Reconditioning Of The Mind

Well, it has been a full 7 days since I began my "Lent" of Facebook/Twitter. 7 is the spiritually number of completion. I am a long way from completion, I have 33 more days, but I think I can make it. That gives me hope, cause folks are dropping like flies in my office. It is hard to give up caffeine and sugar once your body has chemically become accustomed to it...that is a nice way of saying addicted, lol. What I'm giving up is different cause it is a learned behavior...a habit if you will. It is a mind-set issue. I just have to recondition my mind so that it is not an issue. Hmm, I have to recondition my mind, so that alot of other things aren't issues too. Alot of you know that I get up every morning at 4am to pray and have devotion. I do this with ease every morning weekends included. Now, I'm not saying this to say that I'm "Super Christian." I am sharing this because it is a result of reconditioning my mind. About 2 years ago at my former church, the Lord led my Pastor to pray every morning at 5am. I had to force myself to get up and pray with my Pastor. Sometimes, I would even fall asleep during prayer and wake up at the end, just in time to say in Jesus name we pray...amen. I struggled, but I got up every day and prayed at 5am. One day, it wasn't a struggle any longer. I would get on the prayer before my Pastor would. Outside of the 5am prayer, I began to see an increase in my prayer life, just over all. I said all that to say this, if I could recondition my mind to increase my prayer life, then I certainly can recondition it to let go of Facebook/Twitter for 33 more days. It only takes 21 days for something to become a habit. You may see this issue a different way, but thanks for taking time to seeing it Jen's way.