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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, 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 the reward of believing God's promises and fixing our mind on Jesus Christ.

Romans, the 15th chapter and the 13th verse says, there is joy and peace in believing.

Soon after my wife and I had begun to learn of the science of prayer and claiming Bible promises, and had become most excited and delighted over it all, the Lord permitted a special test to come to us.

Would we really keep our eyes fixed on Jesus?

Or would we permit the evil 1 to in some way rob us of this joy and this peace that only comes by believing that God will do for us what he's promised to do.

I will not go into the details of the trouble that befell us, lest you might be thinking about that during this study, instead of the special lessons that God has for us today.

But we went through a very dark, deep Gethsemane experience.

It was not a financial Gethsemane now, although our finances had not cleared.

It was a fellowship Gethsemane experience that broke our hearts.

We decided that we would take a vacation to Florida and maybe we could somehow regain our composure.

We spent a couple weeks in Florida, and on our return trip, I found myself crabbing over what had happened to me.

I said to my wife, why did this have to happen to us?

Why should I have to be in such a situation of suffering as they've put me through?

For 3 days straight as we're traveling, I was crabbing, grumbling, murmuring, not against God, but against circumstances.

As we retired that night, I went into a sound sleep, and the next morning when I awakened, to my utter astonishment, I couldn't get out of bed.

And you can imagine the misgivings in my heart.

I asked my wife if she would kindly step over and visit and call a medical doctor who was a very close friend of mine.

He came over, checked me over, and he said, you have nerve exhaustion.

Now, I've always been very active, and the thought of being laid up for 6 months didn't appeal to me at all.

And as I was thinking on 6 months, 6 months for you, the text came to my mind, Galatians 6, 7, Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." I said, Lord, I have sown 3 days of negative thinking and negative speaking.

I'm now going to sow 3 days of positive thinking, of joyful expressions, of thanksgiving, and in 3 days I will be up and I'll go home because you've told me that I will reap what I've sown.

So I decided that I would immediately begin to thank the Lord for everything I could think of.

I said, but what can I thank the Lord for?

Friends, if you ever decide that you want to have a good thoroughbred registered nervous breakdown, cease to be thankful.

I couldn't think of 1 thing for which I should be thankful.

You must come to my rescue or I can't even thank you for anything.

I said, Lord, if you'll give me the strength, the first thing I look at, I'll thank you for it.

I looked at the door as I lay there in bed.

And then I added, and thank you, Lord, that it's locked so nobody can poke his head in and look at me.

And then my mind went into a special spin, just like a cracked record.

And then I said, Lord, if you'll come to my rescue again, The first thing I look at, I'll thank you for it again.

And thank you, Lord, that it's locked, so nobody can poke his head in and look at me.

It was not an easy assignment, this assignment of joy and peace in believing God.

There is joy and peace when we believe God and we get our eyes fixed on him.

I completely forgot all the promises that I'd been claiming and which had meant so very much to me through the months.

And here I was, exhausted, my mind going in a whirl like a cracked record.

I cried out again and again to the Lord, Lord, as surely as you help me to go into the joy and the thanksgiving and the praise program, you're going to heal me.

Little by little, I was able to break out by God's grace out of this encasement of self-pity.

At the end of 3 days, I got up, we went home, and I said, Lord, now, along with these promises of God, there goes joy.

There is peace when we really believe your promises.

It is 1 thing to accept your promises theoretically.

It is another thing to make them a part of our very lives.

For every time we encounter a problem, to find a matching promise in God's immutable, eternal, impeccable word, There's joy, there's peace in believing that God keeps his word.

There's no problem of life that God does not have a solution for.

Think of 3, 573 promises in this word, matching every possible problem that can confront the human soul.

Now, help me to share not merely the promises, but to share with men and women the rewards that are theirs if they will not turn from Christ and look at circumstances.

If we will not be engaged in self-pity, but if we'll keep clinging to these promises of God, Like Jacob of old, it is amazing what can take place.

I did begin sharing promises, but I did not share with people as I should the joy and the peace that comes in thanking the Lord for every circumstance in which we find ourselves.

Do we not read in James chapter 1, verses 2 and 3, my brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience?

You see, if when we fall into all kinds of situations, all kinds of tests, if we will recognize that God, who gave his Son to die for us, will permit nothing to come to us except that for which he's made provision, then there's joy and peace in believing that he will not suffer us to be tempted above that we're able.

As we fix our gaze on His promises, on His love, on His protection, joy and peace come to the human heart.

No wonder Jesus said, ask and you will receive and your joy will be full.

It was several years, however, before I really got very far into sharing with people the tremendous reward found in a praise Thanksgiving program to the Lord for every situation and circumstance of life, because God has said through his Apostle, all things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

How do we know all things work together for good?

The next 4 or 5 verses says, because 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?

He'll permit tests, he'll permit circumstances, He'll permit trials, He'll permit troubles to come to us, that in these trials and troubles and tribulations we shall claim His promises and cling to them, asking, believing and thanking Him that we have received.

Well, it was several years before we really got down to business in teaching people how they also could receive strength by claiming God's promises and praising Him for every circumstance of life.

We were conducting a series of meetings in a certain city.

A lady came to see me and she said, Pastor Kuhn, I was involved in an automobile accident.

She said, and I had surgery and the surgery was successful.

But she said, it left my nerves in a state of shock.

She said, I went to 1 nerve specialist after another and still another.

Finally, they said, lady, There's nothing more we can do for you.

I thought of my 3 days of crabbing and my consequent nerve exhaustion, then of my 3 days of praising the Lord and being able immediately to go home and resume my work.

And I recall the statement found in that beautiful book entitled the Ministry of Healing, page 253, which says, if we would praise the Lord with all our hearts, you cannot describe what will happen to our health, to our strength, to our nerves.

And then I remembered the text of scripture, Nehemiah 8, 10, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

So I said, you make a list of 10 things for which you're grateful.

Put it on a small card, maybe a 2 by 2 card, just 10 words down the column.

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