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It is the small things that no one sees that result in the big things everyone wants

~ Discipline ~
we are what we repeatedly do

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most

1. Why am I so inconsistent?

   Romans 7:15-25 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

   So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death? Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
   
   

2. Training to win what matters most

   1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."
   

   Choose what you want most over what you want now

   What do you need to do now to have what you want most?

   My life will always move in the direction. My words have power of life and death.

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Spiritual Disciplines can help us. The spiritual disciplines are those practices found in Scripture that promote spiritual growth among believers in the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are habits of devotion, that have been practiced by God’s people since biblical times.

They are:

1. Personal and Corporate

2. They are activities; they are not attitudes. Disciplines are practices.

3. They are modeled in the Bible,

4. They are means, Not End

Try out:

1. Simplicity

2. Silence and Solitude

3. Journalling

4. Study and Fellowship