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Identify 3 habits that can keep your humility “in check.”
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“When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” (Proverbs 11:2)
Identify someone (past or present) who has demonstrated great humility, while also being in a position of power.
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Define humility.
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“The LORD’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous. He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed. The wise inherit honor, but fools get only shame.” (Proverbs 3:33-35)
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Commit this passage to memory: “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. 8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:7-9)
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Contemplate one of the fears you acknowledged this week. Take the first step toward overcoming that fear. Live in confidence today by doing something tangible that demonstrates your faith.
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Think of one person, past or present, who successfully confronted fear.
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Compare to 2/3/10
“The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” (Hubbard)
In the following excerpt from C.S. Lewis’ work - Mere Christianity - he discusses the importance of “feeding” our faith.
List 3 specific ways you can feed your faith every day.
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“Now faith…is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable. This rebellion of your moods against your real self is going to come anyway. That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods ‘where they get off’, you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist, but just a creature dithering to and fro, with its beliefs really dependent on the weather and the state of its digestion. Consequently one must train the habit of Faith.
The first step is to recognise the fact that your moods change. The next is to make sure that, if you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious readings and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.” (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
What makes you most susceptible to fear? Go through the day battling the temptation to give in to this fear in any way….in action, and in thought.
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” For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7)
“Personally, I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.” (Rick Warren)
Commit the following to memory: Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. (Psalm 1:1-3)
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What can we learn from the habits of successful people? Watch this video and share your thoughts.
