Often when we talk about habits we tend to focus on so called bad habits. These bad habits are disempowering. Good habits are empowering. A lot of what we talk about is how to break bad habits but ultimately bad habits need to be displaced with good ones. Successful people have habits that average people don’t have. Healthy and fit people have habits that unhealthy unfit people don’t have. You see this when you go to restaurants, and you also see it in what they do differently as soon as they get up in the morning. You see it in their buying habits. When we make disciples we are teaching people to obey the Word and in many ways to displace bad habits with good ones.
People tend to be negative about rules but a lot of good habits are empowering rules (not debilitating rules) that we choose to live by. Habit formation tends to be slow and it requires discipline. Discipline is following through on what you have pre-decided is best for you to do despite your current emotional state. But once the habit is formed it is almost automatic. Pay now (formation phase) and benefit later. Behaviour that stems from trauma etc tends to occur quicker. Acquired behaviour through habit formation tends to take some time to develop.
So this message focuses on how to develop empowering habits.
