18 Dec Hopes & Habits (Because you can’t have uphill hopes and downhill habits) Part 15

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For the past few weeks we have shared with you “Four Biblical Habits” that will radically change your life:

   1.) Focus on firsts (Matt. 6:33).

Four “First” Facets:

  1. What you do first reveals who you are.
  2. Whatever you prize you will prioritize.
  3. Whatever you put first you set up to meet your needs.
  4. First things have power

Then we shared Three “First” Formulas:

  1. Give God the first of your month…scheduling and budgeting
  2. Give God the first of your week…worshipping and resting
  3. Give God the first of your day…studying and praying

Then we discussed “Three Alignment Aspects”:

  1. If God is simply on your list, your life will be misaligned.  If God is at the top of your list, your life will be aligned.
  2. God models what He expects.  He put us first by going first.
  3. Expect the rest to be blessed.

    2.)Foster new thoughts (Rom. 12:2).

“Two Change Challenges”:

  1. God-given change is both possible and profitable.
  2. God-given change creates better “normals”.

Then we shared “Seven Channels of Change”:

         1.] Change your “saying” (James 3:3-4).  

4 “Saying” Superlatives:

  1. Don’t use your words to describe your life…use your words to design your life.
  2. Don’t speak what you experience…speak what you expect.
  3. You can’t out-think the devil but you sure can out-speak him (see Matt. 4:1-11).  
  4. Take the faith in your heart and overpower the doubt in your head…by the words of your mouth!

Then we began to share with you Three Thoughts on Thinking:

        1.  If you want to change your life, you must change the way you think.

As a minister for over 34 years, I have watched that happened to so many people.  When they are young, someone drops/hurts them and they become crippled in their thinking from that moment on.  You can bring them to entirely new “palace” conditions but their “crippled” identity will always cause them to have an “unworthy dog” syndrome and thus abort the king’s blessings in their life.

Jesus our King has brought you up to the “table” of His blessings but in order to receive it…you must change how you think!

Now let’s continue with…

        2. Wherever you go, there you are!

You are the one person that you can never escape from!  The Bible tells us, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7).  The phrase “so is he” describes our present state of being.  In other words, my thinking will determine my present state of being!  In everyday language, if a man has limburger cheese on his mustache…all of life will stink!

        3. The worst advice you can give some people is “just be yourself!”

Clearly, if you want to be able to pull up to the King’s table and partake of His blessings in life, you must change how you think.  Therefore please allow me to challenge you with:

“7 Ways to Think for a Change”:

1.) Think biblically (II Tim. 2:15)

I have trained myself as I approach life’s forks in the road, to ask one simple question: “What does the Bible say about this situation, circumstance or person?”

2.) Think positively (Phil. 4:8)

Here the Bible says, “Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely; whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

Join me next week as we continue our series…