Make a Habit; Break a Habit, on Amazon.

I’d like to come to your church and teach your people to develop life-changing habits. Whether you want lose weight (I lost nearly 40 pounds) or develop the habit of having a quiet time, the principles in this book can change your life.

I’d like to do these seminars on a different basis than previous seminars. I’d recommend the following schedule:

• Sunday morning — preach and/or teach all adults in Sunday School.
• Sunday night — two hour session.

I’d like to do these seminars with a different cost structure. I’d ask you pay my expenses and, instead of an honorarium, buy (or ask your people to purchase) one copy of the book for each adult in attendance on Sunday morning. If each of your people will buy a book, no other honorarium is required.

Contact me at josh@joshhhunt.com or 575.650.4564 for details.

Habit breaking: if all else fails. . .

Why is it so hard to break a habit and start a new, better one? Why did the God of the universe who could have made us any way He wanted make us so that habits are so difficult to break? Why is Romans 7 such a universally familiar condition?

It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge. I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? Romans 7:21-24 (MSG)

We could blame ourselves—the flesh, the fall, the world, culture, or the devil. But, God is sovereign and He could’ve made us anyway He wanted. Why did He make us so that habits are so hard to break?

Why do we struggle so to take those pounds off and it is so easy to put them back on? Why have so many of us started reading the Bible every day, only to neglect the habit. Every Thanksgiving we intend to develop the habit of gratitude but in a few weeks, we are grumbling and complaining again.

There may be a number of answers to this perplexing problem, but the one I want to focus on today is this: God wants to draw us to Himself. He wants our soul cry to be. . .

I need Thee, oh, I need Thee;
Every hour I need Thee;
Oh, bless me now, my Savior,
I come to Thee.[1]