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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

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