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Paula Hendricks

Self-Control (Day 14 of the True Woman Make-Over)

Posted on 10.26.08 by Paula Hendricks | Twitter: @PaulaWrites678
Topics: 30-Day Makeover, Sexuality

Many of you signed up for the 30-day True Woman Make-Over. If you haven’t yet, you still can! Sign up to receive these emails in your inbox for the next thirty days.

Or, just come back to this blog to talk with other women about what you're learning. (Just so you know, we're currently journeying with Nancy Leigh DeMoss through her teaching on 1 Timothy 2:9-10 titled “The Attractive Christian Woman." We highly recommend the entire series!)

Highlights from Day 14: Self-Control:

Purity and self-control help you make wise choices, even in tempting situations.

• God calls you to exercise self-control over your sexual passions, your demeanor, your dress and attitudes, and your way of dealing with men.
• If you have self-control, you'll find there are a lot of situations you'll never end up in because you made wise, restrained choices on the front end.
• The greatest freedom in life comes when you're under the control of the Holy Spirit. That's when you can really enjoy life and healthy relationships in the Body of Christ.

Listen to or read more from “Self-Control” 

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  1. i need to learn how to be a true woman of
    posted by seadie thomas-brown
    on Sunday, October 26, 2008 at 6:01 pm
  2. Seadie..how can we pray for you?

    Heather
    www.emotionalpurity.blogspot.com
    posted by Heather Patenaude
    on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 8:18 am
  3. This is the area where I struggle most. I am a HUGE procrastinator. I do what I WANT to do, rather than what I SHOULD do. So then I end up doing things at the last minute. It always works out, which is probably a reason I still do it...but I just don't want to live like this anymore. I have so many things I WANT to do that I can't get to because I put off the things I HAVE to do. I am a single mom, and I want my son to "catch" what self-control is about.....I don't want him to live like I do.
    www.msrikki.com
    posted by Erica
    on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 11:58 am
  4. Oh, I hear you, Erica! I so often wonder, "Why did I put that off so long? It wasn't that bad." Anyway, I wanted to take the time to encourage you that change IS possible. If you are a Christian, Galatians 2:20 is talking about you when it says: "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

    Paul tells us the same thing in Romans 6--we died with Christ when He died over 2,000 years ago, and Christ now lives in us. Now it's up to us to consider ourselves dead to sin, and alive to Christ.

    Join me in preaching the truth to ourselves daily: "You don't have to procrastinate, Paula (or Erica), because the living God is alive and well in you!" Ask Him to help you do what your flesh doesn't want to do, and then celebrate the victory that is yours because of His victory on the cross!
    posted by Paula Hendricks
    on Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 6:33 pm
  5. I lived a long time for myself - even as a Christian - and I am reaping seeds in my marriage and with my children.

    I appreciate these emails every day - and they are blessing and challenging me - but some of them seem "impossible" because of hardened, long-practiced habits. I am praying for God to work in me - to show me where He wants to remove things - and replace them with Himself. I pray that I will be yielding to whatever He asks.

    That is what I need prayer for...
    posted by Debbie
    on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:43 pm

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