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Amazing Pointers on the Road to Lifting God Higher

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 23

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Amazing Pointers on the Road to Lifting God Higher

On the subject of lifting God higher, Pliny the Younger, governor of Bithynia wrote a letter about A. D. 110 to the Roman Emperor Trajan. Pliny described what he had learned about the Christians and their worship. “They are accustomed to meet,” he says, “on a fixed day before daylight to sing a hymn of praise to Christ as God.” The troubled governor of Bithynia had tried to explain to the Roman Emperor the reason for the spread of the Christian faith, which was extending so rapidly that it was leaving the pagan altars deserted. Unwittingly he had declared the secret of the power of Christianity and its spread in the world—the Christians worshipped and lifted Jesus Christ as God higher.1 Amazing pointers on the Road to Lifting God Higher: that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How Not to Be A Minister of Condemnation

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How to Let the Love of God Dominate Your Life

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How to Let the Love of God Dominate Your Life

The following illustrates the powerful love of God towards man. When God was about to create man, says a Jewish legend, He took into His counsel the angels that stood about his throne. “Create him not,” said the angel of Justice, “for if you do, he will commit all kinds of wickedness against his fellow men; he will be hard and cruel and dishonest and unrighteous.” “Create him not,” said the angel of Truth, “for he will be false and deceitful to his brother-man, and even to You.” “Create him not,” said the angel of Holiness, “he will follow that which is impure in your sight, and dishonor you to your face.” Then stepped forward the angel of Mercy (God’s best beloved) and said: “Create him, our Heavenly Father for when he sins and turns from the path of right and truth and holiness I will take him tenderly by the hand, and speak loving words to him, and then lead him back to You.”1 Man is a love product of a love God. He was created in love. Man is sustained by love. And, when He comes to know Jesus as His personal Savior, the very love of God is shed abroad in his heart. By that very love of God, we live and move and have our being. How can we today, allow that love which is already in us to dominate our lives?

#S3-049: Why It’s Tremendously Important to Take Your Stand [Podcast]

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Three Ways You Can Know That You Are Trusting God

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 22

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Three Ways You Can Know That You Are Trusting God

How can you know that you are trusting God? What does it mean to have faith or to believe? How do you know if you really are believing God for healing or any other Bible promise? Jesus ministered healing to twenty-three individual cases. In the vast majority of these individual cases, you can see evidence of the person’s faith in connection with their healing.  You may have had those times where you thought you believed God, and nothing happened. You were believing the Lord for some healing in your body, and you got no better fast. How do you know if you’ve connected? Everything is by faith. You know and expect by faith. If you want to connect with God, you have to speak in His domain. You have to speak His language. Otherwise, you won’t be heard. Heaven is a faith place. The domain of unbelief is not understood there. You will not connect with heaven’s power if you’re speaking in the wrong realm. So, how do you know if you really are trusting God? One way you can find out? Take the test. There are seven tests which you can apply, which we are going to go over. These are not all the tests there are. These are seven that I know about. In this podcast, we will talk about three of them. How do you know that you are trusting God? That’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why It’s Important to Flow in Faith’s Domain

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Can’t Miss Lessons on the Rod of God

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Can't Miss Lessons on the Rod of God

God can take the ordinary and turn it into something powerfully above and beyond the normal. There are several can’t miss lessons we can glean by looking at how God took a simple stick and transformed it into a tool of righteousness. In today’s blog, we take a look at some can’t miss lessons on the Rod of God.

Why A Good God Has A Good Plan For Your Life

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The Big Scoop on Magnifying God

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 21

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The Bog Scoop on Magnifying God

There is an old Jewish legend on the idea of magnifying God which says that, after God had created the world, He called the angels to Him and asked them what they thought of it; and one of them said, “One thing is lacking: the sound of praise to the Creator.” So God created music, and it was heard in the whisper of the wind, and in the song of the birds. To man also was given the gift of song. And all down the ages this gift of song has indeed proved a blessing to multitudes of souls.1 In this week’s Light on Life we are focusing some on the subject of music, and with that we will carry over and begin to look at some signs the Spirit of God put in the Bible that act as pointers in this area of magnifying God.

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Conscience and the Inward Witness: A Look at the Spirit Led Life

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Jesus Is My King, Do You Know Him?

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Jesus Is My King, Do You Know Him?

That’s My King, Do You Know Him? was the best-known message of Shadrach Meshach Lockridge who was the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, a prominent African-American congregation in San Diego, California, from 1953 to 1993. He was known for his preaching across the United States and around the world.1 We include that transcript below for your edification and blessing.

