Habits 16.07.23

He said, give you all glory because you are faithful. God. Receive

our thanksgiving this morning, Father, received the praise of your people. This

morning, receive all the thank you for every testimony that you have given to

us by the workings of your spirit, by the power. In the name

of your son Jesus. This morning we say thank you, blessed me your

holy name in Jesus precious name. Let her believe us say our name.

Oh, can I believe a shouter better raven? Can I believe I shout

glorious sayings and Jesus Lord, Amen, God, bless you. Please be

seated in the presence of the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord or praise

the Lord. Are the believers in church this morning, at the disciples of

Jesus in church this morning, I said, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

Amen. So this morning we thank the Lord for another opportunity to be gathered

in its presence. Aiment, Please tell your neighbor for free, I thank

God for your life. Tell your neighbor thank God that you are alive and

well. Please look at your neighbor and tell them I thank God that you

are in your right mind. Tell your neighbor I thank God that I see

the glory of God on you this morning. Tell your neighbor, I thank

God that you are here smiling. Tell your neighbor, I thank God that

you are not weeping, but that you are smiling this morning because of the

grace of God. Amen. And so we give God thanks this morning for

this beautiful day. Amen. I mean if you said thank you to the

Lord when you woke up this morning. Amen. As a child of God,

we always need to thank God when we wake up in the morning.

Amen. In the past week, we've been dealing with quiet time because the

Lord, God Almighty wants to do something with you. Please tell your neighbor

God wants to do something with you. Amen. And before he does what

he wants to do with you, he needs you to have your quiet time

to develop a relationship. Amen. And so I started teaching on quiet time

for the benefit of those who have not been with us in a long while.

Amen. Today, by the grace of God, I want to continue

with quiet time, and today I'm focusing on building the most important habits through

your quiet time. Amen. Building the most important habit through your quiet time.

Amen. I remember I was telling you last week about the fact that

one of the days, the Holy Spirit was telling me that the Bible is

the most important book that can ever be, that it is more precious than

any high reporter book. It is more precious than any other book. Amen.

And within the week I saw something on BBC News that affirmed what the

Holy Spirit was telling me. Amen. Please, let's have that picture on.

There is a high reporter book that somebody bought for thirty pence or thirty

pennies, and they just auctioned the book and they sold it for ten thousand.

No, let me have the price. The price is the most important

thing sold there for ten thousand and five hundred pounds. Amen. For those

who don't travel, maybe you don't know the value of the pounds that is

there. Let's do convention. The pound is fourteen gana cities to one pound.

Somebody take your phone and pounch ten thousand, five hundred times fourteen and

give me the number. Is anybody punching it? What is it? One

hundred and fifty five thousand, nine hundred and two ganna cities for a reporter

book, a book of witchcraft, a book that cannot bring your life,

a book that can take you to hell. You understand a book that when

you read you become a devil. Satan will send devils to come and live

inside of you, and you begin to do magic that at the end of

your life because you don't know Jesus, you go to hell. That's how

much they are selling the booful. You got a different number one. Okay,

do you understand? So you cannot be here and not have a Bible

and think it's a good excuse for forty five Ghana cities, you can buy

a Bible. Thirty Gana cities. You can buy a Bible and guess what.

The words in the Bible have life, and they will bring you to

eternity. They will give you eternal life. And the words in the Bible

can lead you into the Kingdom of God. Amen. So shout outs to

all those our brothers and success who don't have Bibles. Please say to them,

shame on you. Amen. Shout outs to all of them. If

you don't have people are buying witchcraft book four hand. Do you know how

much I hand what one hundred and forty one gasis can't do? You don't

know? It can do a lot of things, Amen, It can do

a lot of things. So shout outs to all those who don't have bibles.

Please let's complace. We are changing. We are going to buy bibles.

Amen, because we need to have our quiet time. Amen. Let's

take it off the screen now, Amen, and let's take some foundation scriptures

for today. Jeremyry, chapter twenty two, verse twenty one. Jeremyry,

Chapter twenty two, verse twenty one. For the who have your bibles,

please open. Let's read. And the Bible says that I spoke to you

in your prosperity, but you said I will not hear. This has been

your manner. Please look for a vension that says this has been your habits.

