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ABC Prayer Crusade

Getting Through to God

Glenn Coon

01-Oh God, Do You Care?

02-I Have Trouble Everywhere

03-My Drowning Brother Saved

04-Sincere Sinners

05-Hallelujah 6000 Dollars

06-Then Everything Went Wrong

07-The Agony Was Great

08-Satisfying Fellowship

09-Legalism Be Gone

10-Answers Delayed, Why?

11-Jesus Disobeyed Me

12-Converted Against Her Will

13-Stake Your Claim

14-Eternal Life Now?

In our prayer seminar, we want to know in getting through to God, to whom are we getting through?

Our attitude toward the God of prayer can completely change our whole attitude of prayer.

For instance, if God is eager to answer our prayers, then we'll approach him from a completely different attitude than we will if he's reluctant.

Like the woman in the jungle and she throws her baby into the mouth of the crocodile hoping that way to somehow appease her God and overcome his reluctance.

If we can understand who this is that we're talking to, then we can better understand the science of prayer.

I'd like you to notice several facts tonight.

Number 1, our Father in Heaven is eager to answer our prayers.

Many individuals as they have passed through turmoil and trial and all kinds of horrible experiences are wondering, is God there?

Brother and sister Newhart received the word that their son who was Just on his honeymoon was involved in an accident.

He and his wife lost their lives and their honeymoon trip.

Some dear friends of ours had their lovely little baby all the baby clothes prepared oh they were welcoming their little baby with open hearts and glad some spirits but the little baby passed away in a few days.

The first wonderful answer is found in Calvary Romans 8 32.

He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

You know I'm thinking friends that that when we get into these real heavy problems there's a tendency to forget that our Father in Heaven so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

He gave Jesus to die for you and me that horrible death.

In deepest humiliation he didn't just die a physically suffering death, he died a separation death from his father, he died a second death, he went through the horrible humiliation of 1 who could have spoken a word and the world would have been snuffed out, his enemies could have ceased to have existed and yet he gave his son he didn't give his son friends for an adopted child we'd say that isn't that wouldn't that be wonderful thing if he gave his son his only begotten son for an adopted child wouldn't that be tremendous he gave his son for enemies he gave his son for sinners He gave his Son for those who hated him and our Lord went through the most horrible suffering for us.

He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Somebody said where was God when my son was was perishing in Vietnam Someone else said he was the same place.

I thank the Lord that we have a God who is not merely eager but he's so eager that he poured out all heaven in the gift of Jesus Christ.

I have found that when you and I really raise doubts in regard to God's love, we forget Calvary, we forget the awful suffering of the Son of God, we forget that God himself who is the embodiment of love suffered intensely in the death of his son.

He presents God as a parent, a heavenly parent, but not all parents are good.

Some are evil, some are cruel, but when we look to Calvary we see what kind of a parent God is.

And Jesus said if you evil parents, Luke 11 13, if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father, that is the 1 who gave his only begotten Son, how much more will he freely give the Holy Spirit?

And when he says he'll give the Holy Spirit All the blessings of heaven come to us through the Holy Spirit.

Retainments come through the Holy Spirit.

Conversion comes through the Holy Spirit.

Forgiveness is the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Eternal life is the gift of the Holy Spirit.

So he said he'll freely give him as a good parent.

Even an evil parent will give good gifts.

What about the God who gave his son to die on Calvary?

Several years ago there was a minister and his wife who lived in Boston Massachusetts and in the dead of winter there was a tremendous blizzard that started.

They had a little 18 month old baby and as the blizzard was starting this little baby girl had a fever.

The fever raged for 4 days and the blizzard raged for 4 days coincidentally as the blizzard subsided the fever subsided but the little girl had eaten nothing she was very weak She kind of wobbled out of bed and wobbled over to Mother and looked up into Mother's face and she said, Mommy, apple?

She was so weak she could hardly say apple.

And Mother knew there wasn't an apple in the house.

So mother gave a searching look in the direction of daddy and the little girl followed mother's eyes and the little girl walked over to daddy and put 1 hand on 1 knee and 1 on the other knee and she looked up into daddy's face and she said, daddy, apple?

