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Principles For Resetting Your Life After A Trauma

RESET: To make a new, fresh start due to changed circumstances, opportunities or priorities.

      1.  Expect to feel mixed emotions. (Ezra 3:8-13)

      2.  Extract the lessons I learned. (Galatians 3:4)

      3.  Evaluate everything before resuming it. (Haggai 1:5-7)

      4.  Engage slowly, don't be in a hurry! (Habakkuk 2:3)

1.  ELIMINATE THE NON-ESSENTIALS (IN MY LIFE)

". . . Let us run the race before us and never give up. We should remove from our lives anything that would get in the way and the sins that hold us back." Hebrews 12:1 (NCV)

"We must throw off every weight that slows us down, especially those sins that just won't let go. . . ." Hebrews 12:1b (CEV)

"'Everything is permissible for me,' but not everything is beneficial. 'Everything is permissible for me,' but I won't be mastered by anything."  1 Corinthians 6:12 (NIV)

"Get rid of your old self, which made you live like you used to live – the old destructive patterns that were rooted in deceitful desires. Instead, let your heart and mind be made completely new! Put on your new self, which is created to be like God, and shows itself in the true life that is right and good."   Ephesians 4:22-24 (TEV)

1. Anything that weighs us down (sins that won't let go) 

2. Non-essentials (things that keep you busy, but are just busy things.  If you don't miss it, then don't restart it. 

3.  Old attitudes

2.  EXCEL AT WHAT REALLY MATTERS

"Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow inwisdom." Psalm 90:12 (NLT)

"An intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off inmany directions." Proverbs 17:24 (TEV)

Jesus: "My dear friend Martha! You worry and fuss over so many different little things. But really, only one thing is essential, and Mary has selected it . . ."   Luke 10:41-42 (TEV)

Three habits.
1. Managing my time on those things that matter. 
2.  Living on purpose 
3. Choose good priorities

3.   EMBRACE THE NEW THINGS GOD DOES

"The Lord says, 'Forget the former things, and do not dwell on thepast. Instead, look at the new things I am going to do. They are already starting to happen. Can you see what I've begun to do?'" Isaiah 43:18-19a (NCV)

4.   EXPECT INCREMENTAL CHANGE (IN ME)  

"The flood gradually receded. Little by little the water lowered. After150 days the worst was over." Genesis 8:3 (LB/MES)

"Little by little I will drive the enemies out of your life, until YOU havegrown strong enough to take full possession of the land I've give you."   Exodus 23:30

"Wealth that comes easily disappears quickly, but wealth that isgathered little by little will grow greater."      Proverbs 13:11 (NCV)

"People who set their minds on you, you keep completely whole, and steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don't quit. So,depend on God and keep at it because, in the Lord God, you have a sure thing!"Isaiah 26:3-4 (MES)

Action Plan:  The car above certainly isn't going to get good gas mileage, nor be able to go very fast.  Using the lessons we learned in this message, let's start removing those things in our lives that are weighing us down, draining our energy, and fill our lives with things that matter.  Your exercise is to prayerfully create the table below and fill in the gaps…

Non-Essentials in my life                          What really matters

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