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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?

Some time ago we were holding a series of meetings out in Texas and a young lady came for counsel and Brother Steve and brother David and I were there together in our motor home and she said 1 of the problems she had was witnessing and I'll never forget brother Steve's reply.

He said, sister, the reason you have a problem in witnessing is you don't have anything to witness for.

30 minutes later she walked out of that motor home with something to witness, to witness to Jesus Christ.

I'd like to share with you some of the steps that I personally took in witnessing for Jesus.

And more or less, these are the same 7 steps that sinners have taken generally through the ages.

In Isaiah the sixth chapter, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord, and then followed the call to witness.

In the first chapter of Jeremiah, he said, the Lord talked to me, and then followed his witness.

The apostle Paul said, he heard the voice of God and Jesus talked to him and he captured a picture of the crucified and then he went out to witness.

When I was 6 years of age, in a little old farmhouse upstairs, my bedroom mother was sweeping the floor, and she was telling me the simple story of Jesus.

I can't describe what that story meant to me.

She told the story from the time that he was a little babe in Bethlehem, with the stars that twinkled over that city.

On through his early life, on into his ministry, and then his final trials, his famous march to Calvary, amid insult and mockery.

And then I saw him strung up between heaven and earth and my friends mother's simple description of the love of Jesus Christ broke my heart and the love of Jesus converted me and that is the first the first step a picture of Jesus.

The second step is the response to that picture of Jesus.

And she turned me to 1 John, the first chapter and the ninth verse, and it says, if we confess our sins, let's quote it together, shall we?

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And I knelt down with mother and I confessed that I was a sinner and I just believed that the Lord had forgiven and cleansed me.

And I reached up in simple childlike faith and accepted his cleansing.

Sometime after this, the next step was taken.

I dreamed that my brother Lester was only 2 years older than I, was out in the ocean waves drowning just near shore.

I was standing on the home shore and I saw his body cupped in 1 of these angry waves and the waves between him and me were very high and furious.

I saw his face looking at me in a most pleading fashion.

And then I realized these angry waves were between him and me.

How in the world could I ever get to him?

And while I was trying to figure some way by which I could get to him and my whole soul was plowed up in agony for him, the tears rolling down my cheeks, I suddenly awakened.

And then a thought voice, the voice of the Holy Spirit, spoke to me and said, son you have brothers and sisters all over the world.

I want you to go out and throw out the lifeline and save them.

You'll be the instrument in my hands to rescue them.

And I remember, I looked up in the face of the Lord and I said, Lord, I've never been able to do anything right.

I was the bullhead of the family, always doing things in the wrong way.

Lord, I've never been able to do things right and around the home, I've tried, but I failed.

How in the world, Lord, could I ever do this?

And the thought voice of my Lord spoke said I'll teach you I'll show you how you can be my instrument and with the tears rolling down my cheeks I said Lord if you will show me I shall be happy too because I was thinking my drowning brother and the agony and the and the Sympathy that I had for him and that same sympathy went out toward all who would be drowning in the waves of sin And he said you will go and I'll be with you Now this was my response to his call.

The call was a third step and my response was the fourth step.

As later on I read of the story of Isaiah I found it was the same.

He said, I saw the Lord And then I responded and I said woe is me for I'm undone There he was confessing his sins to the Lord and then he heard a voice saying whom shall we send?

And he took the fourth step saying here am I Lord send me I found that Jeremiah passed through the same general steps.

All of us sinners must go through those steps.

We must understand his immutable, eternal, gracious love or we have nothing to share.

The fifth step that I took was that of intercession.

As I'd walk down the little dusty roads out there in the country, I would look at the houses on the right hand and on the left, and I would say, I wonder if these people are ready to meet the Lord.

My whole soul went out in eagerness to tell them about Jesus Christ and how he forgives and cleanses.

He's preparing a home for us in glory land.

What can I do and it went on through the Academy on through college and it's never left And I found this my friends that as we intercede the Lord answers The prophet Isaiah said God wondered that there was no intercessor This drowning brother was in the academy with me?

We had a home, our parents had a home just on the border of this academy.

And we could see from where we lived, the academy grounds, the large trees and some of the buildings.

1 day I realized, and in fact I'd realized it for several days, several weeks, that my brother Lester, this drowning brother of years before was now going through a very tumultuous experience.

And it seemed to me as his younger brother that there wasn't very much sympathy extended by the part of on the part of older Christians who should have known better you know and my heart went out to him my drowning brother Now he apparently was drowning in the waves of discouragement.

1 day when father and mother were out of the place out in their business, my brother was out somewhere I don't know where so discouraged, I slept upstairs in our little bedroom and I fell on my knees.

Now a boy in high school, my whole prayer was for my brother Lester.

Dear Lord, he's going to give up unless you send angels to his rescue.

And I fell on my knees and as I prayed, I prayed for 5 minutes.

Then 15, 20, 30, and about the time I had reached 30 minutes, something seemed to speak to my soul, if you will continue your intercession, he may come right into the house.

He might even come right in the room where you're praying and you'd see the value of intercessory prayer.

And it seemed just like the Lord was saying it.

And I said, I'm gonna stay here and I'm gonna be praying.

Then I heard the back door that led onto the academy campus.

I noticed the door open, and as I was there, as still as a mouse, I wanted to know, is it dad and mother who've come home?

No, it was the footsteps of only 1 person.

I stayed on my knees and I thought, is it really gonna happen?

Is God gonna reward this inaccessory prayer in this remarkable way?

I stayed on my knees and I heard the little old latch to the stairway door.

I didn't want to, I wanted to leap to my feet and throw my arms around him but I stayed on my knees presently he knelt beside me he placed his left arm over my shoulder and his face up next to mine and I want to tell you my friends the way he spoke, Glenn were you praying for me?

My friends, that was the turning point in his life.

God wants us to capture a picture of the love of Jesus Christ.

He wants us to respond to his willingness to forgive.

Then he calls us, not everyone has a dramatic dream such as I had, but everyone is being called by the still small voice of the Lord, saying now will you witness to the love of Jesus Christ.

You're just a sinner, You're saved by my grace.

There are a lot of people, religionists, who can talk about things, but I want you to tell people about me.

I want you to tell them that I'm your personal Savior.

You don't need to go into the mistakes and sins of your life but let them know that you're totally unworthy.

And as I spoke to the demoniac who was saved, Jesus says, go home, tell your loved ones What great things the Lord's done for you.

That brother of mine, praise the Lord, became an ordained minister.

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Getting Through to God

03-My Drowning Brother Saved

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