How to motivate yourself (2)
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1. Seek God first
1. Seek God first
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Proverbs 3:5–6 (NIV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
2. Plan and set a goal
2. Plan and set a goal
Put your outdoor work in order
and get your fields ready;
after that, build your house.
The plans of the diligent lead to profit
as surely as haste leads to poverty.
As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.
Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
and he will establish your plans.
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
3. Look beyond the temptation
3. Look beyond the temptation
Genesis 39:8–9 (NIV)
But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”
Joseph didn’t just look at the temptation. He looked at:
Pothipar
His Wife
God
4. Keep a song in your heart
4. Keep a song in your heart
Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord,
Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
5. Keep a Bible promise with you
5. Keep a Bible promise with you
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.
Proverbs 3:1–3 (NIV)
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity. Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Joshua 1:6–9 (NIV)
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
6. Pray all the time
6. Pray all the time
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Matthew 14:23 (NIV)
After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone,
After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.
Luke 6:12 (NIV)
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.
Jesus Himself, while He dwelt among men, was often in prayer. Our Savior identified Himself with our needs and weakness, in that He became a suppliant, a petitioner, seeking from His Father fresh supplies of strength, that He might come forth braced for duty and trial. He is our example in all things. He is a brother in our infirmities, ‘in all points tempted like as we are;’ but as the sinless one His nature recoiled from evil; He endured struggles and torture of soul in a world of sin. His humanity made prayer a necessity and a privilege. He found comfort and joy in communion with His Father. And if the Savior of men, the Son of God, felt the need of prayer, how much more should feeble, sinful mortals feel the necessity of fervent, constant prayer (Steps to Christ, 93)
7. Work with your students
7. Work with your students
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”