Through The Eyes Of A Lion : Hidden In Plain Sight

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

The righteous are as bold as a lion.

There is power in the pain.
Suffering is powerful.
Beyond drugs and alcohol, grief is the most mind altering physical experience.

1. Looks Can Be Deceiving
2 Corinthians 4:18
Fix our gaze.

Your eye has rods and cones.
Rods see shapes.
Optic nerve - have a blind spot.

Spiritually there are things hiding in plain sight.
Genesis 3 - you will not die, when you eat of the tree your eyes will be opened.

2. Eternity Becomes Visible By Faith
You've never met a normal person in your life.
People are destined for impact.
Burdened with glorious purpose.
God has a plan.
Look at problems - He's working things together for GOOD!
I am not alone - I will fear no evil.

3. Nearsightedness Must Be Constantly Corrected
It's not one and done.
Put on your glasses. The telescope of faith.
Put on faith each and every day.
The battle for your eyes is won through your ears.
Roman 10:17
Faith comes by hearing...
If your faith is falling maybe your not letting God's word fall into your heart!

4. Seeing The Invisible, You Can Do The Impossible
Hebrews 11:34
Faith will give you strength.
Hebrews 11:37
Faith gives us strength for the even harder stuff too.

Don't lose heart, take heart.
Peace that passes understanding.
Joy unspeakable.
An anchor for your soul.

Life is a marathon, it's an endurance sport.

You have to look at life through the right LENS of faith.

Creature of Habit : Breaking Bad Habits

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

FIRE YOUR AUTOPILOT

LIST:
Good Habits
Missing Habits
Bad Habits

Cue - Routine - Reward -- repeat

What will this habit keep me from?

Jesus was a creature of habit.

Mark 10:1

God cleans His fish after He catches them.

You'll be happy if you get trigger happy.
Every bad habit, you need to write the cue next to it.
Sometimes its environmental triggers, so you can just avoid those places completely.

Romans 13:14
Make no access for cues.
Limit your access to the power of triggers.

Put your workout clothes out the night before.
Eat your "bad" food with the opposite hand!
Behavior is contagious.
Two or more gathered more prosperous.

Willpower is real power.

Baby steps create movement.
You can start an avalanche by rolling a small snowball down a hill.

Every problem is a worship problem.

At the middle of every habit circle is a craving.
Habits are all about desires.
Desires are about worship.
We're created to worship.
Any bad habit is worship gone wrong.

Continually - a habit
Psalm 34:1
Hebrews 13:15

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.

Creature of Habit : Practice Makes Permanent

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Do you want to build a snowball?

1 Kings 20:40
Parable told to a king named Ahab.
Guard the prisoner - the prisoner is gone!
"I was busy."

Productivity isn't the same as obedience.
The right time to do the right thing is right now!
Habits are powerful! Good or bad.

The scope of your life is determined by the substance of your days.
You don't say, "I hope I have a mediocre day."
I hope many of us are moving toward a great future one step at a time.

God can't bless what you don't give Him.
He multiplies what we put in His hands.

Old proverb :
When is the best time to plant a tree? 10 years ago.
When is the second best time to plant a tree? Today.

Liberty or Death : Week 1

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Sometimes you have to look at the ruins of your life and speak a better word.

Galatians
Off the Chain

Freedom, independence, the Christian Declaration of Independence

"While your hands are busy in the world let your heart always be talking to God." Charles Spurgeon

Let It Be :: All About : Faith

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Expectation determines experience!

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

Matthew 8:5-7
My (son) servant is sick, Jesus' first response is "I will heal him."
How great is our God!
Matthew 8:8-13
Great power is unlocked through great faith.
Great faith = mega faith

Faith is the password to God's power.
By faith we have access to grade
Ephesians 2:8

Habakkuk : the just shall live by faith

Matthew 17:20

1. Faith of a mustard seed.
January 14th, 2007 first service with 14 people.
Look where the church is now.
10,041 decisions for Christ!!

2. See past the seed.
Mark 9:23
There is nothing our God can't do.

The riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Amen = let it be.
Pay attention to what you pray, because saying amen is putting your stamp of approval on it, or agreeing with what others are praying.

Charles Spurgeon
If you believe Christ a little, He will bless you a little.

Genesis 26:12
Isaac sowed in the land and reaped 100fold.
But he needed to continue to sow to be able to continue to reap.
It takes sacrifice!
Are we content now.

Sow accordingly for the reaping you want to do.
God asks, how many zeroes do you want to see in the number of decisions made for Him? Google, how many zeroes - answer 1 with 100 "0's" at the end of it.

Man Vs. Himself : Hostile Takeover

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Proverbs 25:28

In order for their to be victory in This Battle, there has to be self control.

1 Corinthians 9:7
Forcing to bow myself to the lordship of Jesus each and every moment.

Moses always pointed the glory of God.
He was safe to trust because he faced his days of trouble.
We're always training for days that we don't know are coming.

Exodus 32:1
Moses winning victories but losing battles within himself.
Ready, Fire, Aim?

Exodus 33:11
I want to be the friend of God.

Exodus 32:15
10 Commandments
Moses became angry - righteous wrath

Ephesians 4:26

Exodus 34:1
Which you broke.

If we're not careful, the aggressiveness God wants us to have could become a bad thing.

If all you have is a hammer, everything is going to look like a nail. But you shouldn't smash a screw with a hammer.

See potential, not problems.

You would think the new generation would have learned from their parents generation and had different attitudes.
Numbers 20:3-5

*they were just thirsty*

Low blood sugar = Incredible Hulk
Know your own weaknesses and prepare yourself for it.

Take the rod (from his shepherding days / old life) and strike the rock.

Moses partially obeyed. (He yelled at people.)
Partial obedience is complete disobedience.

Sometimes we get stuck on an old message God gave us, which is no longer relevant for us now. He has a new message for us.

To whom much is given, much is required.

Five Keys in controlling your spirit
1. Crack down on repeat offenders
Sin never stays small
Give specific attention to the weak areas of you life

2. Resist the rut
Don't get stuck in your ways.
2 Corinthians 3
We are supposed to be changing every day.
Never view yourself as "having arrived."
Work hard on your strengths too.
Stay hungry, stay fighting.

3. Remain present
Learn how to quickly get over both successes and failures.
It's hard to move on when something goes wrong.
Philippians 3:13
Overthinking often leads to choking.
God says let go of the past mistakes.
Take seven steps and then forget about the victory or mistake.

4. Refuse to be declawed
Don't let the fear of failures keep you from trying again.
The only ay not to fail is to not try anything great.
A failed approach didn't mean they had failed - regarding Monsters, Inc.

5. Repeat after me
60,000 thoughts we have each day, and most of those are self negative and full of self doubt.
Speak to ourselves with the power and the authority that comes to us by the Holy Spirit.
Psalm 42:5
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
You can say to the thought that it's not welcome in your mind.