Do you have any vesion that says habits? If not, the manner

there means habits. This has been your attitude from your youth. You have

not obeyed my voice. This is God's speaking to the church. Amen.

He said I spoke to you in your prosperity, meaning that when all was

well with you, I spoke to you. But because you are stubborn,

you said I will not listen, because it is your attitude and your habits

not to listen to the counsel that comes from God. Amen. But today

let anyone who is listening to the counsel of God say and amen, Amen.

Let's look at Hebrews chapter ten, verse twenty five. Hebrews Chapter ten,

verse twenty five. The Bible says that are not forsaken the assembling together

of ourselves as the manner of some is, as the habits of some is,

as the attitude of some is, but exalting one another, and so

much the more you see the day approaching. Amen. He says that not

forsaking the assembly of the brethren, not forsaking the assembly of ourselves as the

manner of some is. So it means that there are some people. They

are running chef system we church. They will come today and they won't see

them again for three months. They have not gone to school. They're in

this country, they have not traveled. They don't even have a passport.

They are here, but they won't come to church for two months. Amen.

It is their habits, it is their manner. Amen. But let

it be far away that Jesus will come and you will not find us in

church. Amen. And so today I want to speak to you on developing

the most important habits during your quiet time. Amen. So what is a

habit. What is a habit? A habit is something that you do without

thinking about it or intending to do so. A habit is something you do

without thinking about it. Amen, how many of you wear your shoes standing

up? I have a witnessed that anyone else, anyone else, anyone else

is some people they wear their shoes standing up. They'll just standing. They

do slide it one and ways, and then they'll do this one and ways.

But they are some people. If they try it, they'll fall down,

so they always have to sit down. How many of you wear your

shoes sitting down? So you see when you're wearing your shoes standing or sitting

down, you don't think about it. It has become a habit. You

understand it has become a habit. How many of you brush your teeth in

the morning before eating? It's a habit because you don't think about it.

The moment you wake up from bed, the first thing that comes to your

mind is that I need to brush my teeth before I go and eat.

But do you know that some people also have the habit of not brushing their

teeth before eating? Or you don't know how many of you have been to

boarding school? Before or a boarding school. You don't you're not seeing those

people there. It's a habit. Some people they don't have the habit of

brushing their teeth in the morning. You understand. I was in the UK

sometimes back and there was this guy I was having a conversation with. I

heard him having a conversation with somebody else and he said, we Africans we

like bathing too much because we're bath in the morning. We bath in the

even even if we get to our bath in the afternoon, because we have

the habits. Back to my amazement, the guy had not bath for three

months, and his excuse was that the weather was cold. So some people

don't have the habit of bathing. Do you understand they don't have the habit

of bathing. So habits is something that you do unconsciously. You understand.

Some people have a habit of eating a certain way. When they are eating,

they open their amount. It's a habit. They are unconscious about it.

You understand. Some people have the habit of when they it's time to

eat, they go and sit at the dining table and they eat. Some

people to have the habits that when the food is ready, they won't sit

under the mango tree and put a towel around their neck. So on day's

way it rains where they can't sit under the mango tree, then it means

the food they won't enjoy it. I hope you understand. So habits are

a part of our human life that we do unconsciously, and habits happen over

time when they are not corrected. So habits can either be good or bad.

Habits can be good or bad. And so if you have a bad

habit of being in church and you don't take notes, and while your pastage

is preaching, you are on Instagram. It's a habit, you understand.

So no matter where you go, wherever you enter a church building and the

pastage is preaching, you bring out your phone and the first thing you do

is to go on Instagram. And for our brothers, the first thing they

do go onto sports betting and be betting on sports betting Niger or betway.

Which are the ones? Are there? Spotty beds? You see? They

know they know the thing which one else? One egg? One egg bed?

Which which one again? Betica? Yes? Which one again? There

was a pastor who was going to preach, and while you're sitting there for

them to introduce him. Somebody took a picture of him and he was on

one of the betting this thing he was trying to bet before going to preach.

