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The Dangers of Stress and the Call to Hush 0:02 We wanna honor God because He sees everything.0:10 You were born with a plan and a purpose. He's the God of all things possible. He's the God of all0:22 miracles.0:52 Welcome to Grace Grace with Naina Michelle. I'm Michelle Humphreys.0:56 And I I am Naina Keegan. Welcome to the broadcast today. So if you are 1 of these people that's always stressed out stressed out about something you know, I'm so stressed. You know, you hear this so much especially now.1:07 You're doing your Italian hands. I well You got your Italian hands. Yeah.1:12 You have no choice. I am Italian. I'm stressed. I'm so stressed. I'm so verklempt. So, you know, here's the deal. I wanna I wanna ask you this. How is that working for1:23 you? Is is being constant state of stressed out helping you? Is it you know, I read this thing. I gotta read this. Okay. So that question, how is that working for you? The simple question1:35 forces us to rethink our approach to stress because often the real problem isn't stress itself. It's when we either deny it, pretend nothing is wrong, or we dwell on it excessively,1:47 letting it consume us. Both extremes leave us completely self absorbed, irritable, and impatient. Sometimes, even justifying behaviors we know are1:59 not right. Because stress can lead to anger and cause strife, and where there's strife, there's every kind of evil, every kind of evil. Can you imagine that? Think about2:11 that. That's crazy. Right? So stress can cause all kinds of issues.2:16 Think about, like, even if you're about to start an argument, you know, with with your spouse or, you know, someone in your family that, you know, some families, they just go back they2:28 bicker back and forth. That's strife. Think about that. Like, would you actually go answer the front door if you knew that every kind of evil was at the2:40 door? I wouldn't. I absolutely wouldn't. So why would we bicker back and forth? That is opening the door to every kind of evil. That's what the2:51 Bible says. We either believe it or we don't. So rather than get the last word, rather than get that last little dig in or whatever, we need to hush and we need3:03 to wait on the Lord and let him know, you know, call on the Lord and say, God, you got to help. You got to help because I'm so irritated right now and I don't know what to do except that I got to call on you3:15 and I'm asking you to talk to them and tell them. Right?3:19 Yeah. You know, I so many times, I my husband can testify to this. I'll be, like, getting so stressed out or mad. Maybe it's about the news or it's about something or some encounter I had that day or, you know,3:31 something happened. And I start, like, you know and you can just see how you start escalating with that. And I will say more than times than I can kinda go, you know what? I just I3:43 just have to be quiet. I just cannot I'm just not even gonna talk about it. And they'll say, well, what were you gonna say? I'm like, nope. It doesn't matter. It's not gonna change a thing. And I'll back out of it. I'll3:51 say, it's not worth it because, you know, nothing's gonna come of it. If I'm stressed about, you know, you know, you're just watching the news and you're hearing the hypocrisy du jour of the4:03 day, and you wanna go crazy about it and get all upset and stressed out, and I thought, okay. Now, my behavior in this, me getting all stressed out is not going to change the news. It's not going to change anything.4:16 So the good news get the highlights from your news. Turn it off. Go pray. Trust the Lord. Put on some praise music. Do something you like. Go get yourself happy. Talk yourself happy. Go, you know,4:28 go go have a good snack. I mean, you know, do you know, watch something fun. You know, go change the atmosphere in your house with some praise and just really kind of step away and get out of that4:39 situation. But it's a practice. It's catching yourself. It really is because the devil wants to keep you on that loop, and he wants you just on for the whole ride because you you he4:51 he got you at the onset. He he tricked you and he got you. Because you know how it escalates, like, you can start and then all of a sudden you're so mad and it's hard to calm down from that. And then you can you you5:03 especially at night, then you can't sleep or, you know, it really just is what the devil his tactics are to keep you stressed out so you can't focus on Jesus. You're so distracted.5:14 Well, and and, you know, we know the scripture. What does the Bible say? Do not be anxious for anything, but by everything through prayer and supplication, make your request known before God. And we almost5:25 