Ah, cashews. They should be their own food group. Those are like stress relief pills for me.

When things were hair-raising at work, I'd turn my desk chair around and open my secret

stash drawer and grab a handful of cashews. At home, if I was hungry between meals,

I'd reach for the can of cashews and I'd eat them right out of the can,

never knowing how many servings I ate. I'd stop when the can started looking a little low.

Well, one day as I was engaging in some cashew therapy, I looked into the can and saw the bottom.

It was a new can. How did this happen? Habit. My unchecked tradition of grabbing a can of

cashews was beginning to cost me, and the suddenly tighter waistband of my skirt was telling on me, too.

Have you ever opened a package of something intending only to have a few bites, and then suddenly

the entire package was gone?

We may think it's something that's just routine, but it's really a habit.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.

Now, back to today's important study.

Sometimes we may try to wiggle out of facing our issues by claiming that they aren't addressed in the Bible,

but on closer examination, we will find that habits are in the Bible. They show up in lists like the

Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 522 through 23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering,

gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, against such there is no law. To be fruitful,

we have to develop habits that support these qualities. Another place where habits are listed

is 2. Peter chapter 1 verses 5 through 8.

And beside all this it says, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue,

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