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Crusade with Me! Challenge #1 · Crusade with Me

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  Hello, welcome to Crusade With Me podcast.
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  This is not a full podcast episode.
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  This is what we are calling a Crusade With Me Challenge.
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  I am throwing out a challenge to all listeners,
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  to people who would take this into heart
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  and consider this, that this is Sunday.
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  This will be dropping on Sunday evening.
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  And the challenge is how to create the mindset
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  to have a great week.
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  We have a podcast that dropped yesterday,
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  talked about mindsets.
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  I know it was a little ahead of schedule
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  because I plan on doing it today.
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  We have a second podcast dropping today,
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  talking about weak men and weak churches.
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  And that's a second episode of that.
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  The first one I did solo,
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  this one will be with my son Andrew.
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  And I wanna conclude this week
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  and I wanna prepare for next week.
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  And as we have stated repeatedly,
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  I want everybody to be aware,
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  just because we're putting this podcast out
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  and put this together,
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  does not mean that we have all the answers
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  and that we are doing some great things.
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  We all have challenges
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  and we need a community, one another,
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  to lean on, to learn from, to encourage
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  and continue the fight to be better people.
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  So it is Sunday, so what I would like you to do,
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  and I have been doing this for a couple of weeks,
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  that it has proven very fruitful,
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  is sit down and reflect on what went well last week
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  and what you accomplished, all right?
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  And I've said this time and time again,
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  if you had a good week, make a note of it.
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  Why?
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  Why did you have a good week?
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  And then write it down.
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  Why you had a good week?
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  What did you do that had a good week?
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  And then now you've got it documented.
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  Hey, read it and maybe have another good week sometime.
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  That's why it's important to Sunday,
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  afternoons, on the evening, sit down,
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  think about this last week.
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  What are you grateful for?
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  What went well?
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  What could you have done differently
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  to make something go better than it did?
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  We have to learn.
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  Also, I want you to sit down
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  and think about this coming week.
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  Schedule everything that you can for the upcoming week.
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  List all the appointed times that you have
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  for your commitments for the week.
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  Then list out all the tasks
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  that you wish to complete in the week.
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  Task, goals.
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  I have tasks that I have to do.
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  Those are sometimes different than that sometimes.
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  Most of the time they're different than goals.
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  Plan those out.
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  Schedule them.
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  And then you have to do that.
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  You have to do that.
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  You have to do that.
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  You have to do that.
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  You have to do that.
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  Schedule time in your plan to commit each task
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  that you wish to accomplish.
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  And then I want you to wake up Monday morning,
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  maybe a little earlier than you normally do, all right?
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  My normal wake up time is 4.30,
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  so I've been getting up at four o'clock in the morning.
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  And let me put it this way.
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  If you don't have a schedule like mine
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  where I need to be out of the door
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  and heading to a location at a specific time,
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  schedule a time anyway.
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  And I would purport to,
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  do you probably need to get up at the same time every day
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  anyway, because it's kind of better for your body.
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  And it does not take you long to get into that habit.
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  I promise you.
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  Schedule a time to get up.
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  Give yourself about a half hour.
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  And this is the challenge, part two of the challenge,
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  because part one of the challenges,
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  document what we were grateful for,
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  what was a good part of last week.
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  And then the second part of that is,
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  plan out this coming week.
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  Write down everything that you got to do on your schedule.
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  Schedule time to get things done.
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  Because if you don't do that, it's a wish list
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  and it'll never happen.
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  Schedule it and make it happen.
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  And finally, Monday morning when you wake up
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  and I want you to do this every morning,
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  get up a half hour earlier than you normally would.
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  And I want you to do not grab your cell phone.
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  See, that's one of my downfalls.
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  That's one of my addictions.
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  My work is heavily reliant upon my cell phone.
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  And it's a terrible habit that I have,
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  that first thing I do is grab my cell phone.
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  So this is a challenge.
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  This week, tomorrow morning, when you rise,
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  get up early, a half hour earlier,
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  so you have time to do this routine.
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  Dare I say ritual, let me call it a routine.
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  First thing we need to do is,
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  let's start our day with prayer.
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  And I've talked about praying a lot on this podcast.
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  I'm gonna give you a prayer to pray tomorrow morning
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  and every morning thereafter.
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  But tomorrow morning, this is the prayer that you can pray.
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  I thank you, my heavenly Father,
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  through Jesus Christ, your dear son,
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  that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger
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  and I pray that you would keep me this day also
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  from sin and every evil.
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  That all my doings and life may please you.
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  For into your hands I commend my soul, my body,
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  and myself, and all things.
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  Let your holy angel be with me,
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  that the evil foe may have no power over me.
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  It's in Jesus' name that we pray,
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  who lives and reigns with you,
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  one God now and forever.
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  Amen.
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  That's the way you're gonna start the day tomorrow.
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  I would also suggest you start the day every day
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  this coming week by praying that prayer.
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  Then for the 27th of January, which will be Monday,
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  open your Bible, do some scripture reading.
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  And I will purport to you, I will challenge you.
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  I'll give you the scripture reading for tomorrow.
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  Read Zechariah chapter four
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  all the way through chapter five, verse 11.
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  When you're done doing that,
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  read Romans, Romans chapter 15,
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  verses 14 through 33.
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  Tomorrow, January 27th,
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  in the church it's the honor day for John Christomo.
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  Christo, Christ, I can't even say it, Christo.
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  There's the challenge.
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  This is the first challenge of the year,
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  first challenge of this podcast that I'm putting out there.
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  Will you crusade with me?
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  Sit down today, this evening, Sunday night.
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  Reflect on what went well last week and what you accomplished.
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  Write it down, also write down what didn't go well
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  and how you can handle it differently this coming week.
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  Schedule everything that you can from the upcoming week.
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  List in a point time of each commitment that you have,
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  then list out the tasks that you wish
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  to complete or accomplish this week.
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  And schedule time in your plan to commit time
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  to each task that you wish to accomplish this week.
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  And then pray to work at completing these tasks as planned
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  and as just by a rearranging life,
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  because guess what, life is always changing.
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  So you may put the schedule together
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  and it might blow up in your face, but guess what?
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  Reschedule, don't stop, don't give up, get it done.
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  Let's build some consistency.
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  Let's frame our mindset to be the best.
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  Let's frame our mindset to be that of Christ,
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  focusing on Christ.
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  There's a challenge, the first challenge of the year,
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  first challenge of the podcast.
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  May God bless you and keep you.