How Praise Powers You to Remarkable God-Style Growth

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Sixteen

How Praise Powers You to Remarkable God-Style Growth

So many of us struggle to understand the vital link between praise and prayer. Prayer is more than asking things from God. It is an exercise in the worship of God to extol His Name, and to offer thanks for all His benefits. The child of God is assured that he is approaching a throne of grace in prayer, not a throne of judgment (Heb. 4:16). The Christian enters the divine presence in the name of Christ (John 14:14, 16:23). If he prays under the control of the Holy Spirit, he will offer petitions within the will of his Heavenly Father (Romans 8:26, 27). Prayer should be made in faith and with thanksgiving (Phil. 4:6; Col. 4:2). The prayer that Christ taught His disciples, known as the Lord’s Prayer, is a model to guide His followers concerning proper principles and goals of prayer (Matt. 6:9–13; Luke 11:2–4).1 In this week’s Light On Life, we discuss a potent aid to your spiritual development. It’s a power protein shake packed with nutrients to help you grow. How Praise Powers You to Remarkable God-Style Growth, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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#028: How to Develop Spiritually [Podcast]

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Why Your Human Will Is So Vital In Receiving Help and Healing

[Encore Podcast]: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Fifteen

Why Your Human Will Is So Vital In Receiving Help and Healing

In this week’s teaching, we focus on the importance of the ‘human will’  in receiving divine healing or any kind of help from the Lord. Some think that God wants to break a person’s will so that they would conform to His plan. God doesn’t want your will broken. He is not that kind of God. The Lord wants your will whole, complete, and entire. But He wants you to choose who will serve. Exercising the power of choice comes mightily to the forefront in gaining answers to prayer. In this podcast, we look at some steps one should take to hold on to healing once it has you have received it in Jesus’ Name. Why Your Human Will Is So Vital In Receiving Help and Healing, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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#S2-048: Why It’s Important to Understand the Serious Power of the Soul [Podcast]

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How Right Environments Lead to God Style Increase

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Fourteen

How Right Environments Lead to God-Style Increase

Increase is the topic in today’s Light on Life — not just any old increase, God-style increase. Everything about God leads to increase. I heard one saintly gentleman years ago say, “It doesn’t cost to serve God; it pays.” That’s the truth. It is a remarkable fact that Sir Isaac Newton, writing on the prophecy found in Daniel 12:4 – you know that verse says that in the last days, knowledge will increase — Newton said that if they were true, it would be necessary that a new mode of traveling would be invented, for knowledge would be so increased that man would be able to travel at the rate of fifty miles an hour.

The atheist Voltaire, when he heard that, replied with true skepticism, saying: “Now look at the mighty mind of Newton, who discovered gravitation; when he began to study the Book called the Bible, it seems to credit its fabulous nonsense, he believed that the knowledge of mankind would be so increased that we shall be able to travel fifty miles an hour! Then Voltaire called Newton a derogatory name, implying that he was feeble-minded because of Newton’s age.

Today, anyone with one-eye and half-sense would have to say that “Newton was the wise one and Voltaire, the poor feeble-minded soul.”1 How Right Environments Lead to God Style Increase, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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The Super Effective Benefit of Praying to God Together In A Group

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Flowing in the Overflow: Why It’s a Powerful God Thing

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Thirteen

Flowing in the Overflow: Why It's A Powerful God Thing

In a previous podcast, ‘Walking Blamelessly Before Almighty God: Why It’s Good,’ we began talking about the nature of overflow. The fact that effective ministry comes from flowing in the overflow. The following illustrative story references three powerhouse preachers of yesteryear, F.B. Meyer, Charles Spurgeon, and G. Campbell Morgan. When F. B. Meyer was pastoring Christ Church in London, Charles Spurgeon was preaching at Metropolitan Tabernacle, and G. Campbell Morgan was at Westminster Chapel. Meyer said, “I find in my own ministry that supposing I pray for my own little flock, ‘God bless me, God fill my pews, God send my a revival,” I miss the blessing; but as I pray for my big brother, Mr. Spurgeon, on the right-hand side of my church, ‘God bless him’; or my other big brother, Campbell Morgan, on the other side of my church, ‘God bless him’; I am sure to get a blessing without praying for it, for the overflow of their cups fills my little bucket.”1 Do you hear the humility in this statement about overflow? Flowing in the Overflow: Why It’s a Powerful God Thing, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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Why You Should Be Jubilantly Expecting Increase

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The Second Coming of Jesus: What Is The Sign?

