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Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Nine

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Why God's Spirit Is Vital for Your Life

In ancient times, the Lord, by God’s Spirit, arrested people’s attention via the use of miracles. You know miracles by definition is where God intervenes, by His great power, and stretched out arm, suspends the ordinary course of nature. One writer said that, ‘Religion had its beginnings with a sense of awe and power outside the visible world. The Spirit came to Samson and he demonstrated miraculous strength. The Spirit enabled Joseph to interpret puzzling dreams and to withstand the hostility of his brothers and sensual temptations in Egypt. The prophets declared the Spirit as righteousness and felt the Spirit within them. The Spirit enabled David to conquer one crisis after another. The Spirit of God devastated Saul of Tarsus and later cleansed and commissioned him to proclaim the gospel. Sustained by the Holy Spirit in the wilderness, Jesus came to His hometown of Nazareth and, standing up in the familiar synagogue, declared: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach” (Luke 4:18).’1 You see, it’s the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God that’s the common denominator. That’s why in this podcast we will focus on ‘Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life’ all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

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Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Eight

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Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You

Have you ever wondered how the Holy Spirit can enter a human spirit? You know that’s what the Bible says. The Spirit of God will be with you and He will be in you. How can God’s spirit be in your spirit? A.W. Tozer offered this explanation. One quality belonging to the Holy Spirit, of great interest and importance to every seeking heart, is penetrability. He can penetrate matter, such as the human body; He can penetrate mind; He can penetrate another spirit, such as the human spirit. He can achieve complete penetration of and actual intermingling with the human spirit. He can invade the human heart and make room for Himself without expelling anything essentially human. The integrity of the human personality remains unimpaired. Only moral evil is forced to withdraw. The metaphysical problem involved here can no more be avoided than it can be solved. How can one personality enter another? The candid reply would be simply that we do not know, but a near approach to an understanding may be a simple analogy borrowed from the old devotional writers of several hundred years ago. We place a piece of iron in a fire and blow up the coals. At first we have two distinct substances, iron and fire. When we insert the iron in the fire we achieve the penetration of the fire by the iron. Soon the fire begins to penetrate the iron and we have not only the iron in the fire but the fire in the iron as well. They are two distinct substances, but they have co-mingled and interpenetrated to a point where the two have become one.1 The human spirit is the essential part of your being. And so in this podcast, we are going to talk about “Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You”, all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Demonstrating the Glory of God

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What It Means to Have a Strong Spirit

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Seven

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What It Means to Have a Strong Spirit

Having a strong spirit, that is being strong in the Lord is an oft quoted word of encouragement that has entered many an ear. Thank God for those who love us enough to lift us and encourage us. But, sometimes we need help with this strength piece. Minister Bob Russell wrote about a father who watched through the kitchen window as his small son attempted to lift a large stone out of his sandbox. The boy was frustrated as he wrestled with the heavy object because he just couldn’t get enough leverage to lift it over the side. Finally the boy gave up and sat down dejectedly on the edge of the sandbox with his head in his hands. The father went outside and asked, “What’s wrong, Son? Can’t you lift that rock out?” “No, sir,” the boy said, “I can’t do it.” “Have you used all the strength that’s available to you?” the father asked. “Yes, sir,” the boy replied. “No, you haven’t,” the father said. “You haven’t asked me to help you.”1 We all need help. We all need strength — the strength that only God can gives by grace. Thank God it’s available for you and me. So that’s why in this podcast, we are covering What It Means to Have a Strong Spirit, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Conquer An Ungodly Habit

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Why Tremendous Liberty Is Found Only in Jesus

Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season 12 Episode 26

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Freedom Insights from the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus

True liberty is found only in Jesus, a truth revealed in Romans. As we celebrate Independence Day here in the United States, the concept of freedom looms more pronounced than ever. The overturning of Roe V Wade a few years ago was a historic moment, sparking protests from those who saw it as an infringing on freedom of choice. But is the freedom to choose all there is to freedom? Romans 8:2 says, ‘For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.’ Only Jesus offers real liberty from sin and death. Why God’s Tremendous Liberty Is Only Found in Jesus, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Good News! Why the Curse of the Law Is Powerless

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Five

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Good News! Why the Curse of the Law Is Powerless

You may have read through the book of Galatians and read that Christ redeemed us from the Curse of the Law. You may may have wondered at the same time what that statement means. What is the Curse of the Law and what does it mean to be redeemed from it? Well, that’s what the scripture says and it certainly has to be good news if we can understand how to act on it! The idea of redemption takes us to Calvary. But, even reading the physical account of what happened on Golgotha’s hill doesn’t uncover what happened in the spirit realm. So much just cannot be understood by looking at the physical. You know, 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. This same artist can paint the outward suffering of Jesus, but not the inward cause. He can paint the cross, 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 but not 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 for 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.1 He cannot paint redemption. But, I am here to tell you today that what the artist can’t do, the Holy Spirit can do. That’s why we today we will take a look at the Good News! Why the Curse of the Law Is Powerless — all on this week’s Light on Life.

