20/20 Clarity Vision

Speaker: Jim Hammond

Narrowing your attention fixes your focus.

FOR the Verde Valley 

1. LOVE GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

Ezekiel 36:24-27

" 'For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

It is like we see ourselves clearly for the first time.  I am a sinner.  I need a savior.  You (God) are holy, and I am not.  I was self-centered, self-gratifying, self-absorbed. I didn't know what I was doing. And I didn't even know that I didn't know.

Matthew 22:37-40

Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

1. LOVE GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY

2. Do FIRST Things FIRST

3. Don't Do LIFE ALONE

4. SAVED People SERVE People

5. FOLLOWERS Say, "FOLLOW Me."

Matthew 28:18-20

Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

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Mark Luffman  luffman@gmail.com

Stopping

Speaker: Doug Freeman

Series: Habits

NOW yells louder, but LATER lasts longer.
-Levi Lusko

I. Based on who you want to become, what one habit do you need to stop?

Psalms 25:4-5 (ESV)

Make me to know your ways, O LORD;
teach me your paths. 
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.

II. Identify and acknowledge the BAD Habit.

III. Stop it!

Proverbs 4:14-15 (ESV)

Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.

A. Eliminate the cues and triggers

1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV)

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

Proverbs 13:20 (ESV)

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

B. Make it unattractive

"The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something more than the habit."
-Bryant McGill

C. Make it difficult

James 1:21 (GNT)

So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you.

D. Make it unsatisfying

Proverbs 15:22 (NKJV)

Without counsel, plans go awry,
But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

IV. There is HOPE

"You can effect life change with a change of your habits, but you cannot have God honoring transformation that has eternal significance without the Word of God and the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit."

Habits 2 - Starting

Never underestimate how our God can start something big through one small habit! Join us as Pastor Jim discusses how God loves to take small acts of faithfulness and do something special through those things.
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Title: "Starting"
Speaker: Jim Hammond
Series: Habits

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”
-Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit

Researchers estimate that 40 to 50 percent of our actions on any given day are done out of habit.
-James Clear, Atomic Habits

Much of what you normally do isn’t a result of conscious choices but a result of daily habits.

Keep a daily gratitude journal …. Write down one thing you are thankful for each day … What you appreciate, appreciates.
-Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

I.    Based on who you want to BECOME, what one habit do you need to start?

REVIEW:  Goals don’t determine success, your system determines success.

Daniel 6:3-5
Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom. At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent. Finally these men said, “We will never find any basis for charges against this man Daniel unless it has something to do with the law of his God.”

Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

1 Kings 8:48
and if they turn back to you with all their heart and soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and pray to you toward the land you gave their ancestors, toward the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your Name;

II.    HOW TO START A NEW HABIT.

begin…

A.    Make it OBVIOUS.

Time, Location:  “I will do _______ at ________. in/at ___________”

CUE:  I will do _______ after I ________.

B.    Make It ATTRACTIVE

C.    Make it EASY.

D.    Make it SATISFYING.

WARNING:
Don’t let past good behavior be an excuse for present bad behavior.

All winners are trackers…You cannot improve something until you measure it…Professional athletes are particularly big trackers…Tracking will revolutionize your life. 
-Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) 
Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work

Habits - Week 1: "Happy New You"

People who are doing well, whether it be relationally, physically, financially, or spiritually, are people who have learned how to do small disciplines consistently that pay off in big ways over time.
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Title: "Happy New You"
Speaker: Jim Hammond
Series: Habits

2 Corinthians 5:17
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

Philippians 2:13
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

I. Successful people do CONSISTENTLY what other people do OCCASIONALLY.

Romans 7:15
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.

Romans 7:18-19
And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can't. 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.

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. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

II. Three Reasons We Don't Succeed

A. We focus on the WHAT but don't understand the HOW.

"You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."
--James Clear, Atomic Habits

B. We don't see progress FAST enough.

WRONG CONCLUSIONS:

Small GOOD decisions don't matter that much.
Small BAD decisions don't matter that much.

Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.