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1)
Consider what motivates you to complete different tasks
in your life. Those tasks could be your work, things you
do for your family, friends, or others. Ask yourself,
"Who are you doing it for?" Most of the time, what
would the answer be? ________
2)
Think of times when you worked hard and weren't
appreciated for it. List one ________________
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3)
Who were you doing it for? Be honest. _______At times,
we may do it for ourselves, or to receive praise. At
times we may do it for others, to try to please them and
there are other times we do things just to make our
lives easier. If we are doing things for God, out of
obedience, we should not even want anyone to notice.
We've already received His pleasure with us
4)
In the section, “It is not about us, and our desired
way; it is about God,” in question #7, you wrote a list
of many aspects of your life. Go to that list, reflect
on it and mark each of them with one of the following
letters describing how much you do those things for God:
A-Always for God, M-mostly, B-both, S-seldom, and
N-never.
5)
List tasks here that you do the poorest job of doing for
God. Write next to them what needs to change for you to
be doing them for God. Col 3:23
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6)
What benefit do you get from doing things for yourself?
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Visualize all of that as building on sand.
7)
Write out some of the times you have done your "acts of
righteousness" to have some personal reward or thanks.
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8)
Now, visualize doing that act out of obedience for God.
What different thoughts or feelings do you have?
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The next time you find yourself looking for a thank you
or praise, stop, look upward and at least with your
heart say, "I am doing this out of love for you Lord."
9)
For the following four questions, rate each on a scale
from 1-10 and write what specifically you can do to
improve your rating in the future. How would you rate
your focus
a.
at work, doing household tasks, or caring for others if
you don’t work as working for the Lord and not for men?
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b.
getting to better know God and what He expects from you
when you read the Bible? _____
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c.
when service for others to be for the Lord, not for men?
_____ ______________________
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d.
taking care of your physical possessions as being for
the Lord, not for men? ____________
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