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Why Faith and Prayers Are Vital in God’s Great Plan

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Forty-Six

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Why Faith and Prayers Are Vital in God’s Great Plan

You know faith and prayer are two marvelous twins in God’s economy. Last week, I thought we were finished with our series on the Holy Spirit. But yet, there is one more area the Lord wants us to look at together and that’s the Holy Spirit’s involvement with us in prayer. Jesus mentioned a phrase that we want to examine today and that’s ’the House of Prayer.’ There are some organizations that have taken these and actually put together prayer teams that bear the name House of Prayer. Here is the testimony of one such group. “God is currently doing wonderful things through small clusters of Christians who are interceding for their neighbors in Houses of Prayer. A House of Prayer is two or more believers who gather to release God’s power upon their neighbors through prayer and to convey His blessing through deeds of love and kindness. A House of Prayer may be a nuclear family praying in its home. It may be Christian neighbors who don’t actually meet together but network their prayer efforts. Or it may be neighborhood believers who meet regularly for prayer. The House of Prayer strategy comes out of Paul’s charge in 1 Timothy 2:1–4: “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone.” Everyone includes neighbors, especially nonChristians, because “God our Savior wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” Houses of Prayer are attractive today because the method is so simple. If you have neighbors, if you detest Satan’s influence, and if you can devote 15 minutes or more a week to intercession, you are a House of Prayer candidate. Houses of Prayer can be started anywhere.1 This effort is rather structured. Today, I’m going to home in on something not quite as structured but powerfully effective. Why Faith and Prayers Are Vital in God’s Great Plan, 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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What It Means to See with the Eye of Faith

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode Twenty-Eight

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What It Means to See with the Eye of Faith

Jesus alluded to an expression used much today among Jesus followers: the eye of faith. We talk about seeing with 20–20 vision — spiritual vision that is. Holy Ghost vision. Seeing as God see’s not as the world see’s. An artist can paint the physical hands and feet of our Lord, but he cannot paint the healing power of those hands and the godly walk of those feet. [That takes the eye of faith] He can paint the outward suffering, but not the inward cause; the cursed tree, but not the curse of the law; the bearing of the cross, but not the bearing of the sins of His people; the cup of vinegar, but not the cup of wrath—the derision of His enemies and the forsaking of the Father. Where is the artist who can paint one hand of Christ nailed to the cross and the other hand claiming an inheritance of believers? Or who can paint our Lord bruising the serpent’s head, conquering sin, death and the grave? The artist can only portray blood and water flowing from Christ’s side, but he cannot paint what the eye of faith sees in that blood: salvation and pardon. That’s a good word for a good day on Planet Earth. What It Means to See with the Eye of Faith, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why You Should Stand Up for Jesus Even When It’s Controversial

[Tweet “Seeing God’s promises with the eye of faith and knowing God is not a man that He should lie is the ticket to receiving anything from God.”]

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Why Growing in Faith Brings Amazing Results

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eleven Episode One

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Why Growing in Faith Brings Amazing Results

In today’s season opening podcast, [Season 11] our topic of focus is faith, growing faith, faith in God, that is. In previous seasons, we have recorded several podcasts on this subject. Several podcasts are just a soccer ball drop in the ocean for such a vast subject. There is no way one can fully cover this just a few thirty-minute sessions. To fully cover a topic, you must fully know it and, I do not lay claim to this. But the good news here is that faith comes by hearing. And since it does, by hearing we can continually develop and go beyond where we are. So, we need to talk about faith constantly. The Bible talks about it in huge batches and we are following suit. Talking about what God talks a lot about keeps us in a safe place. If you’re interested in what we’ve already discussed on the matter, check the links below and see that all things are possible to them that believe. Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible 1 Abraham Lincoln understood this and chimed in by saying faith is to believe what we DO NOT SEE; and the reward of this [kind of] faith is to SEE what we believe.2 That’s good — you get to see the thing you are believing for manifest in the physical realm. So faith in God, makes visible the invisible. You’ve got to admit that’s pretty exciting? That’s why our focus today is Why Growing in Faith Brings Amazing Results all on this week’s Light on Life.

