Day 5: Heart-Building Habits

But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. (Matthew 6:6, NLT)

“Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don’t want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.” (Page 46)

Today marks the fifth day of our consecration. Just to remind us, the word Consecrate means: To set apart for God’s use. Thus, these are twenty-one days out of three hundred and sixty five that we’ve set apart for the sole purpose of God using these days to do things that He desires to accomplish in our lives.

It’s been said that if one does something twenty-one days in a row, it will become a habit. The one thing I want us to keep in mind, from the beginning to the conclusion of this time in our lives that we are setting apart for God, is this: What good (God) habit will I leave March with? What good habit is God asking us to continue as part of our lifestyle once this consecration is completed? What bad habit is God asking us to leave behind and not carry into the month of April?

If we are not intentional about this consecration, by the second week in April we could find ourselves asking the question: Now what was all that consecration stuff about?