I've Got A Habit

I’VE GOT A HABIT

AND I CAN’T

SHAKE IT LOOSE

text : acts 6:4, psalms 119:44, hebrews 13:15

INTRODUCTION

BELOVED SO MANY OF US HAVE GOT HABITS THAT WE CAN’T GET RID OF, FOR A HABIT IS A USUAL MANNER OF BEHAVIOR

OR A BEHAVIOR PATTERN ACQUIRED BY FREQUENT REPITION

WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAKING ABOUT IS A NATURAL HABIT BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME SPIRITUAL HABIT. I WANT

TO LOOK AT FOUR(4) AREAS: (1)A PRAYER HABIT (2) A WORD

HABIT (3) A HOLY GHOST HABIT AND (4) A WORSHIP AND

PRAISE HABIT.

BODY

1) PRAYER HABIT:

(A) PRAY WITHOUT CEASING-1 THESS 5:17, LUKE 18:1

1)WE AS BELIEVERS NEED TO ESTABLISH A PRAYER

LIFE NOT JUST A HOUR OR TWO HOURS BUT WE

NEED TO ESTABLISH A SINCERE PRAYER HABIT.

A HABIT OF SPENDING TIME WITH THE LORD AND

TALKING TO HIMAND INTERCEDING AND

LETTING GOD SPEAK TO US. NOT JUST ONE DAY

OR TWO DAYS BUT 265 DAYS A YEAR. WE NEED

TO PRAY WITHOUT CEASING, IN OTHER WORDS

NON STOP PRAYER I’VE HEARD IT SAID THAT

IT DON’T TAKE ALL PRAYING BUT THE BIBLE

DECLARED.

(B) MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO PRAY-LUKE 18:1

1)WHERE-EVER YOU ARE SEND UP PRAYER

ON THE JOB, IN THE CAR, IN YOUR HOME

WHERE YOU ARE FOR PRAYER WILL CHANGE

CIRCUMSTANCES PRAYER WILL TURN LIVES

AROUND, PRAYER WILL CAUSE MIRACLES TO

HAPPEN, PRAYER WILL CAUSE DELIVRANCE

TO COME, IT WILL LOOSE THE SHACKLE, OPEN

PRISON DOORS AND SET THE CAPTIVES FREE

(ex. acts 16:25 paul and silas) YES PRAYER WILL

FIX IT EVERYTIME. PRAYER WILL CAUSE YOUR

ENIMEES TO BE AT PEACE, PRAYER WILL CAUSE

WAGGING TONGUES TO CEASE, PRAYER WILL

WIL BRING A GREATER ANOINTING IN YOUR

LIFE BECAUSE YOUR ARE SPENDING TIME IN

THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. YES I’VE GOT

A HABIT THAT I CAN’T SHAKE LOOSE.

2)A WORD HABIT:

(A)MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT-PSALMS 119:15-18

(1) MEDITATE MEANS TO REFLECT ON, PONDER

WE NEED TO KEEP THE WORD OF GOD ON OUR

MINDS AND LIPS AT ALL TIMES. WHEN WE GO

THROUGH TRIAL AND TRIBULATIONS WE NEED

TO THINK ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD FOR THE

SONGWRITER PENNED THE WORDS IN THE

WORD OF GOD I’VE GOT A HIDING PLACE.

WE NEED TO MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT

(PSALMS119:14) TO POINT WHERE WE WANT TO:

(B) STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED-2 TIM. 2:15

(1) STUDY SO THAT WE MAY UNDERSTAND WHAT

THE WORD SAYS ABOUT US, STUDY SO THAT

WE CAN EFFECTIVELY DEFEAT THE ENIMEE,

FOR THE WORD WILL BE A LAMP UNTO YOUR

FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO YOUR PATH

WHEN WE MEDITATE ADN STUDY THE WORD OF GOD WE WILL KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE WORD SAYS ABOUT EVERY

CIRCUMSTANCE AND PROBLEM IN OUR LIVES AND HOW TO

OVERCOME THEM AND HOW TO DEFEAT POVERTY AND SICKNESS FOR THE WORD WILL SHOW US HOW TO DEAL

WITH THOSE WHO TALK ABOUT YOU AND SAY ALL MANNER

OF EVIL AGAINST YOUR FOR THE WORD HAS POWER ALL BY

ITSELF. YES I’VE GOT A HABIT THAT I CAN’T SHAKE LOOSE.

3)A HOLY GHOST HABIT:

A) BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT-EPHESIANS 5:18

1) WHEN WE ASK GOD TO FILL US WITH HIS SPIRIT

WE WILL BE IN POWERED TO DO THE WORKS

OF THE SPIRIT. WHEN WE ASK FOR THE FULLNES

OF THE HOLY GHOST WE WILL HAVE POWER!

2)WHE THE HOLY GHOST COMES YOU SHALL HAVE

POWER(ACTS 1:8). POWER TO CAST OUT DEMONS

POWER TO HEAL THE SICK, POWER TO LOOSE

THE SHACKLES AND SET THE CAPTIVES FREE,

POWER TO DO THE WORKS THAT JESUS DID AND

GREATER WORKS, YES WHEN THE ANOINTING

OF GOD COMES UPON YOU YOU WILL DREAM

DREAMS AND SEE VISIONS, POWER TO SPEAK

THOSE THINGS THAT BE NOT AS THOUGH THEY

ARE, POWER TO BIND AND LOOSE, BIND UP

THOSE THING THAT IS NOT OF GOD AND LOOSE

THE BLESSINGS OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE YES

I’VE GOT A HABIT THAT I CAN’T SHAKE LOOSE!

(4)FINALLY I’VE GOT A WORSHIP AND PRAISE HABIT:

A)HE WHO WORSHIP HIM -ST. JOHN 4:23-24

(1) WHEN WE BOW DOWN OR LAY PROSTRATE

BEFORE HIM (PSALMS 95:6-7) WHEN WE

KNEEL BEFORE HIM ADN RECONIZE WHO

HE IS THE PRESENCE OF GOD WILL BEGAN

TO MINISTER TO US. GOD WILL COMMUNE

WITH US AND HE WILL BEGAN TO SHOW US

THINGS AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO US IN A

POWERFUL WAY FOR HE WHO WORSHIPS

MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH

AND WHEN WE GET TO THAT PLACE OF WORSHIP

THEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD WILL BRING US INTO

SOME SERIOUS PRAISE.

(B) WE MUST PRAISE HIM DAILY-PSALMS 72:11)

(1) PRAISE HIM IN THE MORNING AND PRAISE

HIM IN THE EVENING EVEN IN THE MIDNIGHT

HOUR. FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN TO THE

GOING DOWN OF THE SAME HIS NAME IS TO