Self control….

 Self-control….

We are just reading a chapter on self- control in Bible study…so I thought I would just look up all verses on self-control…

The song included was what set off this journey this a.m….we have the victory through Christ, but I, for one, don’t hold on to that fact as much as I should…I try and try in my own “power”…before finally laying it at Jesus’ feet and acknowledging that I don’t have the “power”…only He does…

Thank YOU….. 

 A man without self-controlis like a city broken into and left without walls.

Prov.25.28

 After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus. And as he reasoned about righteousness and self-control and the coming judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present. When I get an opportunity I will summon you.”

Acts.24:24-25

 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1Cor.7.5, 9

 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

1Cor.9.25

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Gal.5.22-24

 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1Tim.2.9,1Tim.2.15,1Tim.3.2

 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

2Tim.1.7,2Tim.3.2,2Tim.3.3-5

 For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 

He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. 

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves too much wine. 

They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. 

Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

Titus.1.7,Titus.1.8,Titus.1.9,Titus.2.2,Titus.2.3,Titus.2.4,Titus.2.5,Titus.2.6,Titus.2.11,Titus.2.12,Titus.2.13,Titus.2.14

Thought of this psalm…it speaks as much to me now as it did the Israelites long ago…

 “I relieved your shoulder of the burden;your hands were freed from the basket. 

In distress you called, and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah. 

Selah “But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel would not submit to me. 

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,to follow their own counsels. 

Oh, that my people would listen to me,that Israel would walk in my ways! 

I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.

Ps.81.6,Ps.81.7,Ps.81.11,Ps.81.12,Ps.81.13,Ps.81.14

You have already won…

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