And daddy knew there wasn't an apple in the house.

And he knew that the blizzard had left the snow waist deep.

You know you can't walk through snow waist deep.

You have to wallow on all fours, unless you've already shoveled a path, and there's no path.

He put on his heaviest winter attire, wallowed through the snow on and on, hopping and puffing finally somewhere, I don't know where, he found an apple.

He came back with this apple again, wallowing through the heavy snow, walks in this house all exhausted, goes to his little daughter and hands her an apple.

Why did that father go through all of that heavy, exhausting labor just to get 1 apple?

Jesus said if an earthly father, if we were sinful, will do that much for a child, what will God do as we reach up and lay hold of his promises?

Many years ago I was attending a service in the large Constitution Hall in Washington DC.

A very noted evangelist had been advertised and to tell you the truth I had some prejudice in my mind concerning him but I thought I will go and find out why he gets such audiences.

As I sat there and there were thousands of people in that large auditorium, he stepped to his feet and he opened his Bible to the Second Chronicles chapter 16 verse 9 and as he read that verse, though I had read my Bible through many times, This verse had never made an impact on me until then.

The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to make himself strong in behalf of those whose hearts are perfect or who are settled looking to him.

I said isn't that a picture of God looking all over the world hoping that somebody will look skyward to receive what he has to offer?

I said my thank the Lord this is God he's the God of Calvary he's the wonderful heavenly parent.

And he's looking around, hoping that people look skyward.

And you know, just about this time as I present this, I imagine someone in my audience is saying, if God is that kind of a God, how come that I've not been able to get through to him?

How come that some of my most urgent prayers have never been answered?

Here's a text of scripture that sometimes I claim as many as 3 and 4 times a day.

It is Isaiah the 42nd chapter and the 16th verse and the Lord is speaking.

He said I will bring the blind by way that they knew not.

I will lead them in paths that they've not known.

I will lead the blind in a path they've not known?

Oh I thought that we had the right to sort of tell the Lord now this is the way I'd like to get my answer and if he's really going to answer he would answer the way I asked him to.

In 90 cases out of 100 in my own life I have received answers in a way that I have never expected.

So if we start shaping God up and saying Lord this is the way you you must answer Lord if you're there you must do it the way I tell you.

Oh, no, no We can't pit our finite creaturely human wisdom against the wisdom of the infinite creator He said I will do it in my way.

My way is infinitely better than your way Your concepts are earthly you're sinful creatures.

When our daughter Juanita was just a little tight, 1 day I walked in the front room and I was horrified.

She was just placing in her mouth a Gillette safety razor blade.

And I saw her open her mouth and put this blade on her tongue.

Before she could close her mouth, the Lord had impressed me to open my mouth because I noticed that my daughter did a lot of the things she saw her daddy do.

Those were the only times I was ashamed of her.

So I opened my mouth and I said, Neeta, and she opened her mouth a little more and I saw that razor blade blade just teetering on her on her tongue I said Neeta Neeta Neeta and she looked at me that razor blade was just teetering Very slowly I walked in her direction, I placed my thumb and finger in place, placed my thumb and finger right in her mouth, Neeta, Neeta, and I slipped the razor blade right out.

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Getting Through to God

01-Oh God, Do You Care?

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Dear and Dangerous Occupations

37m

Rest and Relationship

33m

The Unhindered Gospel

God’s Sustaining Power

47m

These Things We Know

These Things We Know: God Is the Relentless Redeemer

1h

Faith in Action

Making Disciples

56m

Beat Diabetes, Prediabetes, & Overweight

Beat Diabetes, Prediabetes, & Overweight - Part 1

1h 7m

Plenaries with Norman McNulty

Adventism and the Vindication of God

53m

Plenary

Almost Engaged

49m

From the Weed of Death to the Word of Life

1h 12m

Revelation Today Crusade

13. America In Bible Prophecy

50m

Biblical Perfection In the Light Of Justification- Part 2

41m

Mothers, Daughters, and The Great Physician

45m

Sound Doctrine