Title: Let's Create Great Habits!
2011, let's create great habits!
Text/ Dan 6:10
1. Introduction
Today is the morning of the first Sunday of the New Year of the New Year 2011. May 2011 be a year of amazing events (history) in which each of us creates a great habit (habit) and sets it as a habit, so that the life of each of us is changed into a great life. In the name of Jesus With earnest wishes, blessings, blessings! do.
If you change your thoughts, you change your actions.
If you change your behavior, you change your habit.
If you change a habit, your personality will change,
One change in personality changes fate.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act
Sow an act, and you reap a habit
Sow a habit, and you a character
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny
-Samuel Smiles
History testifies that every great person in the world has one very unique positive habit. Early morning habit, habit of not procrastinating today’s tasks, habit of thorough self-reliance, habit of exercising every morning, habit of saving, habit of immersion, habit of constant reading, habit of pursuing only one topic throughout life, injustice These are the habit of never turning away, the habit of seeing the end of a task, the habit of sticking to the task once set, the habit of looking at things creatively-positively-artistically, the habit of caring for and considerate of neighbors, etc.
But all these good habits don't just happen spontaneously and for free. Why? This is because human nature is “I want to sit when I am standing-I want to lie down when I sit down-I want to sleep when I lie down”. All these good habits are dazzling treasures formed through constant trial and error - 刻苦勉勵 - self-reflection.
2. If so, what are the great habits that underlie all these good habits?
The process of trial and error - trial and error - consideration - self-reflection is 至難 (Jinan: extremely difficult). What was the force that made it possible to go through this painful process? That driving force is what we call “prayer”. Prayer is the great habit that is the foundation upon which all these good habits become good habits.
3. Prayer Habits - Change One Habit, Change You Life!
first. What is prayer? Many people have different definitions of prayer.
(1) Prayer is a two-way dialogue between man and God
(2) Prayer is the breath of the soul
(3) Prayer is the key to unlocking the heavenly storehouses that are fully stored in the universe
(4) Prayer is a pipe-electric wire that connects to the sea-power plant of God's power.
(5) Prayer is a hot line-antenna-compass that connects directly with God.
(6) Prayer is the adhesive that sticks me, who is weak like a sheet of paper, to God who is the golden castle, etc.
What does it mean? Prayer transcends human intellectual-volitional-emotional-environmental-fatal limit situations, -Peace - This is the only way to receive power.
second. Prayer has several branches.
(1) reflexive prayer: It is a prayer that asks God for personal-family-church-social-national issues with a clear consciousness. That is, personal prayer topics, vocal prayers, representative prayers, intercessory prayers, prayers offered during social-national crises, etc.
(2) meditative prayer: A prayer that meditates deeply on spiritual topics, such as the bible verse that gives grace - the sermon in the heart - the field of religious interest - the prospect for the future.
(3) Contemplative prayer: This prayer is a prayer that communicates with God in the depths of consciousness under the epidermis of the ceremony through respiratory prayer-existence-centered prayer-meditative prayer-pilgrim's prayer. It is a prayer in the atmosphere of hymn 422 (when the dew is still on that rose)
See also: The Fountain of the Word, Volume 3 Classic Artwork 168. Thomas Merton's Prayer Step 3
third. Prayer should become a habit. Most of us don't usually pray very much. During official worship - when we are in trouble - when we are sick - in case of emergency. Prayer is not a habit. However, the characters of the Bible--people of great faith--powerful people habitually prayed.
Abraham built an altar wherever he went (Genesis 12:7-8, 13:18) - Samuel said he would not commit a sin of ceasing to pray (1 Samuel 12:23) - Daniel fell on his knees and prayed three times a day (Daniel 6:10) - Jesus often said goodbye to the crowd and went to the mountain to pray alone (Mark 6:46) - The apostle Paul prayed without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17) - Martin Luther - George Muller - Francesco -John Wenamaker - Han Kyung-jik - Yoo Young-mo - Lee Hyun-pil, etc.
Those people have achieved great personal, social, and national achievements through their prayer habits. In 2011, I pray that this great prayer habit will be established as an existential habit of each of us, and that the life of each of us will be transformed into a great life overflowing with amazing blessings, in the name of Jesus, bless, bless, bless! do.