That is a bad habit. Amen. And as children of God who

are called to be in the image and likeness of our Lord Jesus Christ,

we need to develop good habits. Amen. So there are people who would

have naturally they would have developed bad habits. But by being here and coming

here all the time, and being consistent in listening to the counsel that comes

from God, they will begin to develop good and better habits. Can I

hear an Amen? Amen. So every good Christian has many good habits.

These good habits are what have made him or here what they are. Amen.

And so your future depends on your habits. For you to do well

in future, you need to have good habits. You need to start developing

good habits now. Amen. You need to develop the discipline, the habit

of discipline, or being on time, or doing first things first, doing

important things first. Because if you don't develop that habit of learning to do

your homework when you come from school, or making time to study, revising

what you've been taught and you have the habit of waiting to last minute when

their exams is just approaching. There is a saying that last minutes are dangerous

and you can easily become a casualty. Amen. And so developing habits,

good habits is important for you as a child of God. Amen. And

throughout scripture, the Lord Jesus Christ showed us various good habits while he was

here on earth, which are worth emulating. Amen. The first good habit

Jesus emulating was going to church regularly. Jesus went to church regularly. Look

Chapter four, verse sixteen. That was one good habit Jesus had. Jesus

went to church regularly. And the Bible says that so he came to Nazareth

where he had been brought up, and as his custom was, as his

habit was, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood to

read. As his habit was, he went to the synagogue. So Jesus

had a regular church attendance. Either were taking attendance every Sunday. You see

Jesus his name, their presence, presence, presence, presence, presents,

present, present. But we can't say the same for some of you because

before you come to charge, we have to text you or call you the

week before and tell you we've not seeing you in charge in a long time.

Then you show up one and you flash, and we'll see you again

for three months. Amen. Jesus had a good habit of coming to church

or going to church regularly. Amen. The second point, John eighteen,

verse one and two. Jesus had the habit of going on regular praying retreats.

Jesus had a regular praying habit, and the Bible says that when Jesus

had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook children,

where there was a garden which he and his disciples entered, and Judas,

who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there

with his disciples, so Jesus often had a prayer retreat. Jesus had an

often time in that garden. He had a secret place where you would go

and pray. Often. He had the habit of praying often. The Bible

says that often Jesus wake up a while before sunrise and go and pray.

That is a good habit. So as a child of God, you cannot

be sleeping for twelve hours a day. You have to make time to pray.

You have to develop the habit of praying. Amen, Because if you

don't develop the habit of praying, at some point in your life, you

begin to feel bored. When you have achieved, order is to achieve.

You want to be a doctor right now. Your old gaze is being a

doctor. The moment you become a doctor, what next? You don't have

an ambition again, Amen, you want to be president, So you join

one political party, jump to the other one. I want to be president.

When you become president, what next? Amen? So develop a regular

and a good habit of praying regularly. Amen, Oh I said, Amen,

is the message ing somebody. I know I'm preaching a good message because

I know it is training somebody. Amen. And so Jesus often went to

that garden to pray. Amen. He often went to that garden to pray.

One of the things I used to like doing those days when I was

a junior staff engineer, I used to go to Empty and so I had

an office at empty and house on the main what you call it the main

highway too. You know the nationality as our area. And it's an open

office. So when you're sitting here. Somebody is sitting and they're looking at

you. Someone is sitting right by you looking at you. And I used

to like taking short breaks. So I sit down and I wait for fifteen

minutes, twenty minutes. Then I'll get up and I'll walk to the bathroom

and I'll go and be there for five minutes. And I didn't go and

do number one or number two. I went to pray sometimes when the place

was too busy, I walked to the car park and sitting in my car

and start the engine and roll up, turn on the AC and start playing

worship, and then I'll start to pray. Sometimes I can be in the

car before I realize I've prayed for one hour. Sometimes I would have prayed

for two hours to understand, and it became a regular thing. So I

come back and I'll be like, wait, were you were looking for?

You? I saw that I went to my private place. Amen. So,

as a child of God, you need to develop the good habit of

making time to pray. Can I hear an amen? Amen. One other

person who had good habits in the Bible was Daniel Daniel chapter six West Turn.

Daniel had a good habit and he had a good habit of having a

regular quiet time. He had a good habit of having a regular prayer time.

