it’s often the small things that no one sees that result in the big things that everyone wants

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disciplined

disciplined in different ways

Discipline is simply choosing between what we want now and what we want most.

Romans 7:15, 19 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. [CLICK] 1st line, 2nd line

Romans 7:20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it. [CLICK] each line

Romans 7:24, 25 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. [CLICK] line 1, v25 “Thank God”, “The answer is in…”

Spirit-disciplined the Spirit in us empowers us to do what we are incapable of doing ourselves the Spirit leads you to choose what you want most, over what you want now. [CLICK] each statement

How do you we move from where we are to becoming disciplined in the right disciplines?

Isthmian Games

1 Corinthians 9:24-25 Don’t you realize that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize? So run to win! All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. [CLICK] line 1, “so run to win”, “all athletes…”

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,

1 Corinthians 9:25 All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize.

Spirit- disciplined

1 Corinthians 9:26 So I run with purpose in every step. I am not just shadowboxing.

1 Corinthians 9:27 I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should.

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I am choosing what I want most over what I want now

when God helps me choose what I want most over what I want now, it creates a forward spiritual momentum in my life.

What do you need to do now to have what you want most? What do you want most? What do you need to do now to have what you want most? [CLICK] each question

What one thing do I need to do now that will help me have later, what you want me to have most? God, this is what I believe you want most for me

it’s the small things that no one sees that result in the big things that everyone wants

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