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How Will It Take Place?
…..make every effort…….
I grow in other areas of my life – I improve as a golfer because I go golfing and I practice.
In what other areas of your life have you improved this past year and why has that been?
I grow spiritually in relationship to God and others.
They are inseparable.
God’s love language is obedience.
We love people best when we love them in their native language.
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Action Blocking Axioms
What are the beliefs or attitudes that keep us from taking action today?
q I don’t have enough time to . . .
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q I’m too old to . . .
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q I’m going to when . . .
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q I’m afraid that . . .
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q I would but that’s not me . . .
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q I’m a late night person . . .
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q I’m a morning person . . .
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q I can’t . . .
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I spent a fortune
On a trampoline,
A stationary bike
And a rowing machine
Complete with gadgets
To read my pulse,
And gadgets to prove
My progress results,
And others to show
The miles I've charted --
But they left off the gadget
To get me started!
The greatest changes are made over time with the smallest changes in direction.
Avoid negative self-talk.
If you tell yourself repeatedly that you can’t possibly succeed at doing something then you won’t.
Self- control is just that and no more.
God does expect us to exercise it and we are always more happy when we do.
It involves saying both “yes” and “no”.
Self-denial and self-mastery.
God does not intend for us to be “mastered” by anything.
Putting up resistance
Saying “no” to ungodliness.
Ruling your body.
Victory breeds victory.
Each time we win we increase our thirst to win further.
How Do I Develop Self-Control In My Life?
These are some things that have helped me through the years:
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Start small.
Start with your room.
Clean it, then keep it clean.
When something is out of place, train yourself to put it where it belongs.
Then extend that discipline of neatness to the rest of your home.
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Be on time.
That may not seem very spiritual, but it's important.
If you're supposed to be somewhere at a specific time, be there on time!
Develop the ability to discipline your desires, activities, and demands so that you can arrive on time.
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Do the hardest job first.
Doing that will prevent the hardest jobs from being left undone.
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Organize your life.
Plan the use of your time; don't just react to circumstances.
Use a calendar and make a daily list of things you need to accomplish.
If you don't control your time, everything else will!
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Accept correction.
Correction helps make you more disciplined because it shows you what you need to avoid.
Don't avoid criticism; accept it gladly.
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Practice self-denial.
Learn to say no to your feelings.
Occasionally deny yourself things that are all right just for the purpose of mastering doing it.
Cultivating discipline in the physical realm will help us become disciplined in our spiritual lives.
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Welcome responsibility.
When you have an opportunity to do something that needs to be done, volunteer for it if you have a talent in that area.
Welcoming responsibility forces you to organize yourself.
n John MacArthur, Jr.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
Aristotle
Christian psychiatrists Drs.
Frank B. Minirth and Paul D. Meier insist that any patient of theirs who is a Christian must be honest and use language that expresses the reality of the situation.
In their book Happiness is a Choice, the authors state, "... we cringe whenever patients use the word 'can't'.
They say, for example, 'I just can't get along with my husband.' 'I can't give up the affair I'm having.'
'I can't stop overeating.'
'I can't love my wife'....
If an individual changes all his can'ts to won't's, he stops avoiding the truth, quits deceiving himself, and starts living in reality."
There is no slave like the man free to do as he pleases because what he pleases is self-destructive.
A California psychiatrist recently complained that four out of every ten teenagers and young adults who visited his medical center have a psychological sickness he can do nothing about.
According to the Los Angeles Times it is simply this: "Each of them demands that his world conform to his uncontrolled desires.
Society has provided him with so many escape routes that he never has to stand his ground against disappointment, postponement of pleasure and the weight of responsibility -- all forces which shape character."
The psychiatrist adds, "If the personality disorder persists far into adulthood there will be a society of pleasure-driven people hopelessly insecure and dependent."
The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody.
He trusts his own visions.
He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men.
He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow.
The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.
... Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Seeds of Contemplation
Perhaps several illustrations will help us understand more clearly this matter of yielding ourselves to God's will.
In Romans 6, Paul (as we have seen) uses the illustration of a slave who has a new master.
Professor William Barclay reminds us about the real meaning of Paul's analogy:
"When we think of a servant, in our sense of the word, we think of a man who gives a certain agreed part of his time to his master, and who receives a certain agreed wage for doing so.
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