Seven Steps to Destiny Part 4

Seven Steps to Destiny Part 4

This will be the fourth of the series I started, but it is covering the fifth step. We have shared on thoughts, words, decisions, and actions.

Tonight we will share on habits. The fifth of seven steps to reaching your destiny.

As we have gone through these four studies, I pray that you have begun to question, or realize, what your destiny really is. Understanding the things that are important to you, and why.

Considering how you can change things, or make things better. The things that move your heart. The habits we have developed are very important. They have three potential outcomes.

“They can keep you from fulfilling your destiny, delay fulfilling your destiny, or finally, move you forward to realizing your destiny.”

“Our destiny in the Kingdom of God.”

Habits are defined this way today. “A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.”

Foundational behaviors become habits. Foundational behaviors can be simplified to mean, the things we do on a regular basis.

“It is your habits that create your character.” Character is next time, let me get on with habits.

When Jesus was teaching the disciples how to pray, He gave them this prayer.

Matthew 6:9-13

9 “Pray, then, in this way: ‘Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.
11 ‘Give us this day our daily bread.
12 ‘And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
13 ‘And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.’]

Verse 11 interested me for tonight. Several other translations say it like this. “Give us this day the bread we need.”

Christ is teaching us to form a daily habit of prayer. Requesting each day for the needs we may have. These may be daily occurring needs, or they may be a request you have made that has yet to come to pass.

“What are some habits we should develop to become a more effective Christian?”

Jesus developed habits in His ministry.

Luke 4:16

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read.

Custom comes from a Greek word which means, “by habit.”

Early in my Christian life I developed the habit of going to church. In doing so several other habits came about. Tithing, studying, praying, witnessing.

These are foundational behaviors that will enrich your life as you grow in them.

2 Timothy 2:15

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

The word diligent from the Greek means, “to exert oneself, endeavor, give diligence.”

Develop the habit of studying the Word of God.

Titus 2:7-8

7 in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified,

8 sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

We must have the habit of doing good. Being the light.

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. “Our habits produce our character.”

7 habits of highly effective Christians.

1-Read and obey God’s Word.

2-Have an active prayer life.

3-Set spiritual goals.

4-Cultivate the talent of others.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another.

5-Take responsibility for souls.

2 Corinthians 5:10

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

6-Serve others

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

7-Focus on the Kingdom

Matthew 13:23

And the one on whom seed was sown on the good soil, this is the man who hears the word and understands it; who indeed bears fruit and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.”

“What are some spiritual goals that you could set to grow and develop towards your destiny?”

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