Bloom: Everything You Need | Week 4 | To Knowledge Add Self-Control

5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control… 2 Peter 1:5–6 (NIV)Self control = EgkrateiaTo hold, to grip, to have power overMastery over your appetites, impulses and desiresWho is your master?How does Jesus become master of your soul?FaithGoodnessKnowledgeSelf controlFasting Be held close in love so as to be held accountable in loveBe like Joseph6 So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph’s care; with Joseph in charge, he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, 7 and after a while his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said, “Come to bed with me!” 8 But he refused. “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care. 9 No one is greater in this house than I am. My master has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?” 10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be with her. Genesis 39:6-10 (NIV)