How do you respond when the pressure is on? Do you stay calm and poised or do you lose control? This time of year you may be experiencing an increase in pressure. Think of a sports game or season, all of the pressure is at the end. So if you are experiencing some pressure right now it may be a sign that God is preparing you for a victory and to move you to the next level. God is not going to take away the pressure but he can work in you to handle it in a completely new way, with calm, poise, and beauty under pressure.
When God helps us stay calm, pressure can be a gift, because it helps us move to the next level faster. Most every high level athlete knows that staying relaxed and calm puts the body into a state the produces better results. The key to staying calm under pressure is rolling it over onto God. We were never meant to carry the weight of it.
Pressure and time are very related so here are a couple of things that can help to reduce pressure. Build more space and margin in your schedule whenever possible and set deadlines out further than you think you need. And whenever it seems like you don't have enough time give away a couple of minutes by helping someone else as a point of trust and remembrance that God can give you more than enough time.
In today's communion we are asking for God's help to stay calm and poised under pressure. If you would like God's help with handling pressure I would encourage you to follow along with the video/audio and take communion over this.
I am praying for you.
Daniel
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