Men, lead your families spiritually. Open the Bible. Pray with your wife. Teach your children. Take them to church. Correct sin. Model repentance. Love your wife sacrificially. Make Christ the center of your home. Real change is initiated from the bottom up. Healthy churches are built from healthy families. Healthy families are built through faithful husbands and fathers. And faithful husbands and fathers are men who take seriously the responsibility God has given them. Stop waiting for society to get better. Lead the people God has already entrusted to you. If you want to see society change, start at home.

Good morning. I understand that for some of you reading this, life has gotten so bad that your decision to wake up and participate in it was not an easy one. You may have even made plans for an early exit if it gets much worse. I have been there and felt those emotions. I wanted to share that a Gloria Gaither’s songwriting meant a great deal to me when I was in the deepest throes of depression. “Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone. Because I know He holds the future. And life is worth the living just because He lives.” It’s all true; every word of it. The song even mentions that we can hold a baby and know this child can face uncertain times just because Jesus is alive. Why? Because somehow, some way, Jesus has this taken care of. When we instead think that we have to be in control, we fail miserably and suffer. We make ourselves God by demanding control over our situation, and then wonder why we feel so helpless and sad. We can’t be God. We can’t possibly be in complete control all of the time. We need to let go and let God. Life isn’t worth living because we humans are in complete control. This is a lie we tell ourselves. Life is worth living because Jesus died for our sins and knows the future. We don’t magically have the power to survive the pain of life. We are ripped apart, traumatized, chewed up, and spit out. We can only gain the power to keep going by drawing close to God. He will draw close to us, and give us the strength to keep going. So draw close to Jesus. Pray, fast, sing Godly music, read the Bible, do acts of service. You can’t do this alone, but you don’t need to. Let God give you the supernatural peace you need to keep going.

Dating coaches point out that women will often unconsciously “shit test” men. Poking at you, trying to throw you off your game, or just being irritable. It can be a sign of interest, because her instincts are testing whether or not this man she likes can hold frame. These tests aren’t shallow. If you fawn over her, you’re manipulatable by others. If you’re flustered by her, you won’t stand up to an actual threat. The more confident she feels in you, the more relaxed she will be able to be around you. Like exploring an upper floor of a rickety old barn, she’s testing the strength of a board before standing on it. The same unconscious tests happen in marriage. Don’t dismiss them as immature—instead, see her femininity reaching out for your frame. For example, years ago I told my wife, “I’d love to try out these ‘Show Her Off’ living room dance lessons.” “I don’t know,” she replied. “I don’t think I’d have the patience to put up with a bad dancer.” That was the first frame test I ever consciously passed in our marriage. I didn’t withdraw the idea like a pushover. I didn’t get offended and argue with her like a reactionary. Instead, I gave her an intense, mischievous grin. “Oh, HOH! Now I KNOW what we’re doing tonight!” Challenge accepted. As you pass these tests over time, opposition becomes flirting. Things can even get physical. She may deliberately try to get a rise out of you, and then squeal with delight as you throw her over your shoulder. The more confidence she feels in you, the more sexually free she will be. (From the upcoming REFORGED MARRIAGE BLUEPRINT👇)

Hadith of the day | 008

Seventeen years ago today, I attended an evangelical church in Hollywood for the first time. I heard the Gospel preached and was transformed in an instant. I was justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Christ and upon the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed the blood, and was born again by the quickening, renewing, cleansing work of the Holy Spirit, through the instrumentality of the Word of God. I’m still in awe of God’s mercy. If you are not a Christian, I beg you to put your trust in Christ. All those who receive Jesus Christ as their Savior and their Lord, and who confess Him as such before their fellow men, become children of God and receive eternal life. They become heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. At death their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness, and at the Second Coming of Christ their bodies shall be raised and transformed into the likeness of the body of His glory. All those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the present life shall be raised from the dead and throughout eternity exist in the state of conscious, unutterable, endless torment of anguish.

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. -Romans 8:30

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