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Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-One

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Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies

Testimony’s of God’s delivering power are both thrilling and awe inspiring to hear especially the divine healing variety. In today’s podcast, we will try to dissect one such healing testimony. It is a little different from our normal podcasts. Now, this testimony that I am getting ready to share is not the one we are going to be examining but it’s cool none the less to see our Great God at work. Tyler Clarensau, fifteen, shuffled to the altar in Park Crest Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri, to ask for healing. The surgery he’d had to correct his malformed knee joints had left him with swelling and terrible pain. Forty Pentecostal teenagers formed a circle around Clarensau and began to pray. Gradually, the whole congregation joined in. Some forty-five minutes later, silence fell. Then one of the church volunteers announced that God had healed Clarensau. Clarensau shakily stood up, then did deep knee bends—something he hadn’t accomplished in years. Today Clarensau can walk—even run. “I’d heard about people getting healed,” he says. “I thought it was pretty cool. But I didn’t know for sure about such healing until it happened to me.”1 Healing can happen to you. You can receive God’s restoring touch from heaven as well as learn from others who have already experienced God in this way. Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Miracle Testimony Gives Glory to God

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Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty

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Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus

We have been on a four-week journey of endeavoring to grasp an understanding of what James meant when he said, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial.” We’ve looked at the word steadfastness in depth. In today’s podcast, there’s one more place that we can walk that if we go down that avenue, we will find tremendous help. I believe the Lord wants you to be helped and encouraged in these areas. Well, in fact, He wants you to be helped in all areas. ‘Lord, you are so good to us.’ Glory to your Name. That area where the Lord wants to help us in ‘abiding’ in His Son, Jesus. There’s an absolute link between steadfastness and abiding. You can hear that these words are similar just from speaking these two words in your own hearing. A rather well-known pastor gave the following illustration on abiding. He said a dinner plate left out overnight will be hard to clean in the morning. Now, I speak to you from a place of experience here, having watched my wife Sharon in action. Sharon washes the plates in the sink so vigorously that you can hear the leftover sauce crying out for mercy as it goes down the drain. After that, she puts these already squeaky-clean plates in the dishwasher, subjecting them to even more torture. On top of that, she went and got the dishwasher supercharged. We had a repair guy come over and it is a device now of mass destruction where germs are concerned. Leftover bits have no hope — do you understand NO HOPE in the Horvath household? But this pastor said, “An alternative to scrubbing is soaking the dish in hot water and dishwashing liquid. Letting a dish abide in the solution will allow a hard cleaning job to become a lot easier. This is what abiding does for Jesus followers. We are much easier to clean up when we’ve been hanging out in the right environment. Religion says “Scrape off the dirt.” It tells us to apply elbow grease to fix a problem. Relationship says “Soak.” Just sit in the hot water for a while. Abiding will set you free.”1 We are going to talking about abiding today as it relates to steadfastness in this podcast entitled ‘Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus’ all on this week’s Light on Life.

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More of Why Believing and Abiding Is the Key to the Happy Life

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Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Nineteen

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Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious

Have you ever pretended to be patient? Perhaps the partner you were courting kept you waiting or a colleague delayed the start of the meeting. You smiled and told the person that it didn’t matter as you prided yourself on your calm endurance. But patience is not just blind resignation to unavoidable facts. During the shock and numbness of tragedy, many adopt a fatalistic acceptance that whatever will be, will be. But that acceptance is made in defeat rather than in hope. The patience that God wants to build in us must be more dynamic than resignation to the inevitable; it must be authenticated by true peace.1 Patience that depends on a particular temperament or personality is doomed to failure. There was an impatience survey of 1,003 adults done in 2006 by the Associated Press and Ipsos and they discovered: While waiting in line at an office or store, most people take an average of seventeen minutes to lose their patience. On hold on the phone? — most people lose their patience in nine minutes. Women lost their patience after waiting in line for about eighteen minutes. Men lost it after fifteen minutes. People with lower income and less education are more patient than those with a college education and a high income. That’s what the survey said. People who live in the suburbs are more patient than people who live in the city.2 I put the link in the podcast notes for this survey. We need patience the inspired writer of Hebrews declares so that we can inherit God’s promises. That’s why it’s vital for us to take a look at Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Should You Embrace Patience to Overcome Trials? – [James 1:2-4]

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How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Eighteen

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How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory

