn to take and not avoid challenges in our lives. We will not look at crisis as negative destructive forces in our lives but positive forces that we can use for growth. We will learn to find and enjoy the sweet rest that comes from labour and overcoming crisis. 2. New prayer requests: i. Safety for My dad -- m parham http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=1929 ii. Much Prayer Needed! -- zeta96 http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=1930 iii. Please Pray for my family - lacey007 http://mydevotion.com/p.asp?tid=1931 3. Number of prayer warriors: 893 We welcome heroplaza, candasis, mummau, zingdam, manie, debramcgrew1, vloh, lacey0007, psalm271, redneck, pangolin, organizedwifeandmom and mzjackee into our prayer group. Note: Our vote rating has increased from 6.0 per day to 6.4 per day but we are still number 12. Please continue to vote, it is the only way of raising the rating and hopefully, we will be in a more visible position to encourage more visitors to the site: http://mydevotion.com/mailvote.asp in Christ, Wai Hun |
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| Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:54:26 AM waihun | |
changed on Saturday, August 18, 2001 6:45:25 AM |
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