TAKE GROUNDS: In Your Habits | Matt Karlak

A life of taking ground in our faith is not a life ___ of adversity, rather it is the __________ of having gone through adversity with our eyes fixed on God.
 
Daniel 1:8-9 (NET)  But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself. Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel.
 
God can do the ____________              when your aim is to please him.
 
Daniel 2:17-18 (NET)  Then Daniel went to his home and informed his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the matter. 18 He asked them to pray for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery so that he and his friends would not be destroyed along with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
 
Proverbs 2:6 (ESV) For the Lord gives wisdom, from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding. 
 
We gain ground by_____________ God for wisdom.

Daniel 6:10-11 (NET)
When Daniel realized that a written decree had been issued, he entered his home, where the windows in his upper room opened toward Jerusalem. Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God just as he had been accustomed to do previously.
 
Through Daniel’s life he cultivated a __________of prayer and ____________. 
 
Proverbs 4:23-27 (NIV)
Above all else, guard your heart,    for everything you do flows from it.Keep your mouth free of perversity;    keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
Let your eyes look straight ahead;    fix your gaze directly before you.Give careful thought to the paths for your feet    and be steadfast in all your ways.
 
The daily habits that we ___________ determine the ____________ of our life.