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Up Hill Habits
Aristotle - We are what we repeatedly do.
We form habits and those habits form us.
Most people Have Up Hill Hopes and Down Hill Habits.
Hopes are up there, but hope is not a strategy.
We want to see you go through significant life change
Give God a year of your life and see what happens.
Now - this is not easy.
If it were everyone would be doing it.
repeat with me
Everything worthwhile is Up Hill.
It’s not easy, but God will help you.
That’s the good news.
Too many people think they are they way they are and will not change.
That’s not true.
God wants to change each of us.
Boudreaux joke - breathelizer - blood test - urine test - walk straight line
You will need several things to take this journey.
Hope for Your Future.
You have to have hope for the future.
Many of you have no hope for the future.
You are HOPE-LESS.
Word for you from God...
But God...
Maybe there IS a lot going on, But God.
Jesus at the well
He meets a lady and asked her to draw him some water.
He broke several barriers… Jew & Gentile; Make & Female, Divorced and living in sin… Here is what he said to her...
If you only knew the GENEROSITY of our God… He would ....
ILL - Man who quit smoking Marajuana during a time of church fasting.
He had no idea what God was going to do.
He never went back to smoking dope.
He became a respected man in his community.
If you knew all of the stories in this room, it would blow your mind because of what God has done.
If you only knew the generosity of God...
If you are going to take this journey with me this year, you need hope for the future...
You also need,
Repentance from the Past.
Repentance is a course correction.
You are going in one direction and you do a U-Turn and go the other direction.
We need to find an area of our lives where we need to change directions.
If you have been part of Recovery…
Story My Life in 5 Chapters
1.
I went for a walk and fell into a hole and it took me a long time to get out.
2. I went for a walk and fell into a hole again and it took me a long time to get out.
3. I went for a walk again and saw the hole but got too close to it and slipped in and it took me a long time to get out.
4. I went for a walk again and saw the hole and walked around it.
5. I went for a walk again but went a different direction where there were no holes.
Some of you need to do this, to go around the hole.
You are a chapter 4 person, but God wants us to be chapter 5 people.
Some of you need to change the direction you are heading.
We must choose different paths.
3. Formation of Up Hill (Biblical) Habits
Talking about Biblical habits we need to develop to be successful.
God wants to develop a well formed maturity in you… that’s the goal.
If you will do this, some of you won’t recognize yourself.
Habit #1: FOCUS ON WHAT I DO FIRST.
Talking about the principle of FIRSTS.
First things show a lot about us but they also give us power.
Three ways to live out this habit.
1.
Put God First.
If you will put God first, it will be a different year.
God gave his first, Jesus and he wants us to give him our first.
Whatever you put God first in, he will bless.
If you put him first in everything, this will be a better year than you ever imagined.
It will be a DIFFERENT Year.
If God is in Your Life and He is Not First, He is not in Your Life
If you don’t put God at the top of your list, he is not on your list at all.
He will not just be part of your life, He will be first or nothing.
He can expect that of us because he already gave his first - Jesus.
We need to re-order our priorities.
In the Beginning God....
No other gods before me.
He must be first.
gods - loves, passions, hobbies, relationships, teams, addictions, careers… He doens’ tmind you loving something, but he does mind you loving it more than you love him.
We have to put God First in Everything.
2. Give God the FIRST OF EVERYTHING.
I’m going to give God the first of everything.
Pastors often teach giving God the first of everything as a giving principle, but it’s not a money principle.
It’s bigger than that.
Giving is part of it, but not the only part.
We are to give God the first of everything.
Look....
Tithe = 1st tenth of everything… thoughts… time… money… dreams… etc.
Look here…
The purpose of the tithe is to teach us to put God First.
Thank God that the tithe does build hospitals, colleges, etc. but it’s purpose is to teach us to put God first.
It’s not about giving him money, that’s part of it.
It’s not about Him blessing you… that’s part of it.
He wants you to tithe everything so you will know God is FIRST in your life.
Here are some areas you need to put God first in...
The first of my YEAR.
We want to put him first as we enter into the new Year.
I don’t know about you, but I’m desperate for God in my life.
I can’t do anything without him.
I have always thought Lent is a good time to do a prayer and fasting time, so we will be asking you to fast and pray with us during lent.
Some churches do it at the first of the year, and we may move to that because of the Principle of the Firsts.
Complete Fast
Juice or water only
Selective Fast
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