Train to Win | Pr Julian

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Have you grown closer to Christ? Are you seeing progress

in your personal goals? Okay, so maybe one years' all

bit too far, Like we can take it to six months.

Look at yourself. Where are you at this set of

goals that you have, Maybe have a set of physical

targets that you have in your own life. I want

to lose some weight, or I want to be closer

to God, I want to read my Bible more. Where

are you at one year from now? Are your relations

ships healthier and stronger? With your children, with your parents,

with your spouse, with your families. If you're closing eyes,

can open it now wake up? Yeah right, So did

y'all have a picture or maybe you sort of zone out,

or or it's just a bit too far to look at.

So now now come back to today, to your current moment.

Come back on the time machine and come back to

current the current moment. And my next question is what

are some of the biggest signs or habits or changes

or indicators that you can see in your current life

that shows that they're heading to the right direction. Okay,

so let's take an example, the easiest example. Everybody wants

to be healthy, right, right, So unless you're like Jason

who who wants to do a full marathon Ordanzel who

wants to do a full what do you call it?

Iron Man triathlon in one year? Right, he has a

goal and in one year's time he can imagine him

of being on that bike cycling. I don't know, No,

you swim erst right, you swim, don't know how many

kilometers and then you run or you cycle, don't know

how many kilometers and you run how manykilometers? So you

can see yourself, picture yourself doing that. That's your goal.

I want to get there, and then you look back

on today. The question was what are the signs or

habits or indicators that can show that you're heading to

the right direction. Okay, So my argument this morning is,

or what I want to state, is that your current

patterns and your current habits is a very big indicator

of what your future will look like. Right right, Your

current habits, your current patterns, your current cadence, what you

invest in today is a very big indicator of what

tomorrow will look like. Okay, so you're talking about discipleship, discipleship,

and in the word discipleship, you have the word discipline. Right.

So this morning, if I have a title, my title

is this train to win, Train to win. I'm going

to bring you to our first scripture. If you have

a Bible, you can tend to first Corinthians Chapter nine.

One Corinthians Chapter nine, Versus twenty four to twenty seven.

I think we've already sort of opened this scripture in

our discipleship series, but let's go back to it today

again and just have the posture and perspective this morning

that if I want to go somewhere today, counts my

habits today count okay one Corinthians nine, twenty four to

twenty seven. Don't you realize that in a race? This

is Apostle Paul speaking to the church in corinth Don't

you realize that in a race, everyone runs, but only

one person gets the price. So run to win, run

to win. Come on, tell you, our neighbor, you're a winner.

You're a winner. You're a man to win in life.

You're men to be successful, be an overcomer, be the

head and not the tail. You're man to win in life.

Verse twenty five. All athletes are disciplined in their training.

So you are man to win. But it's not just

a wish that we have. Verse twenty five says, all

athletes are disciplined in their training as a way of

getting that there's a way of winning. They do it

to win a prize that will fade away, but we

do it for an eternal price. So this is a

perspective that we have as decided of Christ, as followers

of Christ. All athletes are disciplined in their training Verse

twenty six. So I run with purpose in every step.

I run with purpose in every step. I am not

just shadow boxing punching the air. I discipline my body

like an athlete, training it to do what it should,

so profound. I disciplined my body like an athlete. How

many athletes are here in this place? If you there,

raise your hand, no, yeah, okay? How many you do

sports here? You do some sort of spots? Pick a

ball or yeah, yeah, see some hands going up? You run, pickleball,

pick a ball, pick a ball, tennis, ping pong, badminton, tennis, yeah,

go fetter? Uh you know badminton or sea or if

you run, I know that's a lot runners. Yes, all

you swim, football, futsal. I disciplined my body like an athlete,

training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear

that after preaching to others, I myself might be disqualified.

So the last verse is scary, especially for us preachers. Uh,

we're gonna take this bunch of versus in First Corinthian

chapter nine as the anchor of our words. Study this morning, okay,

And before that, let's go to another set of scriptures

in the Book of Hebrews Hebrews twelve, verse eleven. No

discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful later on. However,

it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those

who have been trained by it. Let me read that again,

Hebrews twelve eleven. No discipline seems pleasant at the time,

but painful later on. However, it produces a harvest of

righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

So much in this just this one verse, right, like

as discipline can go either way. Like as a parent

we discipline our children, right, it's always like the practice

of training people to obey the rules. You want your

kids to grow up in the ways of the Lord.