And the Bible says that when Daniel knew that the writing was signed,

he went home and in his upper room, with his windows open towards Jerusalem,

he knelt down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave

thanks before God, as was his custom, as was his habits since the

early days. So Daniel had a habit of praying to God three times a

day. He had a habit of having a quiet time three times a day.

Now, your quiet time encompasses or includes your personal steady time of the

Word of God. It includes your meditation time on the Word of God.

It also includes your prayer time. Amen. And so some people will say

that, oh, but we had family devotion together. That is family devotion.

That is not quiet time. Your quiet time is your personal time with

God. And so you need to make time to have your personal devotion with

God. Amen. I didn't hear an Amen. I said, Amen,

the thing is changing. You wow with angled for preements. You need to

develop and make time to spend with God. Daniel spent time with God three

times a day. And do you know that Daniel became very important in the

Babylonian empire. He was a slave, a Jewish boy who had gone into

slavery, but he became a ruler. He became very important because he had

the good habit of having a regular quiet time. Amen. And so if

there's anyone here wants to be very important in future, I'm giving this is

the secret. Begin to have the good habit of having your regular quiet time,

Amen, and you will also become great in future. Amen. And

so for bonus, I just want to share with you ten habits or ten

things about habits that every Christian should know. Ten things about habits that every

Christian should know. Amen. You see, there are some people they say,

this is how I am I can't change. This is how I am

I can't change. It is because they have been on a journey with very

bad habits for a very long time. So for them it is difficult to

change because the habit has become a character, has molded to become a character.

Amen. But please tell your neighbor for free, don't be that kind

of person, amen, Because before God can do anything with you, he

needs to unmake you. You understand, he needs to unmake you the bad

habits here. He needs to unmake you and cause you to develop better and

good habits. When Moses was adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh, Moses,

who was a Jew, now became an Egyptian and he lived like a prince.

So from the time he was born up until he was forty years he

was a prince. He knew that Jewish, he knew the Egyptian customs.

He was accustomed to eating the way they used to eat, doing things the

way they did. But you see, before God could do anything with him,

he had to flee from Egypt to Median for another forty years and learned

to become a shepherd. So imagine a prince who is now a shepherd.

He's following God's man, following sheep, cleaning the apupu, taking them to

find someplace to eat, finding go and fetch you what come and give to

them. God had to unmake him in order to make him a profit,

to come and save and to deliver his people. Amen. So number one

point, please take this quickly. A habit is an act that is repeatedly

easily, is repeated easily without thinking or planning. A habit is something that

is done repeatedly, easily, without thinking or planning. Number two. A

habit is an act that becomes your custom. A habit is an act that

becomes your custom, whether you are conscious of it or you are not.

A habit is an act that becomes your custom, whether you are conscious of

it or you are not. And what is a custom? Custom is the

way people live. A customer is the way people you know live and have

their being. So we can say that certain customs are peculiar to certain people

because the custom there is different from the custom here. I hope you understand.

If you go to maybe Commercy, they have a different custom. If

you come to a cry the customs are different. Because of the build up

of many habits, it becomes a custom. Number three point. A habit

is often an insignificant act that seems to have no power to affect the future.

A habit often seems to be an insignificant act that seems to have no

power to affect the future. This is why many people don't recognize the concept

of having good habits as a powerful tool for great future accomplishments. So a

lack of good habits will rob you of great future accomplishments, Yes, are

repeated for you. So a habit is often an insignificant act. Or you

can write it in your own understanding that a habit seems not so important because

people think it doesn't have power to affect your future. But it does,

Amen, it does. If you have the bad habit of picking your nose,

everywhere you sit, you're picking your nose. You become a president and

you are still picking your nose when the cameras are on you, repicking your

nose. If you have the habit or falling asleep when your pastor is preaching,

you go to important to meetings, there will be a camera on you

and you'll be changing gears. So habits, though they seem insignificant, they

can greatly affect your future. Can I hear an Amen? So A habits

can either be good or bad. It can be natural or spiritual. Habits

can be natural or spiritual. Habits can be good or bad. But as

a child of God with a disciple of Jesus Christ, we are learning from

the Lord, and we are supposed to develop good habits. We are supposed

to develop spiritual habits. Amen. Spiritual habits like saying thanks to God,

always saying thanks to God. If we should ask you what kind of prayer

can you pray? You should be it wills to say the basic one.

