Anxious generation - week 4 : The Power to Practice
Anxious generation - week 4 : The Power to Practice
Peace isn’t a one-time feeling; it’s a pattern you practice. Philippians 4:9-13 reminds us to live out what we’ve learned — to pray first, think truth, and plug into the real power source: Christ. This week, we’re learning to stay charged with His strength even when life drains us.
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Well, hello Rock Church. How’s everybody doing? You guys good? Good to see you guys. I want to welcome you here and hope you’re having just a great, great day. I also want to give a big shout out to our J. Ruben Long campus. Let’s welcome everybody from our J. Ruben Long. So, so glad you guys are with us as well. And man, I just have a pretty simple question right now. And the question is this: Have you ever heard of the word “nomophobia”? No, probably most of us haven’t. It’s a new phobia. Like, you’ve probably heard of a lot of different phobias. Some of you have phobias. Some of you are claustrophobic. Some of you, I don’t know the name of this one, are clownophobic, you know what I’m saying? Like, there’s got to be a name for that one out there, right?
Nomophobia is this idea that you have fear, you have anxiety if you don’t have your cell phone with you, or if your cell phone battery starts to go into the red. Now, I’m just curious, would any of you like slightly raise your hand if you get a little nervous if your phone battery starts to die? Right. Or maybe you recognize you… yeah, that’s what I thought. Like, it happened. Riley, I know that’s true of you. If anybody knows Riley, Riley being caught without your phone, you’d be in trouble, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you, Riley, we can classify you tonight as a nomophobia. I like that idea. Riley, I love you, buddy.
But you understand what I’m talking about, right? We get it, that there’s times in our life that we get a little anxious if we’re without our phone or the battery life is dying. It goes into the red. I was watching a show on my iPad last night and I was sitting out on a balcony and as I was doing that, all of a sudden I didn’t see the battery, but all of a sudden a notification came up: “You have 5% left.” I’m like, “No!” Like, I’m not ready for my iPad to die, right? And I’m just too lazy to reach around the corner and plug it in. Like, I had power, I was just lazy, right? So that happens, and maybe that’s you. Or some of you are like, “No, that doesn’t bother me at all.” What about when your DeWalt battery goes out, right? Some of you dudes, you know exactly what I’m talking about. You get a little upset. You’re like, “Dang, what do I do now?”
I have found in my world, you know, I use, obviously, an iPhone, because nobody uses a Samsung. Come on. And if you do, you need Jesus bad, Jan. Really. In a minute, we’re going to have people come up front and pray to receive Christ. Okay, you lead the way. But for me, if you know me, I have a digital Bible, obviously I use an iPhone, and then I have an iPad. So I have a lot of digital devices. So this could be true of me. Yet I have found a little secret, I’ll be honest. It’s this little puppy. And I keep it in my backpack at all times. I actually have two of them. And it’s just an external battery. So if my phone or something starts to die, I’m not too worried because I can always just plug it into this.
Here’s what I’m trying to say: I always have a power source I can plug into in a world that never powers down. I want to make sure today that all of us have a power source that we can plug into in a world that never powers down. And obviously I’m not talking about an external battery. I’m talking about a Savior who comes into the internal and saves us and fills us and guards us and powers us up. So that’s what I want you to catch today. And it’s all part of this series, Anxious Generation. And we’re going to wrap it up today by diving right back into Philippians chapter 4. So if you have a Bible, go ahead and go there. If you have a paper Bible, digital Bible, if you don’t have a Bible on your phone, you can use our Rock app. If you don’t have the Rock app, the QR code right in front of you, hit that and it’ll take you there. You can download it and there’s a button on there that’ll take you right to Philippians chapter 4.
All right. So we’ve been in Philippians chapter 4. This is now the fourth week and we’ve just been walking through it because it teaches us this idea on how to maybe not be as anxious, how to maybe let go of some worry, how to let go of some stress. So Philippians 4, we’ve been starting with verse 6. Today, I want to start with verse 9. Philippians 4:9 says this: “Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me, everything you have heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.” That verse, I want you to see this. It says, “Put into practice what you’ve heard from me and what you’ve seen in me so that the God of peace can be with you.” That’s what we’ve been trying to get at through this whole series: in a world that never powers down, how do I find peace? Well, I’ve got to put things in practice.
