HOW TO DEVELOP SELF- CONTROL
Firstly, what is
self-control?
Self- control is the
ability to remain calm and not show your emotions even though you are angry,
excited, etc.
Self-control is the
ability to put your body under or subjecting your body under to achieve a goal.
Self- control is cultivating the habit of discipline to achieve a purpose. To achieve
greatness there is a price to pay.
Ways of developing our self-control is by;
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Studying and memorizing the word of God.
Studying is to work at what we read with the purpose of
understanding. It is the knowledge of the word of God we have that determines
our level of understanding and it is what we understand that we control.
Memorizing the word of God is to store the word in our mind for future
use, doing this help us to develop our self-control. Psalm 119 VS 11 says “Thy
word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee”. It is only the
word of god that we use to control any difficult habit, situation or condition.
Ø We can use the word to control anger, Ephesians 4 VS 26 “Be ye angry
and sin not……………”
Ø To control our tongue by confessing the word of God that says in
Isaiah 50 VS 4 “the Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned……………..”
Ø To control our fear 2 TIMOTHY 1 VS 7
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By reading motivational books or
anointed books, doing this will develop our mind.
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We develop our self-control by
learning from the experience of other people. “if their experiences are good we
follow their steps and if it is other way round, we learn from their mistakes”.
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By having a positive strong
desire to achieve a purpose. Your desire will make you to work towards your
purpose, for example, if I desire to buy a property (land, house or etc.), I
control my lavish way of spending to achieve the goal.
Brethren, I want us to know that every accomplishment is borne of a
DESIRE.
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By humbling our self also, by
possessing the spirit of humility.
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The overall best way of
developing our self-control is by handling over our life to the Holy Spirit,
allow Him to be our guide, our controller, He knows the best way a man should
go, He knows the best buttons we need to press to move further.
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The bible says, “There is a way
that seemed right to a man but the end is destruction”. It is only through the
help of the Holy Spirit that such way can be revealed to us.
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And there are things we can
never get through reading books or by studying except only by the help of the
Holy Spirit. Even our father in Lord said something that he neither get the key
to divine wealth through reading books nor by prayer and fasting but until the
Holy Spirit spoke to him that “MY KEY TO DIVINE WEALTH IS A COVENANT AND UNTIL
YOUR PART IS PLAYED I AM NOT COMMITTED”. That is there is a self-discipline we
need to undergo to achieve God’s purpose.
That
is, God is not committed to bless us until we learn how to give, discipline our
self in consistent tithe paying, kingdom investment and so on. By doing all
these is like sowing a seed and we all know what the bible says concerning seed
time and harvest. “The bible says that has the heaven and earth remains…………
seedtime and harvest shall not cease” and it is what we sow that we reap.
I pray that may God give us His grace to sow bountifully into His
Kingdom.
REASON TO DEVELOP OUR SELF CONTROL
1). In order to achieve God’s purpose on the earth.
2). In order to fulfill destiny and to be a king in destiny.
Joseph is an example of someone that
develop a self-control which made him to fulfill his destiny (God made him a
King). Esau is an example of someone that lacks self-control which jeopardized
his destiny (He could not control his appetite).
By: BADMUS
OLUWAKEMI
