TUESDAY DECEMBER 17
“This
has been your manner from your youth.” Jer 22:21 NKJV
THE
IMPORTANCE OF HABIT (1)
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” (Ac 3:1 NKJV). And this day God used them to bring healing
to a man who’d been crippled from birth. As a result, three thousand 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 percent of
your behavior is habitual—90 percent! Habits can help you do things more
quickly and remove mental clutter so that you can think of 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 six thousand
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.
Taken
from the Word for You Today Devotional
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