I’m inviting you to pray this today: “Search the inner depths of my heart and expose anything that is not of You so I can be set free of it.” Excerpt from Stormie Omartian’s book The Power of Prayer to Change Your Marriage.
What do you need to be set free from?
In my quiet time I was reading Psalm 5:11-12 and part of it reads “Let those who love Your name be joyful and exult in You.” All of a sudden my eyes were opened to a “bad” habit I have. I have a habit of not being joyful, instead I have a habit of anxious thoughts and worrying.
I’ve decided I want to create a new habit of gratitude, thankful and joy filled thoughts to replace my bad habit of anxious and worried thoughts.
Let me know what “bad” habit you have and what new habit you can replace it with?
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Oh Linda this is exactly what I needed today. I can’t believe I am going to say this but my bad habit is doubt, in myself. I know I am chosen, I am know God has blessed with a gift, I see how anointed and appointed I am by God but somehow I let those lies of doubt lead me and not truth! I just don’t understand it, I do believe I am worthy as God’s daughter but then I still doubt. I am know I am not capable but God is but still I doubt. I know that doubting myself in this way means I am doubting God and that pains me to say. God has to have gotten it wrong when He appointed me? NO, I know that isn’t true but still I will step away from this comment, I will have great times with my Lord and then the doubt slowly trickles back in until it consumes me. This is a daily battle for me. I want to embrace the truth and block the lie.
Melissa I understand about the struggle of believing God and then falling back into a bad habit. I want to challenge you to step up your game in this area. Imagine you are in bootcamp for overcoming self-doubt. It will take time to develop this muscle to retrain your thinking when attacked with doubt but IT CAN BE DONE!! What will you intentionally do every time you hear the voice of doubt?
Hi Linda, Thanks for today’s post. I believe that my bad habit that I need to change is that I find myself correcting my husband a lot. I have a habit of proving that I am right and that my point of view is the best. The Holy Spirit convicted me of this some time ago and I’ve really been trying to stop doing what I do . It’s really hard. I know that this is not Christ-like. When I catch myself doing it, I back off. I really want to be rid of this all together. It used to be really bad and then one day my husband asked me why I’m always contradicting him. Then God opened my eyes to see that this behavior was disrespectful. I’ve asked myself, “Do you want to ALWAYS be right or ALWAYS HAPPY.
Joycelyn I love your transparency! Whew! I have been convicted of many things in my marriage lately so I feel your pain. Awareness and honesty is the first step and you have both of those. You are half way there my friend. What will you do to be intentional in this area of your life? How many days do you need to put focused effort in this so that you overcome this obstacle?
I get overwhelmed anxious and worried when life gets difficult so I am going to replace that with reciting scripture and looking at all the blessings I do have and praise God for them.
Cate we sound like sisters!! This morning I wrote in my journal “Blessed are those who rejoice & are joyful all day long praising God!” Let’s make the habit of praise a mantra for our lives. 🙂 xoxo
I know that one bad habit( and I have more than one) I have is that I really get frustrated with myself for being sick so often. This has been another bad week with another sinus infection. We are planning a trip and not knowing if we will be able to go. It seems that I am always the one who has to postpone or cancel activities and that makes me feel so bad about myself. My husband is so understanding. He always says for me not to worry about it. He just wants the doctors to figure out how to help me. I will work on not being so mad at myself. 🙂
I am a little behind but I needed to hear this today…I have a bad habit of being easily offended and in return being defensive. But I want to replace that with a spirit of forgiveness and understanding. I sometimes feel that people do and say things to intentionally hurt me but that is not the case.