How to keep away from stressing out--I, Rick Warren
華里克牧師講道—如何避免焦慮 (一)
前言：
你如何擺脫焦慮？
忙碌的工作、爆炸的資訊、回覆不完的email和電話、update不完的新知識、千變萬化的職場、隨時可以改變的規則、還有長輩與孩子要照顧……現代生活的運作模式不斷挑戰著人類的各種極限，人內在的壓力就像不斷膨脹的氣球，向四面八方擴張，把我們的每一寸理智推向瓦解的邊緣。
團團轉的生活中，大媽幾次也幾乎在壓力下崩潰。幸好我發現了華里克牧師提綱挈領的優秀講道深深擊中大媽的所有問題。來自聖經的古老智慧，像一束束的光線，把我的盲點與逃避一口氣照了出來。
由於本影片沒有開放協力翻譯，大媽就順便把聽講到的筆記中文化，因為實在太長只好分成兩篇。希望可以讓大家一起學習如何面對焦慮😙
聖經的經典壓力管理處方
內附壓力管理保證
腓力比書四章7節（The Living Bible）
若你如此行，你會經歷神的平安，遠比人類心智所能理解的平安更好。當你信靠基督耶穌，神的平安能保守你思緒平靜、心靈安息。
出人意外的平安/超乎人類心智所能理解的平安：當處於不可能擁有平安的環境，內心卻擁有平安。
該應許的前提：
腓力比書四章6節
不要為任何事情擔憂，相反地，要凡事禱告，把需要告訴神，不要忘記為祂的回應稱謝祂。(當代聖經)
抗壓處方
五個要件：
1.
拒絕為任何事憂慮，沒有例外。
a.
憂慮並不合理
馬太福音六章25節：
不要為這些是憂慮—吃的、喝的、衣服。你們有生命、有身體，不是遠比吃甚麼、穿甚麼重要嗎？
憂慮會誇大問題
憂慮不會解決問題
憂慮無法改變任何事
為你無法解決的事憂慮沒有用，為你解決得了的事憂慮很愚蠢。
無論如何，憂慮一點用也沒有。
b.
憂慮不自然：
神所造之物中，唯有人類憂慮。憂慮是透過學習而來的，因此也可以消除。熟能生巧，停止練習憂慮。
馬太福音六章26節
你們看那天上的飛鳥、也不種、也不收、也不積蓄在倉裡、你們的天父尚且養活他．你們不比飛鳥貴重得多麼。
經文稱「你們的天父」而非「牠們的天父」。若上帝是我們的天父，我們就是祂的孩子，擁有特權，皇室的孩子享有皇室的權利。
馬太福音六章28-29節
何必為衣裳憂慮呢．你想野地裡的百合花、怎麼長起來、他也不勞苦、也不紡線．
然而我告訴你們、就是所羅門極榮華的時候、他所穿戴的、還不如這花一朵呢。
c.
憂慮不健康
憂慮既然不自然，也不健康，我們的身體不是設計來承受憂慮的。
箴言十二篇25節
人心憂慮、屈而不伸．一句良言、使心歡樂。
憂慮的古字有勒住、使窒息之意。
每當你憂慮，你就是在勒住自己的生命，使自己的生命窒息。
相反地，
箴言十四篇30節
心中安靜、是肉體的生命．嫉妒是骨中的朽爛。
若你想更健康，就必須停止憂慮。
d.
憂慮沒有幫助
憂慮無法改變過去，也無法控制未來，它只能毀掉你的今天。
憂慮唯一能改變的只有你，它能讓你悲慘無比。
就像是坐在搖椅上，消耗許多精力，卻哪裡也去不了。
馬太福音六章30節
你們這小信的人哪、野地裡的草、今天還在、明天就丟在爐裡、 神還給他這樣的妝飾、何況你們呢。
快樂是一種選擇，若你不快樂，是因為你選擇不快樂，憂慮也是。
第一步是拒絕憂慮。
彼得前書五章7節
你們要將一切的憂慮卸給 神、因為他顧念你們。
「卸」的意思是鬆手，我們不須很費力地把重擔遠遠地丟出去，經文只要我們「卸下」，意思是鬆開手。
Classic anti-stress management recipe from the Bible
Comes with the stress management guarantee
Philippians 4:7 (The Living Bible)
7 If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus.
Peace that passes understanding: when you are under a situation where you have no logical reason to have peace, and you have it inside.
Premise for this promise:
Philippians 4:6
Never worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don’t forget to thank him for his answers. (Living Bible)
Anti-Stress Recipe
5 things we need to do:
1. Never worry about anything—Refuse to worry about anything. No exception.
a. Worry is unreasonable
Matthew 6:25,“Don’t worry about things—food, drink, and clothes. For you already have life and a body—and they are far more important than what to eat and wear.
Worry exaggerates the problem.
Worry doesn’t solve the problem.
It changes nothing.
To worry about something you can’t change is useless; to worry about something you can change is stupid.
In either case, worry does not work.
b. Worry is unnatural
Among God’s creation, only human worries.
Worry is something you learnt, and we can unlearn it.
Practice make it better. Stop practicing worry.
Mathew 6: 26
Look at the birds of the air, they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
The verse says “your heavenly father”, not “their heavenly father”. Now if God is your heavenly father, and you are his children. You get special privileges. Children of royalty are treated royally.
Matthew 6:28-29
Why worry about clothes? Look at the field lilies! They don’t worry about theirs. Yet King Solomon in all his glory was never clothed as beautifully as they.
c. Worry is unhealthy
Worry is unnatural.
Your body is not designed to handle worry.
Proverbs 12:25
An anxious heart weighs a man down.
The ancient word of “worry” means to strangle or choke.
Every time you worry, you are strangling or choking the life out of your life.
Look at the opposite
Proverbs 14:30
A heart at peace gives life to the body.
If you want to be healthier, you need to stop worry.
d. Worry is unhelpful
Worry cannot change the past, worry cannot control the future, all it does is make today suck.
The only thing worry changes is you—it makes you miserable.
It’s like sitting on a rocking chair. It takes a lot energy but it makes no progress.
e. Worry is unnecessary
Don’t you know that God creates you and care for you?
He takes care of the flowers and he’s not going to take care of you?
Matthew 6:30
If God cares so wonderfully for flowers that are here today and gone tomorrow, won’t He more surely care for you, O you of little faith?
Happiness is a choice.
You are unhappy because you choose to be unhappy.
So is worry.
The first step is to refuse to worry.
1 Peter 5:7
Unload all your worries on God since He is looking after you!
Unload just means drop. It’s not like throwing something across the lake. It just says unload. It means let it go.
(待續)