You need to have discipline, you need to have rules

or behavioral changes. We use punishment sometimes to correct wrong behavior.

Discipline can also mean to train yourself to do something

in a control and habitual way. Right, So you look

at someone who's very disciplined, You're like, you know, the

guy's always on time every morning, he's running ten kilometers.

He's lived a very disciplined life. Right, And at the

moment of discipline, especially on days where you don't feel

like doing it, it's very painful. It's like, why why

have to wake up at five am to read my

Bible every day? I want to sleep in. However, it

produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who

have been trained by it. All right, So let me

give you a quick statement. Your habits of today determine

your harvest of tomorrow. Your habits of today determine your

harvest of tomorrow. Imagine yourself one year from now. You

have goals, you have things you want to have change

in your life. You want to have unforgiveness gone. You

want to build your relationship back with your parents. Can

I say what you do today? Your habits, your patterns

of today will determine your harvest of tomorrow. That's just

paraphrasing hebrewshapter eleven. Okay, so going back to First Corinthians,

uh chapter nine. Remember that verse said all athletes are

disciplined in their training, and a few of you are

have exposure to sports and have gone to some training.

So so let me just go to that today. I've

got a picture of a man running. Can just show that, Anthony, Yeah, okay,

this guy. Man, Look at this guy, he's an athlete.

Look like there's teacher Max getting ready to do to

do one hundred meters sprint. Let's talk about training for

a while, because we saw that word come up a

few times in the both the scriptures we read earlier.

Let's talk about training. Okay, so Paul said this, all

athletics are disciplined training. And what does training involve? Okay,

what that's training involves. It can be like a physical

training like an athlete, or it can be training in

terms of you know, your studies or learning something. But

training has these few elements, right. It involves repetition of

a specific task or exercise. Right when you're doing a

training like say, for example, tennis, and you go for

a training session and you do a lot of drills.

So a drills, a drill is not what you actually

do in a proper game, right, but a drill is

there to help you with certain skill set within that spot. Right,

So you repeat something over and over again, progressive challenge

to build ability over time and basically it's for you

to help you reach your goals. Okay. So to help

us understand what Paul was saying to the church in

corn this morning, I have a collection of what a

training routine of an Olympic swimmer is. Like, okay, you

want to hear that, right. So Paul and he was

speaking to the church in Corinth he quoted an athlete

training right, and even back then they had they had

games like Olympics and other games that would have brought

some examples to the church that he was sharing with.

So Paul is asking us to follow the training routine

of an Olympian in our walk with Christ. Okay, the

the training routine of an Olympic swimmer is two pages.

Let me try and go to it in one minute.

Are you ready? First is the training routine weekly schedule.

So if an Olympic swimmer, you want to get ready

to compete in the Olympics, this is what you do.

You train six to seven days a week, and the

sessions per day is typically two to three sessions per day.

So you train basically six to seven days a week

and every day you train two to three times. Wow,

that's crazy. Really. You have a morning swim from five

to seven am, okay, then you have an afternoon to

swim from two to four pm. Then you have in

between that a dry land or strength training okay, in

between your swim sessions. So that's three times a day,

six to seven times, six to seven days a week.

This it sounds like a lot. It sounds like almost

all of your waking hours your training. Olympic swimmer number two,

what do they do in their workouts? What do they

do when they go for a training? Each session? They

swim six thousand to ten thousand meters per session. That's

like ten kilometers. Stick to ten kilometers per session. I

don't know. I don't think I can walk that files

with the focused areas of endurance sets and long distance

twims and interval training okay. Then they do high intensity

interval resistant training. They do technique and drills to refine strokes.

They do raise simulation with like time sets. I'm really

getting tired reading this. When they're not in the pool,

they are weightlifting and doing strength and dry land training,

power and strength, explosiveness, Olympic lifts. They're assume, but they

do Olympic lifts as well. Bliometrics. I don't know what

that means, jump training, power and reaction time, mobility, flexibility,

and not only that, they also have nutrition and recovery.

So they not only have to work out and train

six days a week, they have to watch their diet

as well. Right, so I won't go through this is like,

it's like, we'll skip this part. But basically they watch

what they eat, so you can't just go eat buck

day every morning. Right, if you're an Olympic swimmer. Then

there's recovery, so they're not disciplined just in their training.

