{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Growing Knowing","title":"Old Habits are not Your Nature","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2136,"description":"What if the habit that feels most automatic is not evidence of who you truly are?\nIn Episode Seven of The New Man, Sione explores the difference between habit and nature. Hebrews 5 teaches that maturity develops as we train our senses through practice. Repeated thoughts and behaviours can become familiar, powerful and nearly automatic - but repetition does not give them the authority to define us. Automatic does not mean essential. Familiar does not mean natural. Repeated does not mean eternal.\nWhether the pattern is anger, anxiety, addiction, people-pleasing or unforgiveness, lasting freedom requires more than sincerity and determination. Through revelation, wise decisions, changed environments and deliberate practice, our responses can be trained to agree with the life of Christ already within us.\nGrace supplies the life. Practice trains its expression. Your habits may explain what you have repeatedly done, but they do not explain who you are. Christ does.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Up8a6YGGlVF9XYRvcZauc6B1HFBkSiZ8BLEmZPxE2yo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wNWJl/NzlmMTg2MDgxMDNi/YTc1ZjlmNzc3ZDFm/NDg0OS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}