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Would you like to reduce your stress?

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Reduce your anxiety, possibly lower your blood pressure.

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The Bible has a recommendation for you that is effective and time-tested.

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When reading the account of creation in Genesis chapter 1,

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we encounter this recurring statement.

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And there was  evening and the morning, the first day, and there was evening and the morning,

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the second day, onto the sixth day of creation.

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The lesson for us is that our Savior and Creator Jesus Christ created one day at a time.

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The power to create light on day one wasn't the power to create the firmament on day two

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or the dry land on day three along with vegetation.

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Power for each day.

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That's the way you and I are supposed to live.

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That's the way God's function and has given it to us.

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As an example for life, it is guaranteed my listening friend.

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If we would approach life that way, we would significantly reduce our stress

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and our degree of worry.

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Too often we reach into the future

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and bring perceived problems and combine them with the real problems of today.

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But your Creator has taught you one day at a time.

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Jesus tells us, take no thoughts for the morrow,

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for the morrow shall take thoughts for the things of itself.

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Hence, so I recommend to you as you keep the Sabbath holy,

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that you follow the example of your Creator one day at a time.

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My favorite writer outside of the Bible, Ellen White,

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makes this comment in Bible commentary volumes 7 page 974 Paragraph 3.

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It is not necessary to gain strength a month ahead.

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We are to conquer from day to day.

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My listening friend, my message to you is very very simple.

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Function one day at a time. Whatever your problem, your addiction,

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your victorious today, one day at a time.

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And surely, if you do it today, you have reason to believe you can do it tomorrow.

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As you keep the Sabbath holy, my listening friend, remember that God wants you to live,

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one day at a time, and conquer, one day at a time.

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May the Lord bless you and doubly bless your children as you keep the Sabbath holy.