Their discipline in their recovery, which is eight to ten

hours of sleep a day, active recovery, light swims. Their

recovery is light swims, cycling or stretching. Then there's the

mental preparation, visualizing their mental race goal set things. And

then just before the competition, they have two to three

weeks of reduced training, right, so they reduce the wear

on the body. Then they go through with their coach

on the race strategy. So that was just a summary

of what an Olympic swimmer will go through in preparation

to win. Right and Paul apostle, Paul is telling us

that we need to train like an athlete in preparation

to win as well. How many if you have that

in your lives, in your Christian world. It sounds so overwhelming, right,

it sounds so overwhelming. But I think he's bringing this

example to us that if we have a goal, and

if our goal is to be closer with God, it's

not just it's not just like we will get that

straight away. I have a goal, I think about it,

and tomorrow it's going to be dandy. I'm achieving my goal.

I'm walking in what I want to do. But it

requires this process of train and getting there. And this

process is like training to compete in the games to win. Okay, again,

I say so, I discipline my body like an athlete

training to do what it should So this morning I

have a very simple message of how we can get

there in our goals and especially in the perspective of

a disciple of Christ. Right, if you're a disciple of Christ.

If you have goals in life, if you have places

you want to be, if you have things you want

to do, you want to serve in a certain capacity,

if you want to have quality relationships as a Christian?

How can we look at what the apostle said and

apply in our lives so that we can get there? Okay? Right?

Can we do that this morning? I'm going to give

you the four points up front, right, train to win

and it's just these four things. How do we get there?

How do we build good habits for today? How do

we have the mindset of an athlete? This four things?

Number one purpose, you start with why you want to

do what you're doing. Start with the intention, and you

pre decide. This is the planning. You pre decide what

are you going to do to get there? And then

it goes into your patterns. So when you have a plan,

it needs to fall in place to how it looks

like on a daily basis your habits. And then finally

pray because we need God in our lives. Okay, right?

So number one purpose, Number one purpose, you start with

your purpose. I think purpose is very important for all

of us, you know what with Christ as a disciple

of Christ. You know, if you know it is Jaala,

it reach. Jala is one of our previous ministers. He

founded Permandu and he's he's one of the key Christian

people in Malaysia that has very high government posts in

the government in Malaysia, which if you're in Malaysia you

know that it's not an easy thing to do, right,

and it is. Jalla always says this, you need to

have your true north in everything that you do. You

need to have a true north. So this is a

person that turns around mass Malaysian Airlines from being a

lost making company to making profit right and in every

organization he goes into, he always has this thing where

what is your true north? Basically saying what is your purpose?

You start with your purpose because when things aren't going well,

when it's getting difficult, you anchor on your true north.

You anchor on your purpose. Right, Like if you're married

today and there are days where it's difficult and challenging

and the person which you marry is the last person

you want to see. There are days like that sometimes

yeah not for me, yeah, But then then you anchor

on your true north, right, you anchor on that vow

which you gave to each other. Although if you're a parent,

and there are days where like like this morning, where

like the last person you want to see is your child,

because you know, somebody just take this person away, this

baby away from me. No, not me again, Yeah, it's

the meeting next door. Uh. You anchor on your true north.

Why did you say yes to being a parent in

the first place? I mean you must have said yes

to be a parent, right, yeah? Three times? For me?

Why did God call me to be a father? What

is my responsibility in the situation? You anchor on your purpose.

We go back to one coreentitionship, the nine, verse twenty six,

and I just want to bring up that verse in

verse twenty six. So iran with purpose in every step again,

paulsing this Iran with purpose in every step step. I'm

not just shadow boxing, boxing and punching the air. I

disciplined my body like an athlete, training it to do

what it should right. When we are rooted in achieving

our purpose, we are far less open to succumb to

the circumstances or difficulties or challenges in our journey in

achieving our goals. Okay, verse the context of chapter nine. Right,

Apostle Paul was actually sharing about how he was giving

up his rights for the sake of the gospel. Okay,

so you know the postel Paul was trying to spread

the Gospel as far as possible, as quickly as possible.

