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#4 Christians Need Motivation Too
7 stars|10 comments|January 04, 2009|262 reads
 
6:21 Blessed are you that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. 

Quotation: “My country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life. All my life I had been full of hunger for a new way to live. I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the world look different.” –Richard Wright

Comment: Richard Wright was an African American who grew under Jim Crow racism and in poverty and then became a famous writer. A key to his success was that he didn’t surrender to his environment. He was “full of hunger for a new way to live”.

Les Brown, a contemporary black motivational speaker mirrors Wright when he says if you want to succeed “you gotta be hungry”. One of the worst things that can happen to us is for us to become satisfied with our life — to have no positive ambition, no desire for self-improvement.

I used to work in a rehab that has a six month program. Many men came into our center hungry for a better life. However, after a few weeks, just about all of them lost their hunger. Their family accepted them back, their health got better, and they lost their passionate desire to overcome their addiction.

But Richard Wright stayed hungry. He “hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing” because he found that reading made made his world look different. He received hope from reading.

Libraries and book stores abound. Why not pick up and begin to read a positive book today? Read the biography of a woman or a man who has lived an upstanding life. Read a positive thinking, self-help book. Read the New Testament. Read a book about success. Read something that will challenge your thinking and show you new ways to live. But read! What good is the ability to read if we don’t read?
 

 
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PhyllisAdelle Sherer
 PhyllisAdelle Sherer
January 04, 2009
Great blog!

Don't settle until you're blissful! And you can quote me!   :)
Sis Cece
 Sis Cece
January 04, 2009

Very Good Steve, I Have been motivated by you,
I really mean this Thanks.

Sis Cece
 Sis Cece
January 04, 2009
I liked your quote, PhylissAdelle, I have to remember it.

Don't settle until you're blissful!
Steve Simms
 Steve Simms
January 04, 2009
Thanks, Phyllis.  That is a wonderful quote.  Did you make it up yourself?

And thank you, Cece.  What a wonderful compliment.
Angela Davis
 Angela Davis
January 04, 2009

I would also like to add here ( my collar bone is stil lnot healed healed all the way and I want to say so much :0(  ) Read the BIBLE- Study the BIBLE- find out what means what! 

I find the closer I get to God and His word, the hungrier I get, and it turns into this massive holy hunger, one that I can not get enough of but I become fed and am starved for more all in the same breath!  I am saddened when people stop feeding on the good stuff. 

Great post Steve (of course!)

Donna S
 Donna S
January 04, 2009
I fear of becoming lazy!! Reading is something I love to do!
I get lots of hope from reading. Theres alwasy something that jumps out!
Thanks for such a wonderful post!!
God Bless
Holy Spirit POWER Ministry
 Holy Spirit POWER Ministry
January 04, 2009

Like it or not; your title should be: "LAZY CHRISTIANS NEED MOTIVATION"!

Steve Simms
 Steve Simms
January 04, 2009
Angela:  "Massive holy hunger" for God-- that is what all Christians need.

That is a good kind of fear, Donna.  The word says:  "Let him who thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall."  It is good to fear falling for that keeps us hungry.

HSPM:  Thanks for the comment.
Holy Spirit POWER Ministry
 Holy Spirit POWER Ministry
January 05, 2009
This morning the Holy Spirit gave me these four verses to share with you all:

Hebrews 11:6 (notice the last phrase); Romans 9:1a&b; Galatians 1:10-12 and 2 Timothy 4:2.

This too is from the Lord: We men of God (especially) need to be preparing for what is coming to fulfillment an all-out "spiritual war" against all of God's people - as is manifested in the increasing natural war against Israel!  Israel is preparing herself - even though God will defend her!  But "Christians" have been playing in a religious sand-box! 

All Christian men (especially) need to be learning to grow-up in the knowledge of God in order to exercise the Divine Authority Jesus has given us.  As long as one continues to engage in trivial religious exercises - that is an indication that he is not yet "battle ready"!

Give Jesus Christ all glory (recognition); not your-selves.

Provebs 27:17.


Brother Patrick
Vickie Sanders
 Vickie Sanders
January 05, 2009
It's a great thing when one can be inspired by another. I've found my greatest inspiration, I mean motivation from a Book that was Holy inspired. I've read lots of lives of men that were a success as the world calls it, but rarely have they done anything for God other than a show. I've read in the Bible men that turned the world upside down for Christ Jesus.