
Did you know that prayer is one of the most powerful resources available to you?
What better way to stop bad habits than through prayer. With this two minute prompt, you can identify your triggers, focus on what you need to change and learn how to let go of the ‘all or nothing’ mindset.
STOP!
- Negative thoughts
- Over reacting in situations
- Over thinking every scenario
- Projecting the past
- Worrying
- Self-sabotage
- Procrastination
- Limiting yourself
- Believing the worst
Instead of trying to eliminate all the bad habits, replace them and find benefits that you can visualise to view your prayers and behaviour flourishing.
START to…
- Think with care before you speak
- Breathe first, take a moment and then respond
- Go by facts not feelings
- Find the positives in any situation
- Not react by making fear based decisions
- Believe that ‘you are good enough!’
- Esteem yourself beginning now
- Practice new behaviours
- Think BIG!
- Focus only on solutions
- Adjust expectations
- Love yourself the way God loves you
- Develop healthy thinking and behavioural habits with repetition
Do NOT lose heart in doing good, for in due time you will reap if you do not grow weary (Galatians 6:9)…
CONTINUE in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them (2 Timothy 3:14)…
Do NOT lose heart, though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day (2 Corinthians 4:16)…
BE strong and do NOT lose courage, for there is reward for your work (2 Chronicles 15:7)…
Though you may stumble, you will NOT fall, for the Lord upholds you with His hand. (Psalms 37:24)…
Where do you go next?
Don’t incarcerate [confine, imprison, detain, hold, lock up] yourself… by allowing what happened [in the past] to you… to control [influence, direct your behaviour/course of events] your future! This is just the beginning of developing an exciting journey of awareness, away from negativity and towards the goal of remarkable results which includes improving your prayer life daily.
[Transfiguration, Open Heaven Hillsong Worship]