Well, what is it that we’ve got to put in practice? The last three verses we talked through, really for the next maybe 10 minutes, I just want to go and review what we’ve talked about because maybe this is your first night with us, or maybe you missed a week, or maybe it’d just be good for us to remember. And I want us to see it this way because Paul’s saying put this in practice. What do I put in practice? What he said in verse 6, what he said in verse 7, what he said in verse 8. So here’s what it means: I put into practice prayer over panic.
And as we do this, I want to read this scripture, but I also want to show you somebody who is practicing it because the whole goal of today’s message is, “Let’s put this stuff in practice.” So go back to verse 6 if you have your Bible open. It says, “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for all that he’s done.” If we could just look at this verse again and think about, “Man, how do I have prayer over panic?” Because our natural position, our natural inclination, our natural action is typically panic. The minute you hear something, your heart races. The minute something happens, your stress level rises. The doctor calls. The boss calls. The relationship struggle. It’s like, “Man, I go to panic level.” But what we realize is, no, I need to go to prayer level.
I was talking to Scott, who’s our campus pastor at our Aynor campus, and he said he was having a conversation with a lady from the church just this week. And she said that unfortunately she got a call from her sister who got some bad news about potential cancer. And she said, “My natural disposition is just to always go to panic.” So she started to panic and then she was like, “No, no, no, no. Week one said pray.” So she pulled out her Bible, opened it, started looking at the sermon notes she had written in the margin. And so she reviewed them in her head, looked at the verse, read it, and then immediately started to pray. Then, catch this, she called her sister and said, “I’ve got to share something with you.” She screenshot the page, sent it to her. They talked it through and then they started praying, and they found prayer over panic. That’s practice, guys. That’s how we practice it.
Well, how do we pray? If you remember, we said, one, you worship. You just get into God’s presence. And obviously, we do that here. And when we’re worshiping here in the form of song, let’s make sure we remember that when we worship in song, that is an act of prayer. That is us communicating with God. And when we’re doing it, oftentimes it’s twofold. One, we are reminding ourselves of the promises of God. Like, for instance, that God, you turn graves into gardens. That you take this dead thing, you take this difficult thing, and you make it good. But we’re not just reminding ourselves of the promise. Guess who else we’re reminding? God. We’re telling God, “God, you promised this. God, I’ve seen you do this. God, I read about this in your Word. So I’m asking you to do it again.”
We worship. We pray. We make requests of God. The verse said that. It said that we tell God what we need. We just ask. We just say, “God, this is what I need.” I was talking to somebody right before service and they were sharing with me, “Man, I feel like sometimes when I get into a rough spot and I run to God, I feel like I’m only going to God when I’m in need and he must not like that.” No. I mean, God does want us to go all the time. But God never gets upset when we go to him in need. How many of y’all are parents? You get upset when your child comes to you and says, “I need something”? You know what I mean? Do you get upset when you see something in your child and you go, “Man, they need help right now”? You go to them and you’re like, “No, I’m a dad.” And Jesus said it this way: If we who are human know how to give good gifts, how much more does God know how to give good gifts?
And the other thing it says here is it says to thank him. Again, this is all verse 6. It says to thank him for all that he’s done. To give thanks. And we learned this in week one. We talked about gratitude and how gratitude changes our attitude. Gratitude changes our attitude. Maybe I can say it this way: thankfulness changes our anxiousness. That if we would just… that was a pretty good one, Terry. That should be on a t-shirt or a bumper sticker or something, you know what I’m saying? But gratitude changes our attitude and thankfulness changes our anxiousness. We’ve got to live this life of thanksgiving and gratitude because it will change your disposition.
I sat in here on Tuesday morning. Let me again show you some other people who practice this. I sat in here in a circle with our staff from all of our campuses and we wanted to start our day in prayer. That’s how we start our Tuesday staff meeting. But this week, we wanted to do it a little bit different. We wanted to take communion together. I wanted us just to be thankful and to give thanks to God just for what he had done on the cross. But before we got to that, because it’s kind of our Thanksgiving staff meeting, we said, “Let’s just spend some time giving thanks.” But I said, “Let’s do it this way. Let’s share a little bit in the fashion that the Dayenu used to do it.”