Encore Podcast: Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twelve

The Second Coming of Jesus: What Is The Sign?

National Geographic did a survey about the End of the World back in 2012. With tsunamis, earthquakes, and financial concerns dominating headline news, National Geographic asked what Americans’ thought about a potential “Doomsday scenario. More than 62 percent of Americans thought the world would experience a major catastrophe in the next 20 years. And nearly three out of every four people (71%) envision a major disaster in their lifetime as an act of God, not man. When the question was asked, ”Which of the following, if any, do you think might happen in the United States in the next 25 years? These were the responses: earthquakes (64%), hurricanes (63%), and terrorism (55%) are the most feared, followed by financial collapse (51%), significant blackout (37%), a pandemic (29%) and nuclear fallout (14%). It’s clear from these stats that the ‘End of the World’ is on people’s minds. In today’s podcast, we focus on the end of the world with the thought, The Second Coming of Jesus: What Is The Sign?

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Are You Willing to Hear the Voice of the Lord?

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How and Why You Should Monitor the Presence of God in Your Everyday Life

Encore Podcast: Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Eleven

How and Why You Should Monitor the Presence of God in Your Everyday Life

Psalm 91 is famous for the comfort it brings to the children of God. Verse one is a declaration about God’s Presence. “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I don’t know about you, but I sure like the sound of abiding under God’s shadow or presence. Don’t you? But, there is even more good news. The Psalmist also declares that in God’s Presence, there is fulness of joy (Psalm 16:11). Joy, peace, and protection, what more can you ask for? And it all comes from His Presence.  How to Cultivate God’s Presence in Your Life, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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How to Build Your Life Praying Bible Prayers

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Walking Blamelessly Before Almighty God: Why It’s Good [Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Ten

Walking Blamelessly Before Almighty God: Why It's Good

In today’s podcast, we address the question of what it means to walk in a blameless fashion before Almighty God. One gentleman said that it’s better to walk with Almighty God than to talk with kings. Now, it’s obvious why that’s true. He is King of all Kings. When you are talking to God, you are talking to Number 1. There is no higher than He. In a sermon on “Enoch walked with God,” Dr. Campbell Morgan gave the following illustration: A little child gave a most exquisite explanation of walking with God. She went home from Sunday School, and the mother said, “Tell me what you learned at school.” And she said: “Don’t you know, Mother, one day they went for an extra-long walk, and they walked on and on, until God said to Enoch, “You are a long way from home; you had better just come in and stay.” And he went.”1 Walking Blamelessly Before Almighty God: Why It’s Good, that’s what we are talking about in this week’s Light On Life.

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#027: Dreams: One Way God Communicates Today [Podcast]

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The Super Effective Benefit of Praying to God Together In A Group

[Encore Podcast]: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Nine

The Super Effective Benefit of Praying to God Together In A Group

The Book of Acts has much to say about the subject of prayer together. If you examine the individual accounts where prayer went up to the Lord and you will find a rich storehouse of information. There are instances where a corporate group of believers is seen praying. The early church spent much time together fellowshipping and praying. Let’s look at some of these cases and look at some of the common denominators involved in yet another kind of prayer. Praying together in a group is our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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#S4-047: Why It’s Important to Live A Separated Life [Podcast]

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Why Walking with God Is Way More Powerful than Individualism

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Eight

Why Walking with God Is Way More Powerful than Individualism

Walking together with God is way more powerful than ‘Lone-Ranger’ individualism. Many Christians have been infected with the most virulent virus of modern American life: radical individualism. They concentrate on personal obedience to Christ as if all that matters is “Jesus and me,” but in doing so, miss the point. Christianity is not a solitary belief system. Any genuine resurgence of Christianity, as history demonstrates, depends on a reawakening and renewal of that which is the essence of the faith—the people of God, the new society, the body of Christ, which is made manifest in the world—the church. So, says Chuck Colson.1

Another person said this about individualism, and I like this really well. He said, ‘Americans are so shaped and stamped by their legacy of individualism that the concepts of community virtue and moral obligation have been discredited in our popular culture, adulthood is too often defined as doing what you want to do, not what you are supposed to do. Making a baby is a sign of status while caring for one is not. Right and wrong are old-fashioned, politically incorrect concepts. And sin? Forget it. The problem doesn’t end with kids getting pregnant and going on welfare.

