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.

We're talking about breaking bad habits and making good habits.

We said last night you can break up with a bad habit just like you can break up with a bad boyfriend.

Now the thing is, is you know, if that bad boyfriend is the only boyfriend you got,

even though he was making you unhappy, you're still going to miss him for a what?

Isn't it amazing how, even though things are bad for us,

if we get them out of our life, there's still a part of us that misses them for a while? And that's the part that we just have to kind of go through while we're giving God a chance

to be God in our lives. They say that you can make or break a habit.

One group says 21 days, one says 30 days.

I always heard 30 days, but I know from my own experience that if you can manage to do something

consistently for 30 days or if you can manage to not do

something consistently for 30 days. You have pretty much farmed a new habit and

when you have a habit of something it's very often something that you do without even realizing that you're doing it.

We've all got silly little habits.

We don't have to break every habit that we've got but certainly we need to break the ones that are destructive

And we need to make good ones

This kind of came to my heart when I was studying for this and I said it last night but the more I think about the more I like it

I think a lot of times what we call bondage is no more than a bad habit and I think just

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