The following is a list of common signs of compulsive behavior.  Behavior that is often rooted in a past of suffering and poor self-esteem.  Compare this list with your own life.  And keep score to see what degree these patterns are present in your own behavior.

Be completely honest with yourself, and no cheating.  God loves you just the way you are.  You don’t have to change a thing about yourself to be accepted by Him because He has a Father’s heart, He wants to see you free so that you may begin to move in His blessing.  So lets go boldly before our own hearts and examine our daily patterns of living to determine whether we are walking in freedom, or bondage.
 

TEST INSTRUCTIONS

Write down between 0 to 5 what best represents how you feel about each question.  Than add up your score at the end of the test.

0 —no problem

1 —slight problem

2 —occasional problem

3 —noticeable problem

4 —major problem

5—chronic problem

Be as accurate as possible, there is no time limit but usually the first reaction is the most accurate. 

There is no passing or failing, this test is simply to help you understand yourself better and to use the information we will provide you here at Freedomyou, so that you may able to walk in freedom, in Christ.
 

THE SELF-CONTROL TEST

1. Do you binge clean? For example, in stead of doing your dishes after every meal you wait until they pile up to the ceiling, with no cutlery left and are finally forced out of necessity to do your dishes?

2. Is your car a mess?  Do you allow you car to fill up with garbage until you can’t see the floor?

3. Is reading the bible and prayer a form of damage control?  Do you only read the bible and pray when you are struggling or depressed or your life has become in a state of chaos?

4. When you have a bag of peanut butter cookies (or your favorite treat) sitting in your cupboard, you cannot get it out of your mind?   Either you throw the bag out in anger or there is nothing left but crumbs and a sore tummy?

5. Do you binge exercise because you are frustrated with your physical shape or condition, but the exercise only lasts for a few days?

6. Do you unconsciously bite your nails, pick your nose, pick your teeth, or have any unconscious behavior patterns in which you wish you never had, but can’t seem to over come? This is a tough one, you may have to ask someone who is close to you. (My wife was glad to help.)

7. Do you watch TV to escape the blues or depression?

8. Are you driven by your emotions? In other words, do you live differently when you are happy than when you are down?  For instance, when you become depressed you become dysfunctional, having a difficult time being productive in what ever your doing.

9. Are you a binge spender? You spend money not because of necessity, but because it feels good?  Are you able to keep a savings?

10. Do you daydream a lot?

11. Do you make decisions out of fear?

12. If you are faced with a difficult situation, do you constantly roll the problem over in your mind becoming anxious and worrying?

13. Do you find it impossible to lose weight?

14. Are you filled with guilt?  For example, after eating a rich meal.

15. Do you have a problem with controlling any form of drugs whether it be alcohol, tobacco, pain killers, or caffeine?

16. Do you have a problem with any form of sexual perversion, whether it be fantasizing, pornography or paging through the Sears catalog?

17. Are you always late?  Rushing around, but never being on time.?

18. When you do a job, do you clean up after your finished, or leave it to another time?

19. Do you start many books but rarely finish them?
(For example, Fasting To Freedom.)

20. Do you leave your dirty underwear or socks behind the bathroom door, or anywhere for that matter? You continue to do so even after your wife has begged you to pick them up?

Scoring your results

  The possible range of scoring is between zero, and one hundred.  The
  higher the score, the greater the difficulty with self-control.

For example, if you scored zero, there must be an internet connection in heaven, or you are walking in the fullness of Christ, (or you didn't get your wife to help you answer the questions.)  But if you scored in the high seventies and eighties, then God’s greatest desire for you is to set you free!  You are why Freedomyou is here.  God will work hard to set you free, all He needs is your surrender.  So read with a surrendered heart.

Christ said, be filled with the Holy Spirit!  This is God’s will for you, and the fruit of the Spirit is self-control, not fear-control, guilt-control, or craving-control.