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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 promised to make us fishers of men.

We believe that promise as we look to Jesus, our Savior.

And thank you for hearing us in Jesus' name.

Our subject for this hour is 7 Secrets for Catching Men for the kingdom of God.

And his method is so different from man's cruel methods, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, says the Holy Word of God.

We wish to share with you just how does a mother go about winning her rebellious boy to the Lord Jesus.

How does a husband go about winning his wife who is infatuated with another man?

How does a man go about winning his wife who has never believed in Jesus Christ?

Instead of snagging people and wounding people and killing people, the kingdom of heaven presents to us ways of winning them in a winsome manner, even as Jesus did.

And so we would like to bring to your attention right now 7 of these secrets under 3 special classifications.

She said, what promise can I use for my rebellious boy?

We say there is a promise you can use, Isaiah 49 25, and this promise says, I will save your children.

But as you claim this promise of the Lord to save your son, you will bear in mind these 2 special secrets of soul winning, choice and humility.

And I say to the disturbed mother, you must not use snagging methods to win this boy.

We human beings have used the wrong methods.

We've used the methods such as this fisherman has presented, but notice with me if you will from Isaiah 55 verse 8, for my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

So, sister, you must change your thinking, you must change your methods, You must no longer use snagging methods on your son.

She said, what are the snagging methods that I must cease to use?

You must cease to use the method that belittles him, for humility means that you respect him.

So if you would be done with the snagging methods, you'll respect your son, you'll never belittle him.

And to obey the law of choice means that you will not keep nagging him, trying to make decisions for him, trying to educate him.

Here he is in his late teens, He's not waiting to have you tell him what to do.

Oh, she said, that's what I've been doing.

I thought I must belittle him, and I have thought that I must make choices for him in order to guide him in the right way.

And then as the man comes to me and he said, my wife is infatuated with another man.

Say not 1 word, use not 1 expression that will belittle her, and don't try to make choices for her.

But he said, but I thought I was the head of the home.

Yes, I know the Bible says the husband is the head, but it does not say to be the blockhead, to block everything that your wife wants to do, to try to make all the decisions for her, to try to be conscience for her.

When you do that, you're the blockhead instead of the head of the home.

So you will no longer snag her by belittling her.

You'll no longer snag her by trying to be the blockhead, the blockhead of the home.

And then another man comes to me and he said, what about my wife who doesn't even believe in Christ?

How have you been trying to win her, brother?

Well, he said, I've tried to bring her under conviction and so I've belittled her in the way she's living.

Esteem other better than yourself, Philippians 2 3.

And then the law of choice means you cease trying to tell her what to do.

Sometimes ladies will come to us who are praying for their mate and I say now you must also obey the law of humility which means don't belittle anyone.

You must follow the law of choice which means don't try to choose for anyone And sometimes this good lady will say, but I have to set my husband straight once in a while, you know.

And then I will say to her, you know, my friend, don't tell your husband anything to do, even if he puts his socks in the frying pan.

If you won't say a word, in either belittling him or telling him what to do, but if you'll be perfectly quiet, the socks will convey their own message.

Then the problem is between him and the socks, not between him and you.

These 2 laws, these 2 secrets, are called the laws or the secrets of human ease.

The son, this rebellious son, feels at ease in the presence of his mother when she ceases belittling him and trying to over-instruct him.

The wife, who is infatuated with another man, feels at ease again in her husband's presence when he ceases to belittle her and to direct her.

The wife, who is not a Christian but whose husband is, she'll be, she'll feel at ease in his presence when he ceases to try to bring conviction by belittling her and making choices for her.

Now, we turn to 2 more of the secrets of catching men for Jesus Christ.

Hosea chapter 2 verse 14 says, I will allure.

This is in connection with Hosea, who was a holy man and whose wife had run off with another man.

The Christ in him told him the method to cause her to return to Him.

Is that how you win back an infatuated mate?

Is that how you win to the Lord Jesus someone who is not interested in Christianity?

Is that how you win a backslidden son back to the Lord?

Yes, it is the alluring method that wins.

And then as you allure, as Jesus is in us alluring people, it is the joy of Jesus that allures.

Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 10 says, the joy of the Lord is our strength.

As we equate everything connected with Jesus Christ with joy, people see that we found an assurance, a satisfaction in our hearts in Jesus Christ.

And so, we let them know that everything that Jesus invites us to do brings us a joy.

If the Lord Jesus told us what to do that would make us miserable instead of happy, he would be a monster.

So this rebellious boy needs to know that his mother has found a joy, a satisfaction, a happiness in Jesus Christ.

Then he will choose Jesus Christ in all probability.

The wife who has left her husband for another man, when she sees her husband as a joyful, buoyant, delightful mate, she'll want to return.

So these 2 laws, Jesus and joy, are the secrets of strong allurement.

Joy, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

That's what courtship is, and soul winning is a courtship.

It's a courtship that draws, that allures the sinner.

So the rebellious boy is allured to his mother.

Just a little ago, we had the privilege of meeting a father and mother who had turned their boy off only a year ago.

When we presented to them these 7 secrets, they changed their methods completely.

Their thinking was changed as the text says it should be.

Their ways were changed as the text declares.

We met them 1 year later, just a few days ago, and the mother of this rebellious boy said, Pastor Kuhn, it is almost unbelievable.

She said, my son loves to be around us now.

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