And he had really one purpose, one anchoring purpose is

that the Gospel goes out no matter what. That was

Paul's true Now, that was Paul's purpose when he said

this statement. Right another just a few verses before this,

he said this, to the week, I become as weak

that I might win the week. I have become all

things to all men, that I might be all means,

that I might, by all means save some. Now, this

I do for the Gospel's sake. He had one true purpose,

and he would He would forego everything else, his rights,

his rights to receive finances, his preferences, his likes, his

own goals. He gave up a lot of his own

personal personal rights so that the Gospel might be spread out. Right,

That was his true not so the thing with purpose

is very important because the methods are secondary. Right, purpose

is very important because the methods are secondary. Again, I

go back to the journey of a father or dad. Right,

So if you look at how if you're called to

be a dad in the future of your father today,

what is your purpose to be a father? What is

your purpose? Bring? Yep, the CFC said it, bring up

your your purpose as a dad, You're true. Not as

a father is to bring up your children in the

ways of the Lord, especially if you're a Christian dead

lah right, yeah, So so if you have that as

your guiding principle in life, you've got that down. I'm

convinced that today this is my role. Then your methods

and your habits and how you do that will then follow. Right.

So so you you would you would want to discipline

your children when they are not behaving well, right, you

will teach them the Bible, you will teach them to pray. Right,

But the same person in that role. Right, If the

purpose is just to be the child's best friend or

be the child's most liked father, we're in the father

of the year. What then I'll just buy lollipops for

Mica every day every morning? What lollipop for you today?

Here you go, right, But that's not going to go

well with his life, right. So, so it starts with

a purpose. It starts with what anchors us as Christians?

What anchors us as disciples of Christ? And and this

morning I want to suggest and also say this in

whatever purpose or whatever goal that you have in life,

especially very important goals. So I'm not talking about I

want to buy an iPhone by next year. Okay, I'm

not talking about that kind of goals. I'm not talking about,

Oh I want to I want to like look like

Justin Bieber in one year's time. Okay, that's not a

that's not a gold. We're talking about really important, important

goals and important things that you want to achieve in

your life. Can I can I suggest one anchoring purpose

that you should always have And this comes from the

Book of Mark Mark chapter twelve. A Pharisee asked Jesus

this question, what is the most important commandment that I

should follow? Right? He was trying to like catch Jesus

and you know, pin him down. But Jesus gave this reply.

The most important commandment is this. Listen, o Israel, the Lord,

our God is the one and only Lord. And you

must love the Lord your God with all your heart,

all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.

The second is equally important, love your neighbors yourself. No

other commandment is greater than these. So if you are

looking at important life goals, can I say this should

be one of the factors that we have in our

lives to make sure that we honor God and love God.

And also the second part, to love our neighbor as ourself. Right,

let this be a guiding purpose and guiding principle when

we make our goals. That's the first purpose. Start with

your true north, start with what you're intending to do.

And then the second p is this predecide. And it's

really planning predecide predeciding because you don't want to make

a wrong decision that can derail you from reaching your

main purpose. So some of these thoughts I caught from

past Craig Rochelle, and it's I feel like it's very

applicable in my life, Like it really it really helps

me to live my life better as a person that's

almost turning forty. Right, Uh so what this is? Right,

let me just explain if you're thinking, like what kind

of word is this? Is it even a word? It's

really about planning, pretty deciding is before you before you

go into any situation, you decide beforehand what you want

to do already because there are many there are many

decisions in life, or sometimes you are very weighed down

by a lot of decisions every day. So for very

important things in my life, I want to decide beforehand

what I would do before I'm in the situation. Okay, Right,

you can take again the diet example. For example, so

I I want to have a goal of you know,

reaching my target weight by one year, and I know

there are going to the situations where I might be

tempted to eat more than I should, right, like for

example lunch today. Right, So I've got to go it's

going to honor God. I'm gonna this body is a

temple of the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna make sure that

it's healthy and need to lose weight. The doctor tonya

got high cholesterol. So before I go into a restaurant

and know that, okay, it's gonna be tempting for me

to order the extra bowl of laxa, right, I'm gonna say,

I'm gonna go in and order just this, right, one

meat and one vegetable. That's it. Right. So, so when

in the position to be shaken or tempted that will

derail you from your purpose. You've already decided what to do.

I love I love this principle and concept because it

has helped me decide beforehand what you will do in

aligning reach your purpose, so that whenever there situate comes,

you are in a better position to act accordingly to

your purpose and not succumb to the temptations or lack

of self control. Right, and today, one very important place

I want to suggest to you to predecide is this,

Predecide every day that you do one thing in faith.

