Self Control

Well I am down in Robert Lee with Cash for the weekend while Ryan and some of his buddies went down to Lake Brownwood for a guys weekend. They rode their bikes (yes, Ryan has a bike now. will post pics later) down there and took a friends boat. Sounds like fun, huh?! :] Well, mom had a Joyce Meyer program recorded that i watched with her. Wow, she is good. She talked about self control. So this is what i learned.....

You CAN develop self control and patience. God has put that seed in us, we just have to work it. The only way you are going to develop self control is when God wants you to do something and you feel like doing something else and you say, "I got to do what is right if its the last thing i ever do."

Its so simple that we miss it because it IS just that simple.

You would be surprised how much you can control yourself if you just realize EVERY action has a consequence.

Do you want to get out of debt? Stop spending your money on things you dont need and put that money toward your current debt
Do you want to lose weight? Start taking better care of yourself, start eating the right foods, and start exercising
Do you want to have better relationships? Start treating others the way you want to be treated
Do you want to have a clean house? Clean it

We are always trying to look for the easy way out, but God did not lead the Israelites the easy way. The bible says that there was a shorter way from Egypt to The Promise Land but He took them the longer, harder way because they needed to learn.

We have opposition in our lives so we can develop self control.

Stop being jealous of what other people have. We need to trade in that wishbone for a backbone. We need to realize if God can do it for them, then He can do it for us!

If you say you are not a disciplined person, that is the first problem you have right there. What you just said about yourself. What you say about yourself, your future, about your abilities is more important than you can possibly imagine, because YOU WILL NEVER GO BEYOND WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT YOURSELF. (Wow, those are some powerful words)
If you believe you cant resist something you WONT be able to resist it!!!

Say 25 times a day- I am a dispiclined person, I am obedient to God, I can control myself. I dont care how hard it is or how much i dont want to do it. I believe God is telling me to do something so I am going to do it.

If you hate to exercise but know you need to (we all do) tell yourself all day long for as long as it takes.... I love to exercise, I love to exercise, I love to exercise. Before too long you will have a craving for it. You will want to exercise.

God has given us s spirit of love and power. A sound mind is a spirit of discipline and self control.

My favorite quote of hers is, "If the devil isnt bothering you, ask yourself if you are bothering the devil."