You In Five Years : week 3

Levi Lusko - Fresh  Life Church

Too Small To Fail

Exodus 23:27-30

Deuteronomy 7:17-18, 21-23

What/Who do you want to be in 5 years?

Even the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. Chinese Proverb

Goes both ways, could be good  or bad steps.

Little things adding up.

They wandered for 40 years, because they were afraid.

Egypt represents slavery to sin.

Just because you've come out of Egypt doesn't mean you enter into the promise land.

Power, deliverance, breakthrough.

7 scary nations were better and greater than the Israelites.

So the Israelites are thinking we're too small, we'll fail.

God said, no you are too small to fail!

It's about who you know.

Don't look at your limitations, look to the Lord.

Little by little over time.

Drip campaign.

It's not going to be quick or easy, it's going to be drip, drip, drip.

God wants you to seek Him every day.

I'm going to send a hornet - no one knows what God meant.

What you want to obtain you have to obtain.

Victory isn't going to come from one giant thing you do it's going to be you choosing to do something small that's constantly repeated!

Little by little!

Mini Habits by Stephen Guise

The things in life that are so easy to do are also the things that are so easy not to do.

If your goal is to do push ups every day start with one push up because chances are you'll do more once you're down there.

The hardest part of doing the Spartan race is getting to the starting line. Joe De Sena

Job 8:7

Zechariah 4:10

Have faith like a mustard seed.

5 loaves and 2 fish

As you're trying to do all the things little by little here are 4 things :

1. Choose carefully

Not all change is created equal.

Keystone habits.

There are arches, but there are certain stones called keystones.

Making your bed.

Family dinner.

2. Spell it out specifically

Bright lines mean there is no ambiguity.

Fuzzy lines would mean you have no idea what you're reading/doing.

3. Track it diligently

If you're not keeping documentation then you won't have a clue if you failed or not.

The four disciplines of execution Franklin Covey

If you're not keeping track you're simply practicing.

4. Guard it aggressively 

Don't ever let a day end that I didn't do what God wanted me to do.

When you fail, make it your goal to not ever do that again.

Don't look at results yet.

Don't say it's not working.

Don't dismiss the mustard seed.

Jerry Seinfeld wrote one joke a day...slashed an X on a calendar and would look at the chain. When he missed a day he would start a new chain.

Compound interest.

Folding paper can only fold 6 or 7 times because every time you fold you're doubling.