TENSION

CONFLICTS AND PRESSURES OF THE WORLD CAN BRING ABOUT TENSION. TENSION, AN EVIDENCE OF A LACK OF TRUST IN AN ALL POWERFUL GOD, RESTRICTS OUR CREATIVE POWERS AND IS HARMFUL TO HEALTH.

WHERE THERE IS TENSION, THERE NEEDS TO BE A DETERMINATION OF WHETHER OR NOT THE PERSON IS A CHRISTIAN, IF NOT, HE NEEDS TO COME TO KNOW JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOR OF HIS LIFE.

GOD’S WORD CONTAINS MANY EXHORTATIONS FOR US TO REST AND TRUST IN HIM. AS WE RELEASE WORRISOME MATTERS TO THE LORD, HE CAN BEGIN TO WORK IN THE SITUATIONS. SOMETIMES EVEN IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTIES, IIF WE CAN PRAISE HIM IT WILL RELEASE HIS BLESSINGS AND POWER AND OUR OWN TENSION.

BELIEVE GOD AND START THANKING HIM FOR HIS LOVE, GRACE, AND HELP. GOD IN HIS LOVE WANTS TO BLESS US AS WE REST IN HIM.

THERE NEEDS TO BE DISCIPLINE AND FOCUSING OF ATTENTION ON THE THINGS OF GOD. THE MIND MUST BE DISCIPLINED TO AVOID CONFLICT AND STRESS; THESE THINGS DRAIN ONE OF ENERGY. THINKING ON THE THINGS OF GOD CAN RENEW OUR STRENGTH. ISAIAH 40: 28 – 31

SCRIPTURES FOR TENSION

“MY PRESENCE SHALL GO WITH THEE, AND I WILL GIVE THEE REST.” EXODUS 33: 14

“THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE, AND UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS.” DEUTERONOMY 33: 27

“THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY SALVATION, WHOM SHALL I FEAR? THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY LIFE; OF WHOM SHALL I BE AFRAID?” PSALM 27: 1

“I HAD FAINTED, UNLESS I HAD BELIEVED TO SEE THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING, WAIT ON THE LORD, BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART: WAIT, I SAY, ON THE LORD.” PSALM 27: 13, 14

“THE LORD WILL GIVE STRENGTH UNTO HIS PEOPLE: THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE.” PSALM 29: 11

“FRET NOT THYSELF… TRUST IN THE LORD…COMMIT THY WAY UNTO THE LORD…REST IN THE LORD, AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM; FRET NOT THYSELF BECAUSE OF HIM WHO PROSPERED IN HIS WAY, BECAUSE OF THE MAN WHO BRINGETH WICKED DEVICES TO PASS.” PSALM 37: 1 – 7

“BEHOLD, GOD IS MY SALVATION; I WILL TRUST HIM, AND NOT BE AFRAID; FOR THE LORD JEHOVAH IS MY STRENGTH IS MY STRENGTH AND MY SONG; HE ALSO IS BECOME MY SALVATION.” ISAIAH 12: 2

“THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH; THEY SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES; THEY SHALL RUN, AND NOT BE WEARY; AND THEY SHALL WALK, AND NOT FAINT.” ISAIAH 40: 31

“COME UNTO ME. ALL YE THAT LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN; AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST. TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN OF ME, FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY IN HEART; AND YE SHALL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS.” MATTHEW 11: 28, 29

“IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING.” ACTS 17: 28

“BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD: BUT BE YE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.” ROMANS 12: 2

“LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU, WHICH WAS ALSO IN CHRIST JESUS.” PHILIPPIANS 2: 5

“BE CAREFUL (ANXIOUS) FOR NOTHING: BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING LET YOUR REQUESTS BE KNOWN UNTO GOD. AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.” PHILIPPIANS 4: 6, 7