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Beneath The Surface 

SESSION 16

HANDS ON

This activity will illustrate how difficult it can be to retrain and discipline ourselves to accomplish things. Make a list of simple things for each of you students to do such as writing a bible verse, singing a line from a hymn, telling a shorts story, etc. Then tell them for each activity they can’t use some part of their body eyes, ears, mouth, voice, etc.

ILLUSTRATING THE POINT

Susannah Wesley, for example, spent one hour each day praying for her 17 children. In addition, she took each child aside for a full hour every week to discuss spiritual matters. No wonder two of her sons, Charles and John, were used of God to bring blessing to all of England and much of America. Here are a few rules she followed in training her children:

(1) Subdue self-will in a child and thus work together with God to save his soul.

(2) Teach him to pray as soon as he can speak.

(3) Give him nothing he cries for and only what is good for him if he asks for it politely.

(4) To prevent lying, punish no fault that is freely confessed, but never allow a rebellious, sinful act to go unnoticed

(5) Commend and reward good behavior.

(6) Strictly observe all promises you have made to your child.

I THOUGHT I HEARD YOU SAY

Nothing is more harmful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives an army superiority over another.

George Washington

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

 

Jim Rohn

It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don't pity them, don't feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.

 

Brutus Hamilton

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

 

Harry S. Truman