Sunday, February 22, 2026

“Creatures of Habit”

I Corinthians 6:12 Ampl

Everything is permissible for me, but not all things are

beneficial. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not be

enslaved by anything [and brought under its power,

allowing it to control me].

Romans 7:15 & 19-20 NKJV

For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to

do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I

do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But

now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not

to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no

longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

A habit is a learned behavior that has become automatic and

nearly or completely involuntary through frequent repetition.

The habits we form eventually form us. We are what we

repeatedly do.

Habits aren’t just something we do, but they do something to

us.

Habits either form us or deform us.

There are intentionally formed habits, and then there are

unintentionally formed habits.

What does this show us? It shows us that we can form habits

by what we choose and then we can form habits by what we

allow.

Change your habits and you will change your life.

You don’t just break a bad habit, you replace it with a better

one.

1. Read the Bible Daily.

John 8:31-32 NLT,

“You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my

teachings. And you will know the truth, and the truth

will set you free”

2. Pray Daily

John 15:7-8 GNT

“If you remain in me and my words remain in you,

then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have

it…and in this way you become my disciples”

3. Tithe

Tithing reminds us that everything we have belongs to God.

4. Fellowship Weekly

Acts 2:46 CSB

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in

the temple, and broke bread from house to house. They ate

their food with joyful and sincere hearts,

Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life,

to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its

deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your

minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in

true righteousness and holiness