1. GOD-FOCUSED SELF-CONTROL 1.Controlling our Anger Everything that makes us angry is something we must trust God about. 2.Controlling our Addictions Everything that controls us is an emptiness only God can fill.

2. THE FOOL I must react to resolve this personal injustice THE WISE I don’t have to react to resolve this personal injustice (1 Peter 3:9) Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. Do I trust God with what is making me angry?

3. PATIENCE – THE WISDOM OF BEING SLOW (Proverbs 14:29) A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly. (Proverbs 12:16) A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 20:3) It is to a man's honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel.

4. GETTING RID OF ANGER (Ephesians 4:31-5:1) Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. {32} Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. {5:1} Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children

5. FILLING OUR EMPTINESS Everything that controls us is an emptiness only God can fill. (Psalms 42:2) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. (Hebrews 13:5) Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Psalms 63:1-3) O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. … {3} Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.

6. NOT CONTROLLED BY ANYTHING (1 Corinthians 6:11-12) And that is what some of you were [greedy, drunkards, etc.]. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. {12} "Everything is permissible for me"--but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-- but I will not be mastered by anything.

7. SELF-CONTROL THE SPIRIT’S POWER, MY CHOICE (Galatians 5:22-23) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, {23} gentleness and self-control. THE SPIRIT – I MUST DEPEND ON GOD ME –I MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY (Galatians 5:16) So I say, live by [walk in] the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.