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How to Absolutely Discern the Will of God: What the Bible Says

Podcast: Light on Life Season Nine Episode Forty-Nine

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How to Absolutely Discern the Will of God: What the Bible Says

In today’s podcast, we examine one of the most well-known questions that Jesus’ followers pose — how do I discern the will of God for life? We could simply ask the question what is God’s will for my life? This is an essential question that you must walk out in your everyday life. The answer to this question doesn’t come by wondering — it comes by an active, diligent, heartfelt seeking of God. One godly man from the mid-twentieth century had this to say about this area. His name was Dr. Truett. He died in July 1944. One of his most memorable statements was about the will of God. He said, “To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge; to do the will of God is the greatest achievement.” Then he added, “The will of God is not always easy, but it is always right.” One gentleman attended his funeral. He said, ‘As I viewed him in his casket, he held an open New Testament in his left hand. The index finger of his right hand pointed to Matthew 6:10: “Thy will be done.” It was the motto of his life. We should make it ours.’[Herschel H. Hobbs, My Favorite Illustrations (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1990), 124.] How to Absolutely Discern the Will of God: What the Bible Says, this is our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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The Secret to Discerning of Spirits

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More of Eight Ways to Fulfill God’s Purpose for Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season 9 Episode 25

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More of Eight Ways to Fulfill God's Purpose for Your Life

Fulfilling purpose, God’s purpose for your everyday life, is something we should have on our minds. Understanding purpose is like looking at appliances. Everybody has manufactured appliances such as a toaster, refrigerator, stove, microwave, or electric can opener in their homes. These are commonly found in people’s homes, and each has different workmanship. They are designed differently. They have different parts that make them operate. Each one has its unique reasons for being. Now, if that appliance operates outside of its reason for being, we have a problem. If you want to cook things in the refrigerator and freeze things in the stove, you will have a difficult situation in the home because that’s not what the workmanship is for. The workmanship is used for whatever the creator designed it to do. The toaster does not tell the creator what it will do today. The stove does not say to the creator what it will do today. It is the creator that dictates to the appliance the reason why the appliance exists. The appliance does whatever it’s been designed to do. In the same way, we are God’s creation, and He dictates to us why we exist and can tell us what we are designed to do. He gives us our purpose. If we operate outside our reason for being, that’s when we experience problems. Walking in the purpose God designed for us is how we fulfill our unique reason for being.1

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#S2-027: What It Means to Walk After the Spirit and Not the Flesh [Podcast]

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How to Locate the Essential Will of God for Your Everyday Life

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Nine Episode One

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How to Locate the Essential Will of God for Your Everyday Life

Josh McDowell told this great story about finding the essential will of God for your life. An executive hirer, a “headhunter” who goes out and hires corporation executives for other firms, once told me, “When I get an executive that I’m trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk about baseball, football, family, whatever until he’s all relaxed. Then, when I think I’ve got him relaxed, I lean over, look him square in the eye, and say, “What’s your purpose in life?” It’s amazing how top executives fall apart at that question. “Well, I was interviewing this fellow the other day, had him all disarmed, with my feet up on his desk, talking about football. Then I leaned up and said, ‘What’s your purpose in life, Bob?’ And he said, without blinking an eye, ‘To go to heaven and take as many people with me as I can.’ For the first time in my career, I was speechless.” What about you? Do you know what God’s will is for your life? Do you know how to find it? How to Locate the Essential Will of God for Your Everyday Life, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why God Is The Greatest Mystery Writer of All Time [Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season 8 Episode 40

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Why God Is The Greatest Mystery Writer of All Time [Podcast]

One of the most widely used phrases about God involves this area of mystery. ‘God moves in mysterious ways — His wonders to perform’ is what people have parroted for millennial on end. Yet, when you understand what the Bible says about the subject of mystery – you will find that in some ways, He is not as baffling as you would suppose. There are some areas that God kept hidden in His ‘all-knowingness’ but then chose to reveal. We see that mystery unveiled in the pages of the New Testament. You know, since time began, it seems as if there’s been separation among humankind. Prejudice, bitterness, segregation, hatred, disturbance, hurt, anger, and division rage between people. They rage in the hearts of husbands and wives, children and parents, students and teachers, neighbors and workmen, races and religions, denominations and organizations, neighborhoods and nations. Division in all its various forms is one of the most significant problems confronting the world. It is the most severe problem facing men, for as long as men are divided from God and each other, there is no hope of man’s ever being reconciled to God. One of the mysteries hidden in God was to create a new body of people, a people who will love Him and each other supremely. 1 Today, we focus on this subject of mystery and Why God Is the Greatest Mystery Writer of All Time – all in this week’s Light On Life.

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How to Make Certain You Never Backslide

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How Does the Prayer of Consecration Profit Your Life?

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season 8 Episode 26

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How Does the Prayer of Consecration Profit Your Life?

“Will you please tell me in a word,” said a Christian woman to a minister, “what your idea of praying the prayer of consecration?” Holding out a blank sheet of paper the pastor replied, “It is to sign your name at the bottom of this blank sheet and to let God fill it in as He will.”1 This is an excellent illustration of what consecration is. Today’s Light on Life focus is this area of consecrating yourself to the will of God and a type of prayer that you can pray in this area.

