When something weighs on you—as you wake in the morning or at night when it’s time to sleep—you need to realize circumstances and their related pressures are talking to you. Don’t listen! And remember this contest is first of all spiritual. A good-evil contest is being waged. Instead of being pressed down by negative thoughts, draw from your stored-up spiritual chutzpah and talkback!
In this contest you must speak consistent stewardship over your physical body. By faith, reach prophetically for your one-hundred-twenty years found in Genesis 6:3. Steward your life and lifestyle to last. Live out your promise of a long, full life but at the same time, live as though you have five years to complete your assignment. You have an assignment from the Lord and the quality of life necessary to complete it.
Five years. Think that way. Live that way.
Amen.