SELF-CONTROL IS A POWERHOUSE TOOL

A desire for normal pleasure leads to a focus on pleasure that is short-term and one that controls and enslaves us. A desire for the Holy Spirit's self-control leads to a type of pleasure that is clean and long-term.

We increase self-control by decreasing bad things and increasing good things. One example of that is to cut out a risky TV show and replace it with a cleaner show. Another idea is to set up an hour of a new way of thinking. One hour in the day where you have the most temptation. We plan a new way of life for that hour.

Our long-term goal is to never give tempting thoughts even a split second of time. But our short-term goal is to fight to make this happen for that hour. We praise God consistently in that hour. We plan what we will think about. We are a positive thinker no matter what. We focus on a quitting P Bible verse. We focus on pure thoughts in that hour.

Then lastly and most importantly, we increase self-control by thinking before we act. But... not thinking for 1 minute or even 1 hour. This means thinking for 10 hours. While you are thinking you should read every Bible verse on the top 60 list for quitting P twice. You read your top 5 reasons to quit twice. Self-control is taking time to read about 5 articles from NoFap before we decide to act.

You may have noticed... I am really not recommending that you do any thinking while you are thinking. So let's change it to Self-control is fighting to get your mind straight before you act. Fighting for 10 hours to get your head right before you act. Self-control is reading before you act. Aggressively reading things that will encourage me to think long-term, to think the way Jesus would, and to think about feeding the right fire.

Self-control is not reactionary. We are taking our addiction to war. When we take our addiction to war... we can win. And when we make these actions habits, we will win.

 

The focus was to think before u act. My cute wording emphasized that thinking means reacting properly.