Discipline

Recently I spoke to the ladies at our Extreme Makeover event on the topic of “discipline.” Discipline is an important issue for all of us. It is so important to God that we have discipline and be in control of our life. Proverbs 25:28 tells us, “He who has no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.”

Matthew Henry’s Commentary explains it like this, “(A disciplined man) is one that has rule over his own spirit; he maintains the government of himself, and of his own appetites and passions, and does not suffer them to rebel against reason and conscience. He has the rule of his own thoughts, his desires, his inclinations, his resentments, and keeps them all in good order.”

Wow! That really says it all, doesn’t it?

Sadly, a person who is not disciplined and has no self control is an easy target for the enemy. So we must learn how to have self-control by taking inventory of our lives and our thoughts. Discipline is a lifestyle. It takes time to develop discipline. It does not usually come overnight. We must declare it over our lives and believe that we are going to be our best this year! Will you declare it with me? Say, “I am set free in my mind – I have the mind of Christ – I am healed, set free, delivered and disciplined!”

Celebrating life!
Pastor Yolanda Morgan