These podcasts on steadfastness, perseverance, and now endurance are all based on one Greek word ‘hypomonē.’ In each episode, we are using a different synonym for this Greek word as we continue to talk about the vital nature of ‘hypomonē, in the everyday life of a Jesus follower. There’s quite a bit to talk about as this word appears 32x in the New Testament. Concerning the idea of endurance, one gentleman gives the following illustration. He said, “After college and marriage, I found it easy to put on weight and get out of shape. A year ago, I became committed to working hard to take the “sag” out of my sagging waistline. Day after day, I worked hard on cardiovascular exercise and weight training, seeming to get nowhere. Straining. Sweating. Sucking wind. Questioning my sanity. But then after several months, it was as though a quantum leap occurred. Weight began to drop off. Muscle began to get toned. And endurance increased significantly. Medical friends tell me that during the constancy of working out, regardless of how I felt, a whole new freeway system of small blood vessels and capillaries was forming within my body. Then came the day when they decided it was time for a “grand opening.” Suddenly, more blood came flooding into the muscle tissue, and the resultant benefits seemed to be exponential Likewise, when we’re walking through the depths of trials, God is building up a secondary support system of endurance, that we might be even more prepared for the next time adversity comes our way.” 1 That’s a helpful illustration don’t you think? Here you are. You are staying consistently constant in your spiritual disciplines and it seems like not much is happening. Then all of a sudden — BANG! — A huge growth spurt takes place.It works this way in prayer as well. Here you are. You are standing on the Word of God with steadfast endurance and it seems like you’re going nowhere fast. Then all of a sudden — BANG! — Manifestation occurs — healing happens — revelation comes — direction is given. In a moment, everything is made different. That’s the marvelous benefit of endurance. How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory; that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Choosing to Serve God with Joy

We need steadfastness, that is perseverance, or endurance to make it though any test or trial. It comes by praying to God for His strength. Click To Tweet
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How Jesus Style Perserverance Can Make You a Winner

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Seventeen

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How Jesus Style Perserverance Can Make You a Winner

In today’s episode, we are revisiting the subject of perseverance and steadfastness. In a previous podcast, we concluded that this word ’steadfastness,’ which is the Greek word ‘hypomonē,’ is in fact a big Bible word for the Jesus follower to understand an incorporate into their everyday life. You need steadfastness, perseverance and endurance. You need it worse than you realize. Edward Gibbon, a Roman historian and author of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, concluded that Christianity in the first century flourished for 5 reasons: (1) uncompromising religious zeal, (2) doctrine of the immortality of the spirit, [the fact that everyone is immortal — you know that’s right. The issue is not whether or not you will live forever but where will you spend your eternal days — heaven or hell? (3) miraculous power, (4) pure morals, (5) unity and discipline. So, here are the five again — zeal, the human spirit, miracles, morals, unity and their discipline. These are the factors that turned the world ‘right side up.’ Another historian, this one an ancient one, named Justin referred to many who have, “changed their violent and tyrannical [ungodly] dispositions….., being overcome either by the constancy [steadfastness, perseverance, and endurance] which they have witnessed in the lives of their Christian neighbors, or by the extraordinary forbearance [now he’s talking about long-suffering they have observed in their Christian fellow travelers when defrauded, and by the honesty of those believers with whom they have transacted business.”1 Perseverance is something that propelled the Early Church and I’m here to tell you that it will propel you in the church of these last days. You need it. You need to know all about it. How Jesus Style Perseverance Can Make You a Winner, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why God’s Love and Direction Are a Match Made in Heaven

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Why Steadfastness Will Win and Make You Strong and Victorious

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Sixteen

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Why Steadfastness Will Win and Make You Strong and Victorious

The Word of God makes much ado about a certain family of words which include patience, steadfastness, and long-suffering. These words are part of a stable of words that are of sublime importance to the Jesus follower. When the scripture encourages us to allow steadfastness to have its full effect, that we may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing (James 1:4) that should be enough promise to turn anyone’s head. Certain officers once approached Napoleon to recommend a young captain for promotion. Napoleon asked, “Why do you recommend this man?” Their answer was that through courage and cleverness he had recently won a significant victory. “Good,” said Napoleon, “but what did he do the next day and the next day after?” On investigation they found that he had gone back to his usual unzealous and casual manner of life. Napoleon therefore refused to advance the man. He was looking for consistency and steadfastness.1 God is looking to advance you, so guess what He is looking for? The same traits — consistency and steadfastness. Why Steadfastness Will Win and Make You Strong and Victorious. That’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Make It Through a Bad Day

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Simple Keys To Touching Jesus For Miracles

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Fifteen

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Simple Keys To Touching Jesus For Miracles

