Thought Quotient

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We invite you to join our free web site and become a member. Everything is free! We want you to be part of our family and join us in recovery where we love, support and pray for one another.

At this site you will find stories of ex porn stars. You will find inspirational videos, powerful articles and help forums and chat rooms where we offer a safe and non-judgmental place you can share your struggles, partner with others in recovery and learn to live a porn-free life!

We really want you to know you were made for greater things than porn. Jesus even said so:

“For you are God’s masterpiece. Created to be made new in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advanced for you to do”. Ephesians 2:10

You are God’s masterpiece and made for something awesome! See you in the forums and chat rooms!

Love,
Shelley
President, Pink Cross Foundation

• - where addicts find healing and porn stars find hope.

I cannot live like Jesus,
Example though He be -
For He was strong and selfless,
And I am tied to me.
I cannot live like Jesus;
My soul is never free;
My will is strong and stubborn;
My love is weak and wee.
But I have asked my Jesus
To Live His Life in me.

I cannot look like Jesus -
More beautiful is He
In soul and eye and stature,
Than sunrise on the sea.
Behold His warm, His tangible,
His dear humanity!
Behold His white perfection
Of purest deity!
Yet Jesus Christ has promised
That we like Him shall be.

- Betty Scott Stam

Philippians 2:13

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

As we’ve seen in the last few days, if our hope is in our economy - we have reason to be afraid. We’ve made an idol out of our prosperity. We’ve worshiped him and sought our joy and security in him. Now the idol appears to be nothing but a fragile figure that is crumbling and falling down.

Yet, the cry of our hearts appears to not be:
“Oh no! We’ve put our hope in something that cannot save us!”

- the cry appears to be:
“Quick, prop up the falling idol! We’ve got to get it back to the way it was!”

Turn on the TV and you’ll hear commentators talking about the economy with terms like ‘faith’ and ‘hope.’ Our faith is only as good as the object of our faith. Who is trustworthy and secure? An idol such as our economy with its false sense of hope and security … or the one true God who is sovereign and in control?

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Psalm 145:10-12
Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom.

SOMETIMES WE LONG SO FERVENTLY for the coming of the Kingdom at the last great day that we forget that the kingdom of God, in power and glory, is available now to those who worship His Majesty, Jesus Christ. Our Savior ascended the throne as the majestic Son of David when He was raised from the dead (see Acts 2:30). He commissioned His followers to make disciples among the nations by the authority and power of that throne (see Matt. 28:18-20). The apostle Paul said that those who had responded to this invitation had been “conveyed … into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Col. 1:13). God’s kingdom is now! This takes nothing away from the fact that the Kingdom will not be realized in its fullness until Jesus returns in clouds of glory. But it is to impress upon us the glorious fact that we have access now, by faith, to the power of the King if we live and worship as citizens of His kingdom. One of Satan’s most insidious tactics is to make us look with dismay at the smaller battles he wins around us every day, forgetting that our King has already won the greatest battle—that the final revelation of His victory only awaits His chosen moment. Regardless of how bleak the circumstances may seem or how shadowed the horizons may appear by reason of the Adversary’s desperate and despicable tactics, the fact remains that Jesus has bequeathed to us a life of power and of triumph in the resources of His kingdom. Everything God has promised to us already exists. All that remains for us to do is walk with Him until we come to the place where each fulfilled promise is waiting.

- Jack Hayford

- “with even more chocolate!”

Temptation is like the candy aisle at your local convenience store. The aisle never gets smaller - new, ‘attractive’ products are added all the time. Just when you think you’ve overcome that weakness for Kit Kat bars, you see a new ‘white chocolate’ Kit Kat, or worse yet - the King Size bar - complete with new package design that catches your eye. How many ways can chocolate, sugar and caramel be repackaged into yet another ‘new’ product? Apparently it’s endless.

Take note. The Enemy uses temptation in the same way. There’s nothing new about it - other than the external, more attractive repackaging of the same ol ‘junk.’ We try it and it tastes good for a short while, but we regret it later. We spoil our appetite for something healthy with something that costs way too much and it makes us sick as we indulge.

It’s not worth it - no matter how attractive the packaging appears.
It’s not worth it - no matter how it’s sold to us.
It’s not worth it - no matter how prevalent it may be.

Indeed, the more sanctified the person is, the more conformed he is to the image of his Savior, the more he must recoil against every lack of conformity to the holiness of God. The deeper his apprehension of the majesty of God, the greater the intensity of his love to God, the more persistent his yearning for the attainment of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, the more conscious will he be of the gravity of the sin that remains and the more poignant will be his detestation of it . . . Was this not the effect in all the people of God as they came into closer proximity to the revelation of God’s holiness?

- John Murray

Is. 6:5

Then I cried out, “I’m doomed! Everything I say is sinful, and so are the words of everyone around me. Yet I have seen the King, the LORD All-Powerful.”

Job 42:5-6

I heard about you from others; now I have seen you with my own eyes. That’s why I hate myself and sit here in dust and ashes to show my sorrow.

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