Predecide every day that as a disciple of Christ, I

just want to act out in faith at least one time, right,

because the word of God causes to be light in darkness,

to be positive when everything is negative, to be obedient

to God's prompting you. I just give a very simple example,

like yesterday I went I went running in the park,

and so some running, right, and then it's just a

loop around like a lake, which is every loop is

one one kilometer. So so having this kind of posture that, okay,

today I want to just do something in faith, right,

and then I was running, I saw, okay, just I

saw a pole of like dog, dog poop, right, dog

poop on the middle of the of the running place

and obviously some I mean some dog left doc ket

left poop. It's not the dog's fault, is the is

the master's fault. Right, And and as I was running

the first round and I saw it there, I was like,

oh man, so discussing and like, okay, then just run

the other side bypass it and then the loop and

then then it's obviously still there because the dog didn't

come back and cleaning up right, and then went round

and then like this came to mind again, what if

I'm a Christian, if I'm if if I'm called to

make a difference wherever I am to be salt of

the world, to be light in darkness, what would I

do in this situation? Yeah, So, so I have this

posture and I want to just see if there's an

interaction with someone, how can I just insert some faith

in that that situation. And then then I say, okay,

I'll clean the poop, clean the poop. So yeah with

what with what so good thing? I was doing five rounds, right,

so I got rounds four and five to think about

how I'm going to clean the poop. So the first

thought was to look for a big piece of leaf

and just like grab it in my hands and then

put into the rubbish bin. Then then uh, then then

I ran again and I saw the column either was

like those actually it was meant to be a dog

pox those like plastic things which the that was prepared

for those who need to clean up after a dog

has done his business or a care done his business.

So I ran past one, but he didn't want to

turn back. Sorry, I pretty God just gave me another plastic. People,

I reached the destination and I kept running. It are

so okay, there's one more. I I took it a plastic.

It was the last plastic in the role. It's like,

oh thank God. And I picked up the plastic and

I ran to the pool and I cleaned up. I

cleaned up. But I mean it's it's a super simple

like example of how as disciples of Christ we are,

we're meant to make a difference no matter what. I

don't know. I think people are looking at me like

a bit weird or so of course, like what's this

guy running? He doesn't have a dog, But then he

stops and cleans the pool like he must have left

the dog there, just not the poop, and then went

back and came back and felt guilty. I don't know,

I don't care. But huh, yeah, exactly, I don't care.

I don't care. I was there to just make a

difference in that place. Is this you really decide every

day if there is a situation where you can step

out in faith and be the light, let's just do it,

because if you don't, you're often you're often gonna just

make the wrong decision. And then that's a leftop opportunity

to be salt in light. Right, there's a leftop opportunity

to speak faith into someone. Amen. Another thing you can

predecide is what your daily routine is like. Right, So

just now we looked at the routine of a Olympics

swimmer in preparation for the Olympics. They they probably had

the plan planned out because they decided upfront, this is

my life for the next six months. It's gonna be grueling,

but it's there for a purpose in place for me

to reach a goal. So predecide your daily cadence, Predecide

your daily routine. How will it be like? Right? And

you know what I'm going to say, right, you know what,

what is important in your daily life. You need to

read the Bible, need to pray, you need to have

about devotion. You can predecide not to not to get

angry when not to shout or react with anger when

you get angry, right. You can predecide to not fall

into anxiety when you feel anxious, right, but to respond

in praying. Just decide before that, you know, God, this week,

if there's something that's going to shake my peace or

shake my joy or rob me of my joy, I'm

not going to succumb to that first. But I'm going

to bring it to prayer that the peace of God,

that's the passes understanding what God my heart amen predecide.

So Craig Roschelle has these two statements, I want to

just quickly bring up the quality of our decisions determines

the quality of our lives. So if you're constantly making

bad decisions, you're in the habit of making bad decisions,

then the quality of our life will just hte that

way as well. Right, And the opposite is true, because

if you're constantly making small good disas every day, then

our quality of life will also improve. This is the

other statement. Decisions determine direction, and direction determines destiny. We

have we have many examples in the Bible of of

heroes of the faith that have predecided right. So for example,

you know Daniel, Daniel and his three friends, they they

were in an environment where it was totally foreign. So Daniel,

as a child of God, was placed into this environment

where the people that worship other gods, where they had

different dietary So you're going back to food again, different

dietary requirements and needs. You know, they feast on wine

and raid meat. They are different customs. They don't pray

to the one and only God, right. So he was

put in a place where, like man, it's going to

be difficult to live out being a disciple of Christ.