Now, here’s what I mean by that. Maybe I’ve shared this with you in the past. I know I shared it with you in the past, but maybe you weren’t here. There was an old Jewish tradition that when they would celebrate the Passover, they would also do this thing called the Dayenu. And what it is is they would simply say that if you’d only done this, that would be enough. Like, if you’d only helped us cross the Red Sea, that’d be enough, God. We would give you thanks if that’s all you did in our life. Well, I wanted us to do that as a staff. And I didn’t know what would happen. I didn’t know what people would share. I just thought it would be a great way for us to give thanks.
And I was blown away by what I heard. “If you’d only healed my husband from cancer, that’d be enough.” Not like if my husband was healed, but if that’s all you’d ever done in my life, that would be enough. “If you’d only given me a couple days with my child, that would be enough. If you’d only walked with us as we grieved our baby that we lost, that would be enough. If you’d only given me my dad and my husband, that would be enough. If you’d only helped me find life in you, that would be enough.” And story after story after story: “If you’d only helped reconcile my relationship with my daughter, that would have been enough. If you’d only sent me parents to adopt me, that would be enough.”
These individuals were sharing in an act of thanksgiving. And I’ll be honest, there were a lot of tissues going around and just tears coming down my face as I’m hearing people in thankfulness to God. But I want you to hear this: most of them were coming from a place of, “This was a hard season.” But, “I’m giving you thanks for the hard season because I saw the way that you provided.” Maybe there’s another way for me to say it: that everyone who shared, you caught a sense of peace. There was just a great sense of peace in every one of them because they understood, “God, you were there.” And that’s what I want you to see when you read this verse: tell God what you need and thank him for all he’s done. When you thank him, when you spend time with him that way, he gives you peace, which is verse 7: “Then you will experience God’s peace.”
Our staff demonstrated peace. They were practicing thanksgiving, which gave them great peace. When we practice prayer over panic, then we get peace over the pressure. That’s what I want you to see, that you’re guarded by the Holy Spirit. Let me read the verse, verse 7: “Then you’ll experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.” His peace will surround you.
Like we saw from one of our guys at our South Strand campus who was meeting with our South Strand campus pastor Josh. They were talking and this guy was talking about a business deal. And he was talking to Josh, just going, “Man, I’ve got this big business deal. It could go north and be really good for my company or it could go south and be really bad.” And he said, “Man, I was really thinking about that, but then I was reminded that I just simply need to walk in peace because God’s peace will guard me and keep me from worrying about whether it’s going to go north or whether it’s going to go south.” This guy was practicing the presence of God in his life, saying, “I know that no matter what happens with this business deal, I know that no matter what happens, God is with me.”
We practice prayer over panic. We practice peace over pressure. We practice positive over negative. Let me go back and remind you of verse 8: “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” If you remember last week, we really talked about this verse and said that we’ve got to change our patterns. We’ve got to change our thinking. We’ve got to quit thinking about the negative and start thinking about the positive. We have strongholds in our mind that need to be broken down, strongholds in our mind that need to be destroyed, strongholds in our mind that need to be torn down and replaced with a positive road of Christ, with positive thinking from God’s Word, with what is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and so forth.
I shared my stronghold. I can’t begin to tell you how many people came up to me over the course of the last week and they said, “That’s my stronghold. That’s what I’m dealing with. That’s what I’ve dealt with. The arrows of rejection, the arrows of not feeling valued, the arrows of feeling like you never measure up, or the arrow of saying, ‘He’s not proud of me.’” And the majority of them came from guys and gals who said, “I never heard encouraging words from a dad. I never had a father just simply say, ‘I’m proud of you.’ I never had a dad say that I was enough. I had one guy come to me and we were talking and he goes, ‘Man, I know my dad loves me, but everything I do in life, I feel like I’m just constantly trying to get him to say, “I’m proud of you,” because I just want for one time for him to look at my life and not tell me how to do more, but just simply say that he’s proud of me.’”
