Renewal Ranch 2022
I know, we decided to take a vacation when we were coming mr. Alexander for coordinating. All this with us and the entire congregation. We do not take the opportunity lightly 2, to give up a Sunday morning service to come and share what God is doing in our ministry. So we we thank each and everyone of you for this opportunity. Real Ranch is a, is a program that takes its stand on God's word. We believe that that true life change that true freedom from addiction. Comes from the sanctifying power that is found in the word of God. 2nd, Timothy, 3:16 and 17 starts. With all scripture is breathed out by God, we believe that when scripture speaks God speaks
The metaphase one that we have here today through the six months of their first phase will go through 570 hours of biblical class time. I relate this to Paul and when he is going through the whole armor of God, the only offensive weapon that he States in that scripture of Ephesians 6 is the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. We believe that the word of God is taught to to save the souls of men and is used as an offensive weapon, when they step back out into society into the dark world that we live in.
We need these men at their point of need is something that we always say and we don't do that by giving them steps to get better. What we do is we share the gospel over and over and over and watch God do his miraculous work. Another part of the phase, one of our program is scripture memorization these men are challenged to memorize 44, different sections of scripture. We see in Psalms 119:9, how did the young man cleanse, his ways, by taking heed your word? And then a few verses later, I hide your word in my heart so that I might not sin against you. Be the sanctifying power of the word of God is what we take our stand on and for this portion of our program, but I would like to do is I have three of our phase one residence that would like to share a scripture a section of scripture that they have been meditating on and what it is meant to them. So we thank you.
Good morning, bro, Baptist. I'm dealing Wallace. I'm 29 years old, from Little Rock Arkansas. Los Angeles, said my virus. It Psalm 119:11 I've hidden your word in my heart that I may not sin against you as I've been reading and studying, I've come to understand that. That through Jesus. That's the only way that this going to work for me. If I don't have it in my heart, it doesn't last. I've had a little bit of a background of Christianity, and always took the wheel after. God delivered me through something. And I turn my back and I failed every time. So, until I learned to hide it in my heart and learn these scriptures. I can't I can trust and thank you guys.
Good morning, guys. My name is David Sheffield on 32 from Batesville Arkansas and my scripture is 1st Corinthians. 10:13, The Temptations in your life. For No More Than The Temptations you laughing though. Other than that, we're no different one from what others experience and God is faithful. He will not allow The Temptations in your life to be more than you can stand. And when you are tempted, he will show you a way out so you can endure and I've wasted a lot of years. Over Temptations and What I love the most about this scripture is God is faithful and if you trust in him he will show you a way out. Thank you.
Hey, Dustin. Turner, I came here from Little Rock Arkansas. My scripture that I memorize is not blue, not one from the memorization that they give us, but it's one that I was reading through and it just hit me real hard cuz Isaiah 57, 18 and 19. Okay, it's a lot easier down there than up here. That I swear, I wasn't nervous until now, but it says, I seen what they have done, I will heal them. Anyway, I will leave them and I will comfort those who mourn. I will bring peace real, peace to those far and near and I will heal them. So says the Lord with me is because of Grace, the difference between grace and wages. I did not learn what he's giving me the love and the comfort and everything that renewal Ranch has brought towards me. Through the word of God is on test 5. I can't tell you because I was a bad dude. Was it wasn't good to my father when they told me about the Prodigal Son, start crying. There's not a time that I wake up that I'm not giving the message through God that they use these guys, as best was the teachers that I can't before my feet. Hit the ground pray and go through my day, okay? And when I'm having a bad day, which they're going to come, no matter what. God's word is there. This place is full of the spirit and full of his vessels and I couldn't thank them enough and thank you guys for letting me come up here and talk to. You have a good day.
Good morning church. What a great day it is to be in the house of the Lord. I'm thankful that God we cannot. Thank you guys enough for opening your church and allow us to come share with God's. I'm doing it for no rent on. My name is Kim Bumble. I am the face to assistant supervisor on my. I also am a proud graduate of vernola ranch as well.
So, big part of our program is teaching about their identity in Christ identity before renewal Ranch. And before God regenerated, my heart was nothing but of the world. I think everything in the world, I'm at the age of 12, I was drinking alcohol. While with my buddies in my grandparents living room thinking, it was cool. You know, at a early age, my parents were divorced. I did not have a role model in my life. So I look for significance. In other people, I wanted to be like these older kids in my life so I grabbed it to gravitated to work or what they was doing. the age of 13 I was arrested for the first time for breaking and entering I was hanging out with the same older crowd, what they did. I wanted to do, I wanted to emulate everything in their life because I thought it was. I thought that's what I wanted in my life. After that, my identity quickly change the sports.
