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The Great and Hidden Importance of Africa in God’s Will

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Eighteen

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The Great and Hidden Importance of Africa in God’s Will

In our last episode, we saw that consistency is the missing link between knowing God and experiencing Him. But that raises a deeper question—how does that consistency connect to the will of God for your life? Discover why God’s will is not something you stumble into—but something you step into through consistency, willingness, and wholehearted pursuit. In this week’s podcast, we unpack how consistent obedience to God’s Word leads to real, experiential knowledge of Him and positions you to walk in His divine plan. You’ll learn why the will of God requires an all-in response, how compromise and mixture can derail your direction, and what it truly means to seek God with your whole heart. If you’ve ever wondered how to find God’s will for your life, this teaching will challenge you to move beyond hesitation and into decisive obedience. God’s plan is not hidden—it is revealed to those who are willing and who seek Him with everything. The Great and Hidden Importance of Africa in God’s Will, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: God’s will isn’t something you find by waiting—it’s something you step into through willingness, consistency, and all-in obedience.

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The Surprising and Powerful Impact of Godly Consistency

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Seventeen

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The Surprising and Powerful Impact of Godly Consistency

Consistency is the missing link between knowing about God and having true experiences Him. In this episode of Light on Life, we uncover how a life of habitual, continual, and consistent obedience to God’s Word transforms head knowledge into real, lived-out relationship. Drawing from 1 John 2 and the expanded insight of Wuest’s translation, we’ll see that experiential knowledge of God is not reserved for a few—it is the inevitable result of aligning your life with His Word. If you’ve ever wondered why some believers walk in depth and others remain shallow, the answer comes down to one word: consistency.

This Week: Consistency turns what you know about God into what you experience with Him.

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How to Know God for Real: Loving Him With Your ALL

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Thirteen

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How to Know God for Real: Loving Him With Your ALL

Knowing God is not a vague spiritual idea—it is a lived reality that can be tested, proven, and experienced. In this episode of Light on Life, we move from revelation into relationship, uncovering how the Word of God defines what it truly means to know God. First John shows us that knowing Him is not measured by words or feelings, but by a life that guards His Word, walks in obedience, and loves Him with everything—heart, soul, mind, will, emotions, and strength. If you’ve ever wondered whether your relationship with God is real and growing, this teaching will give you clear, biblical markers to know that you truly know Him. How to Know God for Real: Loving Him With Your ALL, all on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: How loving God with your ALL—heart, soul, mind, will, emotions, and strength—proves that you truly know Him and moves you from revelation into real relationship.

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Why Walking with God Every Day Is the Jesus Way

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Seven

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Many believers desire to walk with God, yet few understand that the Jesus life was never meant to be occasional—it was designed to be lived every single day. Scripture reveals that God’s mercy is new every morning, His provision is daily, and His strength is available for every step we take on His perfect path. God never intended faith to be sporadic — He designed it to be daily. Why Walking with God Every Day Is the Jesus Way, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: Why the Jesus life is an every day walk—and how consistent faith positions you for continual spiritual growth.

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Profitable Elements that Elevate Your Word Life in God

Podcast: Light on Life Season Thirteen Episode Four

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God’s Word is life to those who find it and health and healing to all their flesh— so says the writer of Proverbs. Jesus said His Words are Spirit and life. That’s monumental. In this Light on Life episode, we look at what it means to build a profitable Word life and why spiritual increase doesn’t happen by wishing—it happens by applying yourself. Using the picture of a climber driving pegs into rock, we learn that growth takes effort, and effort not applied becomes lost ground. If you want to press upward, refuse spiritual drift, and grow strong in God, this message will give you Profitable Elements that Elevate Your Word Life in God, all on this week’s Light on Life.

This Week: Build a profitable Word life—press upward, refuse drift, and drive Scripture pegs into your daily walk.

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Why Money Hungering Greed Is Not God’s Way To Happiness

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Forty-Seven

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Why Money Hungering Greed Is Not God's Way To Happiness

Greed has always been one of the most dangerous distortions of spiritual leadership. In Jude 10–11, false teachers are exposed as people who abandon God’s way for personal gain, following the paths of Cain and Balaam. This episode of Light on Life takes a clear-eyed look at Balaam’s error—how greed, divination, and profit-driven prophecy stand in direct opposition to trusting the living God. As Scripture interprets Scripture, we see that when people turn from God’s Word to pursue money, deception follows, truth is abandoned, and spiritual destruction is never far behind. That’s Why Money Hungering Greed Is Not God’s Way To Happiness.