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The Enormous Need for Believing Jesus Is The I AM

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Reasons Why People Fail to Receive From God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Fifty-One

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Reasons Why People Fail to Receive From God

In today’s podcast, we want to look at some reasons prayer is unanswered. Or, we could say it this way – why some fail to receive from God. William Wilberforce and some of his contemporaries started enormous social reforms in England. This group accomplished it by dedicating a significant amount of time to prayer and consistently devoting three hours to prayer each day. They organized Christians throughout the country to unite in special prayer before critical debates in Parliament. They knew and persistently proved the power of prayer. William Temple replied to his critics who regarded answered prayer as only coincidence, ‘When I pray, coincidences happen; when I don’t, they don’t. Our Lord’s disciples’ request is probably our most needed prayer: “Lord, teach us to pray.”1 So, that’s a terrific testimony to the power of God’s Word. You can receive answers to prayer. But, what’s the deal when you don’t receive an answer, when you pray and nothing happens? Reasons Why People Fail to Receive From God, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Get to Be the Strong Man God Wants You to Be

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Why You Should Never Doubt The Faithfulness of Your Heavenly Father Towards You

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Forty-Five

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Why You Should Never Doubt The Faithfulness of Your Heavenly Father Towards You

The faithfulness of God to His kids is one of the more comforting Bible truths. Most of us have lived long enough to be disappointed with people from time to time. But the Lord remains faithful. Even when you cannot see Him, the Christian believer knows that God is ever so near and close by! Picture a little girl flying a kite on the beach. Her kite is so high in the air that it looks like a speck in the white, cotton clouds. Someone happens by and asks, “What are you doing?” “I’m flying a kite,” the little girl answers. “I don’t see anything. How do you know it’s still there?” “Because, silly,” the girl replies, “I can feel the kite tugging on my hand.” Similarly, when we have faith in God, we feel the tug of His presence even though we cannot see Him.1 In this week’s podcast, we take a look at the faithfulness of God as we close out our series on the book of First Thessalonians. Why You Should Never Doubt The Faithfulness of Your Heavenly Father Towards You — that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why is the Gold Fingered Man in the Book of James Important?

The God of Peace will sanctify your spirit, soul, and body.
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Why the Shield of Faith Is More Than a Match for Devils

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Twelve

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Why the Shield of Faith Is More Than a Match for Devils

Our study on the armor of God brings us today to the shield of faith. What an essential piece of armor this is. You know in December 2004, a single question from a young soldier touched off a media firestorm. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had come to deliver a pep talk to the troops at Camp Buehring in Kuwait. But the usually unflappable secretary found himself blindsided by a bold query. As news cameras rolled, Army Specialist Thomas Wilson of the 278th Regimental Combat Team asked Rumsfeld, “Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?” Specialist Wilson clearly felt he was being sent into battle without proper protection. As Christians, however, we shouldn’t have that fear. Our Supreme Commander generously equips us with the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit. But it’s up to us to put them on and put them to use. Are you using the shield of faith?1 Why the Shield of Faith Is More Than a Match for Devils, 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 Holy Spirit Inspired Hope is the Anchor of the Soul

Podcast: Light on Life Season 9 Episode 18

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Why Holy Spirit Inspired Hope is the Anchor of the Soul

Hope springs eternal; that’s what the writer says, but what does the Bible say about hope? Billy Graham was preaching in Germany one day when German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer invited him to his office: Coffee was served, but before my first sip, the Chancellor started in. “Young men, do you believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ?” “I most certainly do,” Billy Graham replied. “So, do I. If Jesus Christ has not risen from the dead, there is not one glimmer of hope for the human race. When I leave office, I will spend the rest of my life studying and writing about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It’s the most important event in human history.”1 So, the confident expectation of a future event generated via the resurrection of Jesus is one strong source of hope. Why Holy Spirit Inspired Hope is the Anchor of the Soul, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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The Role of the Spirit in the Life of A Believer

[Tweet “Hope reaches out past the ‘doing part of your life’ believing that what is on the horizon will take place.”]

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Three Ways You Can Know That You Are Believing God

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Nine Episode Twelve

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Three Ways You Can Know That You Are Believing God

How can you know that you are believing 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 God 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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Do People Need Miracles to Believe Jesus Is Real

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Nine Episode Five

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Do People Nedd Miracles to Believe Jesus Is Real?

Here’s the question that we will look at in today’s Light on Life podcast. Do people need miracles to believe Jesus is real? The fact that people believe that Jesus does miracles is decidedly true. The percentage of adults who mostly agree or completely agree with the statement, “Even today, miracles are performed by the power of God,” sits at 82%, according to a Princeton Religion Research Center’s PRRC Emerging Trends survey.1

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Jesus Heals A Blind Man: Why You Can Have Hope

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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

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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]

[Tweet Jesus put His finger on the pulse of this man’s problem when He asked, ‘Will you be made whole.’]

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Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

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

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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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Do People Need Miracles to Believe Jesus Is Real

Podcast: Light on Life Season Seven Episode Fifty

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Do People Need Miracles to Believe Jesus Is Real?

Here’s the question that we are going to look at in today’s Light on Life Podcast. Do people need miracles to believe in Jesus? The fact that people really believe that Jesus does miracles is decidedly true. The percentage of adults who mostly agree or completely agree with the statement, “Even today, miracles are performed by the power of God” sits at 82%, according to a Princeton Religion Research Center’s PRRC Emerging Trends survey.1

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Jesus Heals A Blind Man: Why You Can Have Hope

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