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We in TLF recommend these for each of us.

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

Philippians 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. 

Phillippians 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 something in the church. 

Acts 5: 1-6

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