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Why It’s Important to Spend Time Talking to God

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How To Understand Gods Plan In The Mouth Of Mortal Man [Encore Podcast]

Podcast: Light on Life Season 7 Episode 25

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How To Understand Gods Plan In The Mouth Of Mortal Man [Encore Podcast]

God has a plan for your life; that’s a Bible fact. One minister trying to add value to this thought said the following: “When speaking to young people, I always enjoy telling them, “Do you realize you were once a sperm?” That’s right. You were once a sperm, and you were one of five million sperm all together in a group. Do you remember? All of you lined up at a starting line, and at the end of a long, long tunnel, there was one egg. There was a race, and you won! Stop to think about that. The odds were five million to one, and you came through. Your victory makes an Olympic gold medal look like nothing by comparison! You came through! You’re a winner! You are here by divine appointment. You are no accident. Think about it. If your mother had had a headache that night, you wouldn’t even exist. You are a very special person!” 1 That’s a cute story injected with a considerable measure of truth. You are no accident. God has no accident’s only ‘on-purposes.’ So in today’s podcast, we are going to focus on the wonders of God’s plan and planning. Understanding God’s Plan in the Mouth of Mortal Man. All this on this week’s Light on Life.

This is an Encore Podcast of an episode we did about nine weeks [#S7-016] ago that had some technical difficulties getting out to our listeners. I apologize for that inconvenience and hope that by replaying this as an encore episode that the truth in this message, the fact the God uses man’s mouth to prophecy His plan into existence, is a meaningful blessing to your life.

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#S3-037: Yet More of How to Overcome Racism in the Church [Podcast]

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Why It’s Never Wise to Not Obey God’s Will for Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 32

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Why It's Never Wise to Not Obey God's Will for Your Life

It’s never wise to not obey God’s will for your life. In the Sound of Music, at the close of a frustrating day, the Reverend Mother asks Maria why she has come to the convent. Hesitating, the troubled girl replies, “To discover and do the will of God.”1 You don’t have to go to a convent or a monastery to find God’s will for your life. There is plenty of God’s will to see in the pages of the Bible. When we look to obey the general principles of God’s will found in the scriptures God is then free to open to us detailed specifics of His plan for our individual lives. Why It’s Never Wise to Not Obey God’s Will for Your Life: that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why You Don’t Have to Be Sick in Light of the Bible

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Why You Need to Tell God You Will Do Anything He Asks

Podcast: Light on Life Season 6 Episode 9

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Consecration: Why You Need to Tell God You Will Do Anything He Asks

“Will you please tell me in a word,” said a Christian woman to a minister, “what your idea of praying the prayer of consecration?” Holding out a blank sheet of paper the pastor replied, “It is to sign your name at the bottom of this blank sheet and to let God fill it in as He will.”1 This is an excellent illustration of what consecration is. Today’s Light on Life focus is this area of consecrating yourself to the will of God and a type of prayer that you can pray in this area.

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Why It’s Important to Spend Time Talking to God

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Why A Good God Has A Good Plan For Your Life

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Why A Good God Has A Good Plan For Your Life

A British train was carrying Queen Victoria was speeding into the darkness of night. Suddenly the engineer saw a startling sight. On the tracks, he thought he saw, in his headlight, a mysterious figure in a black cloak waving his arms. The engineer grabbed for the brakes, and the train came to a screeching halt. When they got out to take a look, they could not find the man that waved his hands. What they did see to their horror was that a few yards away from where they were there was a bridge that had washed out. Had they not have stopped when they stopped they would all met their deaths. They looked for the man that they had flagged them down and could not find him. What they did see was a gigantic moth laying dead on the tracks. What the moth had done was get into the headlights of the train. It looked like a man flagging down the train. The Lord saved that train and its passengers. When you hear stories like this, how can one ever doubt that God is a good God and has a good plan for our lives?

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

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Did You Know that A Good God Has A Good Plan For Your Life?

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A Good God Has A Good Plan for Your Life

A good God has a good plan for your life. He works out portions of the plan getting them ready years in advance. But you have to choose to go God’s way. You have to be sold out to His way of thinking and choose to follow him. Author Max Lucado speaks honestly and to the point when he says, “If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.”1 More importantly show God your willingness to obey Him. When He knows that you love Him and that you will demonstrate that love by trusting Him enough to listen to what He, then, in due time, that plan that plan will unfold in your everyday life.

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Are You A Christian in Hiding?

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Are You A Christian in Hiding?

Don’t Be A Closet Hiding Christian

  • It’s not the way of Jesus.
  • Jesus told us so in the Sermon on the Mount.

Matthew 5:14 (KJV) — 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

  • Are you a Christian in hiding?
  • Have you hidden God’s plan for your life as the man with one talent did in Matthew 25?

Matthew 25:24–25 (KJV) — 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

  • Notice what caused this man to ‘go to earth’ with his talent, fear.
  • He said, ‘I was afraid.’
  • The message of Jesus to us today is fear not.

Luke 12:7 (KJV) — 7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

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More on Revelation and Building the Kingdom of God

The First Epistle to the Corinthians

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You must revelation from God's Spirit to be a wise master builder.

There is nothing like nature to unfold truth about God. Nature is constantly shouting to us about the wisdom and the power of God. It gives a sense of awe and mystery to life. Even atheists cannot fully escape this. God’s revelation in nature is like an orchestra performing a concert. Some people who come to listen hear only the instruments as they express the melody and harmony of the music. But others who come are familiar with the composer and know the words that go with the music. These hear more than the music. In much the same way, only those who have a personal relationship with the Creator through Jesus Christ can really see in all of creation the fullness of what God intended to communicate through it.1 Seeing is part of knowing and knowing is part of building. Those who are God lover’s possess a deep desire to build His Kingdom. How do we do that exactly? Growing the Kingdom starts with growing you.

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