"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Assurance" Series, titled "Living Life In The Holy Spirit"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Assurance" Series, titled: "Living Life In The Holy Spirit" (Broadcast #7037)
Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 1:5, Romans 1, Romans 8

Learn about Dr. Cook's ministry at https://www.walkwiththeking.org/

Transcript

Alright, thank you very much and hello again radio friends. How in the world are you? You doing alright today? This is your good friend, Bob Cook, and I’m glad to be back with you for another look at the Word of God and we’re walking around these days in the Book of 1st Thessalonians. Catherine Marshall, while she lived, founded the work called The Intercessors, and it’s a group of people who voluntarily band together to pray for the needs of others. They have a little publication that comes my way every other month or so and in this one is the story of the mother of Saint Augustine. Her name is Monica and her marriage was difficult because her husband, Patricius, was a non-believer given to frequent bad temper outbursts. They had two sons and the oldest one, Augustine, was especially gifted and brilliant but rebellious and had wanted nothing to do with the faith of his mother.

Well Monica began to pray every day, prayer when alone and twice each day in her church. Finally the first breakthrough came with her husband as she prayed and was patient and lived Christ before him, finally gave his heart to Christ. He became a believer only months before his death. By this time Augustine was in total rebellion, his brilliant mind was intent on learning and he said “my spirit was wholly intent on learning restless dispute. I had my back to the light.”

Nine years passed finally he goes to Rome mother keeps praying every day and engages the help of others as well in prayer. He got very ill in Rome, but finally recovered all the while rejecting Christ and he went to Milan and become acquainted with Ambrose, the statesman Bishop of that city. And the warfare inside of Augustine now began to intensify. He writes that his prayer became, “Give me chastity but not yet” (Laughs).

One day while talking with a friend he unexpectantly burst into tears. He returned to his house picked up a volume of Paul’s letters open it and was stabbed by these words “not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provisions for the flesh and the lusts thereof.” Soon afterwards he wrote to Ambrose asking to be received as a convert and he was baptized on Easter Sunday. Augustine at that time was 32-years of age.

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