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ABC Prayer Crusade

Youth Asks, God Answers

Glenn Coon

1-Our Humble Lord

2-Our Prayer-answering Lord

3-Our Problem-solving Lord

4-Our Joyful Lord

5-Our Protective Lord

6-Our Delivering Lord

In fact, I don't know whether we have 200 questions here or not.

So you can imagine that we just have to choose about 2 or 3 questions in each session, which can represent many, many of the other questions you see.

And we're going to ask the first young person to come up with a question that somebody I don't know who who wrote it out but somebody did here's a question and what's your name Kurt Kurt KIRKKURT good where do you live Kurt in Clearwater do you I've been looking to ever since you came in.

How can you do new math problems with an old math mind?

I think Kurt that's a good question don't you?

All right thank you and we'll we'll put another question in with it and then we'll try to answer them all in 1.

Other kids seem to get good grades, I can't, what should I do?

I tell people my name is Coon, I tell my wife is my pet Coon and we have a 35-foot motorhome I call it our hollow log we have a lot of fun would you read that again I've forgotten now what it was other kids seem to get good grades I can't what should I do thank you thank you Holly thank you and that 1 more question that The 3 ought to pretty well represent this area, I think.

Well, you know I've met you before, back in 1980.

We were there in the in the church in Tampa.

You remember we had questions and answers at that time?

Pastor Kuhn, this distraught student says that algebra is difficult and asked you how he should pass his grade good thank you thank you so much well let me tell you how the Lord helped me I was 16 years of age had 2 brothers the 3 of us were studying algebra.

The teacher of first year algebra was himself studying second year algebra, but he didn't know first year algebra.

At the end of the first 6 weeks, we had an exam, you know, and in those days, you had to get about 75% to pass.

But when our grades came back, our examination, 1 of my brothers had a grade of 16%, the other had 0, and I had 16%.

My 2 brothers dropped algebra and I didn't have sense enough to.

So I called on the teacher to come up 1 evening and he spent the full two-hour study period on 1 problem and didn't get it.

When he left my room you can imagine how I felt if a teacher can't get it how can I?

I slumped down on my knees and in the background of my thinking as I recall now was a promise Matthew 7 7 anyone remember what it says?

And I told God that my future in algebra was finished unless he came to my rescue.

But somehow I just had a childlike faith that he would because I'd had a lot of answers to prayer before that.

And I lived in a family where dad had all kinds, marvelous answers.

Climbed into bed and immediately God gave me a dream that I was working on this problem that the teacher couldn't get.

And in my dream, I saw where the teacher made the mistake.

I'm telling you the truth and I corrected it in my dream and immediately God awakened me That it was still fresh in my mind.

I seized my pencil and paper and did it and was perfect Now that's the kind of God we have He's interested in X the unknown number.

I was so thrilled I took it to school the next day.

And that was as though God was saying every time you're in trouble and you don't know which way to go you can call on me Psalm 50 15 call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver you you shall glorify me I went on through the year and I passed that miserable algebra and you know what it did It gave me confidence to know that I could pass other miserable topics for instance subjects for instance French I took French later on under a New Englander Now you know our New Englander friends where we say remember they say remember beautiful where we say Isaiah they say Isaiah beautiful but when I was taking French I didn't know what whether it should be ah or ah because she would say ah when it should be ah and she'd say ah when it should be ah and I was bet to be tied.

But I remembered that I had met God at X.

Again I fell on my knees and I said, Lord, this French is all French to me.

I can never do it unless you help me but he helped me in algebra that was a miracle wasn't it and now I believe that God would come to my rescue what is the A of prayer ask what to be a prayer believe believe whom God believe what about God believe that he'll keep his word believe that he loves us He gave Jesus to die for us.

And you know the Lord helped me to get right through French.

I negotiated it and came out with a passing grade.

And you know that I said Lord you've done it for for algebra you've done it for French and then I got into the worst thing in the world, general history, the most miserable general I'd ever known, general history.

You know, to tell about a certain general came up on a hill.

Another man with his army came up on the west side.

I didn't care whether he came up on any side.

What did I care whether he came up on the south side of the west side phooey but I wanted to pass general history I'd spend 2 hours and come down with a big fat D.

But the Lord that helped me miraculously through algebra and French would help me in general history.

And as I was praying to the Lord how to do this and let me back up a minute the teacher himself scared me half to death he had serpent's eyes he had a long neck big ears and serpent eyes and when he would look at me I forgot everything I had ever studied about history It was current events as I looked at him instead of history.

So as I went to God in prayer, you know what the Lord impressed me with?

You don't have to spend 2 hours on general history.

And when you do it, forget how that teacher looks.

This 1 thing I do, don't think about anything except what you're studying.

Ask yourself the question, what is this particular chapter all about?

And I studied 40 minutes instead of 2 hours and came down with good passing grades.

I said, thank you, Lord, you've taught me.

I found that a lot of the other boys in the Academy had not learned what the Lord had taught me because sometime before that the Lord had taught me a very important lesson.

As a student in school I'd made the mistake of falling in love with a girl by the name of May.

She was a beautiful redheaded girl and I had made this mistake of thinking that girls and books can mix.

I was quite a scholar at that time I was in the third grade And every time I'd look at my lessons I'd think of May.

But the Lord sent another boy along to take May out of my life.

But the next year I went to another school, May wasn't there, but Louisa was there.

Oh, she flashed 1 smile and I was captivated.

I'd try to study my lessons and I'd think of Louisa.

And so, all while I was studying, I was thinking of Louisa.

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