Welcome back to the best of Keep the Heart from 2021. Thank you for listening and for continuing to tune in while we're on break.

Season two begins with a new episode on Tuesday, January 18th of 2022. Wow, 2021 was a vapor.

Today you'll hear the second most downloaded episode of 2021, escaping the bondage of

self-indulgence. If you missed this episode when it first aired in September of 2021, now you'll get

to hear why it had so many listeners. If you caught it the first time, then this will be a refresher. As I'll mention in the

opening, we're all unique, and we may have common struggles, but God can put his finger on

our particular weaknesses and help us to overcome them by his power and might, not by our own

strength. Here comes the refresher on escaping the bondage of

self-indulgence. This is better than a New Year's resolution. God can give us a New Year's

transformation. Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.

Now back to today's important study.

Keep the heart routinely covers topics about the issues of life, and discipline is an issue in life, and it's one that's in scripture.

It is addressed, and so this is not fluff or filler here.

This is really just trying to be a help.

According to Miriam Webster Dictionary, the definition of

self-indulgence is excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims. So in other

words, you just don't tell yourself no. Self-indulgence has lots of indicators. Here are some signs you may be struggling with self-indulgence.

You have an income, but no money because of your spending habits. Here's another one. You

repeatedly complain about your weight, but you keep eating things that are great for packing on the

pounds.

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