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Aristotle: We are What We Repeatedly Do
It’s a new year and we get the chance to start off new.
We Form Habits and out Habits form us.
We start out each year with all kinds of Resolutions or Hopes.
Most People Have Up Hill Hopes and Down Hill Habits.
Hope is wonderful, but it’s not a strategy.
Hope is a motivator but not a strategy.
It will get you going but it will not keep you going.
Up Hill Hopes are good because many of them are pointed towards the Lord.
We want to develop Uphill habits.
Everything in your life that’s worthwhile is up hill, but it’s doable.
God wants to bring out the best in you and only he can do that so fix your thoughts in God.
God does this through a development process because he wants to bring you to a place of well formed maturity.
One of the benefits of our 21 days of prayer and fasting.
Why 21 days… it fits with three Sundays.
21 Days is what it takes to begin a habit or to stop a bad habit.
What I Starve Dies
What I Feed Thrives
When we do this, it will be 21 days of saying no to something and yes to some other things.
We are learning habits that will help us to be successful this year.
Last week, we learned about Habit #1 and the Principle of FIRSTS.
First of the year, month, week, day…
Whatever you put God first in, he will bless.
Today, we will look at Habit #2
Habit #2: Control My THOUGHTS.
Thoughts are powerful.
Everything begins with our thoughts and attitudes.
If you look back at your past, everything that was a pivotal place of change, began because of an attitude change.
I grew up in church, but I went because I was made to go.
When I gave my life to Jesus, my whole attitude changed for the better.
Your life will be marked by your thoughts… by how you think.
None of us will change our life until we change the way we think.
Change begins with our thoughts.
Give you some facts about thoughts and then practical steps to change our thinking.
1. Everything begins with a thought.
The things that you are doing well in and the things that you are doing poorly in are all being fueled by your thoughts.
If you try to change your behavior without changing the thoughts that fuel those actions, you will never change your behavior.
Here is a key.
Be very careful about what you allow into your mind for the first hour of the day.
The enemy will try to set the tone of your day right off the bat in the morning.
It might be a call, a text or email, a FB post, the news…
One lady said she woke up grumpy every day… sometimes she let him sleep in.
Some of you are grumpy because of what you are doing first.
You have got to filter what you allow in your mind.
The process God changes us by changing our thoughts.
2. What we Think Determines HOW WE FEEL.
Everything begins with a thought.
You have to filter your mind.
You may be blaming others (spouse, boss, kids, whoever) for your situation, but the truth is, you feel bad because of what you are thinking about.
If you are feeling depressed, you are having sad or hopeless thoughts.
If you are feeling angry, you are thinking hostile thoughts, or about the vikings....
Challenge - get rid of media for a week.
No video games, instagram, FB, News, Secular music - replace it with worship music in your house.
do it as a test.
This exercise will prove this verse in your life.
The God of peace with be with you...
3. Our Thoughts Determine Our DESTINY.
Sow a thought, reap an action
Sow an action, reap a habit
Sow a habit, reap a lifestyle
Sow a lifestyle, reap a destiny.
Thoughts lead to Destiny.
If you don’t like where you are going, you had better change your thinking.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you.
And you will go tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
LOOK - People who are dominated by their sinful nature, think sinful thoughts.
MASTERING THE HABIT
1. Find a PLAN to CONTROL my Thoughts.
A lot of what hits your mind is coming through the internet.
How can you take every thought captive?
Be Accountable.
Some of you need to put something on your phone or computer so an accountability partner will see what you are looking at on the internet.
Read the Bible
Don’t read it as a discipline.
Read it for life change.
Read it and watch how it will take your negative thoughts and change them into godly thoughts.
Don’t read the bible, let the Bible read you.
OYB - OT, NT, Psalm & Proverb...
2. Find a PLACE to THINK your Thoughts.
At some place or time during your day, you have to turn the volume of the world down so you can communicate with God.
You have to have a Daily Conversation with God… all day.
Find a place and time to do this.
Some of you say, I just am not good at praying.
How many of you are good at talking?
Just talk to God.
God doesn’t need your fancy prayers… He is not from England and doesn’t speak KJV.
Prayer is an offload moment.
You are offloading your stuff onto him.
Cast your cares on Him, then leave them with him.
Peace comes to those whose thoughts are fixed on Him.
If you don’t, you will not have any peace.
3. Find PEOPLE to STRETCH Your Thoughts.
Iron sharpens Iron.
When you have a sin and confess it to God, he forgives it.
But to obtain healing (deliverance) from it, you need to find someone and confess it to them so they can pray with you about it.
Get in a Small Group.
Be careful about negativity that comes into your life.
You may have to remove yourself from some conversations… etc.
We need to encourage each other.
Do the people in your life encourage you?
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