And I hate it that so many of you maybe are wrestling with the same things that I wrestled with. And listen, I know I’m not your dad. I know that. But I am a dad. I am a Pops. I’m a grandpa. And I am one of your pastors. So can I just say: I’m proud of you. I’m proud of you. I’m proud of everyone here right now that you’ve made it a priority to be here on a Thursday night. Some of you, it’s your first time ever walking into church. You didn’t have to be here. Some of you come all the time. Doesn’t matter if it’s your first time or you come all the time, I want you to know I’m proud of you for saying on Thursday nights at 6:30, “I’m going to go to church.” I’m proud of you. I’m proud of you for, if you look around the room and you see all the canned goods and the food and the people of the church and you who’ve just said, “Man, I just want to help somebody else.” I’m proud of the numbers we see of how many people are coming tomorrow night to serve or Saturday morning to pass out food. I’m proud of you.
I’m proud of you for stepping into recovery and giving your life to the Lord and saying that you knew he was the one who gives you the power. I’m proud of you too, walking your marriage out. I’m proud of you for the decision you made years ago. I told you not to sit up front. Proud—Connie, I’m proud of you. I remember the first time you ever walked into church. Jose, I’m proud of you for the way you bang on those keys, man. I love to watch you worship when you play the keyboard. Riley, I’m proud of you, your commitment. You’ve been so committed. And I could go around the church and just say over and over, so many of you that I’ve seen steps of faith. I’ve seen you walking with the Lord. I’ve seen you loving on others.
“Proud of you for being…” “I appreciate that.” “But that’s not what this is. I appreciate that.” I can just look around. Proud of your mission work. I’m proud of you supporting his mission work. Proud of you for going into ministry. And I’d be amiss if I didn’t look over and see my two sons sitting right there. And I want you to hear from your dad: I’m proud of you. And my daughter-in-law, I’m proud of you as well.
I want you to hear this because too many times we have strongholds in our mind and we don’t replace them with positive thinking. And maybe that’s not your stronghold. Maybe it’s trauma and you need to practice your way through it. I was talking to one of our staff members this week. His name’s Tony. Tony served in the military. Tony served in Iraq and was in the middle of the war. And because of that, he’s got some nightmares. He’s had some hard times. And he said when he got back, he was having to go and do therapy. But it was so hard because as he would try to tell the therapist what would happen, he would relive the image.
Here’s the image: him and some of the guys that he was with, they got pinned behind a wall while the bullets were flying. One of his soldiers got hit and he was on the other side of the wall and he couldn’t get to him. So one of his guys, he couldn’t save him. So he relived that image over and over. But when he’d have to go to therapy to try to flush it, they’d have to repeat it and he would just get so anxious and so nervous and so stressed out that they would just destroy him. And one day his mother said, “Tony, start quoting scripture. Start quoting scripture before you go into those meetings. Start memorizing God’s Word. Replace the negative with the positive. Focus on what is true and what is right and what is lovely, what is admirable.” So he started quoting scripture and then he started going to those meetings and he was able to start working through the process. He said sometimes in the middle of the meeting he started quoting scripture and his therapists said, “Whatever works for you.” But it did work. We know this because this week he told me this story and he said, “And I’m able to tell you this story and I had no anxiety doing it.” Why? Because he’s practiced and rehearsed and put in the pattern of positive over the negative.
Here’s what I’m simply trying to say: if you want to live with peace rather than anxiety, then we have to practice prayer. We have to practice God’s peace. We have to practice this idea of rewiring our brains with positive scriptures. And we have to plug in. Let me hit this last point in five minutes. We have to plug in. If you have your Bible, go to verse 13, Philippians 4:13: “For I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.” “For I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.” It’s one of the most popular verses out there. I will say this because y’all know I work with a lot of athletes. It is one of the most popular verses in athletics, in locker rooms. Tattooed across the arm. Tattooed across the back. Everybody’s like, “I can do all things through Christ.” It is a great scripture that we have sorely taken out of context.
