First principle
Self-control
Spirit fruit: self-control.
This hour
Under fire
The next right hold — walk this hour.
- Love them. Do not let their choices rule your peace.
- Rage, lust, and checking again are not masters.
- Name the urge. Wait. Capture the thought. Keep in step with the Spirit.
Prayer
When you do not have the words.
- Holy Spirit, keep me in step. Amen.
Truth
When you can read deeper — Scripture-rooted steel.
The fruit of the Spirit is self-control; against such things there is no law.
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
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.