Joyce Meyer - Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits (08/18/2019)
In this live webcast, Joyce Meyer and Ginger Stache discuss the topic «Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits,» emphasizing a biblical approach: focus on building good habits rather than obsessing over breaking bad ones, as good overcomes evil and leaves no room for the bad.
Joyce teaches that the foundational «God habit» (daily time spent with God) is essential for changing any other habit, providing strength, guidance, and grace.
Key advice includes: to stop craving sugar, avoid keeping it in the house and refuse to dwell on thoughts of it; to overcome whining, practice daily gratitude; to quit smoking, speak positive confessions aloud and endure temporary discomfort while focusing on future freedom.
Other habits addressed include procrastination, emotional instability, being late, passivity, people-pleasing (rooted in insecurity or fear of rejection), swearing, anger outbursts, and addictions—often recommending reliance on God, confessing Scripture, and taking small, consistent steps.
Joyce stresses believing change is possible with God’s help, not living by feelings, resisting the devil early, and avoiding guilt after slip-ups.
She encourages forming positive habits like generosity, adding value to others, trusting God, submitting to proper authority, and pursuing health through education and discipline.
Ultimately, the message is hopeful: by crowding life with good habits—especially the God habit—bad ones are displaced, and lasting change is achievable through God’s grace and persistence.