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Nobody's thinking about you.

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Nobody's thinking about you.

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So you think they're thinking about you.

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You think they care about how you look.

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You think they care about what you say.

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They don't.

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Most people are so selfish

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that all they're thinking about is themselves.

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So why compare?

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There's one animal that all other animals fear.

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It's not the largest.

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It's not the smartest.

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It's not even the strongest.

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But every animal in the animal kingdom

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fears and respects this animal.

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He's the lion.

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The lion has confidence like no other.

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The lion has the respect of other animals

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because he has an attitude and a confidence of a king.

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Why do you think they named the movie Lion King?

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The difference is the way the lion thinks.

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It's the way the lion works.

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He works as a team.

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And we're talking about lions, demons, and blood.

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And I'm hoping that in your mind and heart,

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you're learning to discern who you are in Christ,

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how to break the power of shame,

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and how to be lion-hearted in your spirit.

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Your heart keeps you weak or strong,

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but your heart can be lion-hearted

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without transforming your habits.

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You cannot be lion-hearted without transforming your habits.

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And this only happens through your daily routine

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that you develop in your own life.

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You show me a man who has a beautiful marriage.

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You show me a man who's successful in business.

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You show me a man who's influential.

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And I'll show you a man who's got good habits.

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Habits define a man.

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The legendary coach Vince Lombardi once said,

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Watch your actions, they become your habits.

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Watch your habits, they become your character.

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You'll never change your life

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unless you change something you do daily.

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Forget about feelings, forget about emotion,

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forget about inspiration.

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Habits determine your future.

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Lion-hearted men have something they're living for

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that's greater than themselves.

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It's not about them, but it is about them.

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In other words, a man with strong habits,

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a man who wants to be successful,

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a man who wants to be effective,

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a lion-hearted man is one who's living for greater purposes,

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greater significance for his life

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than just living for himself.

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But he also understands that it's about the life

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that he chooses to live through the habits that he forms

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that he becomes a man who God can mightily use.

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Proverbs 28, 1, we read,

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The wicked flee when no one pursues,

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but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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What will set you apart, men, from others

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is your lion-hearted habits that you develop every day.

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The lion-hearted are whole-hearted.

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They have certain habits in their lives

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that drive them forward.

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They've surrendered their flesh, their demons,

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to the blood of good habits.

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Their personality becomes their habits.

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Their habits become their personality.

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Today, I couldn't work out

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because I had surgery on a tooth two days ago,

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and I was reading the guidelines from my dentist,

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and it said don't work out for two days.

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That's the hardest thing for me

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is not to get up at my regular time,

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which is about 4.30 to 5.30, right in there,

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and I just go straight into my workout room,

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and I work out, and I love that.

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So I miss that today because what's happened

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is my habit of working out is now my personality.

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It's part of who I am.

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So I want to tell you about six habits,

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six habits of the lion-hearted

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that I found in working with men

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to be crucial in developing the kind of heart

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and the kind of success that you want in your life

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through the habits that you've harnessed

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to a greater purpose than just living for yourself.

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So here's habit number one,

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and this is the most important habit.

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This is foundation laying.

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Habit one is do the first thing first.

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Do the first thing first.

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From the greatest leader and coach of all time,

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Jesus Christ, he said,

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seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

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That's the first habit.

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Learning, starting each day,

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to seek God first in everything you do.

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Seek the kingdom of God first in your life.

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Jesus, in his most focused poignant sermon,

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the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, and 7,

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He's coming to the conclusion of that sermon and he says,

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look, you're worried about this,

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and you're worried about that,

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and you've got all these worries in your life,

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but God knows you need those things,

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but you have to get the priority right,

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and that is seek first.

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See, we're an aiming people.

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Every person aims at something.

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Are you aiming for success?

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Are you aiming for wealth?

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Are you aiming for friends?

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Are you aiming to get married?

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Whatever your aim is, everybody aims.

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Jesus says, quit aiming at all the wrong things

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that cause all this worry.

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Aim at me.

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Aim at the kingdom.

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Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,

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and then he says all these secondary things

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that you've been aiming at,

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that you're worried about,

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will take care of themselves.

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In other words, Jesus is saying,

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get the primary right,

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and I'll take care of the secondary.

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Let me take care of the secondary

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by you putting me on the throne of your heart

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every day as your primary,

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and so I discovered that

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when I was at University of Georgia.

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I was an athlete there.

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I was a gymnast,

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and my freshman year, I was on floor exercise,

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and I was doing a back somersault with a full twist,

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and I landed just a little bit off,

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and I tweaked my knee,

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thought I had torn my ACL.

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Actually, I dislocated my knee,

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went down in agony.

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They rushed me over to the hospital,

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and then later into the training room,

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and I had a period of time

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where I didn't know if this was career-ending or not,

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and that's when I really began to seek the Lord.

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I had never sought the Lord before.

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I grew up in a Christian home,

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but I'd never received Christ.

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I'd never given my heart to Christ.

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I was just like anybody else,

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but it was during that time

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that I discovered how fleeting

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and how shakable my life was,

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that, I mean, just by missing a twist

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by a degree or two,

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my body could fail me,

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my career would be over,

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and everything that gave me happiness and joy was gone,

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just like that,

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and so I began to think about the externals of my life.

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I began to think about, okay,

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success as it's related to shakable things

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that I have no control over.

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I mean, it's wonderful

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when you have control over everything,

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but there's so many things you don't have control over,

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and an injury is actually one of them,

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so a guy shared with me at that time

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about a personal, vital, dynamic,

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growing relationship with Jesus Christ,

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the kingdom of God.

