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I'm Joyce Meyer. I've seen God's power transform my own life and he will do it for you.

To say I'm not a disciplined person

is actually not true.

You have the fruit of self-control. You may not be using it, but you have it. So

stop saying I just can't control myself in that area because what's in your power to do

is in your power not to do. If you can say yes to something, you can say no to it, the choice is yours.

The more you discipline yourself, God's given a self-control. He doesn't control us. He hasn't given us the right to

control other people. He wants us to control ourselves.

Now in 2 Timothy, chapter 1, verse,

a very well known verse,

it says, for God gave us not a spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Different translations say different things, but the E.S.V. Bible, which is now supposed

to be the most accurate translation calls itself control.

Actually, the amplified Bible, which I've used extensively for a number of years,

says it this way.

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity,

of cowardice, of craven, and cringing and fawning fear,

but he has given us a spirit of power and of love and of a calm and a well-balanced mind

and a spirit of discipline and self-control.

So, everybody say right now, and I have discipline and self-control.

So everybody say right now, I have discipline and I have self-control.

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