Holy Habits {Part 3}

Alignment with God’s Assignment

I am the total of what I do.

I and then my .

Most people have and .

Romans 12:2 (MSG) – Fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the
inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond
to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level
of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed
maturity in you.

Holy Habit #3 – Keep my life with my 
1. Because I was created for .

Psalm 139:16 – All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to
do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

• We need to live by , not by .

2. Because my time and attention are .

• An will produce an .

Ecclesiastes 4:6 – Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls
with toil and chasing after the wind.

3. Because .
James 4:13-15 – Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go
to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make
money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is
your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this
or that.”

• I’ll never until I change what I do .

1. Decide what is most .

Philippians 3:7-8 – But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for
the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to
the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I
have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.

2. Give  to the important things.

Psalm 90:12 (LB) – Teach us to number our days and recognize how few
they are; help us to spend them as we should.

• Make time for

Genesis 2:2 – By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been
doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

• Make time for
• Make time for .

3. Regularly take .

Psalm 39:4-5 (NLT) – LORD, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.
Remind me that my days are numbered, and that my life is fleeing away.
My life is no longer than the width of my hand. An entire lifetime is just a
moment to you; human existence is but a breath.