Work it out. Work it bro.. sis.

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Here are 7 Habits Of Highly Fruitful People.

Want to become more effective and fruitful in life? Then hear the word and give heed to God's word. Choose to form habits of obedience for His glory. 

When is God speaking to you? You know He can still do that in a lot of ways. 

Well, when you feel bad and sense you're convicted inside.. like when doing something wrong, yeah, guess what... God is speaking to you. He's speaking to you in your conscience by His Spirit. Are their habits to form and not to form.. from what you hear Him saying to you? Yup. 

And at those moments when you want to do the right thing, guess what.. the Spirit is more than likely speaking to you again. People can of course feel compelled to do too much stuff, and become too busy for their relationship with Christ -- that's bad, but your old fleshly nature isn't going to prompt you to go do the right things. Mr. Lu-Cifer ain't gunna do that either. 

But instead of merely doing the right thing, go do right things that the Holy Spirit directs you to do. Why Kurt? Here's why.. cuz habits are built simply by repetitive actions. 

"Neurons that fire together wire together!" ~ Donald Hebb



God's way (Jesus, and knowing Him well is the very best way for you. All God's "ways" are better than your own way and "excuses." 

Good Habits For Ya: 1. Honest confession and 2. True repentance of personal sins. Are you ungodly? One lady said "No! I am not ungodly!" My friend responded with: "Then Jesus didn't die on the Cross for you." Sure, we might make it a day or two ..or three without sinning, but lost sinners and save sinners sin. Hate that when I do. But saved-sinners should sin less and less and less.. as we ditch de-edifying habits, form good habits that build up and simply follow the Lord. Saved sinners, they choose to grow daily. You can become a saved-sinner instead of a lost sinner right here and now! 3. Daily prayer is a great habit -- gettin' real with God and listening with a heart to obey. I like to journal some pray time on my computer in Google Drive (the cloud, cuz I can do that audio to God and to text). 4. Denying yourself what tears down, or sets a bad example by the power of the Spirit and edifying others instead. 5. Daily Bible reading and hearing -- that about more listening. 6. Fellowship with growing believers, preferably in the context of a healthy local church led by born again leaders who are spiritual instead of carnal, lukewarm or worldly. 7. Clearly telling your story (testimony) including the sharing of the Gospel for the purpose of winning the hearer to Christ today -- verbally sharing the truth in love with unbelievers. Yeah, witnessing for Jesus Christ.  

"And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6

LEADERSHIP 101?

Real Leadership Principles Aren't Given For Pleasing Or Paying Men, But Are Rather For Glorifying God.

Leadership, what is it for and what are real leaders like? Godly leaders are real! They're born again (see John 3:3), spiritual, and shaped by the Word (studying all of the Bible, and practicing it with prudence) for Christ... and for the benefit of winning and training others well, rather than for merely benefiting themselves well. People, don’t simply start out in life as good leaders; they must put their own wishes aside to serve others and learn to follow right and then learn to lead in righteousness. Godly leaders love to worship, pray, fellowship, witness and kindly reap a harvest as they learn from thee Leader (Jesus Christ) and from other soul-winning leaders. They're not self-confident, but they depend on the Lord constantly and they consistently set a good example. They won't follow a corrupt example.

I've talked about how we are basically living in a day when many people want to become specialists in the leadership arena—even in Church leadership. And I don't think there is anything bogus about that if Jesus is sought, followed and glorified. But on the horizontal level, how well do you know who you are learning to lead from? Do you pay and listen to popular Mormon (or other cultic) motivational leadership speakers? Have you checked?

Rather than becoming a jack of all trades ..so to speak (one who might lack expertise in a certain area because they are too busy with many areas), many people today want to become masters of one ..for Jesus; training leaders to build big. Hey, I can understand that. I feel that every Christian church needs to be growing 1) Spiritually (in the Word with lots of small Bible study prayer groups) and 2) Numerically (by proper evangelism inside and outside the building, and then with discipleship so new Christians can also win people). Yes indeed, if there are any lost people living within say a hundred miles of that local church, it should have a heart to reach out and grow!

Here in Dallas I keep running into well-meaning life-coach and quality of life trainers who seem to outwardly embody the “American Dream” as they go into churches and use Bible principles together with non-biblical Eastern concepts to try and help people. I've been running into some high and low profile Christian leadership gurus too (not all are doing bad work), multilevel marketing motivational speakers, and some self-help/self esteem consultants that pastors are inviting in (for the financial wellbeing of their constituents as they all invest in gold coins etc). And these guys are charging hefty entrance fees for their "seminars of truth" (nothing like putting the cookies on the lower shelf for the children to be able to reach, right [Inject laughter here]). Yup, even with exorbitant prices for all their slick looking product decked with excellent cutting-edge graphics, the pastors feel their polished events will be "a draw" that will bring in some new tithe-ers.

OK, so there are many Christian ministers who are into doing things in a shoddy non-excellent way, using outdated frumpy, ugly art and packaging—in order to save a buck. Hey, I've been guilty of that before. lately I've adopted a watchword that my pastor says, "If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right ..which doesn't always have to cost an arm and a leg." Yeah, let's face it; we live in a culture that is so obsessed with youth, beauty, stardom, pleasure and SUCCESS—yes, for the financial benefit of SELF. You know that. And let me make it very clear, that there is nothing wrong with enjoying financial prosperity and success if you have your priorities in order and have Christ leading as your Lord (that's true). God wants all of us King's kids in BMWs and Porsches right (that statement is false, it was just a bad joke.. sorry). But listen, there is really no reason at all ..ever.. for you to receive tainted teachings about how to lead or how to live ..precepts coming from cultists who deny Essential Christian Doctrine. You wouldn't allow your kids to drink from a polluted or poisoned stream would you? I like what Chuck Smith said, "Most of what false teachers teach is true."

Listen, I personally like going sailing with my friends on big Texas lakes. And when the water stays outside the hull, things go great, but when the boat takes on water into the hull, that boat will eventually go down! It'll sink. You know that it's the same way with the Church in relation to the world. There's no room for worldly compromise! We're to be in the world but not of it. That's how Christ lived with full commitment and some got ticked at Him, but when the world gets into the Church, it will go down. Are we Christians to be so gung ho for "success" and "building" that we compromise by quickly sucking in the teachings of every so called high profile Christian preacher, without first checking out the veracity of what they are affirming ..by searching the Scriptures ourselves? No go, Joe! What's real leadership even for? Are we out to please men primarily ..or God?

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