At the age of 15, I started playing baseball for the first time. Play through High School, play their college and played two years after that. That was my identity. I didn't care about anybody in my life. I didn't care about school. I care about my family, I cared about baseball. The older I got my identity changed again, quickly became a job. UK money and became drugs alcohol.
And I quickly lay me down a path that I never could have found them. I would go.
About every relationship in my life. My mother, my friends, my kids nobody wanted to be around me and I don't blame them. Proverbs 23:7 says As a man thinketh in his heart. So he is See myself in the world told me, I'd never be anything. I'd be a loser, a liar, horrible, dad, horrible sound, and I believed it. I firmly believed it. But God.
God had different plans for me. And in his sovereignty, he brought me to Renewal Ranch, you know.
I can't say I was too excited to come to Renewal Ranch.
I was mad at God. I didn't understand how he would allow me. To wallow in the mistakes I made.
Tomorrow's work quickly open to the gospel, to the true word of God ever know Ranchito 2nd Corinthians 5:17 says, if any man be in Christ he is a new creation. The oldest past be holding. It was here. God's word tells me and Matthew, 5:13 and 14, dimes Salt and Light. John 1:12 tells me I'm a Child of God.
as we learn who we are in Christ, our desires change, I no longer have a desire to live for the world, my desires to wake up every day to glorify God and to make his name known, I've been given a unique privilege and honor to work on staff at this program and I'm so thankful for Renewal Ranch, you know?
When I was brought there, I didn't have anything in my life. Burned every relationship. Like I said, didn't have, I didn't have clothes. I've been in jail for for some time and they drop me off there. Displace Loved Me, Back To Life. This place took me in no questions. Asked close me, but they still don't God's word. They send me the word and introduce me to the one person that can change my soul in Jesus Christ. And I'm so thankful for this program thankful for churches, like you guys are coming along side of us and support us. So what I have up for you guys and acts is what we call her cardboard testimony on one side is what the world says. These guys are what they think they were before Christ and on the other side is who God says they are. Thank you God, for allowing me to share.
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Good morning church. My name is Matthew Singletary. I am from Florida, so they call me Florida or y'all can call me for you to thank y'all for having us. We're so I'm so proud to be up here and get the share a little bit of my testimony with you. I am a phase, 1 residents, I'll be at the ranch since about March just to let you know about 10 years of methamphetamines user and they cost me a lot of my life but we take you back up in Florida, it's all about 8 and then we moved to North Carolina and it's like I had to start all over. Make new friends, everything. Well I was really good at sports so I came real popular. That way I played football and wrestling to become a state championship wrestler and I was everybody like me. I'll do it at 4:30 buy new me. So I got away with a lot of people have played football with their dad, worked at a store. So I can go in that store and buy alcohol at the age of 15 and that was just the thing to do. Do football players, do we got to know who got drunk on the weekends after the game is as harmless fun to us, you know, the saying that they really wasn't, but it comes down to it. I start using cocaine at a young age and I started getting into cells of cocaine and stuff like that. I end up having a kid at the age of 17. So, I stopped, I got sober for her and my girlfriend at the time. She left me for another man and it made me just, I went full force them back into it. I started selling crack cocaine and doing cocaine again, and it just spiraled down from there. Just kept on getting deeper and deeper and that's about the Asian 22. I started shooting nothing phetamine. It got so bad that I had a girl overdosed in my arms and it scared me to death. And I called my mother and she said, hey, come back down to Florida, come back to your family. And I just, I went back down there and I was sober for a little bit until I start hanging around the wrong crowd. Again fight soon, found and got right back into my addiction and it calls me jail time. It calls me ruin relationships or my family. I mean, I have an uncle in Wynne Arkansas and he's like, and worse and worse. And it says, finally hit me back up and after doing a year in jail because of my addiction I said, hey man, is that thing still staying? He's like, yeah, so I got up here to the ranch and I came here to see March and I think March 11th was the last big snow. Y'all got and me being from Florida and was not pleasant at all. I was super cold but I'm going to tell you a little bit about that. So the first day I get to the auction and they have three crosses on the steel down there to read since it's real beautiful. So, I go up there with everybody else about myself. I said, hey, you know what? I'm going to check out these crosses and when I got up there, Dude, I can't explain it. It just a miracle from God. Something drove me to my knees. I broke down in tears and I just weld out everything that I've done wrong out. So sorry, just to please help me because I need