Everyday Prayers with Million Praying Moms
Sep 28, 2026 · 9 min · 8 segments
Self-control isn't strawberries, ready the first year. It's more like an apple tree — years of unseen growth before the harvest. Check out this new episode by Tara L. Cole. **LINKS:** Freebie…
Tara L. ColeGuestNicolet BellHost
Titus 2, 11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works.
I stood in front of my bedroom mirror and cringed as I stared at my new haircut.
Rather than featuring the wavy layers of Rachel from Friends, I looked like a poodle with short layers that poofed out every which way.
I imagined the gawks and giggles from the other girls whose hair looked like they could be on the cover of Glamour magazine.
I grabbed at the ends of my hair and wrenched the hairbrush through the mess, trying to make the layers softer or less voluminous, but they only grew.
This was just one of many times when my anger quickly boiled to the surface, causing me to say or do things I regretted later.
All the fruits of the Spirit are hard without the Spirit's help, but love and self-control bookend the list for a reason.
As 1 Corinthians 13 tells us, without love the other fruits mean nothing, but as we grow in the others, we are growing in self-control.
All the others boil down to laying aside ourselves for someone else, learning to let go of selfishness, and concerning ourselves with the interests of others.
One of my friends puts it this way, We see this type of self-control from Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Instead of taking up the fight, Jesus immediately rebukes Peter, saying, Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and He will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so? Matthew 26, 52-54 Then Jesus reaches out and heals the servant ear.
See Luke 22, 51 Hearing the word 12 legions of angels may not mean that much to us today, but that is 72,000 angels.
They could have easily set Jesus free and even overcome the Roman Empire as the Jews hoped he would.
He yields his power and lays aside his feelings to lay down his life so that we can be saved.
I wish I could tell you that as you teach your children self-control, they will learn overnight.
Titus 2, 11-14 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works.
I stood in front of my bedroom mirror and cringed as I stared at my new haircut.
Rather than featuring the wavy layers of Rachel from Friends, I looked like a poodle with short layers that poofed out every which way.
I imagined the gawks and giggles from the other girls whose hair looked like they could be on the cover of Glamour magazine.
I grabbed at the ends of my hair and wrenched the hairbrush through the mess, trying to make the layers softer or less voluminous, but they only grew.
This was just one of many times when my anger quickly boiled to the surface, causing me to say or do things I regretted later.
All the fruits of the Spirit are hard without the Spirit's help, but love and self-control bookend the list for a reason.
As 1 Corinthians 13 tells us, without love the other fruits mean nothing, but as we grow in the others, we are growing in self-control.
All the others boil down to laying aside ourselves for someone else, learning to let go of selfishness, and concerning ourselves with the interests of others.
One of my friends puts it this way, We see this type of self-control from Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Instead of taking up the fight, Jesus immediately rebukes Peter, saying, Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and He will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so? Matthew 26, 52-54 Then Jesus reaches out and heals the servant ear.
See Luke 22, 51 Hearing the word 12 legions of angels may not mean that much to us today, but that is 72,000 angels.
They could have easily set Jesus free and even overcome the Roman Empire as the Jews hoped he would.
He yields his power and lays aside his feelings to lay down his life so that we can be saved.
I wish I could tell you that as you teach your children self-control, they will learn overnight.
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