Resetting Your Routine

The Habits You Have Today Shape Who You Become Tomorrow

Scripture References

• Galatians 6
• Hosea 10:13
• Mark 4:20

Overview

What you will look like five years from now is largely predictable: your current habits are planting seeds that will grow into tomorrow’s harvest. Craig Groeschel challenges every listener to examine daily rhythms—spiritual, relational, financial, and physical—and ask, “Do I like the direction my habits are taking me?” Drawing on Galatians 6, he lays out three unbreakable laws of sowing and reaping and calls believers to start (or stop) one habit that aligns with the person God is forming them to be.

Main Points

Take a Five-Year Look Ahead

• Project your life forward in four arenas: spiritual closeness to God, relational health (friends and marriage), financial condition, and physical well-being.
• Acknowledge external factors, but admit most outcomes trace back to today’s routines.
• Key diagnostic question: “Do you like the trajectory your habits have set?”

Identity Drives Habits (Series Review)

• Real, lasting change is not behavior modification; it is spiritual transformation.
• Sequence the change process: spiritual who (identity) → spiritual why (purpose) → spiritual what (habit to start) → spiritual what-not (habit to stop) → spiritual how (training, not trying) → spiritual impact (long-term harvest).

The Laws of Sowing and Reaping

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”
— Galatians 6

1. You reap what you sow
   • Godly habits produce God-honoring outcomes; sinful habits produce destruction.
   • Hosea 10:13 illustrates the negative side: sow wickedness, reap evil.
   • Application: if you dislike today’s harvest, change the seed you’re planting.
2. You reap more than you sow
   • God multiplies seed: one choice can return 30, 60, or 100 times (Mark 4:20).
   • Illustration: Two identical men diverge by 125 calories a day (an extra or removed glass of wine). After 27 months the difference is 67 lbs plus a widening gap in marriage, finances, and spiritual vitality. Small choices, compounded, create massive outcomes.
3. You reap after you sow
   • Harvest comes in a later season; discouragement arises when progress feels slow.
   • Faithfulness in hidden places (early prayers, gym visits, budgeting) is never wasted—God is storing it up like water heating to a boil at 212°F.

Training Beats Trying

• Christians are spiritual athletes: consistent, disciplined “training in righteousness” shapes mind and body for God’s purposes.
• Success is measured not by a future goal but by today’s faithful seed-sowing.

Key Truths

• Present habits are prophetic: they forecast the person you are becoming.
• Intentions do not determine direction; habits do.
• If you don’t like what you’re reaping, change what you’re sowing.
• Small, consistent, God-honoring actions compound into a harvest of righteousness.
• Perseverance matters: “At the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Response

• Identify one new habit to start that aligns with who God is calling you to be.
• Identify one habit to stop because it sabotages that calling.
• Commit to consistent, daily training rather than occasional spurts of trying.
• Review each life arena (spiritual, relational, financial, physical) and plant at least one righteous seed this week.
• Encourage someone else by sharing the “three laws” and inviting accountability.

Closing

Craig ends with a passionate reminder: we will all eventually “look like our habits.” Because God’s laws never fail, the seeds sown in secret will surface in public. The call is clear: sow righteousness, stay faithful, and trust that God will bring the increase.

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Prayer

The congregation prayed for wisdom to spot ungodly patterns, courage to plant new seeds of righteousness, endurance to keep sowing when results are invisible, and gratitude for Christ—the perfect seed whose death and resurrection make true transformation possible.