help in my life and he was the only one I can turn to and and already finished 2 and one said you were dead in your truck passes and send it to a point. But if you're reading this feature, has a little bit too late and says, for by Grace you are saved through faith. I know. Last night that if you go down the 2nd Corinthians, it says in Christ. You are new creatures, always gone. And that's exactly what happened up to those crosses, my plea, to the god inside a, I need help. Please help me. I cried after I cried and it was just hard as Hartman tonight or something Joe, My Eyes to the Sky. Can remember, just like it was yesterday and meet me in Florida. I was so cold, is about the snow. I didn't know it, but I walk in my room. I fell asleep, I woke up. And when I walk out of my room, everything was just pure white, and I didn't realize that until I got farther than I thought, that that was God, just telling me this. And that old, man, he's gone. That the newest hear of your now. I've watched you in the blood of Christ, and that is just this, that I can't tell you how good that makes me feel the fruits of the spirit being Joy, love peace. I have that now. And it's all thanks to God, I will glorify him everyday because of what the red has taught me. I mean, lectures of Matthew says, father can let your light shine before men. So they may see that your good work that you can glorify your father in Heaven. And that's what I try to do. Everyday is a struggle, don't get me wrong, I mean, but if you can go or if I God and you can just focus on him and trust in him, you can make it. And that's the thing about it is just as hard to do sometimes, some people can't believe in something, they can't see feel or touch, but if you can just find it, put your trust in God, you'll be okay and places like for north are just so beneficial for people broken people. It just, I can't thank them enough for getting me there and letting me find God. And then letting God take care of me last night. That's all I got it. Thank you.
No, I said Thank you earlier and I want to a little bit further explained that of I think you two barrel, Baptist Church Without churches like yours. Everything that you seen today. All the work that God is doing the lives of these men would not be possible. We would not be able to take our firm stand on the word of God. If the body doesn't support us in what we do, And I don't want to. make the mistake of seeming like that, we get me when they hear the word of God, they get sober and then they just go back out and decided to society. Your investment is making a kingdom difference. We have men that have graduated our program and have traveled to all different countries as missionaries. We have men that have graduated are in the beginning stages of relocating, their family to Turkey to plant churches, to train pastors. We have men seeking higher education for ministerial degrees. We have men in seminary, a couple with Pastor Lance. I'm pretty sure if I'm not mistaken. It Grace, that Are so devoted and dedicated to the word of God that they have dedicated their life to the service of the kingdom and without the investment from the body without the investment from church is like they're all Baptists, we would not have the freedom to do that. So from the deepest part of my heart as a graduate of renewal Ranch and I speak for all the men, we we thank you dear for y'all supporting the ministry of renewal Ranch.
Need the task that I have here at the end of our services to update, you on what's been going on at renewal Ranch. And I I say this every time but it it it feels unnecessary. It feels that through the testimony of God's grace and mercy and radical intervention and these men's lives that the task of what's going on at renewal Ranch, it's just that's it. God is at work at renewal Ranch. And we plan to continue to do that. We will take our stand on the word of God, until we have to close the doors. If being so over the last year over the last few years, the, the times of the world have been troubling for churches, for Ministries, especially of just times of uncertainty, But we have remained faithful to God, and God has blessed us tremendously through that, our facility continues to grow, as I'm sure being from not far away from where at. We all know the the wait, though, rampage that addiction is causing in and not just the world, but in our communities next door to us, sometimes, we even within our congregations, addiction is tearing apart the lives of the people that we love. And we have the answer, the church has the answer. Renewal Ranch has the answer and it is the word of God.
And for that need are the need continues to grow, and we try to continue to supply as much room as space and beds as possible, and God continue to bless us with the funding, with the opportunity to expand our business. We are approaching the groundbreaking of our biggest project to date. If you want to throw the pictures up of moving our phase to campus onto our Phase 1 Campus, Just a little rendering of what we have it's going to look like. We're going to have a 50 men, two different, 50 Min. What's I say that two different 25-minute apartment. Complex the house. Fifty men in Phase 2. And this is tremendous, this will create so many new opportunities of discipleship between a phase two men and Phase 1 men, keeping the phase two men out of the center of the community. Still allowing us to minister to the men in the best way that we can.
