1. Illustration from Compound Effect
1.1. 3 guys
1.1.1. Same income
1.1.2. Neighborhood
1.1.3. Body type
1.1.4. Middle-aged dad bod
1.2. Sammy the Same
1.2.1. Same
1.2.1.1. Complains
1.2.1.2. Nothing different
1.3. Billy Better
1.3.1. Small
1.3.1.1. Seemingly insignificant
1.3.1.2. Bible
1.3.1.3. CG podcast
1.3.1.3.1. Cuts125 calories
1.3.1.3.2. No soda
1.3.1.3.3. Healthier snack
1.3.1.3.4. Walk 3x week
1.4. Wally Worse
1.4.1. Small bad habits
1.4.1.1. Skips church
1.4.1.2. Unhealthy snack
1.4.1.3. 125 calories wastes time playing video games
1.5. Sammy the Same sees no real change in his life
1.6. Wally Worse consumed 117,500 more calories and gained 33.5 lbs.
1.6.1. Gained weight
1.6.1.1. Lost confidence
1.6.1.2. Drifted God
1.6.1.3. Gaming addiction turned online gambling
1.6.1.4. Finances wreck
1.6.1.5. Marriage hanging
1.7. Billy Better consumed 117,500 fewer calories and lost 33.5 lbs.
1.7.1. Not limited weight
1.7.1.1. Lost weight
1.7.1.2. Gained Confid
1.7.1.3. God
1.7.1.4. Grew leader
1.7.1.5. Promoted
1.7.1.6. Paid off debt
1.7.1.7. Marriage!
2. It’s not what you do occasionally
2.1. Consistently!
2.1.1. If you don’t like what you’re reaping
2.1.2. Change what sowing.
2.2. Reap what you sow
2.2.1. More than you sow!
3. You reap after you sow
3.1. Why do we get discouraged?
3.1.1. Don’t see progress fast enough.
3.2. Pray 5daysstraight
3.2.1. Still don’t feel close God
3.2.2. Go gym 2weeks
3.2.3. Quarantine 15 still there
3.3. Don’t buy coffee allmonth
3.3.1. Saved $100 ($37,500, $37,400)
3.4. Wrongly conclude: Small decisions don’t matter that much
3.5. Our entire life is the sum total of all the small decisions that we make
3.5.1. In every action you take, you are choosing direction
3.6. Willpower doesn’t always work
3.6.1. Depending on Spirit!
3.7. Walking in Spirit
3.7.1. Not gratify desires of flesh!
3.8. Identity
3.8.1. Belong to Jesus!
3.8.2. X in me is strongerthan wrong desires in me
3.9. Not trying
3.9.1. Training!
3.10. By his Spirit
3.10.1. Choose want MOST over NOW!
4. We don’tjudge the success of the day by the harvest we reap, but by the seeds we sow.
4.1. Do not be deceived
4.1.1. God cannot mocked
4.2. You reap what you sow
4.2.1. More sow
4.2.1.1. After you sow!
4.3. Galatians 6:9 (NLT) 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
4.3.1. Your hard work
4.3.1.1. Disciplines
4.3.1.2. Sacrifices
4.3.1.3. Faithfulness
4.3.1.4. Not being wasted
4.3.1.4.1. Stored up!
5. What they won’t see is
5.1. over coming self-doubt
5.1.1. Failing
5.1.2. Starting again
5.2. Praying
5.2.1. Fasting
5.2.2. Seeking God
5.2.3. Depend on him
5.3. Early mornings
5.3.1. Late nights
5.3.2. Enduring criticism
5.4. Grind
5.4.1. Persistence
5.4.2. Private price
5.4.3. Small consistent disciplines
5.5. Things that no one sees
5.5.1. Results everyone wants!
5.6. Came to tell someone
5.6.1. Don’t give up
5.6.2. Do not grow weary!
5.7. Praying
5.7.1. Giving
5.7.2. Serving
5.7.3. Believing best
5.7.4. Fighting stay pure
5.8. Not easy
5.8.1. Not overnight
5.8.2. Reap harvest if don’t give up!
6. Ever look really successful people wonder
6.1. What do?
6.2. How?
7. Growing up
7.1. Lucky!
7.1.1. Right family
7.1.2. Lucky break!
7.2. Nothing further truth
7.2.1. Not lucky
7.2.2. Consistent
8. Successful people do consistently what others do occasionally
8.1. Oops
8.1.1. Got out debt
8.1.1.1. Consistently paid off
8.1.2. Accidentally great marriage
8.1.2.1. Consistently worked
8.1.3. Don’t know how
8.1.3.1. Close God
8.1.3.1.1. Consistently pursued
8.2. Not intentions
8.2.1. Intentions don’t determine direction
8.2.2. Actions do
8.3. Keep doing been doing
8.3.1. Keep getting been getting
8.4. Hope doesn’t change future
8.4.1. Habits change future
8.5. Life you want
8.5.1. Never result of a few big, lucky decisions
8.5.1.1. Countless
8.5.1.2. Consistent
8.5.1.3. Seemingly small decisions done over time
9. It’s the small things no one sees that lead to the big results everyone wants.
9.1. Problem
9.1.1. Small things don’t make big differences immediately!
9.2. Start
9.2.1. Don’t see results
9.2.2. Discouraged
9.2.3. Quit
9.2.4. Don’t Give Up
9.3. Galatians 6:7–9 (NLT) 7 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
9.3.1. Do not be deceived
9.3.1.1. Led astray
9.3.1.2. Stupid
9.3.2. God cannot be mocked
9.3.2.1. Turn up one’s nose
9.3.3. LawsSowing/Reaping
9.3.3.1. Always True
9.3.4. TrueLaw Gravity
9.3.4.1. Fall down
9.3.4.2. Never fall up!
10. You reap what you sow
10.1. Plant Corn
10.1.1. Corn
10.2. Don’t plant corn
10.2.1. Pineapple
10.3. Plant godly habits
10.3.1. Reap godly outcomes
10.3.2. Opposite true.
10.4. Hosea 10:13 (NLT): 13 “But you have cultivated wickedness and harvested a thriving crop of sins. You have eaten the fruit of lies— trusting in your military might, believing that great armies could make your nation safe.
10.4.1. Late work
10.4.1.1. ½ hearted effort
10.4.1.2. Bad attitude
10.4.1.3. Not promoted
10.4.2. Sow seed
10.4.2.1. Lust
10.4.2.2. Porn
10.4.2.3. Surprised struggle?
10.4.2.4. Planted!
10.4.3. Eat anything
10.4.3.1. Never exercise
10.4.3.2. 6 pack wknd
10.4.3.3. 30 pounds
10.5. Not punishment
10.5.1. That’s a harvest
10.5.1.1. Result of planted!
10.6. If you don’t like what you’re reaping, change what you’re sowing.
11. You reap more than you sow
11.1. What you SOW
11.1.1. God MULTIPLIES!
11.1.2. (Mark 4)
11.2. Mark 4:20 (NLT): 20 And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”
11.2.1. Plant seed
11.2.1.1. Grows tree
11.2.1.2. Produces more fruit
11.2.1.3. More seeds
11.2.2. Smile
11.2.2.1. Smile back
11.2.3. Jerk
11.2.3.1. Rude back
11.2.4. Marriage
11.2.4.1. Give love
11.2.4.2. Honor
11.2.4.3. Respect
11.2.4.4. Hard time!
11.3. Compound Effect
11.3.1. Darren Hardy
11.3.1.1. Small
11.3.1.1.1. Smart Choices + Consistency + Time