But we know that In Daniel one eight it says this,

but Daniel purposed in his heart. He purposed in his heart.

He had decided already this is my life, and my

life will reflect how God has called me to live.

Daniel that he will not defoul himself with the portion

of the kings that he concis now with the wine

which he drank these cities. Also in Joseph, Joseph who

went from being in a in being in a pit

to prison to Portifa's house and then became the prime

minister of the nation. Joseph also predecided, you know, right,

when he was in portifas house, he he was put

the head of everything. Right, Portifar saw that he was

so faithful. This guy is great. He will be in

charge of everything in my house. And then Portifa's wife

came to temp him, right, come to bit with me,

She said, but but we see I like this part.

He let me just find it. This is in the

Book of Genesis. And though she she being Portifa's wife,

spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go

to bait with her day after day, being pressured right,

he still had a true north. My purpose is to

live out my life in the way God has called

me to live, and I'm going to be anchored on that. Right,

And then he said this, My master has withheld nothing

from me except you because you're his wife. How then

could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God.

He didn't even say, like sin against Partifi will betray

his master. But he's anchor, He's true North. His purpose

was that he wanted to please God. He wanted to

please God. So predecide number one, find your purpose number two,

Predecide number three. Then after you have made a plan,

this is how it's going to be. Then becomes what

happens on a daily basis, which is the pattern. Number

three is pattern. I think this will fall into place

once you do the first two points. And we see

that Jesus also had this pattern Luke chapter five or sixteen.

But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer. Often

he had this cadence. He had this pattern of one

thing to be with his father, father God in his

walk here on earth. And how he did that was

he often we drew it away. He would just go away.

And the wilderness speaks about a place of like isolation

and being alone, being not being with people. He ran

into those places to pray. So uh Romans offers to

gain very firms scripture. Do not conform to the patents

of this world. So the Bible tells us to do that.

Don't conform or be shaped by be pressured by the

patents of this world, but be transformed by the renewing

of your mind. How do we do that? We get

away with God, we be alone with God, we come,

we come to prayer with him. And uh again. The

statement earlier was your habits of today determines your harvests

of tomorrow. Your habits of today determine your harvest of tomorrow.

I'll share very two very quick illustrations of this, because

sometimes I do find myself in a place where like hm, hmmm,

where did I do that today? Or I find myself

regretting doing something in the moment. Right, And if you've

been there before, I don't make one. I'm like, oh, yeah,

MAXI is perfect, or worry is athletely just not running there. Yeah,

if you've been in a situation where you ask yourself like, hmmm,

where did I do that? It's not very wise. And

and one of the one of the things which I've

been you know again, in my household is this. I've

been finding that my kids started, like, have been shouting

at each other a lot. They shout like MI co

shout when they're angry or when they're dissatisfied with their siblings.

They shout at each other. They shout at earth, not really,

but at each other. And why are they shouting? Think

about it? Right, I mean, I raised them in my house.

It's because I had also patterns of like raising my

voice at them, right, because sometimes you just lose your

top man with their children on a stoughts from that,

with three boys, it gets quite noisy in the house.

And I saw this pattern, which is just the the

bad side of how patterns can affect your life. Right,

So I'm responsible for that. I'm responsible for the habits

I put into place. Then the harvest has come and

the harvest is bad fruit. Right. The flip side is

also true, you know. So my kids are not very bad,

they know show like today, but my kids have this

this habit now of one thing to pray before they

sleep every night, Like it's it's just ingrading to their

their their lifestyle already. And to be honest, some nights

I'm like, I'm too tired. I just just go to bed,

just go to bed. But they always say, Daddy, let's pray,

hark and kiss because we do that every night, like

we do it every night and and uh, and it's

like a thing they must do before ending the day.

So that's also a pattern which we had in place,

and now we have that harvest of good, a good

habit that comes out. So if you often find yourself

in a position like what did I do that? Think

that was not very good? Awesome? Man?

What it is?

Something so silly? Look at what you've been investing over

the last few weeks. If you find yourself like, oh man,

I've been so tired every morning, why because you've been

watching Netflix till twelve am the last few days. Right,

come on, Yeah, don't look at don't look at anyone,

don't look at a neighbor. Now. What you're invest in today,

you'll pay for tomorrow. Your habits of today will be

your harvest of tomorrow. Yeah. And my last point is

this pray so number one, purpose, number two pre designed,

number three patterns, and number four pray.

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