"By the time I'm an adult, my body will already be damaged from stress"
How it sounds in your head: Everyone says stress kills you. My mom has stress headaches. My teacher says her stress caused health problems. School is already stressful and it only gets harder. By the time I'm grown, my body will probably be a mess from all the pressure.
"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
-- Philippians 4:6-7Source: Enemy uses fear of future stress to create present anxiety and program expectation of stress-induced breakdown.
She's already feeling academic and social pressure, and adults constantly tell her it only gets more stressful. Medical confirmation that stress causes disease makes breakdown seem biologically certain.
They were beaten with rods, backs bloody, feet in stocks in prison—maximum stress and trauma. At MIDNIGHT they were SINGING and praying, so filled with joy that an earthquake freed them—supernatural peace in maximum pressure.
I REFUSE the lie that stress will damage my body. IT IS WRITTEN: Be anxious for NOTHING—the peace of God GUARDS my heart and mind. Anxiety is a CURSE. Christ redeemed me from the curse. I have supernatural PEACE as my bodyguard. IT IS WRITTEN: You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You. The BARAK covers me in every pressure. Paul and Silas SANG in prison with bloody backs—that same supernatural peace lives in ME. I don't produce stress damage—I'm a branch in the VINE and PEACE flows through me automatically. The Lord is my Shepherd—I shall NOT want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. My body is protected by divine peace.
The Father is running toward you with PEACE that doesn't make sense based on circumstances, not because your life will be pressure-free, but because He IS your peace and He already lives inside you. Shalom is guarding your body right now.