05/03/2023
21 Things You Should Stop Doing
1.Stop spending time with the wrong people
Proverbs 1:8-19, Proverbs 17
2. Stop running from your problems
Genesis 27:41
3. Stop lying to yourself.
Ephesians 4:25 II Kings 8:13
4. Stop trying to be someone you are not
Matthew 23: 1-12
5. Stop trying to go back to the past
Exodus 14: 5-14, Hebrews 10:35
6. Stop being afraid to make a mistake
Matthew 7:3-5, Romans 3:23
7. Stop berating yourself from your mistake
Philipians 4:3, Romans 3: 23
8. Stop trying to buy happiness
Matthew 19:16-30, Luke 16:13-15
9. Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness
I Samuel 1:6 (Penninah and Elkanah)
10. Stop thinking you are not capable or ready
Build up your self confidence and your God confidence
Hebrews 10:35-39, 2Timothy 2:1-26
11. Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons.
2 Samuel 11:12
12. Stop rejecting new relationships because the old one did not work
13. Stop being JEALOUS of others
(Take inventory of your own blessings)
Genesis 4:4, Genesis 27:41, Genesis 29:1-35, 1 Samuel 21, Acts 5:17
14. Stop complaining and feeling sorry for yourself.
Phillipians 2:14, Matthew 20:11, Exodus 15:24
15. Stop holding grudges
Gen 27:41, Gen 31:36, Gen 50:15, Esther 3:5, 5:9)
16. Stop letting others bring you down to their level
1Kings 16:28 -22:40 Ahab and Jezreel)
17. Stop proving yourself to others
(Especially those who will never approve you)
18. Stop always trying to make things perfect
Matthew 19:21
19. Stop following the path of least resistance
Joshua 7:1-26, 22:20
20. Stop always thinking the worst before you think the best of others.
Avoid Horns and Halo approaches to People. We put horns on people we do not like and never see the good they do. Both are errors in fleshy judgement and do more harm and create more injustices in the long run.
1 Kings 22: 1-28
21. Stop holding back on God and the church when you don't like something or someone in the church.
Acts 5: 1-6
