The Importance of Habit (2)

'...Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.' Jeremiah 13:23 NIV

The founder of one of the world's most successful companies said,

'The individual who wants to reach the top must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him, and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires'. 

This is true in all of life. A dream becomes a reality as the result of your actions, and your actions are controlled mainly by your habits.




Speaker and author Robert Ringer says,

'The world is saturated with intelligent, highly educated, extraordinarily skilled people who experience ongoing frustration because of their lack of success. Millions of others spend their lives working hard, long hours, only to die penniless.' 

What's the solution?

Ringer says: 

'Remember, life is nothing more than the sum total of many successful years; a successful year is nothing more than the sum total of many successful months; a successful month is nothing more than the sum total of many successful weeks; a successful week is nothing more than the sum total of many successful days. That's why practising successful habits, day in and day out, is the most certain way to win over the long term.'

You have to take a realistic look at yourself to know where your habits are taking you. 

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.  

If you want to hold on to your dream, then be prepared to change your habits, because a bad habit never goes away by itself.

SoulFood: Heb 9:1 - 11:16, Matt 14:22-36, Ps 5, Pro 5:1-2

Written by Bob & Debby Gass
Tuesday, 18 February 2014

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The Importance of Habit (1)

'...This has been your manner from your youth...' Jeremiah 22:21 NKJV

You will discover that successful people like Peter and John are always creatures of habit. 

'Peter and John went...to the temple at the hour of prayer...' (Acts 3:1 NKJV). 

And this day God used them to bring healing to a man who'd been crippled from birth. As a result, 3,000 people were won to Christ and joined the church. But it all began with a daily habit.

Your habits determine your future. 

Psychologists estimate that 90 per cent of your behaviour is habitual - 90 per cent!  

Habits can help you do things more quickly and remove mental clutter so that you can think about more important things. But they can also be detrimental and lead you in a direction that is out of line with your dream.  

Think about the person who dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal in the marathon, but smokes two packs of cigarettes a day. Or the person who dreams of being a fashion model, but eats 6,000 calories a day without exercising.  

Or the business person who dreams of leading a winning team, but habitually insults and belittles employees. Habits have a cumulative effect, and often the results don't show up until much later in life. If your habits are bad, by the time the damage is evident it's too late to alter your results.

That's why you need to take control of your habits, now. 

Unless you are willing to confront the habits you need to change, and institute new ones, you can stand on 101 different Scriptures, claiming God's promises, but you'll get nowhere.

SoulFood: Heb 5-8, Matt 14:13-21, Ps 149, Pro 4:25-27

Written by Bob & Debby Gass
Monday, 17 February 2014

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