For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
1. Break up the __________ ___________
2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be the world produces death.
regretted; but the sorrow of
2. Set a primary goal of __________ _____
James 4:3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
3. __________ on the Holy Spirit
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
4. Expect it to be __________ The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried. ~ G.K. Chesterton
5. Stay __________ to other believers
James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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