need to pray kind of like Nehemiah. Whenever the king said, How long do you need to be off, Nehemiah, to go build this, you know, rebuild the city? And Nehemiah quickly5:37 prayed to the Lord and then he he gave him an answer. He knew immediately. And that's almost how we need to shoot up a prayer before we begin to, like, begin to you know, have you ever5:49 noticed when you begin to speak something it just makes you more upset? That's why we have to be careful with our words. Our words can stress us out. Like if you begin to6:01 complain about the job that you used to love, that you were so happy to get when the HR department called you, and then all of a sudden you're complaining about it, that's stressing you6:13 out when you should be just as grateful that about the day you got it as you are this day. Right? So you're not stressed about it. This will stress6:25 you out. Also the news. I mean, like you said, I mean, what in the on the planet? Now we have prayed. I don't care if you have the House, the6:37 Senate, the White House. That's not the answer. Jesus is the answer.6:41 Exactly.6:41 Yes. Jesus is the answer. So we're back to Jesus again. We can go in this fretful stressful loop, but the Bible says in a simple in6:53 simple terms, fret not. Fret not. So what does that mean?6:58 65 times. That's a7:00 big deal.7:01 It's 1 for every day.7:02 I mean think about it. He does not want you to stress. He wants you to remember who He is and that He is the God who made all things to be. His name is Yahweh. That's what that7:14 means. Yahweh is the God who made all things to be. And if He made it all that means that here He was. He was looking over the the7:26 void of the earth, right? He made out of chaos He made this beautiful planet. And and think about what he can do with your chaos. So do not worry.7:39 Call on the Lord. Hush your mouth whenever you want to run it with your family, friends, who your boss, whoever, your whatever. You know your nemesis.7:50 And just let the Lord guide you. Listen to His word because I promise you that's the way. It's the way. Yeah.8:00 We are gonna take a quick break. We are coming right back. You are watching Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle. Stay right there.8:06 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com8:18 or call that number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bed sheets, only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings, regular 1 19Pursuing Peace Amid Personal Challenges 8:30 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular8:42 69 98, now only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium my pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.8:53 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quine's are extremely limited, so9:05 order now.9:07 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we're talking about how to de stress your life. And, you know, really, it's 1 word, Jesus, because honestly, you know, do you ever just get the9:18 feeling like I know I do. I can start escalating. I can start getting mad about something, and I know. Naina, stop. I I know. The Holy Spirit is telling me, don't even go9:30 there. Don't pick this up. Don't take the bait. This is not for you. Like, don't do it. And do you know how hard that is? Because we just wanna do it anyway. And but I9:42 I know. I have to I'll say, no. You know what? I'm just gonna I'm gonna pursue peace because the Bible tells us to do that. And I remember when I first got a hold of that, pursue peace, and I started to,9:54 like, look up what the word pursue means, and it's like, go after with I mean, there's like it's like it is forceful. Like, you go after it, just like when you're pursuing an enemy, you know? Yeah.10:06 And so that's how we have to do this. Like, we have to decide that we're going to remain in peace, and we're going to pursue it. We're going to go after it. We're not going to take the bait. We're not going to pick10:18 up an offense. Because we're you know, what's it going to do for you? Is it going to change the problem? Is is you picking up that bait?10:26 Is it10:26 going to make you more mad? It's going to bring more strife in maybe it's the family or whatever the situation is? And it's never going to change the situation. But you being an example10:38 of peace and and saying, you know what? Let's just let's just stay in peace. Let's not talk about this right now. I love you, but we're not I don't wanna bring this up. Let's just let's just agree to disagree and10:50 be the first 1. Even if you don't believe you're wrong, apologize. And you can get so far with that. I am not even kidding. Say, you know what? I'm sorry if you think that or if you're