You can praise the prayer of thanksgiving. That I know how to thank God

well, Amen, that I know how to say thanks to God. Well,

that if I have the opportunity, I can thank God for three days

streets. You should develop good and spiritual habits, Amen, And so spiritual

habits are things like morning prayer and having your daily quiet time. Natural habits

habits like brushing your teeth and taking a bath. Amen. So shout out

to all our brothers and sisters who don't like bathing. Develop a good habit

of taking regular baths. Amen. Number five. Good habits are repeated easily

as easily as bad habits. Good habits are repeated as easily as bad habits.

There is a boy in the second service, when he comes no matter

who he comes to sits by when I'm preaching that he'll be talking to them

and he'll be hearing his voice. And I've watched him over the month.

He has a bad habit of talking when he should be taking notes. Amen.

So good habits can words can easily be repeated as easily as bad habits.

Amen. Bad habits lead to consistent failure and defeat without the person realizing

what is happening. Bad habits lead to consistent failure and defeat without realizing what

is happening. Number seven. Habits lead to consistent success and victory without the

person even realizing what he is doing. Good habits lead to a consistent,

successful, and victorious life without the person actually realizing what he is doing.

Amen. And So if you have the good habit of doing your quiet time,

like I said before, you are adding knowledge upon knowledge on the word

of God to yourself. You understand, and so the word of God will

begin to guide and to direct you. So then instead of having bad habits,

you'll begin to have good habits. Amen. And so, without realizing

it, you are set on the path for success and victory. While your

friends who have bad habits are wallowing in defeat and they are bombing their exams,

you are passing and you are selling through life. Amen. Oh I

said you are selling ida here an Amen. Maybe you don't want to sell

through a life. You receive it, Amen. Somebody says she receives it.

Amen. The rest of you I don't know what you're doing. Amen,

And so number eight. Bad habits are easy to form but difficult to

live with. Bad habits are difficult to form, and they are difficult to

live with. Good habits are difficult to form, but they are easy to

live with. Are repeated. Bad habits are easy to form, but they

are difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to form, but they

are easy to live with. Amen. There's a young lady who said that,

oh, for her, the only bad thing about her is that she's

very rude. And so the whole neighborhood, everybody knows that she's a rude

girl. If you cross her path, she will insult your day. You

see. That is a bad habit. So people find it difficult to live

with her, and no one wants to be in her to be her friend,

you understand. And so even when she comes to change, because that

habit has now become a custom, when we say, move out of your

seat and say hello to six people, the rude habits that has become a

custom, now stairs up, and she'll be there to be doing this,

you understand. So, bad habits are easy to form because ordinarily you don't

know the person. So why should you talk to the person? And if

they come and ask you a questions, why are you talking to me?

Do I know you from somewhere? Are you might go your goal? Chea?

Are you might mate? Understand? But good habits are difficult to form,

but they are easy to live with. And so when we tell you

move out of your seat and say hello to five people, we are teaching

you a good habit of how to relate, Yes, how to relate.

Because Jesus was relational, we are teaching you how to be intentional about saying

hello to somebody. Jesus Christ was intentional, you understand. And so when

we teach you the skill of how to relate with other people, it is

a good habit you develop. And so when you are growing up, you

don't become an outcast who doesn't know how to interact with anybody. There are

some people. They are awkward by themselves. They can be awkward by themselves

when they entire space, they will make everybody feel uncomfortable because they themselves they

are they have a bad habit of awkwardness. Amen. So no member of

Action Chapel International Youth Church should move away from paining attention to the little little

habits we are trying to teach you. Amen. Fellowshipping is a good habit

in the Kingdom of God. Fellowshipping is a good habit in the Kingdom of

God. And you need to be relation or you need to be intentional.

Some of you have the habit of not gritting in the morning. So in

your house when you wake up, you just walking black, black, black

block, going eat and entirely you flow. So when you come to chag

you see your pastor standing there and welcoming, you think that will tell you

just go. You don't know how to say, oh, good morning.

