Habit #3

Uphill Habits
Most people have
and
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(Romans 12:2 MSG) Fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
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Habit #3
Keep my life
with my
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Because
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(Psalm 139:16) All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
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(Ephesians 2:10) For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
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Because there is
for my time and attention.
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(Ecclesiastes 4:6) Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
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Because
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(James 4:13-15) Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
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Mastering the Habit
1.
Decide what is
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(Philippians 3:7-8) But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
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2.
Give
to the important things.
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(Psalm 90:12 LB) Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.
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Make time for
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Make time for
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Make time for
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3.
Eliminate the
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(Hebrews 12:1) Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
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4.
Regularly
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(Psalm 39:4-5 NLT) LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away. My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a moment to you; human existence is but a breath.
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All scripture is from the New International Version unless otherwise noted.