How You Can Have a Revelation of God’s Power

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More on Praising God: Why the Hour Is Here

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 20

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More on Praising God: Why the Hour Is Here

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer, we act like men; in praise, we act like angels.1 Many struggle with pure praise. At a conference in a Presbyterian church in Omaha, people were given helium-filled balloons and told to release them at some point in the service when they felt like expressing the joy in their hearts. Since they were Presbyterians, they weren’t free to say, “Hallelujah, Praise the Lord.” All through the service balloons ascended, but when it was over one-third of the balloons were unreleased.2 Are you free to praise the Lord? Can you lift your hearts and hands to Him? Here is some encouragement along this line.

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#S3-015: How the Mighty Names of God Energize Your Life [Podcast]

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Worshiping God: Why the Hour Is Here

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 19

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Worshiping God: Why the Hour Is Here

Jesus spoke to certain women at a certain well on a certain noonday in John four. Part of that conversation was about worshiping God. That what is the proper way to engage in that activity. Stephen Charnock said the following on the subject.

“God is a Spirit infinitely happy, therefore we must approach him with cheerfulness; he is a Spirit of infinite majesty, therefore we must come before him with reverence; God is a Spirit infinitely high, therefore we must offer up our sacrifices with the deepest humility; he is a Spirit infinitely holy, therefore we must address with purity; God is a Spirit infinitely glorious, we must, therefore, acknowledge his excellence in all that we do, and in our measures contribute to his glory, by having the highest aims in his worship; he is a Spirit infinitely provoked by us, therefore we must offer up our worship in the name of a pacifying mediator and intercessor.”

1 God is a Spirit that’s what Jesus said to this Samaritan gal and they that worship Him must do it a certain way. That’s the focus of this week’s Light on Life.

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Conscience and the Inward Witness: A Look at the Spirit Led Life

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What the Blessing of Judah Reveals about Praising God

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What the Blessing of Judah Reveals about Praising God

It’s a good thing to be always praising God. While five soloists from the Duke Ellington band danced in the aisles of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., a largely black-tie audience of 1,000 clapped hands to the tune of $12,000 at a musical fund-raiser. “Praise God and dance!” exhorted mellow jazz musician Ellington, and the last section of his Sacred Concert No. 2 began. Band members clapped, thrusting their hands heavenward toward the ceiling high above the arrow-like ribs of the sanctuary. Soon clumps of clappers in the audience joined in, timidly at first, then raising their hands straight up in a fervor of rhythm.1  Clap your hands, stomp your feet, shout unto God, or just raise your hands to Him without doubting, it’s wonderful to be always at the business of praising God.

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

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How Not to Be A Minister of Condemnation

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 18

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How Not to Be A Minister of Condemnation

John Favel, a famous 17th-century Puritan preacher, had this to say about condemnation. “It is easier to declaim, like an orator, against a thousand sins of others than it is to mortify one sin, like Christians, in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.”1 Throughout the ages, there have been many a ‘hellfire and brimstone preacher’ whose primary tool was smoking fiery rhetoric designed to scorch people into heaven. Was Jesus this type of preacher? Did Jesus minister condemnation? If He did, then we should strive to be like Him. But, if he wasn’t, we should stand up and take notice.

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#016: The Secret to Prophecy [Podcast]

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What’s Praise and Worship in Heaven Like?

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What’s Praise and Worship in Heaven Like?

Have you ever thought about what praise and worship will be like in heaven? An evangelist asked all who wanted to go to heaven to raise their hands. Everyone in the audience did so, except for one elderly man sitting near the front of the auditorium. The preacher pointed his finger at him and said, ‘Sir, do you mean to tell us that you don’t want to go to heaven?’ ‘Sure I want to go, but the way you put the question, I figured you were getting up a busload for tonight!’1 Heaven is the most wonderful place ever and as a believer in Jesus it is your eternal destination. And trust me, you want to go there. The praise and worship there is out of this world.

#045: Why is the Throne of God a Merciful Place? [Podcast]

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Are You Devoted To Putting God’s Kingdom First?

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 17

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Are You Devoted To Putting God's Kingdom First?

Are you all in on the idea of putting God’s Kingdom first? Audubon, the well-known naturalist, and artist practiced great self-mastery to learn more about birds. Counting his physical comforts as nothing, he would rise at midnight night after night and go into the swamps to study certain nighthawks. He would crouch motionless in the dark and fog, hoping to discover just one more additional fact about a single species. During one summer, Audubon repeatedly visited the bayous near New Orleans to observe a shy water bird. He would stand almost to his neck in the stagnant waters, scarcely breathing, while poisonous water-moccasin snakes swam past his face. It was not comfortable or pleasant, but he beamed with enthusiasm and is reported to have said, “But what of that? I have the picture of the birds.”

He endured all these things just for a picture of a bird! If a man could be so disciplined for a temporal and physical reward, how much more should your commitment as a child of God be for the imperishable prize before him?1  In this week’s episode we are going to look at a some ‘commitment’ examples, from the Bible; people who illustrated by their choices that seeking first the Kingdom of God is the way to live. All this on this week’s Light on Life.

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Conscience and the Inward Witness: A Look at the Spirit Led Life

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