UPHILL HABITS – #2 TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS

UPHILL HABITS – #2 BE A BOSS – TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS

• You are what you repeatedly do… You form habits then your habits form you!
• What I starve dies… what I feed thrives…
• We don’t look for potential… we look at the patterns of our life…

NEW YEAR… NEW YOU…

Most people have and

“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

Psalm 90:12 (NIV)

“So be careful how you live. Don’t live like fools, but like those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.”

Ephesians 5:15-16

HABIT #2

Control your  

“Wise thinking leads to right living; Stupid thinking leads to wrong living.”

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (MSG)

• begins with a .

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

Romans 12:2

• I will never change my life until I the way I think!
• What we think determines .
• I wake up grump every day but sometimes I let him sleep in….

“Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise… Then the God of peace will be with you.”

Philippians 4:8-9

• Our thoughts determine our .

“Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.”

Romans 8:5-6

• Sow a thought…. reap an action
• Sow an action… reap a habit
• Sow a habit… reap a lifestyle
• Sow a lifestyle… reap your destiny

“The difference between successful people and unsuccesfful people is that successful people do consistently what unsuccessful people do occasionally.” John C. Maxwell

MASTERING THE HABIT

1. Find a to my thoughts. 

“For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.”

Hebrews 4:12

         2. Find a to my thoughts. 

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!”

Isaiah 26:3

“Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.”

Colossians 3:2

         3. Find a to my thoughts. 

 ^“Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.”

Hebrews 10:24-25

         4. Find a to my thoughts on. 

“And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people)”

Ephesians 1:18 (AMP)

         5. Find a to my thoughts. 

“Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”

Ephesians 3:20