Gospel writers record several incidents where Jesus touched people and other accounts where it went the other way. Now, touching Jesus is what our focal point is today. Whenever the Master touched someone, miracles followed. Physical touch is vital; studies show its absence can be life-threatening. We need human contact. Many years ago in hospital nurseries, it was standard procedure that newborns were not to be touched except in emergencies. Dr. John Holt observed an incredible proportion of infant deaths. He believed there was a link between the failure to touch and the high death rates. He reasoned that the will to live is directly related to the experience of being held and touched as an infant. Holt instructed neo-natal nurses to give “Tender Loving Care” to six infants five times a day, to hold and cuddle them, physically conveying love through touching. They rallied immediately. Now it is standard procedure that early on, within a few minutes after birth, infants are placed in the mother’s arms. They are held by the father and the attendant. Young people who grow up in homes where there is very little touching are often withdrawn in character and personality in adulthood, retreating into a world of fantasy, often expressing hostility to others and to society at large. But when young people are raised in homes with lots of touching, hugging, kissing, physical expressions of affection, they usually grow up to be open, warm, and secure. We need to be touched if our lives are to be all they ought to be. We have here a clue as to why God came and dwelt among us. He understood that we needed to be touched, not only by our mothers and fathers and those we love, but by God. We need to know His loving caress. So God became a man. He took on flesh and blood and dwelt in our midst. I believe also that God came in flesh to touch us because touch is the highest form of communication. Words are fundamental to communication. But there are times when words fail, when touch can communicate what the tongue cannot.1 I agree wholeheartedly with this point of view. Since physical connection is essential, isn’t spiritual touch equally, if not more, important? Absolutely! This week on Light on Life, join us for “Simple Keys to Touching Jesus for Miracles.”

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Why Is It Important to Walk in the Light You Have?

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Do You Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season 12 Episode 14

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Do You Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?

One of my favorite shows from yesteryear was Get Smart. It was a show about a goofy secret agent. One of the popular catchphrases for the show was ‘would you believe.’ Maxwell Smart would say when he got caught by the bad guys, ‘would you believe.’ Here’s some of the dialogue. “I happen to know that at this very’ moment, eight Coast Guard cutters are converging on this boat. Would you believe seven? Six? How about two cops in a rowboat?” Or, At this very minute, 25 Control agents are converging on this building. Would you believe two squad cars and a motorcycle cop? How about a vicious street cleaner and a toothless police dog? Or, I once trained a girl to swim across the English Channel five times. Would you believe four times? Would you believe three times across the Mississippi? How about twice around the bathtub? Once around the bathtub? Or, in a short while, General Crawford and a hundred of his crack paratroopers will come crashing into this landing. Would you believe J. Edgar Hoover and I0 of his G-men? How about Tarzan and a couple of apes? Bomba, the Jungle Boy? Or, at this very moment, 100 highway patrolmen with Doberman pinschers are surrounding this entire area. Would you believe four deputies and a bloodhound? How about a Boy Scout with rabies? The question arises, ‘do you believe in the Resurrection of Jesus? Do you believe it just like the Bible says it, or do you believe a watered-down ‘Maxwell Smart’ version of the events surrounding Jesus’ death?

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Three Things Jesus Did that You Can Do

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How You Can Talk Your Way Into Faith and Healing

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirteen

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How You Can Talk Your Way Into Faith and Healing

There are some who have not realized that they can talk their way into a place of faith if they need healing for your body. There is a marvelous truth here concerning the dynamics of trusting God and understanding how His Word works in our spirits. Faith comes by hearing and it doesn’t matter whom you are hearing from. Whether you are hearing your pastor teach, or your Sunday School teacher, or a favorite faithful minister of God’s timeless Word on TV or radio, faith comes by hearing. There are so many ways you can hear the Word in this digital age. You can listen to healing scriptures on YouTube. Why, there are even Bible apps that will play the Word for your hearing. I have several audio book versions of the Word of God. I play them in my car as I am traveling hither and thither. But in this podcast, we are going to look in on a particular woman and how she schooled herself into faith. We’re going to come to know a wonderful truth that you can build yourself up in faith by hearing the Word of God come out of your own mouth. Faith comes by hearing. How You Can Talk Your Way Into Faith and Healing, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Manifestation of the Gift of Faith

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Why You Are Free Because Healing Is the Children’s Bread

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twelve

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Why You Are Free Because Healing Is the Children’s Bread

