The Mystery Of Habits

Text: 2 Peter 2:19, 1 Corinthians 6:12

10. They are easily distracted.
11. They are lazy. They have this lazy habit.
12. They hate working in a team. They always like to be lone rangers.
13. They are poor learners and basically unteachable. They do not learn from what has happened to others. They do not understand what is happening to them. And they do not understand how to learn from the mistakes of others. Very sad.
14. They hang around destiny-sinking friends. Their friends are destiny sinkers.

So you can see that the difference between success and failure is the difference in their habits. When you want to stop a bad habit, it can cause discomfort, but you should not mind the discomfort; you should deal with that habit once and for all. Habits can be physical; that is the way you behave. Habits can be mental; that is the way you think. Habits can be spiritual; that is the way you handle your spiritual life.

There are positive and negative habits. There are destructive habits. Good habits will benefit your life, beloveth, and they are helpers of your destiny; but bad habits will impact your life negatively, and they are sinkers of destiny. It takes only 21 days to form a habit; you just need to repeat something 21 times before you form a habit. But the beauty of it is that you can break it between one or three days because that habit is a constant companion; it is your greatest helper or your greatest burden.

It can push you onward or drag you down, although it is completely at your command but if you do not manage it, you will just become a slave to it. The servant called habit can also be a master called habit. All those who are great are great because of their habits.

The truth is this: if you take that habit and train it and be firm with it, it leaves you alone, but if you allow it to do whatever it wants to do, it will destroy you.

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If today, as you are listening to me, you commit to begin each day ahead with quiet time, you will go far. A very good spiritual habit is quiet time.

That is, immediately you open your eyes in the morning and say “Thank you, Jesus, for another day; glory be to the name of the Lord”, The next thing is praise and worship, then Bible reading for the day. Read both the Old and New Testaments. Meditate on what you have read. Take a memory verse for the day and put it in your head. If it is coming out, bang it back into that head. If it is still trying to escape, write the memory verse on a piece of paper and read it when you are going to work. Then pray and commit the day into the hands of God. All this I have said can last between 10 and 15 minutes.

It is more profitable to your life, your destiny, and heaven to do this regularly every day until it becomes a habit than to do it once a week; you are just stealing from your destiny. That “Almighty formula” does not work with the things in the spirit. And there is no point.

You say, “I want to do vigil tonight, so no quiet time.” So Monday, you do a 2-minute prayer. On Tuesday, 2 minutes of prayer; on Wednesday, none at all. On Thursday, 5 minutes of prayers. Then on Friday, you hold a vigil. It is unprofitable to heaven.

Heaven will prefer you do ten minutes of aggressive praying every day on your feet while your eyes are opened and you are wide alert, rather than trying to do a vigil while you are falling asleep. Most of those who say they do vigil every night are doing half sleep and half prayer. You want to do vigil, and you put your chest on the pillow, and you are kneeling by the bed. Well, for most of those people, the next thing they hear is an alarm in the morning.

You see, your future is in those daily routines. Then, when you start doing it and your quiet time becomes a habit, if by any chance you happen to miss it, it is like something has gone wrong with you. You will know that something has happened to you that day. Then you are forming habits that will improve your destiny. But if you are a deceptive prayer warrior and you have already slept, and they ask you if you are still praying but you have slept, that is a habit of deception. That will not get you anywhere at all.