The Power of Your Daily Routine

You in Five Years

Scripture References

• Galatians 6
• Hosea 10:13
• Mark 4:20

Overview

Craig Groeschel closed the “Power to Change” series by asking us to imagine our lives five years from now. The future will not be shaped by intentions or wishes but by the habits we practice today. Using Paul’s sowing-and-reaping teaching in Galatians 6, Pastor Craig showed that our daily choices function like seeds—eventually producing a harvest of either destruction or righteousness. The call: examine your current trajectory, plant God-honoring habits, and refuse to quit before the harvest comes.

Main Points

1. Picture Your Future

• Add five years to your age and evaluate four categories: spiritual, relational, financial, physical.
• The habits you maintain in each area today point directly to what your life will look like then.
• Question to keep asking: “Do I like the direction my habits are taking me?”

2. Review of the Series Framework

• Spiritual Who: identity determines behavior.
• Spiritual Why: our motive is to honor God, not self-improvement alone.
• Spiritual What: one habit to start.
• Spiritual What-Not: one habit to stop.
• Spiritual How: we are in training, not merely trying.
• Spiritual Impact: habits sow seeds that create a long-term harvest.

3. The Laws of Sowing and Reaping (Galatians 6)

1. You reap what you sow.
   • Sow to the flesh → reap destruction; sow to the Spirit → reap eternal life.
   • If you dislike the harvest, change the seed.
2. You reap more than you sow.
   • God multiplies seed: one seed can return 30, 60, 100-fold (Mark 4:20).
   • Works positively or negatively—honor multiplies, so does compromise.
3. You reap after you sow.
   • Harvest comes in a later season; delay tempts us to quit early.
   • Galatians 6 encourages perseverance: “At the proper time we will reap … if we do not give up.”

4. Small Choices Compound

• Illustration: 125-calorie difference.
  • Man A adds a nightly glass of wine (+125 cal). In 27 months he gains 33 ½ lbs, drifts spiritually, and suffers in marriage and career.
  • Man B removes 125 calories, remains consistent in church, and loses 33 ½ lbs while growing spiritually, financially, and relationally.
• Lesson: It’s not what you do occasionally but what you do consistently that shapes destiny (Darren Hardy’s “Compound Effect”).

5. Measure Success by Seeds, Not Immediate Harvest

• Faithful unseen actions (prayer, early mornings, resisting temptation, generosity) heat the water of your life from 211° to a boiling 212°.
• What others call “overnight success” is usually years of quiet obedience.

6. Don’t Quit Planting

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

• The greatest seed ever planted was God giving His Son; trusting Christ begins a brand-new life and the Spirit’s power to live differently.

Key Truths

• Habits, not hopes, set the direction of your life.
• If you don’t like what you’re reaping, change what you’re sowing.
• God multiplies every seed—good or bad—far beyond its size.
• Progress is often invisible before it becomes undeniable; perseverance bridges the gap.
• Real and lasting change is spiritual transformation, not mere behavior modification.

Response

• Identify one God-honoring habit to start this week.
• Identify one destructive habit to stop and replace it with a Spirit-led alternative.
• Schedule consistent worship, Scripture, and prayer—train, don’t try.
• Track small daily choices; trust the compound effect instead of quick results.
• Encourage someone else to keep sowing good seed; refuse to let them quit.

Closing

Craig urged us to live today with the five-year harvest in mind. Our births may have made us resemble our parents, yet our deaths will reveal our habits. The invitation is clear: plant seeds of righteousness now, rely on Jesus’ strength, and watch God bring a harvest that honors Him—30, 60, 100 times more than we ever imagined.

Prayer

Pastor Craig prayed that God would expose any habit leading away from Him, grant courage to plant new seeds of righteousness, and give endurance not to grow weary so that, in due season, every person would reap a harvest that glorifies Christ.

Resources

• “Power to Change” by Craig Groeschel
• “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy
• YouVersion 7-Day “Power to Change” Bible Reading Plan