Divine healing is the children’s bread, a fact revealed to a Gentile woman one day by the mouth of our Lord Jesus Christ. That’s right, Jesus said ‘healing is the children’s bread.’ Bread, being a symbol of life-giving sustenance, gives this analogy that Jesus used great weight. There are some modern day Bible teachers who believe that this bread has been turned into stones — that is that Jesus no longer heals today. Now, I believe that most of these men who teach these things, mean well. But, I can personally tell you that it’s not so because Jesus healed me of a condition deemed incurable almost twenty years ago. Healing is still available and it is still as Jesus declared it to be, the children’s bread. When Stanley Frodsham was a young Christian, [you know Stanley wrote a biography on Smith Wigglesworth] and a member of a large Congregational church, he was often troubled with the thought—Why do we not see miracles today as of old? The Lord Jesus went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil. His apostles did the same. Why are we not having a like ministry today? One day in the year 1908 a paper came into his hands. It told of the Spirit’s being poured out in Los Angeles, Calif., just as at Pentecost. Many remarkable healings were described. As he read of this revival there came a strong witness to his spirit that this was of God. Later other papers came from Canada, England, India, South Africa, and different parts of the United States, and his eyes were opened to the fact that God was once more pouring out His Spirit in many places even as at Pentecost, that the Lord was truly with His people and confirming His Word today as He did in the beginning of this church age. This same year, the Lord filled Stanley with the Spirit, making no difference between him and those at the beginning. He was soon awakened to the fact that he was one of a large, world-wide fellowship. There were Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Holiness people, Christians from every denomination and from no denomination, who had received a like experience. He noticed that all these Spirit-filled ones made very much of the precious blood of Jesus Christ, and that the cross of Christ had been made very real to all of them through the power of the Holy Ghost. He found that all that he came in contact with believed that the Lord healed today just as of old, and that many of them had had marvelous healings themselves. They were one and all looking eagerly for the soon coming of Christ. Everyone of them honored the Word of God, believing in every part of it, and they were all seeking to be not only hearers but doers of the Word.1 Are you in this company — a Spirit filled, Blood of Jesus partaking, divine healing believing doer of the Word of God? Well, that’s at least part of our focus today as we talk about Why You Are Free Because Healing Is the Children’s Bread all on this week’s Light on Life.

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#026: Dead Dogs and Grasshoppers [Podcast]

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Why God’s Word Is Your Way To Overcoming Victory

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Eleven

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Who doesn’t like the thought of experiencing victory in Jesus? But have you ever wondered why it seems so difficult to obtain? Maybe you are into sports and so you know the thrill of getting the winning goal with ten seconds left on the clock or hitting that game ending home run — There it goes. ee you — Bang! that propels you into the playoffs. But you’re a Jesus follower. Well, what does that matter? You want to pray the prayer of faith — There it goes. See you — Bang! And, you walk off with a miracle from God. How do we get there? Well, the difficulty in obtaining victory disappears when you come into line with God’s Word. That’s where we are going today. Join us as we look at Why God’s Word Is Your Way To Overcoming Victory. That’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

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Why Taking God at His Word is the Highest Faith

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Ten

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Why Taking God at His Word is the Highest Faith

During Jesus’ time on earth, He took notice of those who had the highest faith. A Centurion, who came on behalf of his servant. A Canaanite, who came on behalf of her daughter. Jesus noted their faith and the Spirit of God recorded these episodes for our benefit so that we might know what great faith looks like. We need to know. God wants us to aim high. Here us an account from a brand new Jesus follower. He said, “WHEN I was a new believer, I knew little about prayer. My understanding of it was mostly selfish. I considered prayer to be a magic way to get what I wanted. But one day a friend called. His daughter was being rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. Her appendix had ruptured. Alone on my back porch, I cried out to God, “I’m ashamed of my selfishness in prayer. Forgive me for praying only for myself. Would you please heal that little girl?” Several hours later, my friend called back. Every symptom had evaporated on the operating table. No surgery was performed. The daughter would be held overnight for observation and released in the morning. Can you imagine what that did for my faith as a new believer? God was able to answer prayer and nothing was beyond His power. Some time after that, all the lymph nodes on one side of my body became swollen and sore. Weak and nauseated, unable to eat for days, I finally consulted a doctor. After many tests, we scheduled a biopsy. I was diagnosed as having cancer. The morning of the day we were to hear the results and prognosis from the doctor, the symptoms disappeared. Two nights before, standing in the bathroom and confessing my confusion and anger, I had yielded myself to God’s will regardless of what it might be. As God added to these experiences, those of trusting Him for employment, a place to live, finances, and a ministry of reaching others for Christ, faith grew. There were times it seemed God wasn’t there, but as my understanding and capacity for faith grew, so did experiences of the reality of His ever-present intimacy. Faith didn’t rest on the experiences; the experiences grew out of faith.”1 Your faith can grow as well. It can grow to the highest of heights. Join us on this week’s journey as we look at Why Taking God at His Word is the Highest Faith. That’s our focus on this weeks Light on Life.

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Do You Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus?

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