Uphill Habits: “Habit 3”

Uphill Habits
Habit # 3
1/18/26
Pastor Mark England

“We are what we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle

We and then our .

Most people have and .

Romans 12:2 (CSB) Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Habit # 1
Focus on what I do .

Habit # 2
Control my .

Habit # 3
Keep my life with my .

Are you struggling with “?”
The in place is not the source of the .

When life is out of , we try to fix the pain in the thinking it will work.

Knowing your purpose keeps your entire life in alignment.

• Because .

Psalm 139:16 (CSB) Your eyes saw me when I was formless; all my days were written in your book and planned before a single one of them began.

Ephesians 2:10 (CSB) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

God had a and for your life He made you.
He didn’t make you and wonder where you’d be a .

We need to live by , not .

• Because there is for my time and attention.

An will often produce an .

Ecclesiastes 4:6 (CSB) Better one handful with rest than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.

• Because .

Either by death or by the …
Life is .

James 4:13-15 (CSB) Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.” ¹⁴ Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like vapor that appears for a little while, then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you should say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

I’ll never until I change something I do .

Mastering the Habit

1. Decide what is .

Is your life being defined by what is or by what is actually ?
“Not one soul on their deathbed wished they spent an extra hour at the office.”

We cannot lose our .
We are going to have things in our lives, but we can’t be by them.

Philippians 3:7-8 (CSB) But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ. ⁸ More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ

Three types of Christians…
– I in Jesus level.
– I’m going to as much as I can.
– I’m going to take the plunge and experience His !

2. Give to the important things.

You cannot give to that which you refuse to give calendar time.

Psalm 90:12 (LB) Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.

The Rule of Five (Everyday Things In Your Life)
– John Maxwell-
Spend time in prayer.
Study God’s Word.
Give my wife the best version of me.
Show my kids Jesus through me.
Take care of myself.

• Make time for .

2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV) Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

• Make time for .
• Make time for .

3. Eliminate the .
   The things in your life that don’t .
   The “” List.

Hebrews 12:1 (CSB) Let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us.

4. Regularly .

Where is my life out of ?

Psalm 39:4-5 (NLT) “Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered— how fleeting my life is. ⁵ You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand. My entire lifetime is just a moment to you; at best, each of us is but a breath.”

Take and asking God to help you get your life back in alignment is one of the greatest habits you can create.

Take inventory of your …
Am I ready to ?