you're this has hurt11:02 you in some way, and that's pursuing peace. And I'm telling you, sometimes that's really hard. But if you do that and you have taken that high11:14 road, you can watch everybody it's sort of like this de escalation. You can watch the temperature in the room go down because you've made the choice to pursue peace and to11:26 stop the stress before it escalates and turns into some big Italian war fight like in your family because because that's that's how it is. You know how Italians are. You11:37 know, I mean war fights. And it's like, how's that working for you? Right? Like, you know, it's like it's not gonna solve anything. Right?11:45 It doesn't. It doesn't. And I'm so glad that the Bible promises peace. It says in John 14 27, peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world11:57 gives to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. That's a word from the Bible. Right? And we don't wanna start a war fight.12:09 And, you know, late lately, I you know, she knows because I have I have been fussing with not with her, but telling her. I've had some issues lately. I've been flying12:21 a lot and, so I've had some issues with my ears. And, like, with fluid in my ears, almost like I have to I might have to get tubes, you know. I mean it's like that bad like a child.12:33 And so I've been on cold medicine and I have a thyroid issue which makes me like feel like really edgy when I'm on cold medicine to the point of like12:45 absurdity. And so I tell people like I I am on cold medicine. I just want you to know tell my family I'm on cold medicine because they know, you know, I am not my normal, well I'm not, I wouldn't say pleasant,12:57 but I mean I I feel like I am generally, I like peace. But I'll go to war. I'll go to war on some Sudafed. Like, that's it. Like, it's it's own.13:09 Like, do not say that again. Like, uh-uh.13:13 Michelle and I You didn't. Both it's funny because we both have, like, thyroid, and we we are both it's weird. Like, gluten free. So I don't know if this has something to do with it, but neither 113:25 of us can take medications, over the counter especially.13:28 Yep.13:29 And, you know, we laugh because it's like NyQuil is supposed to put you to sleep. I feel like my hair is growing and I wanna run around the block 7 times. And so 1 time Scratch your hair. We had to be at a big meeting,13:40 this prayer meeting, and both of us the flu. We did. And we were both taking Mucinex, and we just cried. We were just crying. Why are you even crying? We didn't even know why we were crying. We were13:52 just crying in the car and crying, and we're like, we both know that we can't take stuff. So when she's telling me her ears, she's like, pray for me because I'm on Sudafed. I'm like, oh, no. Jesus.14:04 Jesus over this because anything can happen.14:07 Mess with you. I mean, it makes you feel more agitated. And I mean, not that I I don't really have a lot of things in my life that really agitate me, but for some reason when I'm on14:19 Sudafed, it just seems like it's Everything. Everything is, you know, oh, no. That's terrible. You know, it's so overdone, your thoughts, you know. So And then it's14:31 stressful. Exactly. But but then if I don't take it, then my ear stopped up. So I have to go back to the doctor, or I'm just praying14:39 for you guys.14:40 For my hearing. Yes. That that my ears the fluid will open up.14:45 Well, really, it's about learning to trust God. Because the things that we stress about, really, it's like say maybe maybe, you know, in all seriousness, you're stressed about bills or you're14:57 stressed about, you know, somebody a health issue or you're stressed about maybe, you know, needing your children to come back to the Lord, and there's a lot of really, really big15:09 stressors. But, again, if you could just take that to the Lord and just instead of stressing about it, present your request to the Lord. Be anxious for nothing, but tell him15:21 with thanksgiving and your present these these requests and say, Lord, I I don't know what to do, and I don't want to carry this around. I can't take this stress anymore. And so I want to cast this15:33 onto you, and I need you to help me with that because I don't wanna cast it off to you or pray that way and then pick it back up and go, oh, no. What do I do? Because so many times, we think that we're the15:44 ones who have to go solve this problem.15:47 Right.15:47 And we have to figure it all out, and that's exactly what the devil wants you to think so that you remain in this stress. Because when you give it to the Lord, when you pray, the Bible says15:59 in Daniel that the minute you pray that he actually inclines his ear to hear your prayer, and angels