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Why God Believes You Should Read Holy Spirit Inspired Books

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twenty-Four

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God believes in books. He believes in you reading them. The Lord inspired people to write them. He spoke to them in the night seasons and in their secret times of prayer. That should not be a ‘wow’ statement to you since He is the author of the most extraordinary book ever written, the Bible. It is the number one seller on planet earth! He wants you to read His book often, even daily. The Bible is your contact with Him — it is God speaking to you. Your gateway to freedom lies in your reading it, getting your mind renewed to it, and putting it into operation in your everyday life. The Bible details the way to God, the way to heaven, and how to succeed in all your affairs. Many books have been written about the Bible. Most of them are Holy Spirit-inspired works that are aids to help you understand His most exceptional book. These books are not replacements or substitutes. But the Lord did have them written for your benefit. Here are some thoughts to help you engage this material in your everyday life. Why God Believes You Should Read Holy Spirit Inspired Books, that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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Why Doing the Word of God Is The Ticket to Success

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Why It’s Important to Walk in Love to the Very End

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twenty-Three

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Why It's Important to Walk in Love to the Very End

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. So how can we, today, allow that love which is already in us to dominate our lives? The following illustrates the very 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 Love is the key — it’s the ticket to success. So how can we, today, allow that love which is already in us to dominate our life and do so to the very end? Why It’s important to Walk in Love to the Very End, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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The Anointing in Jesus Life

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Four Things that Will Unnerve Your Spirit Man

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twenty-Two

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Four Things that Will Unnerve Your Spirit Man

The great attorney, orator, and statesman Daniel Webster was such an imposing figure in court that he once stared a witness out of the courtroom. Apparently, Webster knew the man was there to deliver false testimony, so he fixed his “dark, beetle-browed” eyes on the man and searched him. According to the story, later in the trial, “Webster looked around again to see if [the witness] was ready for the inquisition. The witness felt for his hat and edged toward the door. A third time Webster looked on him, and the witness could sit no longer. He seized his chance and fled from the court and was nowhere to be found.” 1 That man ran out of the courthouse because his conscience felt guilty about the lie he was getting ready to tell. His spirit was trying to speak to the man. His conscience, the voice of his spirit man, was trying to get him not to do it. Your conscience will do the same. It will try to lead you out of wrongdoing. Learning to listen to it is a part of growing up in God. Four Things that Will Prick Your Conscience, that’s 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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Why Repentance is a Good Friend and Godly Companion

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twenty-One

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Why Repentance is a Good Friend and Godly Companion

D.L. Moody relayed the following on the subject of repentance. He said, ‘The unconverted have a false idea about repentance; they think God will make them repent. I was once talking with a man on this subject, and he summed up his whole argument by saying:

“Moody, it has never struck me yet.” I said: “What has never struck you.” “Well,” he replied: “Some people it strikes, and some it doesn’t. There was a good deal of interest in our town a few years ago, and some of my neighbors were converted, but it didn’t strike me.”

That man thought that repentance was coming down someday to strike him like lightning. Another man said he expected some sensation, like cold chills down his back. Repentance isn’t feeling. It is turning from sin to God. One of the best definitions was given by a soldier. Someone asked him how he was converted. He said: “The Lord said to me, Halt! Attention! Right about face! March! and that was all there was in it.”1 Moody has it right; repentance is ‘a turning,’ but it’s not just for the unconverted. Repentance Is a Good Friend and Godly Companion for the follower of Jesus. Why this is true is our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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Why Doing the Word of God Is The Ticket to Success

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Why You Need to Know the Healing Ministry of John Alexander Dowie

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Twenty

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Why You Need to Know the Healing Ministry of John Alexander Dowie

You should absolutely read the biographies of great men of God and their healing ministries. If you remember, in a previous podcast, “Why You Can Expect Powerful Healing Moves of God,” we briefly mentioned a man named Edward Irving. Edward Irving was a minister of the Scottish Church in London who began calling for a new expectation for the miraculous. He questioned the cessationists thinking that the age of miracles is past. The result of that call and that questioning? By 1830, Irving’s congregation began to experience supernatural healings as well as ‘speaking with other tongues.’ That’s 1830, approximately 75 years before Azuza. But that may not have been Irving’s greatest contribution to the healing gospel of Jesus Christ. His teachings were exposed to a young ministry study attending the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The student’s name? John Alexander Dowie. We are going to be talking about modern-day healing evangelists in this week’s Light on Life. Why You Need to Know the Healing Ministry of John Alexander Dowie.

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Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

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Why You Should Lift People Instead of Criticizing Their Failures

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Nineteen

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Why You Should Lift People Instead of Criticizing Their Failures

John Favel, a famous 17th-century Puritan preacher, had this to say about criticizing and condemning others. “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 There have been many a ‘hellfire and brimstone preacher’ whose primary tool was smoking fiery rhetoric designed to scorch people into heaven throughout the ages. 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. Why You Should Lift People Instead of Criticizing Their Failures is our focus on this week’s Light On Life Podcast.

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#016: The Secret to Prophecy [Podcast]

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Why Meditating God’s Word is the Breakfast of Champions

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Eighteen

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Why Meditating God's Word is the Breakfast of Champions

Churches today are failing to teach and preach biblical meditation. As a result, Christians are weak and anemic. Biblical meditation must become an integral part of a Christian’s life if he is to be a radiant and victorious Christian.1 There are several reasons why churches are not teaching the Biblical version of meditating God’s Word. Part of it is that the word has taken on negative context because of some practices found in false religions. We will explore that a little bit further later. Notwithstanding the abuse or corruption, there is a Bible concept of meditation, and Jesus followed it. Jesus meditated the Word of God, and I’m going to show that to you in today’s podcast. Why Meditating God’s Word is the Breakfast of Champions – that’s our focus on this week’s Light On Life.

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Faith and Prayer: Important Lessons to Know

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Praise and Worship: Sundry Spirit Lessons for Everyday Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Seventeen

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Praise and Worship: Sundry Spirit Lessons for Everyday Life

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 older 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.

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Amazing Pointers on the Road to Lifting God Higher

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How Praise Powers You to Remarkable God-Style Growth

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Sixteen

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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

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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]

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How Right Environments Lead to God Style Increase

Podcast: Light on Life Season Eight Episode Fourteen

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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

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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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