We've been in revival since Saturday night and it's been crazy busy! Tonight was the last night. Good services with a OBU alumni Eric Ramsey. He's older than us. He has an awesome missions ministry.
S - Titus 2:3 “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women…”
O - These points relate to my struggles...
A woman who is not sophron may be impetuous or impulsive
You see it; you have to have it. You act now; you regret it later.
great intentions, but she’s slow on follow-through.
overly concerned about what other people think,
procrastinate,
A woman who is not sophron will tend to be easily distracted, flitting from one thing to another. An inability to focus or concentrate or finish a task is an evidence of not being sophron.
A - these are how I can overcome the struggles
exercises restraint and self-government in every area of her life—her thoughts. She brings every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.
A woman who is sophron exercises restraint in her eating. She’s temperate. She’s moderate. She eats to live versus living to eat. She’s temperate in her spending. She doesn’t spend money she doesn’t have. When she does spend money, she thinks in terms of eternal values.
Her confidence is in the Lord.
She’s mentally disciplined. She’s able to resist temptation. She’s able to delay gratification.
Spirit of God controls her flesh
P - Lord I want you to control my flesh and this week my flesh has been in control and out of control. God please take over and help me to be disciplined and put my confidence in you not myself.
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