are dispatched. You have the help of all of heaven at your disposal. And and,16:11 you know, I I always picture about this. Are angels just standing guard waiting for me to to request, you know, that God do something about this situation, and we're not utilizing16:23 those tools that we have. And so Well, don't you love that? That. And he's he there he's waiting. He's inclined to see where he's waiting. And when we say go, send them. And so I send angels everywhere. I16:35 send them to my house, go to my kids' houses, go to this situation, rearrange things on my behalf, and open the doors that are supposed to open, slam shut the doors that are not supposed to open for us.16:47 I have them go hold open doors that that that that I I want to walk through, that I if it's of the Lord. So we have these tools at our disposal, and the devil doesn't want you to know you have these16:59 tools. But that's how we distress.17:02 And and I I love that scripture that says, do you not know that the angels of the Lord are sent to the sons and daughters of salvation? And if you know Jesus, you are a son or a17:14 daughter of salvation. And when we come back, we'll talk more about de stressing your17:20 life. Amen.Casting Cares on the Lord for True Rest 17:22 I'm excited to announce that we're having our biggest 3 in 1 sale ever with a limited edition product, a back in stock special, and a closeout deal you won't find anywhere else. So go to my pillow dot com17:34 or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get our My Pillow bed sheets. Only 29 88. Any color, any style, any size, even Kings. Regular, 1 1917:46 98, only 29 88. Once they're gone, they're gone for good. How about our my towels? They're finally back in stock, but not for long. Get a 6 piece my towel set, regular17:57 69 98. Now only 39 98. And for the first time and the only time ever, get our limited edition premium my pillows. They're made with giza cotton and designer gusset.18:09 Queen, 17 98. King's only 19 98. So go to my pillow dot com or call the number on your screen. Use your promo code to get the best offers ever. Quine's are extremely limited, so18:21 order now.18:22 Welcome back to Grace Grace with Naina and Michelle, and we're talking about how to de stress your life, and when we truly know that Jesus has dominion. He has dominion over everything.18:34 So the things that you are stressing about, Jesus already knows about all of them. And so so that's the the amazing thing about he has never taken off guard. He's like, oh, I18:46 didn't I I let that 1 slip by. No. He knows everything, and he knows your heart. He knows what you're worried about. He knows what's keeping you up at night, and he knows the18:58 loops of what you're saying and how you think that it's never gonna change and it's never gonna happen. But here's what I'm, I'm going to tell you, and I know this is so much easier said than done,19:11 but if you could pray and say, Lord, help me to leave this with you. Help me to trust you. Give me a bigger measure of faith so that I can trust you with19:22 this situation. And I don't know how to fix it, and thank God you do, because I need you right now, and I need you to step in and take over. And when we19:34 start to pray like that and say, and now help me release it and help me walk away leaving it, I always picture myself like leaving it on the altar. And I picture the blood of Jesus19:46 pouring out over these situations because that's what salvation is. He died for those things that you are worrying about and praying about. They're already been taken care of. They've already been19:58 solved. They've already been paid. Debts canceled. Everything is already there's whatever you're praying for, Jesus already paid for the solution, and he already paid for the20:09 promise, and he already paid for the answer that you're seeking. And so you can ask him to help you leave it there and help you to just walk away with his20:21 peace and ask him for that. I need more peace. Please help me. Jesus, give me your peace. And honestly, when you pray that way, just humble yourself.20:32 And cast all your cares upon him because the Bible says he cares for you. So think about that. Casting all your cares. If he knows20:44 everything, he knows what your cares are. And there's something very cathartic about, like, get down on the ground and just talk to the Lord. You know I just remember listening to20:56 my mother-in-law and I always thought it was so cute. Because she would pray and when she would pray she would just really go into great detail as if God didn't know every single thing that she was talking21:08 about and she would say, And Lord, and you know, you know that this and this happened, and then this