Episodes
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Praying in Christ‘s Name
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Air Date: 10 19 21
Praying in Christ’s Name Tuesday October 19, 2021
Praying in Christ’s name means coming in prayer on the basis of Jesus merit, not ours. Christ’s full name is the Lord Jesus Christ, which means Jehovah, the Savior, God’s Anointed. That is the name of the One whose merit we depend on for access to God. We cannot think in any way that God will hear us because of our virtue. We cannot come to him in our own name. As the opening verse of the Sermon on the Mount tells us, poverty of spirit is the basis upon which we come to him (Matthew 5:3). If we come in poverty of spirit, relying on Christ and not ourselves, we can expect our prayers to be answered.
The second requirement of praying in Jesus’ name is that we must pray in correspondence with Christ’s character and objectives. Praying in Christ’s name is His saying to ask anything in His nature. This simply means that we are to ask for what Christ would want, not just our own spontaneous desires. Prayer is a means by which we get God to do what we want as we are led into conforming to what God wants. The idea of prayer is not in order to get answers from God: prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God. This happens when we are filled with the Holy Spirit and our hearts are so in tune with the Lord’s that we pray for those things He desires for us.
The Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will. (Romans 8:26–27)
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Saturday Oct 16, 2021
The Tree of Life
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Saturday Oct 16, 2021
Air Date: 10 19 21
Mustard Seed Faith | Mark 11:23–25
23 I tell you the truth, you can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart. 24 I tell you, you can pray for anything, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours. 25 But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too.”
JUST in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak. Faith has nothing to do with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or with outward appearances. If we desire to couple them with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God because faith needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God. When we take Him at His Word, the heart is at peace
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Mustard Seed Faith Part 2
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Thursday Oct 14, 2021
Air Date: 10 15 21
There is not a trial or temptation, an affliction of body or soul, a loss, a cross, a painful bereavement, a vexation, grief or disappointment, a case, state or condition, which is not put under Jesus’ feet. He has sovereign, supreme disposal over all events and circumstances. As possessed of infinite knowledge He sees them, as possessed of infinite wisdom He can manage them, and as possessed of infinite power He can dispose and direct them for our good and His own glory. How much trouble and anxiety should we save ourselves, could we firmly believe, realise, and act on this! If we could see by the eye of faith that every foe and every fear, every difficulty and perplexity, every trying or painful circumstance, every looked-for or unlooked-for event, every source of care, whether at present or in prospect, are all, as put under His feet, at His sovereign disposal, what a load of anxiety and care would be often taken off our shoulders!
Psalm 27:4-5 |4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and insistently require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord in His presence all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple. 5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will He hide me; He will set me high upon a rock.
Listen to Abiding in Christ Ministries with radio host Lesha Cantrell Monday through Friday at 6:45am (MT) on AM670, KLTT in Colorado; online at 670kltt.com; or via your mobile device on the free KLTT app. May God richly bless you as you abide in Christ
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Mustard Seed Faith
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Wednesday Oct 13, 2021
Air Date: 10 14 21
How vast, how numerous, how complicated are the various events and circumstances which attend our lives, and how fearful our hearts may seem! But if all things as well as all persons are put under Jesus’ feet, there cannot be a single circumstance over which He has not supreme control. Everything in providence and everything in grace are alike subject to His disposal. There is not a trial or temptation, an affliction of body or soul, a loss, a cross, a painful bereavement, a vexation, grief or disappointment, a case, state or condition, which is not put under Jesus’ feet.
Listen to Abiding in Christ Ministries with radio host Lesha Cantrell Monday through Friday at 6:45am (MT) on AM670, KLTT in Colorado; online at 670kltt.com; or via your mobile device on the free KLTT app. May God richly bless you as you abide in Christ
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Two Principles of Faith and Obedience
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Air Date: 10 13 21 Wednesday
Joshua 1:1-9 | Like the two wings of a bird, like the two oars of a boat, both essential to its proper movement, are the two principles of faith and obedience, which are ever linked together in a rightly regulated Christian life, and which are interwoven in the opening scenes of the book of Joshua.
The Watchword of Faith
The Land of Promise was won by faith. Every step was a step of faith: the Jordan was crossed by faith; by faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been compassed seven days; by faith Rahab was saved, and perished not with them who believed not. By faith every victory was achieved in their onward progress until at last Caleb had claimed the heights of Hebron, and Joshua had reached his inheritance at Timnath Serah. Here we have some of the features of faith most strongly emphasized.
We have the present tense of faith—Joshua 1:2b: "The land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites." God here speaks in the immediate present. It is not something He is going to do, but something He does do, this moment. So faith ever speaks. So God ever gives. So He is meeting you today, in the present moment.
Listen to Abiding in Christ Ministries with radio host Lesha Cantrell Monday through Friday at 6:45am (MT) on AM670, KLTT in Colorado; online at 670kltt.com; or via your mobile device on the free KLTT app. May God richly bless you as you abide in Christ
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
The Mystery of Prayer
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Tuesday Oct 12, 2021
Air Date: 10 12 21 Tuesday
The first thing Isaiah teaches us is that God is the Hearer and Answerer of prayer. "Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;/ you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I" (Isaiah 58:9). "Before they call I will answer;/ while they are still speaking I will hear" (65:24).
These verses assure us that our God is no isolated despot, indifferent to the needs and conditions of His creatures, but a loving Father, sensitive to every want and sorrow of His suffering children. How beautiful these promises of prayer! First He says He will answer. Then not only will He answer, but He will come. "He will say, Here I am." Next, "Before they call I will answer," He tells us. And "while they are still speaking, I will hear." Not only will He wait and listen to our appeal, but He will anticipate our need and put the prayer Himself upon our hearts or send the blessing before we ask it. How beautifully this is illustrated in the Savior's thoughtful love toward Simon Peter. Fretting about their taxes which Peter had not the means to pay, we are told that the Lord "prevented him" (Matthew 17:25) and sent him down to the sea to find a fish with a golden coin in its mouth and then bring and pay the claim for Him and them. He did not wait for Peter to ask for it. He did not allow him to be embarrassed, but His loving forethought anticipated the need. So He is ever loving and caring for us, and as the Psalmist expresses it, "you welcomed him with rich blessings" (21:3a).
Listen to Abiding in Christ Ministries with radio host Lesha Cantrell Monday through Friday at 6:45am (MT) on AM670, KLTT in Colorado; online at 670kltt.com; or via your mobile device on the free KLTT app. May God richly bless you as you abide in Christ