Creature of Habit 2

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

January 14th, 2015 **Fresh Life's 8th year!**

What habits are we in?
Present your life in Christ, a living sacrifice.
If your habits aren't awesome, the best you can give God is 60%.
When we think of habits we think of bad habits.

Good Habits
Get addicted to righteousness.
Get addicted to pleasing the Lord.
How do we get there?
A thousand small acts of obedience.

Daniel 6:1-10
Be careful who you let influence you.
Be careful what you put your name on.
Verse 10 : you can't pray to anyone but the king, but Daniel did three times AS WAS HIS CUSTOM SINCE EARLY DAYS.
You can't keep God's man down!

I want guts like Daniel.

1. Public victory comes from private discipline.
Do you pray when nothing's on the line?

Psalm 55:16-17
David prayed throughout the day.
My body eats three times a day, I don't forget to eat...I don't want to forget to feed my soul, my spirit.
Make a habit out of praying.
Make a habit out of praise (giving thanks).

Daniel was disciplined.
Genuine lasting success is never accidental.
If you want to perform under pressure, practice when it's peaceful.

2. Not all habits are created equal.
All habits are powerful, but not all are equally powerful.

Charles Duhigg
The Power of Habit

Jesus's keystone habits:
Jesus was in the habit of going to church every week.
Jesus was in the habit of going to the Mount of Olives to pray.
Tithing should be a keystone habit.

These three shouldn't be negotiable.

What are my keystone habits?

Good keystone habits:
Make the bed every morning.
Family dinner.
Exercise.

Never underestimate the power of a small win!

3. When you control what you can, you don't have to worry about what you can't.
When you focus on what you can control, you have much of a peace about the things you can't.

Fight to keep being grateful.