happened, and then You know, she's just talking to the Lord and21:20 casting all of her cares onto the Lord. And I just thought that that was precious because God heard those prayers. And and you can be very21:31 detailed with God. Now God does know, you know, but but it it was like a conversation that she was having because I was only listening to the 1 side she was hearing in her spirit21:43 what he would say. But there is something that will bring peace to you when you just cast your cares. Think about that, how that would change your life. I challenge you for the21:55 next 30 days every day. Get down on your knees every time you feel stressed. If you're not in public, not in public, when you're if you can get alone, get down and just say,22:07 God, I'm I'm I feel stressed and this is what I'm stressed about. Like think about it. Why are you stressed? You know David spoke to his soul. Soul, why are you downcast? He22:19 asked himself that question. Why are you stressed? Why are you downcast? Ask yourself that question. I challenge you to bring whatever that answer is22:31 to the Lord. Just say, I'm stressed because whatever it is, I'm stressed because of bills. I'm stressed because I'm worried about my health. I'm stressed because22:43 I'm worried about my child. I'm stressed because this person needs deliverance. Whatever it is nothing is too big for God and with God all things are22:55 possible to them that believe. And so and and if listen, even when bad things happen the Bible says somehow God turns it all23:07 around and makes it good. I don't understand that because sometimes really horrible things happen, but the Bible says that he makes all things work23:19 together for good for those who love him, right, and who are called according to his purpose. So think about that. That's amazing. It is you23:29 know, there's a scripture, in Numbers that the Holy Spirit just brought up to me, and it's it says that he is the star of Jacob and he's the scepter of Israel. And23:41 so if you think about Jesus being the star that lights the way, guides you, and he's the scepter, which means it's like he's the he's the the the authority over all things.23:53 And so when we have those things, if you really just picture that, that he guides us, leads us, and he conquers the enemy for us, then what could we possibly ever need when we can give24:05 those those stresses over to the 1 who is the star of all things and the scepter of all of Israel, and that's us. And he will take care of everything. And24:16 and you can even ask him for a greater measure of faith, and ask him to show you even if you have opened the door to something. Like, why are you why do you have the spirit of fear or the stress? And24:28 ask him if there's something that you've allowed in. Maybe you're watching things or maybe something that you're you've just kind of let in, and and I promise you, God will give you a revelation of that so24:40 that you can you can ask forgiveness and and let it go and just walk away in peace knowing that he wants you, he loves you, and he wants you to be free from all of those things and every stress.24:52 So, Michelle, you wanna pray?24:54 Amen. Lord, I thank you for those who are watching, Lord, that feel this stress and the weight of the world, Lord, they feel fretful. Father, we pray, God,25:06 that if there has been a door maybe through watching something or through the occult or watching, something that's demonic, Lord, and a door has been opened. We close those doors.25:17 Just say that out loud. We close those doors in the name of Jesus because God does not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love and a peace and a sound mind. So right now we speak we25:29 speak peace over every single person. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen.25:36 Love you guys, and we're so grateful to our amazing viewers and our powerful donors. We're just so blessed by you all, and you guys are keeping this gospel going all over the globe. And so thank you, and we25:48 want to hear from you. We wanna hear what God has done for you. Follow us on social media. Send us your prayer reports, your your your prayer requests, your praise reports, And, you know, we try our best to answer them26:00 all, and we just love you. Stay tuned. You're gonna wanna hear this amazing message from Daryl Youngblood. God bless you guys. We love you. Love you.26:09 Why do atheists care so much about Christians anyway? Well, they tell you this. Religion is bad. It's the cause of most wars. But again, evidence shows differently. It shows26:21 that out of 1763 documented wars, only 123 were due to religion. That's between 6 and 7 percent. 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