How to Build Discipline (According to Christianity)

If you're watching this, there's a good chance you've tried to build discipline before.

You made the decision, you started strong, and then a week later, two weeks later, you were right back to where you started, and not because you didn't try, but because you just couldn't seem to make it stick.

So let me tell you what I've learned.

The Bible doesn't treat discipline as just a willpower problem.

It treats it as a spiritual problem, and that one shift changes how you go after discipline.

I've been teaching believers to walk in the Holy Spirit for twenty-four years across churches and conferences and events on multiple continents, and here's what I keep coming back to.

In Galatians five, self-control isn't listed as a character trait.

It's listed as a fruit of the spirit.

Now, notice what that means.

Fruit isn't something you just try to force on your own.

Fruit is something the spirit cultivates in you, and there's a specific way to cooperate with that, a way most Christians were never taught.

So in the next few minutes, I'm gonna show you what the Word of God says about discipline and why it works the way it does and what you can start doing tonight.

So let's open the Word and get to the root of the problem.