Subtitle
– How to Walk in God’s Abundant Life
Today, I’ll list the rest of
the twelve Stress Reducers found in the 37th Psalm. As I wrote last time, this psalm is meaty and
saturated with answers to some of our most frustrating concerns in life.
If you didn’t read my last
blog post, I encourage you to do so and see the first six stress reducers
listed there.
Completing
the Twelve Stress Reducers:
7- Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in
Him (Ps.7:5
NKJV).
Do things God’s way and
receive a good outcome. “I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants
may live;” (Deuteronomy 30:19b).
8- Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for
Him (Ps.
37:7 NKJV).
“It is useless for you to
work so hard from early morning until late at night, anxiously working for food
to eat; for God gives rest to his loved ones” (Psalm 127:2).
9- Cease from anger, and forsake wrath (Ps.
37:8 NKJV).
“A hot-tempered man stirs up
strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention” (Proverbs 15:8). “For
pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and
pressing anger produces strife” (Proverbs 30:33).
10- Depart from evil (Ps.
37:27 NKJV).
”Keep
away from everything that even looks like sin (evil)” (1 Thessalonians 5:22).
11- Wait on the Lord (Ps.
37:34).
“Wait
on the Lord;
Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!”
(Psalm 27:14 NKJV).
12- Keep His way (Ps.
37:34 NKJV).
“For
evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord,
They shall inherit the earth” (Psalm 37:9).
They shall inherit the earth” (Psalm 37:9).
SO—Don’t worry. Be happy. AND don’t be
overcome with stress!
Because:
“Happy are the people whose God is
the Lord!”
-Psalm
144:15b 
©Connie
Wohlford 2016
