Habit: Kick the Habit

Disciplines are the things that we do over and over again.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do--this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord!... Romans 7:15-25

1. We have to surrender our will to His will.

2. Get specific on the how.

Small changes = big difference

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9

1. We are going to rely on God.

2. We are going to get specific.

3. We are going to stop telling ourselves that we don’t have what it takes.

• What limitations have others tried to impose on you?

•What limitations have you tried to impose on yourself?

•How many self-defeating words are replaying in your mind over and over again that tell you that you can’t do it, that you are less than?

•How many fears are you listening to?

1. We rely on God.

2. We get specific.

3. We stop telling ourselves that we don’t have what it takes.

1. We are going to rely on God.

2. We are going to get specific.

3. We stop telling ourselves that we don’t have what it takes.