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I DON'T WANT MOTIVATION, I WANT TRANSFORMATION.

The Bible teaches us that we are enemies of God and objects of his wrath until we come to faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:1-3). But even in that state, we were loved by God. Because of his love and mercy, he gave his son, Jesus, to pay the price for our sins. When we come in faith in God, trusting the sacrifice of Christ, our whole relationship with God changes to a condition of peace and friendship with him. We are reconciled to God the moment we become Christians. We have peace with him.

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right." -Billy Graham.

Jesus is the alpha and the omega (the beginning and the end). This tells me that He alone is my solution for all difficulties -- so why not look to Him as my first option rather than last resort?

A nation gets the leaders it deserves. ~

When faithfulness is most difficult it is most necessary.

These are uncertain times we're living in, but one thing is very certain: Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6).

C. H. Spurgeon said, "The Lord knows your troubles before they come to you; he anticipates them by his tender foresight."

There is a simple word I love to use, It's Sovereignty. Our Lord is Sovereign. So we have His Moral will in his word. But we can not and will not know His Sovereign Will. This is why we need faith in our day-to-day lives.

“Without action, without decision, you remain in possibility, which is safe and beautiful but eventually enervating and boring.”

— Jennifer Louden

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham

God will give the rebel what he chooses

and what he deserves.

~Simon Austen~

This is a fallen world, and the kingdom is a coming kingdom. Sickness and sin stalk our planet. But neither sin nor sickness will have dominion over God’s people. Sin cannot condemn us and disease cannot destroy us. Guilt is defanged, and death has lost its sting.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

~R.C. Sproul~

We are saved by God’s grace when we believe in Jesus and put our faith in him, but biblical belief is more than something we confess with our mouths; it’s something we confess with our lives.

I think Jesus has a lot of fair-weather followers today. They will be Christians when it is convenient, when it is easy, or when it is the cool thing to do. But the moment it gets difficult, when hardship hits and when persecution comes, they are out of there. They are not true followers. They are not real disciples. That is why we are not turning our world upside down.

We see these mass shootings and see the saints that give all glory to God but the news wants a story so, they promote violence to arouse the masses. Forget the brief time they give to the pastor who lost a daughter or the two men who chased the man they want to stir the pot of anger and focus on the gun, how the gunman was able to get it, how many rounds he shot, and so on. They criticize the president for saying it is not a gun issue it is a mental health issue, as to say guns soot themselves. But that is the world and it is not going to change. My wife and I read a post that says "They think by making guns illegal there won't be any more shootings". Then it went on to say "That is what they thought about drugs".

It is times like these when our country comes together as a people and when there is adversity believers pray together.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition

is gone, pride is gone.

~C.S. Lewis~

Criminals look like normal people and could be next-door neighbors. Always know your surroundings.

Evil purposes cannot overpower God's goodness, and evil forces cannot escape His judgment. Let's be strong and await His return.

A right understanding of the Bible opens to us the only path

into the presence of God.

~A. W. Tozer~

If you are not serving, you should be and that does not mean in the church alone, we are the church. Do the great commission and serve the least.

"God wants us to be spiritually strong and has provided us with every resource we need.

— Billy Graham

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We are blessed with the freedom to live as we wish, vote as we choose, worship where we want to, and express our opinion without fear of retribution.

We don’t need to ask God for dew on animal skins, but we can ask Him to confirm His word to us. This can come in a lot of ways. God can speak to us through circumstances as we sense that something is the will of God and doors are opening for us. But we also must have God’s peace when we’re asking God to lead us. Perhaps there’s a stirring in your heart. You’re dissatisfied with where you are and sense that something new is about to happen.

"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” — C.S. Lewis

Christ liveth ever more-therefore live to God till you live with him in glory. -John Wesley - A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life. -E.M. Bounds -

There is none so tender 2 others as they which have received mercy themselves, 4 they know how gently God hath dealt with them -Tom Manton - Sin has the devil for it's father, shame for it's companion, and death for it's wages. -Thomas Watson -

Evangelism is not a fish on your car, a cross around your neck, or even your testimony—it is proclaiming the good news about Jesus Christ. Burk Parsons

“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God.” - C.S. Lewis

“God has planted the grace of faith in us, that our souls might be carried to himself… by grace God turns the stream of a man’s soul into its right current and man’s nature is brought to its right frame again.” — Richard Sibbes

Whatever comfort there is in the earthly things the soul will spend quickly and still look for more; whereas the comfort that we have in God, 'is undefiled, and fades not away' (1 Pet. 1:4). — Richard Sibbes “The triune God works to carry out the necessary elements of that which was agreed upon in eternity past.”

Justification: “Christ, you are my righteousness.” Sanctification: “Christ, you are my holiness.” Glorification: “Christ, you are my blessed hope.”

“Remembering Strengthens Our Faith Remembering past providences fortifies our faith… if we did remember his former goodness, we would not be so ready to doubt his present and future care!” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 256.

