Make No Provision Quotes

“If you want to quit porn, stop asking God for strength to quit. Stop asking God for what He has already given. Read 2 Peter 1:3: “His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue.” If God “has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness,” why do you need to ask Him for anything else that pertains to life and godliness? You don’t. So, stop asking, and start receiving. Stop asking for help, and start using the help that’s already at hand. God says you already possess the divine power that you need to quit porn. It is already yours for the taking. You just have to take it.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“Not a single sexual temptation is irresistible. No sexual craving is impossible to overcome. God promises that, in every temptation, in every trial, He always gives you a way out so that you do not have to sin. Here’s God’s promise to you: “No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” God always provides a way of escape from sexual temptation. Always. Look around, and you’ll find it.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“One vital truth to understand about sexual temptation is that you don’t resist. You flee. Temptation isn’t something you fight. It’s something you escape. This is what Paul commands you to do when he tells you to “flee sexual immorality,” and to “flee youthful lusts. Not, “stand and fight.” Not, “pray about it.” Not, “wrestle with the temptation.” What, then? Run away. As soon as you see a pornographic image, flee. When you feel lust building up inside, escape. When you hear a solicitation to sin sexually, run for your life. Don’t stay where you are. Don’t remain in the same spot, hoping to put up an adequate defense. Don’t stay and pray. Run. You quit porn by managing temptation. And you manage temptation by running away.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“The key thing to remember about quitting porn is that you don’t quit porn. Pornography isn’t something you leave behind, the way you leave one country to emigrate to another. The key to not looking at porn anymore is managing sexual temptation.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“View sexual purity as a walk, not a destination. You won’t find sexual purity on any map. So don’t expect to arrive at a place in your life where you experience zero sexual lust, zero sexual temptation or zero sexual fantasies. Your goal is to walk properly today (Romans 13:13). Don’t aim to eventually conquer your sexual urges and temptations and sexual sins. Don’t think that working your way through 12 steps of recovery will one day land you at your destination with a halo waiting for you. Sexual purity isn’t a destination you hope to reach tomorrow—it’s a walk you take with the Lord today.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“Sexual temptation is a process, not an event.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“Pornography isn’t something you quit as much as something you avoid. You “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts” (Romans 13:14). You pluck out and throw away the eye that causes you to sin sexually (Matthew 5:28-29). You make a covenant with your eyes to not lust after women (Job 31:1). Porn isn’t something you conquer as much as something you stay away from.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“If porn was difficult to find, expensive to buy, and impossible to view without being publicly outed and shamed, you wouldn’t be in bondage. A large part of your struggle is none of your making. You face more sexual temptations in a year than most Christian men faced in their lifetimes. This doesn’t excuse your sin, but it helps to explain it.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically

“Sexual purity isn’t a destination you hope to reach tomorrow—it’s a walk you take with the Lord today.”
― Alan Sharpe, Make No Provision: 365 kicks in the pants for the Christian man who wants to conquer porn biblically