Envy is when you resent God's goodness in other people's lives and ignore God's goodness in your own life.

How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.

You can't walk on water until you get yourself out the boat.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we’ve done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don’t even deserve to.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.