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What Happens When An Adulteress Meets The Light Of The World?

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The Amazing Role of Praying Elders in the Church

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Four

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The Amazing Role of Praying Elders in the Church

James chapter five has several references to praying for others, starting with the elders of the church praying. Unfortunately, countless Christians become selfish in their prayers. They pray for themselves and their families and care little about others. The moon is a lavish giver that owes all her beauty to her habit of giving. Suppose the moon should swallow up and keep to herself all the years of light which the sun gives her and should refuse to share them with us; what would the effect be? She would stop shining. The moment she stopped shining, she would lose all her beauty. All the beauty and the brilliancy of a diamond are caused by its reflecting, or giving away, the light which it receives. It is the same way with the moon. If it should stop shining, or giving away the light it gets from the sun it would hang up in the sky like a great, black, ugly-looking ball. All its brightness and beauty would be gone. Which would we rather be, as we pray: a black ugly ball in God’s sky, or a shining light, constantly giving of the light we so abundantly receive?1 Of course, the answer is obvious and that’s why we are talking about The Amazing Role of Praying Elders in the Church on this week’s Light on Life.

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Seeing God: Is It Possible to Do?

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Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Three

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Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith

Would it be fair in your thinking to acknowledge that Jesus followers should be intense people of faith? We focus quite a bit on faith and that’s good and right – the Bible mentions faith and it’s synonyms over 500x. But, what about the adjective intense to describe our faith? Not just faith but intense faith. Would that adjective describe you? Oswald Chambers was a Scottish Baptist minister who wrote an extremely well-known devotional called ‘My Utmost for His Highest.’ On the subject of sanctification, he wrote the following. Chambers said, ‘sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view. It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God’s purpose only. Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for? And then after His work is done in us, are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did? “For their sakes I sanctify Myself.”’1 I like that. Sanctification is an intense concentration on God’s point of view. What about faith? Shouldn’t the life of faith have an intense concentration on trusting God? Does that thought register in your thinking? Well, that’s what we are going to focus on in this podcast: Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith — all 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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How to Gain Victory Over Deadly Diseases

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Two

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How to Gain Victory Over Deadly Diseases

In last week’s podcast, we shared a victory testimony of God’s magnificent healing power as it relates to the deadly disease of addiction. In that episode, we pointed out some lessons we can learn from God’s dealings with others. That testimony that we examined was from a medical doctor who lived in the late 19th century and early 20th century. God healed her from a severe drug addiction. We are going to follow that same MO this week of looking for valuable lessons, but from a more modern perspective, a woman healed of cancer who lived [and in fact is still alive] during our day. A. W. Tozer said that because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.1 What does that statement mean? It means the wisdom of God holds the answers for everyone. And since the Word of God is the Wisdom of God, then, your answers, my answers, anybody’s answers are in the Bible. We just have to know where to look, and have revelation of how things operate. So, let’s get our faith pointed towards the Lord and let’s examine another testimony in the revelation light of God’s Word. How to Gain Victory Over Deadly Diseases, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

Know that when your faith is tested by devils who want to dilute the abilities of your great God by casting dispersions upon His Word, know that in that hour, the Word of God — the Bible is your best friend.. Share on X
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Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-One

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Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies

Testimony’s of God’s delivering power are both thrilling and awe inspiring to hear especially the divine healing variety. In today’s podcast, we will try to dissect one such healing testimony. It is a little different from our normal podcasts. Now, this testimony that I am getting ready to share is not the one we are going to be examining but it’s cool none the less to see our Great God at work. Tyler Clarensau, fifteen, shuffled to the altar in Park Crest Assembly of God in Springfield, Missouri, to ask for healing. The surgery he’d had to correct his malformed knee joints had left him with swelling and terrible pain. Forty Pentecostal teenagers formed a circle around Clarensau and began to pray. Gradually, the whole congregation joined in. Some forty-five minutes later, silence fell. Then one of the church volunteers announced that God had healed Clarensau. Clarensau shakily stood up, then did deep knee bends—something he hadn’t accomplished in years. Today Clarensau can walk—even run. “I’d heard about people getting healed,” he says. “I thought it was pretty cool. But I didn’t know for sure about such healing until it happened to me.”1 Healing can happen to you. You can receive God’s restoring touch from heaven as well as learn from others who have already experienced God in this way. Valuable Lessons From Instructive And Inspiring Healing Testimonies, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Your Miracle Testimony Gives Glory to God

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Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty

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Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus

