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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, fasten securely in its place.

Then from this thing so common and so small, hang a bright picture of thy face, and we thank you in Jesus' name.

The topic of this hour's study is My very personal Savior.

And our texts of Scripture are Isaiah 45, verse 22.

Look unto me and be you saved, all you ends of the earth.

Acts 1631, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

First John 2, 25, And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life.

My wife and I received many, many wonderful letters.

I'm thinking of 2 letters that we received in the mail 1 day, among the many others.

1 was from a teenage girl, perhaps she was 19 years of age.

It was just a one-page letter, casually written, in which she stated, when you're holding a series of meetings at Milo Academy, I was really blessed.

But since then, I have in a special way realized what the ABCs of prayer can mean as Jesus answers my needs.

The first example is that I am engaged to a wonderful consecrated young man.

And then she went on to give the second example.

She said, I do claim him, and she began to underscore.

I do claim him as my very personal, and when she said, when she wrote the word Savior, she underscored it 4 times.

I do claim him as my very personal savior.

I rushed into the other room where my wife was studying.

Teenagers are finding Jesus Christ as their very personal Savior.

It was from a lady perhaps 73 years of age.

She said for 40 years I have believed the quote truth unquote.

But she said during these 40 years, I have never understood how to claim Jesus Christ as my very personal Savior.

But she said as I have read, read 1 of your books on the ABCs of prayer.

I have now placed my hand in the hand of the crucified, and I know that he is my personal Savior.

My friends, It is worth worlds for any human soul to be able to say, Jesus is my very personal Savior.

If you would like, would you open your Bibles with me, if you have 1 handy, and place your finger on the promise of 1 John 2, 25.

It says, and this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

How many times I've invited an audience to place their finger on that promise and where it says us for them to place their first and last names and it would read like this This is the promise that he hath promised Glenn Coon, even eternal life.

Friend, as you view this program, would you like to place your name in the Us, your first and last name, as I place my first and last name in the text together.

And this is the promise that he has promised, Glenn Kuhn, even eternal life.

I remember the first time that I ever inserted my name in that promise.

The Holy Spirit activated the assurance that he was my very personal Savior, and he is my Savior today.

But in order for Him to be our personal Savior, we must fix our gaze on Him.

Isaiah 45, 22 says, look unto me and you will be saved.

All you ends of the earth, in other words, in whatever circumstances you find yourself.

No matter in what sin you may find yourself enmeshed, you may be a prostitute, you may be a homosexual, you may be a thief, You may be a sanctimonious Pharisee, but if you look away from self to Jesus Christ, all of us may be saved.

Any of us may be saved and will be saved as we fix our gaze on him, we emulate him, we follow him in a trusting confidence.

And then Acts 16 31, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.

This is a three-part promise that was given to the jailer at Philippi by Paul.

He was ready to commit suicide, for he thought he would be executed, because the prisoners he thought had escaped, and Paul said, do yourself no harm, we're all here, and he grasped the light and he sprang in, and he said, what must I do to be saved?

Believe on the Lord, believe on Jesus, believe on Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ.

To believe on the Lord means that we simply make Him the Lord of our life.

To believe on Jesus means that while we cannot of ourselves follow his directives, we cannot save ourselves.

We believe on Jesus, Matthew 1 21, thou shall call his name Jesus.

He shall save his people from their sins.

We cannot accomplish salvation ourselves, but he's promised to do it.

So to believe on the Lord Jesus is to permit him to be the Lord of our life, to permit him to save us since we cannot save ourselves.

To believe on the Lord Jesus Christ means that the Christ, which means anointed, John 141, will also anoint us with the Holy Spirit.

We may be spirit-filled And so the Lord becomes the Lord of my life.

Christ fills me with his Holy Spirit and I shall be saved as I continue accepting his Lordship, him as my Savior, and the infilling of his Holy Spirit.

Some time ago, we're holding a series of meetings in a certain city in the United States.

And as we were uplifting Jesus in his beauty, even though in a feeble, human way, we sensed the presence of his Holy Spirit.

About Wednesday night of that week, a man called the pastor at the midnight hour.

He said, Pastor, I've heard something this week that I'm thrilled with.

I've seen a picture of Jesus Christ, and I want to give my life to him.

This man had once been 1 of the outstanding leaders of the church.

He'd been in evangelistic work, and then he lost his hold on the Lord, and he went far out into the world.

But as we sought to uplift Jesus Christ as the personal Savior of ourselves and all who would believe, it struck home to his heart.

And he said, I want to give my life to Jesus.

Early the next morning, the pastor and I met him at his motel room.

And there, He started talking to us about some of his bad habits.

I said, Brother, I don't want to discuss your bad habits.

I want to talk to you about Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world, the 1 who is the Lord over all habits of evil.

And as we discussed Jesus and he got his eyes fixed on Jesus Christ, his habits melted away.

Oh, he was so happy as the tears rolled down his cheeks as he gave himself to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

During that week, we went over to visit another man who for 69 years had been a professing Christian, but the man had been living a defeated life in Christ.

And as we walked into his home, we knew that he was under the guilt of evil habits.

We did not discuss any of those evil habits.

We talked to him about Jesus Christ, His Lordship.

He is our Savior if we will receive Him, and He will fill us with His Holy Spirit.

As we prayed with Him and then went on our way to the church, we received a message over our CB radio.

Would you immediately go back to this man's home?

When we drove out to his home and walked in the house, this man was in tears.

His daughter had been reading to him from the Gospel of John.

Oh, what a wonderful Gospel to read from.

In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.

We beheld his glory, the glories of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

And as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." This man had found Jesus Christ.

We visited in home after home after home that week, rejoicing in the knowledge that individuals who had been steeped in sin, in various evil habits, who had lost their hold on Jesus Christ, had found new hope, new strength, new faith, new courage in Jesus.

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