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ABC Prayer Crusade

Amazing New Kind of Prayer

Glenn Coon

1 - Amazing New Kind of Prayer

2 - Our Eager, Delightful Lord

3 - Discovery - ABC’s of Prayer

4 - Conditions are Gifts

5 - 7 Secrets of Communication

6 - Joyful Trust

7 - My Personal Savior

8 - My Teenage Daughter

9 - Delivered in 20 Minutes

10 - New Way of Sharing

Dear Lord, you've promised a nail on the wall, so make me a nail upon the wall, fastened securely in its place.

Then from this thing so common and so small, hang a bright picture of thy face.

The topic of this hour's study is our discovery of the science of prayer.

We wish you would notice 5 special Bible facts in this connection.

The first is, our Lord often delights to answer selfish prayers, Luke 11, 13.

The second is, our Lord is especially delighted, however, when we grow in unselfishness in our prayer requests.

The third fact is that the Lord loves to have us learn of Him from His book of nature, Matthew chapter 6, verses 26 and 28, and Psalm 19, 1 to 3.

The third fact, the fourth fact is that the Lord reserves to his own infinite wisdom the how and the when of the answer.

And the fifth fact is he has revealed to us in the Bible and the book of nature, the real science of prayer.

Noticing the first fact a moment, if you will, with me, And this is God's willingness to answer even selfish requests.

I was a Christian for many years, friends, before this ever dawned over me.

In fact, I was preaching for years before the thing ever came to my mind.

Jesus answering requests in which there didn't seem to even be a shred of unselfishness.

Take for instance the leper who said, if you will you can make me clean, and Jesus said, I will be thou clean.

The leper didn't say, Lord, if you cleanse me, I'm going to devote every moment to your service.

You follow through the miracles of Jesus Christ and you'll be astonished at how many people he healed, how many answers he supplied of individuals who never once said, I will devote all of the answers to your service.

But on the other hand, under 0.2, the Psalmist says in Psalm 37, verse 4, delight thyself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

And we read in 1st John, the third chapter, verse 22, he delights to answer because we do those things that are well-pleasing in his sight.

You'll notice, my friends, that the Lord, in answering our prayers, in teaching us of himself, loves to have us take his book of nature and observe it.

He said in Matthew 6, it is recorded, verses 26 and 28, behold the fowls of the air, consider the lilies of the field.

And then he brought out the most beautiful lessons of trust in the Lord.

And in Psalm 19, the psalmist said, the heavens declare the glory of the Lord, the firmament showeth his handiwork, day under day uttereth speech, night under night showeth knowledge.

And yet, you find that the Lord reserves to himself the right to decide the how and the when of our prayers.

And so many, many of us Christians forget this.

We sort of try to put Him into a box so that He must answer our prayers our way.

Remember Isaiah 42, 16 says, Call upon me and I'll answer thee, and I'll bring the blind by a way that they know not.

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

I'll make darkness light before them, the crooked thing straight.

I'll not forsake you, but I'll bring you blind people in a way that you've never figured it out.

I have my own infinite way of answering your prayers.

And then we can look up into his face and say, we know that we have the petition that we desired of him.

The science of prayer means a knowledge that God has revealed to us that he will answer our prayers.

True in his way, in his time, but he will answer infinitely many times abundantly above all that we ask or think.

And now for our experience of the discovery of prayer.

From the time I was a little boy at the age of 6, I learned that God answers prayer.

My mother was dying of valvular leakage of the heart.

Father reached up onto the shelf and he took down the good old Bible.

He opened the Bible to a promise that says, I will rebuke the devourer.

We knelt around in the family circle, And we asked God to rebuke the devourer.

And my friends, in a matter of moments, mother was completely healed.

He did it because he's God and God is love and he loves to meet us at our own conscious need.

Again and again through my early life we experienced all kinds of answers to prayer And so we were reared in the atmosphere of a belief and a confidence in a God that longs to come to man's rescue in every time of need.

As I was entering the ministry, I came to the conclusion that the many promises in the Bible were placed there for us to claim in every time of need.

I remember that this was before I was an ordained minister.

I was teaching a church day school, and I came across a series of statements in my favorite author's book entitled The Ministry of Healing, page 122.

And I was so thrilled with these statements concerning how eager God is to answer our prayers, how we should look to Him in simple childlike faith, and we should realize that when we claim a promise, it is as though God were bending over us and looking right into our countenance and saying to us, I'm speaking to you, Glen Coon.

I'm not merely talking to people 3000 years ago.

Believe this is my promise to you under like conditions and like need with like faith.

And I remember speaking to my young people.

Whom I was teaching, I said, do you know?

It tells us that nothing has such healing power as God's promises.

It states that the same power Jesus exercised on earth 2, 000 years ago is in his Word, and that we all have the right, the same right, that men and women did in the olden days, and that right is through the merits of Jesus Christ.

It wasn't according to their merits and it is not according to our merits.

It is through His merit that we have the same right, the same privilege, to claim the same promises that He gave to other people in olden days under like need with like faith.

When I entered the ministry, I was so thrilled to think that I could claim these promises of God that as I did claim them, friends, I found a miracle-working God.

And then, sad to say, I neglected the promises.

And as I neglected God's Word in the multitude of ministerial activities, requests on the right hand and requests on the left, And I began to neglect these promises.

I discovered that I was becoming a backslidden preacher.

I cried out to God and I said, Lord, what is happening to my thoughts?

And I went back to his word, I went back to his promises.

I began to claim them again, and miracle after miracle took place.

And so it went for many years in my ministry.

I had the privilege of leading thousands to Jesus Christ, of seeing thousands baptized in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

You wouldn't think a person who would see this matchless love and power of Christ could succumb in the multitude of activities.

The old enemy of our souls was working on my heart just like you'll work on the hearts of every 1 of you.

We're conducting a series of meetings in the city of Rochester, New York, in a beautiful auditorium.

Hundreds upon hundreds, if not thousands, were in attendance.

We're passing out a little booklet entitled, What God Has Promised, to those who are regular in attendance, as an incentive to their attendance.

And the title of that little booklet kept appealing to my mind, What God Has promised.

What God has promised, He's able to perform.

And the Holy Spirit, it seemed, kept saying to me, why don't you go back to these promises?

Don't you recall the mighty power that God has manifested in and through your ministry when you claimed his word?

And don't you realize how weak you became when you neglected this, not intentionally, and yet you became weak?

Why don't you build on this promise, on this word, as never before?

And I remember I was taking from an hour to an hour and a half in my private devotions, morning by morning with the Lord, feasting on his immutable, eternal, impeccable, never-failing promises.

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