We have been on a four-week journey of endeavoring to grasp an understanding of what James meant when he said, “Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial.” We’ve looked at the word steadfastness in depth. In today’s podcast, there’s one more place that we can walk that if we go down that avenue, we will find tremendous help. I believe the Lord wants you to be helped and encouraged in these areas. Well, in fact, He wants you to be helped in all areas. ‘Lord, you are so good to us.’ Glory to your Name. That area where the Lord wants to help us in ‘abiding’ in His Son, Jesus. There’s an absolute link between steadfastness and abiding. You can hear that these words are similar just from speaking these two words in your own hearing. A rather well-known pastor gave the following illustration on abiding. He said a dinner plate left out overnight will be hard to clean in the morning. Now, I speak to you from a place of experience here, having watched my wife Sharon in action. Sharon washes the plates in the sink so vigorously that you can hear the leftover sauce crying out for mercy as it goes down the drain. After that, she puts these already squeaky-clean plates in the dishwasher, subjecting them to even more torture. On top of that, she went and got the dishwasher supercharged. We had a repair guy come over and it is a device now of mass destruction where germs are concerned. Leftover bits have no hope — do you understand NO HOPE in the Horvath household? But this pastor said, “An alternative to scrubbing is soaking the dish in hot water and dishwashing liquid. Letting a dish abide in the solution will allow a hard cleaning job to become a lot easier. This is what abiding does for Jesus followers. We are much easier to clean up when we’ve been hanging out in the right environment. Religion says “Scrape off the dirt.” It tells us to apply elbow grease to fix a problem. Relationship says “Soak.” Just sit in the hot water for a while. Abiding will set you free.”1 We are going to talking about abiding today as it relates to steadfastness in this podcast entitled ‘Great Life Changing Lessons on Abiding in Jesus’ all on this week’s Light on Life.

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More of Why Believing and Abiding Is the Key to the Happy Life

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Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Nineteen

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Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious

Have you ever pretended to be patient? Perhaps the partner you were courting kept you waiting or a colleague delayed the start of the meeting. You smiled and told the person that it didn’t matter as you prided yourself on your calm endurance. But patience is not just blind resignation to unavoidable facts. During the shock and numbness of tragedy, many adopt a fatalistic acceptance that whatever will be, will be. But that acceptance is made in defeat rather than in hope. The patience that God wants to build in us must be more dynamic than resignation to the inevitable; it must be authenticated by true peace.1 Patience that depends on a particular temperament or personality is doomed to failure. There was an impatience survey of 1,003 adults done in 2006 by the Associated Press and Ipsos and they discovered: While waiting in line at an office or store, most people take an average of seventeen minutes to lose their patience. On hold on the phone? — most people lose their patience in nine minutes. Women lost their patience after waiting in line for about eighteen minutes. Men lost it after fifteen minutes. People with lower income and less education are more patient than those with a college education and a high income. That’s what the survey said. People who live in the suburbs are more patient than people who live in the city.2 I put the link in the podcast notes for this survey. We need patience the inspired writer of Hebrews declares so that we can inherit God’s promises. That’s why it’s vital for us to take a look at Why Faith and Patience Makes You Victorious all on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why Should You Embrace Patience to Overcome Trials? – [James 1:2-4]

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How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Eighteen

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How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory

These podcasts on steadfastness, perseverance, and now endurance are all based on one Greek word ‘hypomonē.’ In each episode, we are using a different synonym for this Greek word as we continue to talk about the vital nature of ‘hypomonē, in the everyday life of a Jesus follower. There’s quite a bit to talk about as this word appears 32x in the New Testament. Concerning the idea of endurance, one gentleman gives the following illustration. He said, “After college and marriage, I found it easy to put on weight and get out of shape. A year ago, I became committed to working hard to take the “sag” out of my sagging waistline. Day after day, I worked hard on cardiovascular exercise and weight training, seeming to get nowhere. Straining. Sweating. Sucking wind. Questioning my sanity. But then after several months, it was as though a quantum leap occurred. Weight began to drop off. Muscle began to get toned. And endurance increased significantly. Medical friends tell me that during the constancy of working out, regardless of how I felt, a whole new freeway system of small blood vessels and capillaries was forming within my body. Then came the day when they decided it was time for a “grand opening.” Suddenly, more blood came flooding into the muscle tissue, and the resultant benefits seemed to be exponential Likewise, when we’re walking through the depths of trials, God is building up a secondary support system of endurance, that we might be even more prepared for the next time adversity comes our way.” 1 That’s a helpful illustration don’t you think? Here you are. You are staying consistently constant in your spiritual disciplines and it seems like not much is happening. Then all of a sudden — BANG! — A huge growth spurt takes place.It works this way in prayer as well. Here you are. You are standing on the Word of God with steadfast endurance and it seems like you’re going nowhere fast. Then all of a sudden — BANG! — Manifestation occurs — healing happens — revelation comes — direction is given. In a moment, everything is made different. That’s the marvelous benefit of endurance. How Endurance Filled Hope Leads to Powerful Victory; that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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Choosing to Serve God with Joy

We need steadfastness, that is perseverance, or endurance to make it though any test or trial. It comes by praying to God for His strength. Share on X