Half of all Americans who marry and have children eventually divorce. For many, marriage is more like a hobby than a commitment, a phase instead of a trust. We are becoming a country of deadbeat dads who don’t pay their bills and dead-tired moms who work two jobs to pick up the slack. Even many parents who pay for their children don’t pay attention to their children. In so doing, they miss out on some of life’s greatest joys: hearing a small giggle or holding a small hand. As Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders notes, it is easier for many children to find drugs “than it is for them to find hugs.”

The best thing that society can do for its toddlers is to make “parent” an honorable title again. No job is more important, yet no job is more often taken for granted. We teach work skills but not life skills, change a carburetor but not a diaper, and treat a customer but not a kid. Becoming a parent should be the result of love, not just sex, a sign of a lasting relationship, not just a passing infatuation, a source of pride, and not remorse. Only then will our children be safe.’2

That is well said, don’t you agree? Why Walking with God is Way More Powerful Than Individualism — that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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#S2-002: Secrets to Hearing God: Are You Waiting? [Podcast]

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Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

Encore Podcast: Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Seven

Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

The human will is an integral component in receiving healing from God the Father. The Lord doesn’t want your will broken as some have taught. No, the Lord desires that your will be whole, intact, healthy, and ready to receive. In today’s Light on Life podcast, we take a look at the human will and how it factored into the healing of a man who had been ill for a very long time in the ministry of Jesus. We also will look at some steps you can take to hold on to your healing once it has come — because not only does it take faith to get healed, but it takes faith to keep it. Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing, all of this in this week’s Light On Life.

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#S2-037: How to Hold On to What You Got [Podcast]

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How Adjustments Make Prayer A Powerful Weapon for Good

Encore Podcast: Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Six

How Adjustments Make Prayer A Powerful Weapon for Good

In today’s podcast, we cover some practical adjustments to help make your prayer life more powerful. In 1787, prayer helped determine the future of our country in a significant way. The Constitutional Convention was on the verge of total failure over whether small states should have the same representation as large states. In this hopeless situation, 81-year-old Benjamin Franklin offered a suggestion. He was convinced Scripture is right when it states, “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Psalm 127:1), so he said: “Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven to be held every morning before we proceed to business.” The motion carried. From then on, prayer was offered each morning. The change after prayer was introduced was so dramatic that a compromise was reached in a short while, which is still in effect today. 1 God is the same prayer-answering God today as He was for the founding fathers. As they used powerful prayer principles to start this nation, we can use those same principles to keep this nation under God. How Adjustments Make Prayer A Powerful Weapon for Good — that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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Your Powerful Victory Over Satan the Devil – Part 2

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The Power of We In A World Of I

Podcast: Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Five

The Power of We In A World of I

In today’s podcast, we are going to talk about the ‘power of we.’ What do I mean by the ‘power of we?’ What I mean by that is the power of a group versus the power of an individual. The power of we in a world of I. Ecclesiastes says that two are better than one. Why is that? Why is the ability of a group so much more potent than the ability of a single person? The May 1987 edition of National Geographic included a feature about the arctic wolf. Author L. David Mech described how a seven-member pack had targeted several musk-oxen calves who were guarded by eleven adults. As the wolves approached their quarry, the musk-oxen bunched in an impenetrable semicircle, their deadly rear hooves facing out, and the calves remained safe during a long standoff with the enemy. But then a single ox broke rank, and the herd scattered into nervous little groups. A skirmish ensued, and the adults finally fled in panic, leaving the calves to the mercy of the predators. Not a single calf survived. Paul warned the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 that wolves would come after his departure, not sparing the flock. Wolves continue to attack the church today but cannot penetrate and destroy when unity is maintained. When believers break ranks, however, they provide easy prey.1 The group’s ability, the strength found in unity, The Power of We In A World Of I — that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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#S4-049: What the Bible Says about the End of the World [Podcast]

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