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Busy or Lazy What’s Holding You Back?

Busy or Lazy What’s Holding You Back?. Dealing with Your Stuff. Proverbs 6:9. How long will you lie there, you sluggard ? When will you get up from your sleep? (NIV). Selective Laziness. When comfort wins over effort and I fail to do the right thing. Proverbs 24:30-34.

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Busy or Lazy What’s Holding You Back?

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  1. Busy or Lazy What’s Holding You Back? Dealing with Your Stuff

  2. Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? (NIV)

  3. Selective Laziness When comfort wins over effort and I fail to do the right thing.

  4. Proverbs 24:30-34 I passed by a lazy person's field and by the vineyard of someone with no sense. Thorns had grown up everywhere. The ground was covered with weeds, and the stone walls had fallen down. I thought about what I had seen; I learned this lesson from what I saw.

  5. Proverbs 24:30-34 You sleep a little; you take a nap. You fold your hands and lie down to rest. Soon you will be as poor as if you had been robbed; you will have as little as if you had been held up. (NCV)

  6. Waiting Room

  7. Selective Laziness • Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends

  8. John 10:10 I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. (NIV)

  9. Selective Laziness • Keeps us from Living the Fulfilled Life that God Intends • Minimizes the Importance of My Relationship with Others

  10. James 4:1&10 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? …Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (NIV)

  11. To Overcome Selective Laziness • Care about God’s Bigger Picture

  12. 1 Corinthians 4:2 A person who is put in charge as a manager must be faithful. (NLT)

  13. Matthew 25:21 "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

  14. Matthew 25:23 "His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master's happiness!' (NIV)

  15. Matthew 25:26 "His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant!” (NIV)

  16. Matthew 25:29 To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away. (NLT)

  17. To Overcome Selective Laziness • Care about God’s Bigger Picture • Care about the Gift of Today

  18. Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (NIV)

  19. Overcoming Selective Laziness • Don’t be Surprised when Discipline and Work are Uncomfortable • Work to Understand the “Big Picture” and the “Gift of Today” • Start Somewhere – With a Realistic Goal

  20. Selective Laziness When comfort wins over effort and I fail to do the right thing.

  21. James 4:17 In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don't do it, that, for you, is evil. (MSG)

  22. Busy or LazyWhat’s Holding You Back? Dealing with Your Stuff

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