The Quitting Circle is choosing to “Continuously, consistently work on quitting.” Many are frustrated with trying to quit to the point of saying, “Well… I am going to try to quit, but I know it will not stick.”
This is different, the goal of the Quitting Circle is to “Continuously, consistently work on quitting.” I played violin as a kid. I practiced daily. I never payed any attention to anything except that I practiced. I won a state-wide high school violin contest while in the seventh grade using this method.
The Quitting Circle is spending a block of time “Every day” working on quitting. Second, the quitting circle is simply using your phone alarm (Or any alarm) to remind you to work on quitting at least for three minutes every 30 minutes.
John 8:34 ESV Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.” Consider praying:
“Father, show me how slavery to sin keeps me from joy.”
To execute the Quitting Circle you simply take a new prayer (Or, use your quitting prayer if there is not a new one), and take a new verse (Or, use your quitting verse if there is not a new one), and quote and pray these two things every thirty minutes.
Obviously, if you are busy you can change it to once an hour. Or, if you are at work you can shorten things:
Example, for today, shorten this to: “I will fight my slavery to sin, help me Lord.”
Reminder: Every prayer must be completely sincere, with a full desire to change.
Reminder: The verse is always the bigger priority based on Jesus’ example of fighting temptation.
Finally, everyone can succeed at using the Quitting Circle. The goal is simply to do it all the time.
The Quitting Circle pounds out habits sooner, or later if you make “It” a habit.
As always, feel free to print this out for your own personal use (Or, church group use).
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