With ____, something partially dies, or starts to die, the more it is done. Many agree that bad things happen because of sin, but most agree that ____ kills love, joy, peace, and purpose to a greater or lesser degree. Consider printing this out and ranking from 1 to 10 (With 10 being best), your level in each category.
Peace ___
Love ___
Filled-with-the-spirit ___
Hope ___
Do you feel filled with Light? ___
Blessing ___
Strength ___
Joy ___
Purpose ___
To quit, prioritize what you want to do. Think 100 times per day what you want in each category. We don’t lose weight by saying “I’m gonna eat less.” A better plan is, “I want my waist to be __, this is my goal, what I am going to do. Why will I eat less? Because, this is what I want my waist to be.
Second, if you think more about how you will increase in each (Or some) of these categories, you will think less about ____.
Third, this sheet will remind you “Why” you are low in some/many of these categories. You will stay low as long as you pick short-term, sinful pleasure over God’s ways.
Fourth, today I read, “Sin is stupid.” Consider memorizing this fact: “____ may be causing all of the things on the above list to partially die or begin to die.”
Fifth, someday in heaven, someone may come up to me and show me their sheet. On it they wrote, peace, a 1 rating, ruined by ____. Love, a 2 rating, weakened by ____. Blessing, a 1 rating, ruined by ____. Joy, a 1 rating, ruined by ____.
Then they show me a new printout of what happened after they studied these categories for one month. Peace, a 5 rating, love, a 6 rating, blessing, a 7 rating, joy, an 8 rating.
Today, set your goals for each category. Consider reading your sheet and thinking about these goals often. When you don’t ruin these things with _____… They grow stronger and stronger, and then life gets better and better.
This is part 2 of this article
When we are mired in a habit we say, “I have no idea how to quit this.” But what if we took the above 9 categories and gave each one a rating before we would decide to follow some selfish road, or, sinful road?
With the vanities that I want to chase, my rating in almost all of these categories is lower.
Instead, what if I spend time with God finding out what He wants me to do? What if I spend time in key verses that are about how I want/need to change?
Second, we need increased motivation in order to do the many things we need to change in order to quit for good.
I want more peace, I want/need way more love, I need to be more filled-with-the-spirit, I want less darkness and more light in my life, I want more blessings, I want/need more strength, I want more joy.
Third, now I am ready to go to war with ______. I am ready to look up a couple of key articles which contain things I need to work on. I am getting motivated to dig into key verses that will help me raise my rating in many of these categories.
Fourth, now I am beginning to understand why God insists that I live life in a very certain way. Because my life will be better if I do things His way.
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