Scripture & Self Control
In Galatians 5:22-23, self-control is listed as one of these spiritual attributes.
What are Fruits of the Spirit?
This is the total number of days and nights Jesus fasted in the wilderness
What is 40?
Find and read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
You've had a long, exhausting day, and the couch is calling your name, but you just scheduled a workout. According to 1 Corinthians 9:27, Paul says he does this to his body so that he stays disciplined.
What is "subject" it?
In 1 Corinthians 6:19, Paul describes our physical bodies as this structure
What is the Temple of the Holy Ghost?
Proverbs 25:28 says a person without self-control is like a city without these defensive structures.
What are walls?
In Daniel chapter 1, Daniel and his friends tested a diet of vegetables and water for this many days
What is 10 days?
Find and read Titus 2:11-12
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;”
Someone brings late night junk food to a gathering right after you committed to eating better. In Matthew 26:41, Jesus warned his disciples about temptation saying "The spirit is willing, but.."
What is "the flesh is weak"
This wilderness prophet maintained a strict, minimalist diet of locusts and wild honey
Who is John the Baptist?
Proverbs 16:32 says that a person who is slow to anger is better than a mighty warrior, and one who controls their temper is greater than someone who takes this.
What is a city?
This is the total number of times the Israelities disciplinedly marched around Jericho over 7 days before the walls fell
What is 13 times?
Find and read Colossians 3:23
“and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;”
No one in your house wants to eat healthy with you, leaving you to feel isolated. In Philippians 4:13, Paul reminds us that this is where our true strength comes from when have have to stand alone
Who is Christ/What is "Christ who strengthens me"
Romans 12:1 urges us to present our physical bodies as this type of sacrifice to God
What is living?
2 Timothy 1:7 says God did not give us the spirit of fear but of these 3 things
What is power, love, and a sound mind/self control?
In Luke 17, out of 10 lepers healed by Jesus, only this many had the discipline of gratitude to return and thank him.
What is 1?
Find and read Hebrews 12:1
“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”
You slip up, eat something you didn't plan to AND skip a workout, making you feel like a total failure. Proverbs 24:16 says a righteous person falls this many times and gets back up
What is 7?
According to Galatians 6:9, we will reap a harvest as long as we do not become weary in doing good and do not do this?
What is give up or faint?