The Importance of Habit
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).
And this day God used them to bring healing to a man who’d been crippled from birth. As a result, 3000 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% of your behaviour is habitual!
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.
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.
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.
‘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? Remember, life is nothing more than the sum total of many successful years/months/weeks/days. That’s why practising successful habits, day in and day out, is the most certain way to win over the long term.’. ~Speaker and author Robert Ringer
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.
Soul food:
Gal 1-3; Matt 18:21-35; Ps 119:105-112; Pr. 18:9 Judges 19:16-21:25; Matt 18:10-20; Ps 119:97-104; Pr. 18:6-8
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The Importance of Habit was originally published on BIBLE Knowledge
