Break Free from Bad Habits to Find True Change (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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People may wonder why God allows temptation in the first place, but He often uses our desires and bad habits to reveal His power and grace in our lives, and form our character to be more like Jesus Christ. Dr. Erwin Lutzer describes how renewing our mind and restraining our emotions, and keeping current accounts with God will equip us to fight temptation and sin.

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0:00.0	Your church comes to you each week to fill their cup. But when the crowd leaves, who's filling yours?
0:07.3	That's exactly what I'm here to do with my new podcast from Focus on the Family. It's called
0:12.1	Pastor to Pastor with Dave Stone. I'm so excited to help you navigate the unique challenges
0:17.7	that pastors face in their ministry journey, both personally and professionally.
0:22.8	So, I invite you to listen and subscribe to pastor to pastor wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.6	For my benefit, for the glory of God, and for my family, and for the impact I am having. I have to stop this behavior. And the first
0:42.3	thing that must happen is the kind of dead honesty before God that this person needs to have.
0:50.6	And to recognize the fact that I've sinned does not make me unimportant. I am unworthy of
0:57.1	God's grace, but so is everybody. So we all come cap in hand saying I'm depending upon you
1:04.2	to give me a new beginning. That's Dr. Erwin Lutzer describing how it's possible to overcome
1:10.1	bad habits and temptations and grow in your faith in the process. He's back with us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daley. I'm John Fuller and we're glad you've joined us. You know, I'm thinking about last time, John and Dr. Lutzer said so many things that we all have to, even sitting here at the table with them, which I wish you all could be just right here at the table.
1:30.0	Hopefully you're the next best thing listening in or watching on YouTube.
1:34.2	But you've got to apply this to yourself first, right?
1:37.1	It's not the other guy, like what Adam did with Eve in the garden.
1:40.7	You gave me the woman.
1:42.7	It's, okay, Lord, what am I doing that I need to be mindful of
1:46.4	in my behavior that is kind of short-circuiting my relationship with you? And what a great place
1:52.6	to start. It's convicting. And, you know, I think in today's culture, we don't have much of a
1:58.1	mature appetite, even as Christians, to do this.
2:01.3	But what great benefit comes in your relationship with the Lord?
2:05.6	If you can do that, that's called being mature, right?
2:09.5	And so today we're going to continue with the discussion.
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