We have many different ways that it is possible for churches, further ways for churches, for church members to get involved. One being for the men of the Body for we have what we call a dnp program and what this is and it's a mentor program where men that have been walking in the faith for an extended. Of time can pair up with just one of our men as they transition into phase two and over the next six months. While they are in phase two just live life together. We have a a book to help you disciple and subjects to talk about but it's all built on the foundation of the gospel song, built on the foundation of the word of God. And if that's something you'd be interested in myself my partner, Tim would love to chat with you about it. We have some literature on the table in the back as well. Also, we have opportunities for fellowship if the church would like to come together if a small group would like to come together, we allow churches to come out and provide meals. I can say pretty confidently that I'm I can say that a couple of y'all in here know how to cook So just the opportunity to to meet these men at the point of their need. I can promise you, I can say Jess, is constantly. They like to eat. So that's something you'd be interested in would love to chat with you about it. There's business cards on the table as well. Also financially, the church is a partner of renewal Ranch, but if you as an individual or your family would like to further invest in our ministry, we have monthly giving cards on the table, that explain the cost of what it is to what it cost to put them in through phase one, we do not take insurance, there are programs local programs that cost 1005 thousand, 10,000, $20,000 for 30 days of a secular rehabilitation program. We ask one small intake fee of $500, that takes care of some out outside, physicals and drug test that we can't do in house and outside of that, the men, it cost nothing to the men. So, the break down to that around those cards and it takes individuals that takes bodies to support us in. Being able to not ask these men, not ask these men's families to financially burden themselves, while they take a pause on life and sit under this gospel teaching that we've been talking about. And, lastly, and most importantly prayer, Hi, mr. Alexander said it that, this is a church that praise and I I I have faith that. That's very, very true. Prayer is what keeps us standing? The prayers of the people that believe in the work that God's doing through us. So, we asked as you was a church, she was a family. You as an individual put us on your prayer list, the, the spiritual battles that we see it. Renewal Ranch are very real and it takes the prayers of the Saints to, to help us to help guide us in that. So, we thank you again, so much for this opportunity. We are blessed to be able to come and share with you guys and I will turn it back over to mr. Alexander. Thank you.
What a wonderful testimony. I don't mind. I know, I'm pretty sure. I'll just take a few minutes if y'all don't mind. And I hope you all can see you this morning. How God put stuff together. Not planned. I haven't talked with Sam other than getting older service. The testimonies we hear the testimony that they use scripture God's word. To teach. And that's what we are to do. Sunday school class I have for the Youth this morning. The message is found in Matthew chapter 4. I won't be long, I promise. We'll still get out at noon. Matthew chapter 4. Starting verse 1. Then Jesus was led up by the spirit Into the Wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights afterward, he was hungry. That one the tempter came to him. He said, if you are the Son of God, command, that these Stones become bread, But he answered and said it is written man, shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on the Pinnacle of the temple. And said to him. If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down for it is written. He shall give his angels charge over you and in their hands they shall bear you up last. You dash your foot against a stone. And Jesus said to him, it is written again. You shall not tempt, the Lord your God. And again, the devil took him up on an exceedingly, high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, all these things, I will give you if you will fall down and worship me and Jesus said to him away with you Satan, for it is written, you shall Worship the Lord, your God and him only shall you serve, then the devil left him and behold, Angels, Came and ministered. What a great testimony, what a great honor, it is to stand here. Will's funeral Ranch a church group that we support and knowing that they're teaching scripture and it's whole context. And it's whole Council from beginning to end, the Bible is proof. It's words are there for us. It's a guidebook from the Old Testament to the New Testament. It's complete. It is whole and is what God gives us to live our lives by not what the world gives us, but what God gives us. And in this text, we see three Temptations of our Lord and savior. And in this text we see that God. Jesus refers to himself as a man. Not the Son of God. He could have used any power whatsoever to curve is hungry for 40 days and 40 nights. A fasted. He was hungry. Like I mentioned this morning and Sunday school. I don't like going for hours without eating. I'm pretty sure if I can tell. But the 40 days in it, if if you ever been hungry for any amount of time, you know, that messes with your mind and messes with you physically, they put you in a bad place. And we even mention this morning about how God tempted, Adam, and Eve compared to way. Jesus was tempted by Satan done the same thing. He was twisting scripture and he was putting these if-then statements in their mind and with Adam and Eve. He was he was saying Shirley God didn't really say You don't know what death is. So how do you know what it is? Surely, This Is Us. Find out. He's putting it down in there and Adam lived in a garden. He would he had everything that he needed? Everything Supply to get food. He didn't have to want for nothing. Jesus here is hungry. He's in a decimal place that world. Wouldn't that world that word Wilderness? There is talking to the place that has no means it. It it can't provide a good crop is very dry. It's desolate. It's a terrible place to be and this is where Jesus is at and Satan is going to attack is tempting. He likes putting the locks to get us in a situation where we put ourselves in a place where we are so vulnerable. But Jesus gives us the answer. He gave us the answer as a man, he said, according to scripture, it is written. The first thing Satan done was attack of, need the need that Jesus was physically hungry. Surely you are the Son of God, you can turn these stones into bread to feed your hunger. Why does Jesus say? He says, we don't live a food, we live off of God, right? And then the second thing we say, Satan is like, okay, so you going to use scripture some of you songs to trick you, but he doesn't use the whole text. He doesn't use the whole text Angela come to you. They didn't use the whole text before I mess up and get to my notes here. I'm hurrying, I'm sorry. This is just too good, not to share.
