Stopping

Speaker: Doug Freeman

Series: Habits

NOW yells louder, but LATER lasts longer.
-Levi Lusko

I. Based on who you want to become, what one habit do you need to stop?

Psalms 25:4-5 (ESV)

Make me to know your ways, O LORD;
teach me your paths. 
Lead me in your truth and teach me,
for you are the God of my salvation;
for you I wait all the day long.

II. Identify and acknowledge the BAD Habit.

III. Stop it!

Proverbs 4:14-15 (ESV)

Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.

A. Eliminate the cues and triggers

1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV)

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

Proverbs 13:20 (ESV)

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

B. Make it unattractive

"The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something more than the habit."
-Bryant McGill

C. Make it difficult

James 1:21 (GNT)

So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you.

D. Make it unsatisfying

Proverbs 15:22 (NKJV)

Without counsel, plans go awry,
But in the multitude of counselors they are established.

IV. There is HOPE

"You can effect life change with a change of your habits, but you cannot have God honoring transformation that has eternal significance without the Word of God and the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit."