It’s a 31-day, Biblically robust devotional book…and it’s applicable for far more than what you may consider as traditional addictions. The matter of Addictive Habits: Changing for Good by David R. Dunham actually encompasses any area where you’re longing for change. This includes recognizing where you’re stuck and then what is practically needed.

Obstacles In The Way Of Change

• Basing your identity on your failures
• Holding too low of a view of how God works
• Being paralyzed between your role and God’s role
• Making choices out of fear of missing out 
• A thought-life that leads to discouragement
• The role of dishonesty in diminishing your hope
• Underestimating the degree that selfishness contributes to your problems
• Not fully understanding how spiritual warfare works
• Spending too much time with friends who bring you down more than you realize
• Allowing other areas of your life to become unintentionally impacted
• Spending too much time worrying and not enough being thankful

Realistic & Useful Ideas

• Write a reflection about why you love a particular sin.
• Make a list of things you know that only God could do.
• Think about times when biological needs escalate into idolatry.
• Learn to tell yourself no to something each day as you prepare to say yes to something else.
• Write a break-up letter to your bad habit.
• Look up Mark 2:1-3:6 and list all the ways that Jesus demonstrates his controversial friendship with sinners.
• Keep an ongoing log of the work the Lord is doing in you.
• Create some new limits with certain relationships.
• Share your temptation defense plan with someone who will ask you hard questions.
• Think of ways to turn your prideful tendencies into a means to draw closer to God.
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“We can easily become so consumed with following steps and adhering to the wisdom of the world that we forget that the power of God brings about change. The gospel is the power of God for salvation. We need to remember it, meditate on it, be inspired and motivated by it, and live in it. That’s what this book is designed to do…aimed at reminding you how much you need God’s help in order to change and how much God delights to help you change.” – David R. Dunham