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How To Have A Great Life #6 February 11, 2007 AM
How To Quit That Habit
Like a city that is broken into and without walls is a man who has no control over his spirit. (Prov. 25:28)
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List of Bad Habits |
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Worry Procrastination Arguing Gossip Language |
Workaholism Spending TVaholic Food |
Drinking or using Sex Pornography Gambling |
1. I’ve Got To Reveal My Problem
He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion. (Prov. 28:13)
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Prov. 27:17)
2. I’ve Got To Remember The Results
Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? (Prov. 6:27-28)
• Physical consequences
At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. You will say, “How I hated discipline!” (Prov. 5:11-12, NIV)
• Discovery
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out. (Prov. 10:9)
• A Hurt Family
A foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him (Prov. 17:25)
• Poverty
Poverty and shame will come to him who neglects discipline (Prov. 13:18)
• Death
Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious! But little do they know that the dead are there. (Prov. 9:17-18, NIV)
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. (Prov. 27:12, NIV)
3. I’ve Got To Recognize My Pattern
Watch the path of your feet and all your ways will be established. (Prov. 4:26)
4. I’ve Got To Renew My Mind
Wrong Thoughts Lead To Wrong Actions
Do not let them [instruction] depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them and health to all their body. Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. (Prov. 4:21-23)
5. I’ve Got To Reinstate Christ As Lord
A man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. (2 Pet. 2:19, NIV)
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart (Ps. 73:26)
The Key: Let God Meet My Deepest Needs
I Can Start Over Right Now
For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again, but the wicked are brought down by calamity. (Prov. 24:16, NIV)
Resources
Lane Adams, How Come It’s Taking Me So Long to Get Better?
Arterburn & Stoeker, Every Man’s Battle: Winning the War Against Sexual Temptation
Claire W., God, Help Me Stop!