But I see when we are teaching good habits of saying hi, good morning,

good morning. When you come and sit down and see the best system,

but you say, oh hi, good morning, how are you?

Good morning? My name is what's your name? Good morning? It is

a good habit we are teaching you, Amen. Because for some of the

sisters, they will go and sit by some brother and say, oh,

hi, good morning, and ten years later that brother will be the husband.

Are you hearing me, amen? Some of you you sit somewhere and

say oh hi, good morning, and they'll be like, oh wow,

this is a very polite young man young woman. And then they'll also start

talking to you and say, oh, so, what's what do you do?

And you start talking and before you know it, you're talking to a

multi billionaire who can give you a job that will settle you for the rest

of your life. But if you have the bad habit of being awkward or

by yourself you went sit, then Tali you are moving businessman. Talispephew is

too strong bad habits? Amen? What point are we on? Damber nine?

Every successful Christian has a number of good habits that have brought him to

success. Amen. Every good Christian has a number of good habits that has

brought him or heir to success. If we look at our father, the

archbishop. Our father, the archbishop doesn't have classmates. It doesn't have classmates

because he didn't go to school. Every successful Christian has a number of good

habits that have brought him to success. Number nine, number ten, Okay,

Then I'll give you one bonus one number nine okay, Joannastan. But

because of the good habits he has developed over the years, Jo understand he

has learned how to read and that has affected his speech and so now when

presidents gather, they will call him to come and pray for them. It's

because of a good habit he developed while he was young. Amen. And

so by having your quiet time, you developed a good habit that will be

beneficial to you in future. Amen, you develop a good habits that would

be beneficial to you in future. Amen. And so final points, Habits

are a safety procedure for many Christians. Habits are a safety procedure for many

Christians. I wanted to give you this example. It just came to me

again. You know how I'm dictating and you are writing the notes. It's

a good habit. We are still in you because when you go to university,

nobody will come and give you notes. You understand, nobody will come

and give you notes. You need to write the notes yourself. You need

to write it the way you understand. And so by learning to take notes

here we are preparing you with a good habit so that when you get there,

you don't struggle. Amen. Yes, that sends one. Habits are

a safety procedure for Christians. Habits, So in this case, good habits

is safety procedure for Christians. Amen. Next week, I'll speak to you

on success secrets through quiet time, success secrets through require time. And I'll

give you examples of many men and women in the Bible who succeeded because they

were having their quiet time. Amen. And so today this is just free

information on habits, all right, And I'm going to give you an assignment

when you get home. Take a piece of paper divided into two. Write

good habits on the left, and write bad habits on the right, and

then lists. Start with all the bad habits you have that you want to

change. Start with the bad habits. Write all of them down. Sometimes

the bad habits will be more than the good habits. Will start with the

bad habit, so you don't forget any one of them. Write all of

them down. When you finish, leave it, think about it the next

day. God will even add more to it. So just write to all

those ones down, and then write all the good habits and begin to pray

during your quiet time. The Lord Holy Spirit, I want to change from

this to this. I want to change from being bad doing these bad habits

to this. Okay, write it, and then as you are praying,

be monitoring and begin to take God will begin to help you. So you

begin to stop the bad habits, and as you stop, you cancel it.

As you stop, you cancel it. As you stop, you cancel

it. And before you know it, the good habits will be more and

the bad habits will be less. Can I hear an? Amen? Please

stand on your feet wherever you are, Oh, in clap for Jesus.

Clapping is free. Amen. And just close your eyes briefly, just for

the next one minute, Just close your eyes and pray to the Father,

telling Lord, I need you to help me to develop good habits, habits

that will send me on the path of success in my life. Like Daniel,

help me, Lord, like the Lord Jesus, help me. Lord,

like Shadrach Meshak and a bed Nego, help me to develop good habits

that will propel me on the paths of success in my lifetime. In the

name of Jesus, help me, Lord, Holy Spirit, Help me,

Lord Holy Spirit, Help me, Lord Holy Spirit. In Jesus Precious name,

we pray with thanksgiving,