Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you.

Good morning you guys.

We are rounding out day five of our better than normal devotional in the Bible app.

There's a link to that in the description of this podcast if you want to follow along

with us.

I'm going to read the scripture and then Tori is going to read the Devo.

Let's do it.

The scripture is Romans 12 verse 2 and it says this, don't copy the behavior and customs

of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.

Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good, it's pleasing and it's

perfect.

That's one of my favorite verses.

The devotional today is titled Bad Habits and it says, whether we want to admit it or

not, we all have bad habits, those things we do and say that we wish we didn't do

and say, some habits are difficult to break and some are incredibly difficult to break.

We may be prone to laziness or gossip or we may have formed a habit of abusing substances.

Whatever it is, we've probably either become comfortable with certain habits in our lives

or we think they're too difficult to overcome.

Why is change so challenging?

The Apostle Paul addresses this in Galatians 5, 16 and 17.

He tells us that we must live by following the Spirit because we want what is against

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