Men’s Night 1.16.2024 - Disciplined Man/Working Man

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The man trained and was prepared.

DRILL: Nearly every guy needs to change the way he eats. Take some time and list the past 10 full meals you’ve eaten

Did you a) eat badly or b) eat too much?

Ask someone to help you create a new food plan and find rewards for sticking with it

Trying is a short-term attempt to see if something works… Accomplishing anything of significance doesn’t happen because we try really hard but because we train really well. p. 35

Discipline is “any activity I can do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot no do by direct effort.”

Johnn Ortberg

DRILL: Exercise. Literally. Pull out your calendar. Look through the past month and identify the number of times you worked out your body in a strenuous way, whether at work or through playing in a gym league or something like that, or by walking intentionally if you are no longer able to do strenuous activity. Go work up a sweat right now and reflect about how good it feels.

In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort inn the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past. A man can be freed from the necessity of work only by the fact that he or his fathers before him have worked to good purposed……A mere life of ease is not inn the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.

Theodore Roosevelt

1 Timothy 4:6–16 ESV

6 If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed. 7 Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; 8 for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come. 9 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance. 10 For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe. 11 Command and teach these things. 12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. 14 Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. 15 Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. 16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

Training for godliness