Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Sunday, March 20,

John 16:5, “But now I (Jesus) am going to Him (God the Father) who sent Me, and yet not one of you (the disciples) asks Me, ‘Where are you going?’”

John 16:6, “But because I have said (taught) to you all these things, sorrow (inward stress) has completely filled your heart (right lobe of the soul).”

Doctrine of Stress

In God’s Word there are 11 Problem Solving Devices which work to prevent the conversion of the outside pressures of adversity into the inside pressures of stress in the soul.

F. L. O. T. (Forward Line of Troops) 11 Problem Solving Devices

F. L. O. T. (Forward Line of Troops) 11 Problem Solving Devices

F. L. O. T. (Forward Line of Troops) 11 Problem Solving Devices

» Rebound - Psa 32:5b; 1 John 1:9 » Filling of the Holy Spirit - John 14:26; 16:12-14; Eph 5:18; Gal 5:16 » Faith Rest Drill - Psa 37:4-5; Rom 4:20; 2 Cor 8:9; Heb 4:1-3 » Doctrinal Orientation - Heb 11:1; 1 Thes 4:13 » Grace Orientation - Eph 3:20; 2 Cor 12:9 » Authority Orientation - Rom 13:1-7; Titus 3:1-2; 1 Peter 2:13-3:6; 2 Cor 10:8; Eph 5:22-24, 33b-6:9; Col 3:18-25

» Personal Sense of Destiny - Eph 3:16; Phil 4:9; Rom 9:23 » Personal Love for God the Father - 1 John 4:19; Rom 5:5, 8:28; 1 Cor 2:9 » Impersonal Unconditional Love for Man - John 15:15; Rom 13:9; Gal 5:14 » Sharing the Perfect Happiness of God - John 15:11; Prov 3:13; 1 John 1:4 » Occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ - 1 Peter 1:8

a. Defensively the PSDs function to prevent the outside pressure of adversity from penetrating the soul and becoming the inner pressure of stress.

b. Offensively they function to remove the inner pressure of stress from the soul and any accumulated garbage or scar tissue that has been built up on your soul from Cosmic thinking. Psa 25:16-21

Stress in the soul results in sin nature control plus the inability to convert GNOSIS doctrine into EPIGNOSIS doctrine.

Perpetuation of the inside pressure of stress in the soul destroys metabolized doctrine in the stream of consciousness and prevents any future metabolization of doctrine as long as that stress remains.

Stress creates tunnel vision, focusing on those things producing the stress and shuts down all creative thinking.

a. Creative thinking occurs where a total Relaxed Mental Attitude is present.

a. Creative thinking occurs where a total Relaxed Mental Attitude is present. b. When under stress, your personality changes into an emotional, hypersensitive, very caustic, sarcastic individual.

c. When under stress, routine and good eating habits become non-existent. The end result is a run down, tired condition.

d. When under stress, long term planning is non-existent and short term decisions or decisions of expediency are the norm.

Stress feeds on stress and eventually becomes a lifestyle. Stress becomes a coping mechanism.

How Paul dealt with the outside pressure of adversity, 2 Cor 4:3-9,

Grace Offering

Grace Fellowship Church Sunday, March 20, 2011 Tape # Doctrine of Stress on Your Soul Upper Room Discourse, Part 485 John 16:6; Psa 25:16-21; 2 Cor 4:3-9,16-18 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2011