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Be Intentional

“I will do it no matter what.
No matter how long it takes.
No matter what I have to give up.
No matter what I have to do.
I will see it through.”

Intent gets at the heart of our routine. 
Why do you do what you do every day?
Most of us live in response to what happens around us. We rely on what everyone else is doing and then we adapt to that. Your life will be what other people want it to be when you don’t have your own vision and are not intentional. In the vacuum of no plans, someone will fill that void with their own plans.

God is not going to make you change. 
You have to do your part. 
It takes effort and focus to become what God wants you to be.

Colossians 3:2
“And set you minds and keep them set on the things above, not on the things on earth.”


From sermon by Pastor Shawn at Watershed, Dec 31 2017. 

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