Good morning everyone and welcome to a morning with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you all. So excited. Tor and I are

picking up on day two of our habits devotional out of the Bible app. There's a

link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along. As always I'm

going to read the scripture and then Tor is going to read the Devo. Let's do it.

The scripture is Hebrews 10 verses 24 and 25 and it says this. Let us think of

ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works and let us not

neglect our meeting together as some people do but encourage one another

especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. I love that. In yesterday's

devotional we talked about finding healthy identity and God's truth about you

and today's letter of habits may be one of the most important because it's

vital to all the rest and so the a stands for ask for help and the book of

Hebrews a letter written to the Jews who are following Jesus. It is suggested that

neglecting to get together with other believers is not just the lack of a good

habit but actually the presence of a bad habit. The original Greek word used for

habit in Hebrews 10 24 through 25 is ethos which implies something that's

become a custom that may even be prescribed by law or otherwise. Habits are

always a prescription for something. Good habits like becoming a part of a

faith community are good medicine. Bad habits like isolating ourselves when

we're struggling are a prescription for further pain and despair. For instance

you will need today's letter ask for help to make any significant progress with

yesterday's letter healthy identity. Most of the hidden and deeper identity

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