Steps

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Hello and welcome to The Overflow Podcast. My name
is Craig Booker. The title of this episode is Steps.

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A lot of the material for this week’s episode
was inspired by Craig Groeschel’s book The Power

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to Change – Mastering the Habits That Matter Most.
Note: I will talk a lot about mental health, but

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please note this is not a substitute for therapy
or mental health care. I am not a counselor or

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a physician. If you need help with mental health
challenges, please find a qualified mental health

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professional. The title of this episode is Steps.
Last episode we were talking about Renew, Remain,

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Acknowledge, and Ask. And this week we are kind
of taking that further and we’re talking about

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walking in the Spirit. And this is sort of the
the send-off or the wrapping up of this book.

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Craig Groeschel opens with a quote. And he says,
“When you’re winning you’re winning, when you’re

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losing you’re learning.” And so one of the things, the main points that he goes over is we must

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remember to keep look or to keep moving forward as we’re making progress in our habits and

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these the goals that we have things that we’re trying to achieve to improve our mental health.

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another quote from Craig Groeschel it says, “As you continue walking you’ll find that you’re moving

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out of your past and into your future.” Some things that we need to remember is you’re walking into

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your future into the who you want to be. You’re walking away from sin or self-destructive behavior

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you want to leave behind and you’re walking toward the new habits and new life you have wanted

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for so long. It says, “As we’ve learned it
takes time to get to what you want most.”

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We’ve talked about what we want now versus what we want most. And a lot of times what we want

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now are the easy things. So there are the things that give us instant gratification versus what

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we want most, which usually you know the payoff or the benefits show up later, much later. In

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this section it says, “What you want now almost always has an immediate payoff.” And some

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examples here. It says, “The cookie tastes good now. Sexual sin feels good now. Sending that mean text…”

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“…when you are angry feels great now. Buying the new
car even though you can’t afford it feels awesome.”

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now another quote from Craig Groeschel says “The
desires of the flesh have an immediate payoff…”

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“…but what you want almost always takes time.”
“And you can have it but not now you walk there…”

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“…with the spirit while depending on God moment by
moment it will take time but it will be worth it…”

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“…you may miss out on some short-term fleeting
satisfaction but you’ll realize you chose the…”

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“…greater reward you chose what you want most over
what you want now.” We have another exercise and it

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says, “Taking into account everything you have
learned throughout the book and all that God…”

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“…has shown you as you work through every exercise
let’s calculate your next steps.” It says

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“I know the first step I need to take in starting
a new habit is” and it gives us a blank to fill in.

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The second part is “I know the first step I need to
take in stopping an old habit is” and then you fill

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in the blank. It says, “The one change I believe God
is calling me to make in his power not my own is”

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blank. So this is the exercise kind of to wrap up
this book. To this point if you’ve not decided to

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start a new habit or stop an old one this might
be the good final push that you need to get

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started or to stop something that you’re trying
to stop. The principle for this section is it says,

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“When you’re winning you’re winning and when
you’re losing you’re learning.” Colossians 2:6

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and 7 of the New Living Translation says,
“Now just as you accepted Christ Jesus as

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your Lord you must continue to follow him let
your roots grow down into him and let your

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lives be built on him. Then your faith will
grow strong and the truth you were taught

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and you’ll overflow with thankfulness.” That’s all
for this episode. Thank you for watching. If you

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