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Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus Is Our Cornerstone

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-Seven

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Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus Is Our Cornerstone

Jesus is our cornerstone—the solid foundation on which everything lasting and true is built. In Matthew 21:42, Jesus points to Himself as “the stone the builders rejected” that God has made the cornerstone. What others dismissed, God exalted. What the world saw as weakness, God made strength. Every part of our faith, our hope, and our purpose rests on Him. Without the cornerstone, the structure collapses—but with Christ in His rightful place, everything holds together, steady and unshakable. In this week’s Light on Life podcast, we tackle the subject of how we are ‘Built on the Powerful Rock: Jesus as Our Cornerstone.’

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The Value of Humility and Consecration in the Miracles of God

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The Value of Humility and Consecration in the Miracles of God

Becoming a disciple of Jesus means becoming a committed follower. It is a learning position as Matthew 11:29 states. There is so much to learn and know about the Lord. One area where we need to go to school is the miracles of God. Yes, it’s a school, and the Holy Spirit is the teacher. Jesus said, ‘The works that I do, you will also do and greater works than these shall you do because I go unto the Father’ — John 14:12. As an aspiring disciple, it is necessary to learn about the miracles of God.

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Family versus Discipleship, Do You Have These Right?

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Family Versus Discipleship: Do You Have It Right?

The family is such an important blessing from the hands of the God to the inhabitants of planet earth. We get to have a family in heaven and also experience family in the earth. Family is a bid deal. But, like all other blessings, there’s order and balance. We can allow any blessing from heaven to become bigger in our lives than the Blesser who bestowed it. That’s the danger. A Jesus follower has this issue to walk out. To enjoy the blessing of God all the while keeping God first in his heart and life. It’s a challenge for any disciple of Jesus. How are you doing in this all-important area?

[Tweet “Jesus, Abraham, Elisha, & the Apostles all fielded the family or God first question. What about you?”]

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Focused Cross Carrying Disciple of Jesus Is That You?

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Are You a Cross Carrying Disciple of Jesus?

It is possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp follower without being a soldier of the king; to be a hanger-on in some great work without pulling one’s weight. Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man. He said, “So and so tells me that he was one of your students.” The teacher answered devastatingly, “He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students.” There is a world of difference between attending lectures and being a student. It is one of the supreme handicaps of the Church that in the Church there are so many distant followers of Jesus and so few real disciples.1 What kind of disciple are you?

[Tweet “Isn’t it telling, that there are believers going to ‘war’ in Jesus Name while others are just sitting around?”]

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Why You Need to Pour Your Jesus Life Into Others

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Discipling Is Where You Pour Your Life Into Others

A young man who works in an aquarium explained that the most popular fish is the shark. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. Sharks can be six inches long yet fully matured. But if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. That also happens to some Christians. I’ve seen some of the cutest little six-inch Christians who swim around in a little puddle. But if you put them into a larger arena—into the whole creation—only then can they become great.1 Is it your goal in life to just be a cute six-inch puddle swimming Christian? Wouldn’t you rather get out into the ocean and make a big splash for the Kingdom of God? How do you do it? First, you have to make a decision about being willing to pour your life into others.

[Tweet “Ministry, discipling, and teaching, is where you share and pour your spiritual growth into people.”]

For more on this subject see ‘How to Develop Spiritually [Podcast].’
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A Startling Fact about Security and Following Jesus

Discipleship Principles

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At the University of Oklahoma, for many years a project was underway to teach a fifteen-year-old female chimpanzee named Washoe to talk by combining sign language with simple recognition. Since 1966, this chimpanzee learned 140 signs. Finally, the project directors decided that Washoe was prepared to “conceptualize.” This meant that instead of merely imitating some human’s words, the chimp would express thoughts of her own. Now, understand, Washoe was a pampered animal in the university’s laboratory—well fed, physically comfortable, safe from harm. She had security. And yet, when she was able to put words together on her own into a phrase, these were the first three—and she has said them again, repeatedly—“Let me out.” 1 Even a chimp knows that security is not everything in life.

[Tweet “Following God, reading His Word and hearing His voice, will keep your life on a razor’s edge.”]