Welcome to Enjoying everyday life with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Making Good Habits, Breaking Bad Habits.

Nearly everything we do in life is the result of our habits.

The best thing we can do is to keep God first in everything. So let's get

disciplined about spending time with Him. Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

I had a habit of smoking. I started smoking when I was nine years old.

Well then when God started calling me quit I was convinced I couldn't quit.

So I had to change my mind and I had to change the way I talked

and I had to be willing to go through a little bit. So I tell you what, the first day was bad. The second day wasn't much better. I made it to the weekend.

Dave and I had an argument at a picnic.

I left the picnic. I went home and I thought I am buying a pack of cigarettes and I am smoking the whole pack.

Whatever I thought that was going to do to get him back, I don't know. But don't we do that sometimes

when we're mad? You know, it's just like whatever the thing is that we should not be doing,

we want to just go do a whole bunch of it.

Come on if you get really emotional don't you want to eat everything in sight?

We're only hurting yourself.

I got those cigarettes and I went home and I was in the house, the family was at the picnic and I was just going to sit there and smoke.

And I had a choice to make. I'd made it a week. It was starting to get just a little teeny tiny bit easier.

Little tiny bit.

And you know that was like a crisis point for me.

And I think any time that you're trying to break a bad habit and make a new habit,

there does come like a crisis point.

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