No Excuses: Set Your Mind on Spiritual Growth

``And I really hope that God doesn't play this game film of my whole life and says, why did you do that? Or why didn't you do that? Because I don't wanna be sitting in that seat like a kid trying to make excuses while I was being double teamed, coach. So this this month, we're we're trying to break those excuses, and so like I like I said, I don't wanna be sitting in that hot seat watching the game film. So I pray to God that that's not what's going to happen. But if that's what's going to happen, I wanna be able to sit in that seat and not make excuses. [00:37:26] (39 seconds)  #NoExcuses

We can't just get in shape by doing nothing physically. Right? We have actually have to go do something to get physically in shape. Now I wish that we could just do nothing and get in a shape. That'd be nice. But same thing spiritually speaking. We're just not going to drift into some kind of a holiness or a spiritual place in our lives if we're just going through the motions. So we must set our mind to our goal. What is what is that goal? [00:42:08] (30 seconds)  #MindOnSpirit

We have to think about those goals. We have to go to bed thinking about tomorrow morning. I'm gonna wake up and I'm going to pray and read my bible. Not think of the 10 reason 10 reasons why we can't wake up tomorrow and read our bibles. So we gotta set our mind. We gotta set that. So so then we gotta the question is, where do you see yourself in here? Where do you see yourself next year at this time? So set that goal for that because growth doesn't start with a behavior. It starts with our focus of our mind. It starts right here with our brains. [00:43:06] (30 seconds)  #VisualizeSuccess

Where am I set in my mind? I'm set in my mind to failure. I'm set in my mind to the direction of my fleshly desires. And so we have to change our mind to the the spirit, a living according to the spirit. We might the Paul says that, but those who live according to the spirit, they set their minds on the things of the spirit. [00:44:24] (21 seconds)  #BeatSelfDoubt

So we must set our minds on the spirit because Paul doesn't start with an action. He starts with a mindset. So we must start with a mindset. I tell the kids when I was coaching is take time, Meditate Meditate on your position. Meditate meditate on your job. See yourself in your mind doing what you're supposed to do. And it and it works. Like baseball, I really tell the kids in baseball. In your mind, hit the ball over and over and over, that you're gearing your mind up, that the pitch is coming, and you're going to hit the ball. [00:45:00] (40 seconds)  #FocusDeterminesDestiny

That's setting up for success because if you if you, in your mind and you're telling yourself, I can't hit the ball, this pitcher throws too hard, what's probably going to happen when you get up to bat? You're probably not going to hit the ball. That that's the same thing guys with our spiritual lives. If we tell ourselves that we're going to fail, we tell ourselves that we can't, we're probably going to to to fail. [00:45:55] (25 seconds)  #ChooseLifeAndPeace

So we have to set our minds to the good things and spiritual things to that target that we're that goal that we're after. So our mind shapes our desires, it directs our decisions, and it determines our destination. So your life moves in the direction of our of your focus. So our lives are going to move where we focus. If you don't like where you're heading, check what's been holding your attention. And here's the thing, is we can change our direction. We can take each day and change our direction. [00:46:20] (35 seconds)  #SeeThroughSpirit

Paul's telling us that if you don't get your mind on the good things, if you don't get your mind on the spiritual things, and you set your mind on those fleshly things, that's death. I don't like that word. I don't want to to look at that word and say that's me. But he says, but if you set your mind on the spirit, is life and peace. We must set our minds on the spirit. Peace isn't found by avoiding the problems either. [00:47:44] (34 seconds)  #FillHeartWithTruth