Because we think, “Man, I can win this game through Christ.” You can. But the context of the verse means when I lose, I’m okay because I can do it through Christ. That’s actually what the verse means. Because if you look at the context of the verse, Paul is saying—let’s just back up, let’s just read it, verse 11 on. It says, “Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or with little.” He is writing this from a jail cell. He is saying to the Philippian church, “I have received what you have sent me. You have sent me some food. You’ve sent me some clothes. And I appreciate it greatly that you are taking care of me.” But he’s also saying, “I’ve learned a secret of contentment. If I have food, good. If I don’t, I’ll be okay. If I’ve got good clothes, good. If I don’t, I’ll be okay.” He’s saying, “No matter what, I have found that I do not run on red because I have plugged into Christ.” That’s what he’s saying.
And that’s where we need to find our life. Troubles are going to come. They are. Jesus said it. John chapter 16, verse 33. He said, “In this world, you will have trouble.” You’re going to have problems. You see it? “I’ve told you these things so that in me you may have peace. Because in this world you will have trouble. But take heart, I’ve overcome the world.” You’re going to have troubles, but we’ve got to fix our thoughts on God. We’ve got to let him be our rock. That’s what Isaiah 26:3–4 says. In Isaiah 26:3–4, it talks about this idea that I fix my thoughts on God and he is my rock.
Matthew chapter 6, Jesus said, “Don’t worry about tomorrow.” Notice what it’ll say after that: “Tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” He’s saying, “Don’t be so worried about tomorrow, man. You’ve got to deal with today.” And how do I deal with today? I plug in to the power source. I plug into Christ and then I practice prayer. I practice his presence. I practice changing the patterns in my mind because it’s the only way to live on green in a world that never powers down.
And so that’s what I want us to do. I want us to take the rest of service—and we’ve got about three different songs that we’re going to sing—we’re going to spend some time in his presence right now. And as we spend time in his presence, I want us to catch this: that you have opportunities. That opportunity might be coming up front, getting down on your knees, taking communion, spending time with him. It might be that opportunity just to worship and say, “I’m going to sing out this battle cry to God. I’m going to remind myself of his promises and remind him of the promises he made to me.” That I’m going to spend time just giving thanks. I’m going to thank him for whatever it is that I’m going through. I’m going to listen for his voice. I’m going to listen for him as the Father to say, “I’m proud of you.” I’m going to look for the Father’s touch.
And you might go, “Josh, that’s impossible, man. I’ve run so far away from God. There’s no chance.” Can I remind you of the prodigal son who ran so far away from God, basically just spit in his father’s face? But at one point he realized, “Man, I’m in the red. I’m out of power.” He was face down in a pile of mud and dung and he’s just like, “I got nothing. I got nothing.” His battery life on red. He said, “But man, my father’s servants have more than enough to eat and clothes and a place to sleep. I’m going to get up and I’m going to go home to my dad and I’m going to say, ‘Father, forgive me. I’ve sinned against you. I’m not worthy to be your son.’” So he got up and he went home. But as he was going home, his father saw him from a long way off and ran to him. And that son tried to rehearse his speech: “I’m so sorry…” and his dad was like, “Shh, enough. I’m proud that you came home. Let me put a robe around your shoulders. Let me put a ring on your finger. Let me put some shoes on your feet because I want you to plug into your family.”
And maybe today you’re here and you feel like you’ve been living in the red, that you are out of juice in a world that never powers down. Well, tonight, let’s change that and let’s plug into Jesus because he’ll give you the strength, because in him you can do all things. You can do all things. And if you’ve never responded to Jesus, tonight’s a great night. It’s a great night to come forward and to get down on your knees to say yes to Jesus. But as we always say, don’t just make that a private prayer. Go public. Talk to one of our prayer counselors right there by those prayer banners. If you need to take that step of baptism tonight, man, we’re ready for you. We’d love to help you do that. In a world that never powers down, let’s power up by plugging into Jesus. Let’s practice prayer and his presence and changing our patterns.
Won’t you stand with me? I’m going to pray and then we’re going to go into this time of response. And as always, up front is available if you want to come up and just spend some time with him. Won’t you pray with me?
