Good to Great in God's Eyes - Develop Great Habits, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
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Summary
Chip shares an ultra-practical message: how to develop great habits - ones that cultivate grace and produce a life of lasting impact, and deep personal satisfaction. Join Chip and learn how to begin developing great habits!
Main Points Introduction: The Power of HabitsGreat Christians develop great habits!
The grace of God is both the desire and the ability to be righteous; to follow Him and do what is right.
Six great habits that cultivate grace:- The principle of priority: Put God first! --Matthew 6:33
- The principle of transformation:Take out the trash! --Romans 12:2
- The principle of responsibility: Do your own dishes! --Luke 16:10
- The principle of clarity: writeit down! --Proverbs 20:5
- The principle of inertia: Do it now! --Proverbs 24:30-34
- The principle of restoration: Turn it off! --Hebrews 4:9-11
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you long to take your relationship with the Lord Jesus to the next level? |
| 0:06.6 | Are you ready to go from being a good Christian to a great one? |
| 0:10.1 | That's today. Stick around. |
| 0:13.5 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:17.6 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through |
| 0:21.8 | the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. And we're in the middle of his practical series, |
| 0:25.9 | Good to Great in God's Eyes, 10 practices great Christians have in common. For the next |
| 0:31.3 | couple of programs, Chip will focus on the significance of creating healthy habits and why daily |
| 0:36.7 | routines can produce a life of lasting impact |
| 0:39.5 | and satisfaction. So if you're ready, go in your Bible to 1 Timothy Chapter 4 as we join |
| 0:45.2 | Chip now with today's talk. Great Christians develop great habits. I love it. Benjamin Franklin |
| 0:52.4 | said, he gave an equation. Benjamin Franklin said, |
| 0:56.7 | if you take all your good habits in your life, subtract them from all your bad habits, |
| 1:03.2 | it equals your contribution to society. It's an interesting thought, isn't it? All your good habits minus all your bad habits equal your |
| 1:14.6 | contribution to society. A definition of a habit is a behavior that is done so often it becomes |
| 1:21.0 | automatic or it's done without thinking. A fellow here reading Ted Pollulloch is an expert in time management and behavioral |
| 1:31.0 | psychology, and he says, deliberately training yourself into good habits requires stern self-discipline at first. |
| 1:37.4 | But since those habits become second nature, the payoff is considerable. Good habits save effort, ease routine, increase efficiency, |
| 1:47.8 | and release power. See, what you need to grasp, what I need to grasp is you are today |
| 1:54.7 | the total of your good habits and your bad habits and who you will become, the product of the kind of man, the kind of woman, |
| 2:02.8 | you're going to be five years, 10 years, 20 years from now, by and large, will be the habits. |
| 2:09.4 | And the habits are the things you do without thinking. I mean, God has made us this way. |
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