Satan says that God will send angels to protect the Messiah, so Satan son Jesus. If he were to jump off a high place Angel to see to it that he did not harm herself and it's clever. But Satan is only using part of the verse. He left out a very important phrase that says and always the angels have charge of God's children in all our ways. This means that not only can Angels, keep us from harm if we fall, they can give us enough sense. Not to jump in the first place. That's the whole Council of God and Satan's twisted around. So Satan is twist. A Satan has tempted, Jesus as a man with a need for Hunger is tempted, Jesus with a dare, that's what I call it. He's daring him to do that to see if God's been protecting, right? And the third thing that we seen her text, is that
Satan is going to take her soul. He's going to take her soul. A night to 11. They're Matthew chapter 4. Again the devil took him up on it, saving the high amount and it showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory. And he said them all these things, I'll give you if you fall down and worship me in this phrase, hear worship me has a singular worship. It's talking about worshiping him one time Christ. Jesus, if you will Bow Down and Worship the one time, I will give you all the kingdoms you see here in the world. All what is Christ promised to have any way? he's going to have all of it anyway so Satan is trying to kick Christ to bow down to Satan and Christ tells us that you are you worship what you serve and Christ knows that if he worships Satan He's not going to Worship the Lord. Why do Satan want Christ to give in to temptation? Christ is something still yet to feel here in a text? He has to suffer the cross. Satan has offered him the kingdom without Suffering death on the cross. I can't imagine what it felt like, for Jesus to Bear. All that pain, the whipping he got, carrying the cross carrying off our sin to die on that Hill for forgiveness. From me, the mercy, the brother mentioned while ago, the mercy that we do not deserve Brothers and sisters. We have a a great Mission, cure a Ministry that we can get behind and support a mission that shares the love of Christ, the mission that shares the gospel that Jesus Christ was born. He lives here on this Earth, as a man died was beaten died and took our sin, my seeing your sin, everybody sending them at cross with him and then was buried. And just like the three temptations, that Satan gave hear Jesus was buried for three days and he rose again on the third day Victorious, over Satan, Satan has no power on us whatsoever. None, none. Thank you for that testimony. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to preach but it's just too good not to share. God is so great. Is he not? Here in a moment, we're going to be taking the offering if I get the men to come up. Take an offering for a renewal Ranch again. If you going to give to them specifically, I would ask that uses Market. If it's cash Market on the envelope for a little ranch, if you're writing a check, make the check payable to Barrel Baptist and we will get it to them. One more quick thing, a Bible study attended earlier this week was talking about being how Christians are Are hospitable towards each other that's found in 3rd. John chapter 1. Any states beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and being helped just as your soul prospers for I Rejoice greatly when Brethren came and testified to the truth that is in. You just as you walk in truth, I have no Greater Joy than to hear my children. Walk In Truth, beloved you, or do Faithfully, whatever you do for the Brethren and for strangers and who have done witness of Your Love Before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner, worthy of God, he will do well because they went forth for his namesake, taking nothing. From the Gentiles where we therefore ought to receive that word received mean support such that we may become fellow workers and true.
Bruno Ranch. Thank you. Thank you for your testimony. We pray for you everyday.
I myself personally don't know what it's like to give into addiction other than smoking cigarettes.
And I know it was hard to quit and I know what until I gave it to God, that That was possible. But addiction is real. There's not a day that goes by that. I don't want a smoke.
There's naught but cost makes it possible. Cross makes it possible being together with Believers. Makes it possible so I can courage you and you walk. Keep walking in the Lord.
We love you.
Brother bud. Can I get you to pray for this offering?
To be here today.
Man's life has been changed or a organization. Completely depends on you for guidance and direction.