Stress Out: “Big Rocks”

Stress Out
“Big Rocks”
10/19/25
Pastor Mark England

What are the areas that you are most stressed in?

, Money, Work, Relationships

Luke 21:34 (CSB) “Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly like a trap.

As you see the end of time nearing, be careful… because you’re not just going to have circumstantial , but stress is going to want to get on the of you.

Job 9:25 (NCV) “My days go by faster than a runner; they fly away without my seeing any joy.

Most anxiety attacks happen in your “” time.

That is your taking that opportunity to tell you something!

The is on the wall.
“Immenent ”

Daniel 5:1-7 (NIV) King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.² While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them. ³ So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them. ⁴ As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone. ⁵ Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. ⁶ His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking. ⁷ The king summoned the enchanters, astrologers and diviners. Then he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”

You can look to the for spiritual solutions, and it will not have any.
At some point, you will have to go to .

Daniel 5:25 (NIV) “This is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.”

Daniel 5:26 (NIV) “Here is what these words mean: MENE: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Daniel 5:27 (NIV) TEKEL: You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

Daniel 5:28 (NIV) PERES: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Our days are .

Anything you think you have a lot of you will .

Anything you think you have a limited amount of you conserve and use it .

Our lives can easily get .

Our of time will always cost us something.

The cost will always be less when we respond to the beauty of .

The Sabbath is a dedicated to the .
Worship, Word, Prayer, Good Meal, Family Time, Good Nap, Quality Conversations

1. on what matters most.
“I don’t need to do every activity that I .”

You were made to , but you have a limited amount of time and energy to run.

Take of where you are spending your energy.

matter.
No one on their deathbed wished they spent another hour at the office.

Make time for TODAY!

Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NLT) A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.

matters.

You life will be filled with if you are doing what God created you to do!

Acts 20:24 (NLT) But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.

matters.
The vast majority of your life is on the “”.
toward it.
toward it.
for it.
forward to it.

Matthew 13:44 (CSB) “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure, buried in a field, that a man found and reburied. Then in his joy he goes and sells everything he has and buys that field.”

What is the field?
.

If you really knew how much matters you would focus of your life toward it.

2. the non-essentials.

Ecclesiastes 4:6 (CSB) Better one handful with rest than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.

“Well I’ve got two hands…”
If they are you cannot do anything else.

Get some living.

Right now, average American families are spending of their income.

“If you learn to say “”, you’ll trade for .”

3. my life.

is powerful.
Not just knowing what I do, but what I do .

If I don’t my life, else will.

Order determines .

Matthew 6:31-33 (CSB) So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ ³² For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

Put the in first!

This message is for some of you.
It’s not a problem; it’s a problem.
The handwriting is on the wall.

We serve a powerful God that can you, you, and you can leave here having the of God on your life.

Matthew 11:28 (NLT) Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.

What is it like if I follow Jesus?
.

When I , I have purpose.
When I , I am with Jesus in heaven.
When I experience , He is there.
When I am , He is there.

You can have more difficult circumstances than anyone else, and when you come to , He does something supernatural you cannot explain and He gives you .

Jesus will give you .