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I was interested,

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and so for months,

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while I was in recuperation

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and I'm going through the training to get my knee back,

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so I did realize that it wasn't gonna be career-ending,

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one night, after a lot of investigation,

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a lot of prayer and thinking about it,

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I went into a little chapel at the University of Georgia,

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and I gave my heart to Christ.

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I surrendered to him,

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and literally overnight,

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I mean, because this was at night,

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I mean, literally overnight,

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I was a different person the next day.

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I was born again.

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I was transformed,

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and I gave my life to seeking the kingdom first

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from that day forward,

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so that was my freshman year,

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so here we are over 50 years later,

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and everything in my life,

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the whole trajectory of my life

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has literally been transformed

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by that one decision

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of seeking the kingdom of God first,

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how I met Liz, my wife,

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the vocation I chose,

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the money I've made,

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the security I feel,

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all of that's related to making the priority

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the kingdom of God,

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and so I'd be remiss

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if I didn't say to you,

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man, if you're Lionheart,

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and if you wanna be a Lionhearted man

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for the rest of your life,

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you gotta lay the right foundation

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in that seeking first the kingdom of God.

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It was Jordan Peterson,

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who's the famed psychologist from Canada

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who said that the most noble,

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the most earth-shattering statement

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ever made to humankind,

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and he's not even a Christian,

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but he said the most noble,

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the most earth-shattering statement of all time

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is by Jesus of seeking first the kingdom of God.

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He said you get that right,

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and there's nothing more noble,

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there's nothing better than that.

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So aim, man, start off as a Lionhearted man

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by aiming for the kingdom.

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You're gonna aim at something,

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and it's either gonna be you

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and your little life,

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which you think so great and so significant,

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and it is to you.

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It isn't to anybody else,

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but it is to you.

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Or you aim for the greatest power,

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the greatest cause,

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the most noble endeavor

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that the world has to offer.

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offer the kingdom of God and God will take care of these secondary issues in your life.

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It's really, really exciting.

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So that's the first law of leadership.

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That's the first law of friendship.

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That's the first law of marriage is to seek first the kingdom of God.

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And so how do you seek first the kingdom of God?

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That's a great question.

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And I would say it's two things.

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One, it's giving your heart, surrendering your heart to Jesus Christ.

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That's the first thing is completely surrender to him.

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He is the kingdom, but he also gave us a kingdom.

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And so the kingdom is more than just Jesus is Jesus and his righteousness.

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So it's the whole law, it's the Bible.

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So when I was a freshman, I started each day with spending time in God's word in the Bible.

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And now I've given it a term, PB&J, prayer, Bible, and journal, not peanut butter and

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jelly, but prayer, Bible, and journal.

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I've talked a lot about this on some of the other broadcasts, but starting the first thing

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in your day with opening the word.

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So I drink a glass of water when I first wake up in the morning early, I go work out.

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So I go work out.

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I go into the living room or the den and I open the word and I read at least one chapter

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of the Bible.

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And then I have a journal.

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I've got my journal there with a pen, and when I read the word, like I begin the day

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and I end the day in God's word, like last night I was in Daniel chapter four.

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And then this morning I actually went back to Daniel, to Daniel chapter five, and you'll

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see all these underlined places with some notes on the side and then stuff that I wrote

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in my journal, prayer, Bible, journal.

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And so that's how I start my day.

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I've been doing it for 50 years and it's awesome.

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What I found is that when you make PB&J, the first thing you do in the day, it just sets

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It sets your trajectory for the day.

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So remember I talked about the trajectory of your life, seek first the kingdom.

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Well that doesn't mean anything unless you develop a habit that's daily that sets your

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life for the day.

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And so that's PB&J.

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So that's the first habit of the lion hearted is prayer, Bible, and journal, seeking first

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the kingdom.

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Habit number two might surprise you.

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Be the best you.

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Be the best you.

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Learn to compete against yourself.

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Quit comparing yourself to others.

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Quit comparing yourself to people who are smarter than you or people that are dumber

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than you.

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It does no good at all.

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And a lot of times we think, well, I wonder what people think about me because we're comparing

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ourselves with other people.

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Let me just tell you, give you a little hint.

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Nobody's thinking about you.

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Nobody's thinking about you.

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So you think they're thinking about you.

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You think they care about what you, how you look.

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You think they care about what you say.

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They don't.

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Most people are so selfish that all they're thinking about is themselves.

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So why compare?

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Why compare yourself to other people who don't give a rip about you anyway?

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So I want you to compete against yourself.

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And what I mean is that you would begin to be, you would make it your mindset each day.

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I'm going to be better today than I was yesterday.

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I'm going to have, I'm going to tell the truth more.

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I'm going to walk with integrity better.

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I'm going to do my job with excellence better than I did yesterday.

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Competing against yourself is like, best way I can describe it is someone came to you and

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said, Hey, what's the advice you'd give me about this or that?

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And then before you answer the question, ask yourself, well, am I that kind of person that

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I just gave them the advice to be?

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So in other words, if you're single and you want to be married, what kind of a man or

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what kind of a woman would you want to marry?

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Well, are you that kind of person?

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Compete against yourself.

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Look in the mirror and say, am I the kind of person I would want to marry?

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Or am I the kind of person that I would want to employ?

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Am I the kind of person that I want to be a friend with?

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So be yourself.

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Everyone else is taken.

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God made you unique and expects you to be the one he created you to be.

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So compete against yourself.

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And the best way I know to do that is don't look down on others.

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Number one, don't look down on those who are less than you.

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They don't need your bad looks.

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They need your encouragement.

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Don't look around to your peers and compare yourself.

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Look up.

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Look up. Look at Christ. Look up at people who you emulate to be more like them.

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Read good books. Read biographies. Keep continuing to be a lifelong learner and continue to grow.

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Be the best you that you can be.

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