“If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understandâ€Â (Philippians 4:7 TLB).Americans are more stressed than ever. A 2017 American Psychological Association “Stress in America Survey†showed that those polled were more stressed about the country’s future than at any time in the survey’s 10-year history.And our stress is deadly. As of June 2018, suicide rates in the US are up 30 percent since 1999.If we’ve ever needed God’s stress-free guarantee, it’s today.The Bible shares God’s guarantee in Philippians 4:7, where it says, “If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understandâ€Â (TLB).This isn’t a stress guarantee from a doctor. It’s not a guarantee from a pharmaceutical company.It’s so much better. It’s a guarantee from the Creator of the universe.Wouldn’t you like to have your thoughts be quiet and your heart at rest as you trust in Jesus?Imagine you’re in a situation where you have no logical reason to be at peaceâ€â€but you are.Sounds pretty good, right?That’s God’s guarantee. That’s God’s promise.There are more than 5,000 promises in the Bible, and every one of them has a premise. Every promise has a premise.There is a premise behind God’s stress guarantee, too. The verse from Philippians 4 begins with, “If you do this.â€ÂOver the next few devotionals, I’ll describe what God meansâ€â€the things he wants us to do.But let this sink in a bit. It is possible to “experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand.â€ÂStress doesn’t have to win. Anxiety doesn’t need to control you.There is hope.Pastor Rick Warren
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