First Steps In Developing New Habits

Nothing happens in a day. They say a new habit takes about six weeks of daily practice to become a habit.

As we walk with God and develop new habits of spending time with him, reading his word and conversing with him in prayer, we also find that it’s a journey, a progression, a growth.

Think what would change if each of us spent even 10% more time with God today?

God promises: Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:12-13.

Heavenly father we come to you today because there is life that flows from you to us when we do. Thank you for the life that you have given us through Jesus and we pray today to live as He did, spending time with you, being nourished by your grace, being strengthened by your love, and receiving clear instructions for how to walk in each day.

We want to be familiar with your voice and we know that only comes from spending time with you to hear not just the words but also your heart behind the words.

We know that you are happy to sift out of our lives those things that are harmful, even before we recognize them. Whether it’s behaviours, words, thoughts, or even motivations, we want to live in a way that benefits rather than harms. 

Set a guard over my mouth, O LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips. Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deeds with men who are evildoers; let me not eat of their delicacies. Psalm 141:3-4

So Lord today, as make plans and do what we need to do, we pray to be live wisely, and enjoy all we have.

We thank You for those who have put our own thoughts and desires into words and so along with the author of the Serenity prayer we pray:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.  Taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it, trusting that You will make all things right if I surrender to Your will so I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with You forever in the next.