But the fruit of the Spirit is... self-control  (Galatians 5:23). One of the fruit of the spirit that God has placed within us as Christians is self-control.  In this age of looseness and excess, we have the ability from God to curb every human appetite and passion. Someone has said that true freedom only exists in restraint.      The highway of freedom has two ditches on either side. In one ditch is  legalism,  the excess of rigid and stringent laws and demands to curb behav

When all kinds of trials and temptations crowd into your lives my brothers, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realise that they come to test your faith and to produce in you the quality of endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men [and women] of mature character with the right sort of independence (James 1:2-4-J.B. Phillips).   If we have the right attitude, then every challen

For God has allowed us to know the secret of His plan and it is this, He purposed long ago in His sovereign will that all human history should be consummated in Christ, that everything that exists in heaven and earth should find its perfection and fulfillment in Him  (Ephesians 1:9-10-J. B. Phillips).    The Virgin Birth was God’s way of bringing all of creation back to its original position before Adam’s sin. Jesus is called the last Adam  (1 Corinthians 15:45). He came to r