Daily Huddle - Wed Mar 4, 2020 Track To Run On

Love you all, praying for you,
 
Have you ever wished you were more consistent?  That the things you want to do, or know you should do – you were more consistent in?  Consistent – fixed, firm, not fluid, steady, ongoing adherence to right and proper action.  Sometimes we can make things more complex than they are.  Consistency is one decision away.  You’re only one decision from consistent!  This one.  Why are people inconsistent? Because of the enemy of consistent…  urgent.  Urgency is the greatest enemy of consistency.  But I gotta do this first.  The second greatest enemy of consistent is default.  You end up doing things by default because you didn’t know in advance what is needed when.  There are three keys to consistent.  Key #1:  God’s Plan instead of your plan.  (PiVAT Weekly and PiVAT before dinner, position you daily to seek Him, and obey at the time He assigns).  Key #2 – PiVAT Maybe – It lets the Holy Spirit separate between your gotta do’s and what God wants you to do.  Key #3 - Accountability.  Not “did you do it?”  But "Here’s what God did when I did it!"  Your Daily Call is not only the overcoming testimony that will bring you victory, it’s also the accountability that will bring you consistency.  Not I wish I woulda… or I really shoulda… but "Let me tell ya – God’s grace is growing me!  He’s forming a consistent heart and obedience in me!  PiVAT before dinner – not only reveals what God will tell you (God’s plans for you for tomorrow), it reminds you of what He told you so you finish strong the rest of today.  Consistent from beginning to end.  And... now you know when and what is needed first and next for tomorrow.  So you can be rested, and hit the ground running rather wake up already behind the curve.  Finally consistent is asking.  That last key to consistency – is asking.  “God do you want me to finish this, or is it time to transition to the next thing you told me to do today?”  Your consistency journey is a relationship journey with the Master Planner – your loving Heavenly Father.  If you were consistent in one thing.  What would it be?  Heeding.  If you are consistent in heeding, you’ll be consistent in everything.  Because He will show you what He has for you in this hour, the best way to success – for this hour.  Heeding requires structure.  Habit prevails where motivation fails.  A structure to hear the what – PiVAT before dinner, A structure to understand the why and the how (PRISM – that time in His Word), a structure to overcome – Daily Calls - where your overcoming testimony gives you motivation and momentum that’s how consistency is built.  4C’s Daily – your Accounting Tool that consistently guards your heart against the love of money.  These aren’t magic  – they are just a track to run on – so the Spirit of the Living God – can lead you and guide you and before you know it – consistent has taken root in you.  God is in the transportation business.  He is transporting you from where you are – to where He wants you to be.  From your present condition – to your destiny, from your present to your purpose.  And the key to success in the transportation industry – is a track to run on.  Can you imagine if there were no train tracks?  Or no expressways.  Cars would need knobby tires – they would drive on the right side, on the left side, through your back yard.  It would definitely be interesting – but you couldn’t get anywhere.  Off-roading is fun, but not when you want to get someplace fast, or reach a distant place.  The farther you want to go – the more you need a track to run on (a distraction preventer)  Because distraction is enemy #3 of consistent.  So where to begin?  PiVAT before dinner.  Everything else – is second in priority.  That’s where God reveals His plans for you and His timing, where He reveals the difference between His Plans for today – and the PiVAT Maybe that is not for you, or not for you right now.  Praise God - Consistent is just one decision away.  This one!  God will show you – take joy in every little step that you obey in.  Decide right now that you will obey no matter what!  Train your heart like David.  Don’t worry about being consistent, just obey!  Know God’s plan for today, and obey in this hour.  That’s the only decision you need  - and you’ll be on the track – that helps you obey - that helps you become consistent.  PiVAT Progress might also help you.  Sometimes it’s good to track your progress on those things that God is calling you to be consistent in.  You’ll be tested.  When you didn’t get to it at the appointed time, will you ask God and come back to it… to be sure it gets completed today?  Even when you’re tired, even when you don’t feel like it, even when it wasn’t your fault.  What do you want more than consistency?  Whatever thing you are doing instead of it.  Whatever distraction that occupies you.  Ask God to help you be consistent – He will!  This isn’t religion, it’s relationship.  Married couples do date nights for a reason.  Because otherwise jobs and diapers can crowd out relationship.  Whatever you make your priority – and become consistent in – shapes and forms character and deepens relationship – consistency always bears fruit.  Actually - everyone is consistent already... consistent at being consistent, or consistently inconsistent.  Once you ask God what He wants you become consistent in… you may want to track it for a season with PiVAT Progress.  What we measure we always do better.   Praying that your PiVAT, PRISM, 4C’s and Daily Call have you overcoming with a friend, walking in everything that He has for you by the grace that He promised.  It means ‘more power than you need.’  Just one decision away… Praying that you will always choose what He tells you to do.  So obey is your greatest consistent – with the joy that always comes with it.
 
Love you all,
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