Stress Out Part 5 {How to Live Through a Bad Day}

How to Live Through a Bad Day

Luke 21:34 – “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with
carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on
you suddenly like a trap.”

2 Corinthians 1:8-11 – 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers
and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We
were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we
despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of
death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God,
who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and
he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue
to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers.

3 Stages of Surviving…
1.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 – 9 Two are better than one, because they have a good
return for their labor: 10 If either of them falls down, one can help the
other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.
• Life is designed for , not .

2.
Isaiah 53:3 (NLT) – He was despised and rejected—a man of sorrows,
acquainted with deepest grief.
Psalm 61:1-2 (NKJV) – Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my prayer. From the
end of the earth I will cry to You. When my heart is overwhelmed; Lead me
to the rock that is higher than I.

• changes everything!

3. .

Jeremiah 20:18 (GNT) – Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and
sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?

Matthew 27:46 – “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

• When falls apart, I keep my eyes on the .

3 Steps to Thriving…

1. .

Proverbs 3:5-6 – 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on
your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will
make your paths straight.

• is the only pathway to .

2.
Romans 5:3-5 (NLT)

1 Peter 1:6-7 (NLT)

• Pain is a  that me or a that me.

3.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 – 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who
comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

• Our faith doesn’t us from troubles. Our faith helps us the troubles

• I can’t control what happens , but with , I can choose .