Self-Control Wants and Keeps | Truth & Knowledge

Self-control over what you want and what you want to keep.

 

Now Self-control is the ability to control oneself, in particular one's emotions and desires or the expression of them in one's behavior, especially in difficult situations.

Anything that takes you out of the spirit of God is not worth wanting or keeping. If it takes you out of the spirit of God then you don’t have self-control over it. It has power over you.

Anything that is not worth sharing has no value.  

What do I say this? 

Because. If what you want and what you want to keep causes conflict with yourself and others it is not worth having. It will cause selfishness and it will undermine the spirit of God.

Is what you want and what you want to keep is it spiritually fit for you? If not it is coveting.

What is Covet? To desire what belongs to another. Yearn to possess or have something that does not belong to you.

Anytime you desire something contrary to the word of God or the spirit of God you are coveting. 

What do I say this?

The word of God says in Romans 14:8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

So do you have Self-control over what you want and what you want to keep?

 

Matthew 7:7-8 says Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

 

So what you are asking and wanting for is it in the spirit of God?

The word of God is said in James 4.

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?  You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have to because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

 

 

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.  Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?  But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

 

 

Do you have self-control over what you want or what you want to keep or does what you want and what you want to keep has power over you that brings you out of the spirit of God?

If what you want and what you want to keep causes conflict with yourself and others it is not worth having. It will cause selfishness and it will undermine the spirit of God.

What you should want and what you should want to keep is the spirit of God.

Have Self-Control over what you want and what you want to keep by living in the spirit of God continuously.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self-Control Wants and Keeps

by Life Coaching Speaker Trey Knowles

Truth & Knowledge Episode 26