It’s crazy how much something can effect your life when you let it take over and don’t hand it over to God.
For me, that something was stress. Whether it was from school, fundraising or just life in general, I constantly felt stressed.
A couple of weeks ago, my church had prophetic communion. During prophetic communion you take communion but also are prophesied over by leaders in the church. When I reached the front of the line, I expected the leaders to start prophesying over me but instead they asked what I needed prayer for. I didn’t know what to say at first but then I told them how I’ve been feeling stressed a lot lately because of school and this trip. A few minutes later one of the leaders asked me if God wanted me to be stressed. Of course I said no, but I was confused as to why he would ask me that.
I know God doesn’t want anyone to be stressed so why did I feel that way constantly?
As I sat with this for a while, I realized that I would hand over my stress to God and then as soon as something came up that I felt like I couldn’t handle, I would immediately allow myself to become stressed again. I knew that I had to permanently hand over all my stress to Him.
God doesn’t call any of us to be stressed. He wants us to run to Him when we start to feel overwhelmed and tell Him all of our problems.
So I’m handing over all of my stress to Him. I know that it won’t be easy. I know that there will be days when I face obstacles that will make me feel stressed, and that I have to hand it over before it takes me over and the enemy starts to use it against me.
I’m so thankful that I serve a God who doesn’t cause us to feel stressed. That I can run to Him for whatever I need and tell Him all of my problems.