"neither does he who confesses to You teach You what may be passing within him, because a closed heart does not exclude Your eye, nor does man's hardness of heart repulse Your hand, but You dissolve it when You will, either in pity or in vengeance" - Augustine. Confessions, 5.1

“Christians darkest moments often produce the greatest periods of sanctification.” — Stephen Charnock

"When you read the Bible, labor, above all things, to understand it." — Charles Spurgeon "Jesus heals all who come and casts out none." — Charles Spurgeon "My dear friend, when grief presses you to the dust, worship there." — Charles Spurgeon

"A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception and a crime in execution." — Charles Spurgeon "It is easy for a man to be content when he knows that God has promised to be with him." — Charles Spurgeon "Salvation not only changes my outward actions; it alters the whole purpose of my life." — Charles Spurgeon "When your hope is in God you cannot hope too much." — Charles Spurgeon

"If our salvation depended upon our feelings, we should be lost one day and saved another." — Charles Spurgeon "He cannot be a disciple who does not learn." — Charles Spurgeon

"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "When we are full, we forget God; Satisfied with earth, we are content to do without heaven." — Charles Spurgeon

Think not because Christ hath done so much for you, you may sit still; much less indulge yourselves in sin because Christ hath offered up such an excellent expiation of it. —John Flavel, Works 1:536 They are blessed or cursed whom Christ in the last day will pronounce blessed or cursed. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:19 In respect of Christ, [the covenant of grace] was most properly and strictly a covenant of works. —The Marrow of Modern Divinity, Boston’s Notes, Pg. 67 The difficulties that we meet with in the way to heaven should serve only to make us despair of our own strength and abilities, not of God's, with whom nothing is impossible. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:48

The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power. —Puritan Thomas Manton

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer — as to know that somebody cares. J.R. Miller

"Truth, articulated with emotion, and empowered by the Holy Spirit, is truth that leads to action." - Tony Campolo

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. C. S. Lewis

To experience the glory of God’s will for us means absolute trust. It means the will to do His will, and it means joy. Elisabeth Elliot

DISCERNMENT IS ESSENTIAL! SOME OPEN DOORS ARE BAIT TO TRAP YOU. SOME CLOSED DOORS ARE BLESSINGS TO SECURE YOU. IT'S VITAL YOU KNOW WHICH TO ENTER AND EXIT AT THE RIGHT TIME.

DON'T CRY AND COMPLAIN WHEN YOU'RE BEING PRUNED, IT'S ONLY GOD LETTING YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW SEASON OF GROWTH, INCREASE AND EXPANSION.

"Too much applause is a dangerous thing to a young minister." -Archibald Alexander.

"Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces." - S. D. Gordon

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

“Where God’s Word is, there is God Himself, there God’s Spirit is at work, there God establishes His covenant, there He plants His church.” — Herman Bavinck

We are not born neutral. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"It is truly laughable to hear doctrines established and taught by the greatest divines, for so many centuries, now condemned as execrable, by those, who never studied divinity in their lives." -Devereux Jarratt.

"No spot on earth is so dear to the Christian as that whereon he meets his Lord." - Charles Spurgeon 1 129

Dustin Benge @DustinBenge · 20h Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, & your language poor. Jesus can understand you. J. C. Ryle

Our convictions and values will come from society around us (the world), or they will come as our minds are renewed by the Word of God. There is no third option.

When your view contradicts the Bible then it is your view that is wrong.

"To turn over the pages of Scripture wherewith to instruct the people of God may be more profitable to us than to hear the song of seraphim." - Charles Spurgeon

Without the Word, love will become unbiblical; without prayer, love will become powerless; without ministry, love will become merely theoretical.

"The Lord’s joy is in his people, and you are made to have a joy in them also: the excellent of the earth, in whom is all your delight, arc made to be the comrades of your sojourning." - Charles Spurgeon

The first effect of the gospel is to make man realize the danger & guilt & exceeding sinfulness of sin--not of sin generally, but of his own sin--and so to realize it that he will loathe, abhor & forsake it. -Wilbur Tillett (1902)

God has put us in this world to glorify Him. To us He says, "Go work to-day in my vineyard." -Hugh Crossley (1895)

The gospel that frees us from self-justification also frees us for obedience. — Kevin DeYoung

I make no apology when I say that the whole world is caught up in lies and deception and only the Bible has the truth. It is the truth. JOHN MACARTHUR

“God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” —C.S. Lewis

To be assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness; it is our faith. It is no pride; it is devotion. It is no presumption; it is God’s promise. - Augustine

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. —Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Far from being like the world, we should concentrate on being as different as we can. – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"He is the standard by which every other character is measured. Too loving to be a liar. Too compelling to be a lunatic. He only leaves us one choice." ―Bob Perry

Worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. - Sinclair Ferguson