“Jesus, we humbly come before you right now knowing that in this world we will have troubles. In this world, there will be strife. In this world, there will be things that just, man, they attack. But you have overcome the world. It doesn’t mean that we won’t have pain, but it means that we can have peace if we just plug into you. So, Jesus, help us to do that right now. In you, it is well. So we declare that. Let’s spend some time with you.”
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Week 4 — The Power to Practice
📖 Philippians 4:9-13
Bottom Line: Peace isn’t a vibe — it’s a habit empowered by Christ.CONNECT
How stressed do you get when your phone battery hits red? You grab cords, search outlets, panic a little — because you know what happens when it dies: disconnection.
We live in a world that never powers down, but our souls often do. The good news? God offers a charger that never fails.
DISCOVER
“Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.” — Philippians 4:9
Paul’s words wrap up the whole journey. He’s saying, “Don’t just know it — live it.”
1️⃣ Practice the Pattern
Look back at the past three weeks:
Pray over Panic (verse 6)
Peace over Pressure (verse 7)
Positive over Negative (verse 8)
Now Paul says, “Put these into practice.”
Peace isn’t automatic. It’s the product of repetition — daily, deliberate, Spirit-filled repetition.Like a workout builds strength, prayer and gratitude build spiritual endurance. Every time you choose peace over panic, you’re flexing your faith.
2️⃣ Plug into the Power Source
Then Paul drops one of the most quoted verses in the Bible:
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” — Philippians 4:13
He’s not talking about winning trophies or getting promotions — he’s talking about perseverance. From shipwrecks to prisons, Paul learned that true power doesn’t come from circumstance; it comes from connection.
When your battery runs low, plug back into Christ. He doesn’t just recharge you; He sustains you.
3️⃣ Stay Consistent
The enemy wants to disconnect you — to keep you too busy, too tired, too distracted to practice peace. But Paul’s call is simple: stay consistent.
Peace is not a weekend retreat; it’s a weekday rhythm. It’s praying first, thinking truth, and trusting Christ — every day, everywhere.
RESPOND
If you want peace that lasts, practice what you’ve learned and stay plugged in to the One who gives it.
This week:
Pray before you panic.
Pause when pressure hits.
Plug in to Christ before you burn out.
Philippians 4:13 isn’t a slogan; it’s a survival verse. You can do all things — not because you’re strong, but because He is.
Key Verses: Philippians 4:9-13 | John 15:5 | Isaiah 40:31 | John 16:33
Peace Practice: Practice the pattern and plug into the power source. Peace grows stronger the more you live it out. -
Small Group Curriculum – Anxious Generation
Small Group Curriculum – Anxious Generation: Week 4 Group Curriculum download PDF
Week 4: The Power of Practice
Main Scripture: Philippians 4:9–13 (NLT)
Big Idea: Practice the pattern and plug into the power source.1. Connect (Icebreaker)
Option A (Fun): How stressed do you get when your phone battery drops to 1%?
Option B (Personal): What daily habit recharges your soul the most?
Transition: Anxiety drains us, but peace grows when we practice the right patterns and plug into God’s power.
2. Discover (Scripture & Discussion)
Read Philippians 4:9–13 (NLT):
"Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me… then the God of peace will be with you… For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength."Discussion Questions
Why does Paul link peace with practice?
What does it mean to live “content” like Paul?
How can Christ’s strength carry you in anxious seasons?
Dig Deeper Scripture: John 15:4–5 (NLT).
What does it mean to “remain” in Christ?
How does staying connected to Him provide strength?
3. Respond (Application & Prayer)
Personal Application
What spiritual practice do you need to strengthen this week?
Where do you need Christ’s power to sustain you?
Group Prayer Prompt
Pray for the Spirit to root each member deeper in Christ.
Ask God to strengthen the group’s daily practices of prayer, peace, and positivity.
Challenge for the Week
Memory Verse: Philippians 4:13 (NLT).
Next Step: Choose one new daily practice (prayer, gratitude, Scripture, serving, etc.) and commit to it for 7 days.
⏱️ Designed for 45–60 minutes:
Connect (10–15 min)
Discover (25–30 min)
Respond (10–15 min)
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