Growth Takes Time

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Growth Takes Time
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THE POINT

• Personal and spiritual growth is a result of a
  series of daily choices.

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COASTING

• Doing something important the way youve done it
  forever without passion or excellence Phoning
  it in
• Not to be confused with perfectionism
• Leads to indifference, opens you to mistakes, is
  unfulfilling, invites God to rock your boat
• 2 Samuel 11 12 When kings go to war, David
  stayed home

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PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

• GROWTH POINTS
• One place in your life youd like to focus on
  moving to the next level

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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• 2 Peter 15-7 (NASB95) Now for this very reason
  also, applying all diligence, in your faith
  supply moral excellence, and in your moral
  excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge,
  self-control, and in your self-control,
  perseverance, and in your perseverance,
  godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly
  kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• Romans 26-8 (NET1) He will reward each one
  according to his works eternal life to those who
  by perseverance in good works seek glory and
  honor and immortality, but wrath and anger to
  those who live in selfish ambition and do not
  obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• Joseph Genesis 37-41
• Fathers favorite, brothers annoyance
• Sold into slavery and rose to leadership
• Sent to prison and rose to leadership
• Let down by peers in prison, volunteered to
  interpret a dream at the risk of his life
• Was promoted to leadership over Egypt, saved the
  Egyptian nation and his family as well for
  generations

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GROWTH TAKES TIME
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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• Proverbs 610-11 and Proverbs 2433-34 (NLT) A
  little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a
  little folding of the hands to rest then
  poverty will pounce on you like a bandit
  scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.

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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• We just want God to fix us with no effort on our
  part.
• Movies and TV teach us that all problems are
  solved in two hours or less.
• Discipline is painful and inconvenient.
• When we compare with other people, it looks like
  they had an easier time than us.

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EVEN MIRACLES REQUIRE DISCIPLINE

• Luke 1124-26 (NLT) When an evil spirit leaves
  a person, it goes into the desert, searching for
  rest. But when it finds none, it says, I will
  return to the person I came from. So it returns
  and finds that its former home is all swept and
  in order. Then the spirit finds seven other
  spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter
  the person and live there. And so that person is
  worse off than before.

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GROWTH TAKES TIME

• Proverbs 215 (NIV) The plans of the diligent
  lead to profit as surely as haste leads to
  poverty.
• Proverbs 1224 (NIV) Diligent hands will rule,
  but laziness ends in slave labor.

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WHAT THEN SHALL WE DO?

• Examine your life for upward and downward
  disciplines
• Meditate on the scriptures from this lesson
• Review this lesson on the website