There are three words that have the power to release you from the grip of the urgent.

There's three words that contain the key to you experiencing more and more of what God wants for you.

These three words could liberate you. They

can help you keep your commitments to God. Would you like to know what these

three words are? Well stay with me. That's today.

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While we're in the middle of our series balancing life's demands, today Chip picks up where he left off last time in his

message how to put first things first as he continues teaching us about the

importance of priorities. Quickly if you missed the first half of Chip's talk, catch up through the Chip Ingram

map, it's a great way to listen to living on the edge anytime.

If you're ready, go to Hebrews chapter 12 in your Bible as we join Chip for the remainder of his message.

Delayed gratification if that's the key, how do you develop it in your life?

And the method of developing biblical discipline can be summed up in three words.

Discipline is two words, delay gratification.

How you get it, the process of developing it.

You say to yourself, what's the training?

Where's the magazine that says if I run you know jog a little

bit and then the next week I actually try and jog a mile and then after that I go and

where how does that happen you're going to see it right out of scripture. The three key words are

advance decision-making. The key to delay gratification, if you are at the

window and the moment where you know you need to delay your gratification and you

haven't pred decided what you're going to do in that moment about 95% of the time you

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