"Walk With The King" Program, From the "Believe" Series, titled "Faithwalk"

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"Walk With The King" Program, Practical & Encouraging Messages From The Ministry of Dr. Robert A. Cook.
From the "Believe" Series, titled: "Faithwalk" (Broadcast #6822)
Scripture References: John 3:9-13, Mark 11:26

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? Doing alright? Well, certainly I wait for you to answer. I know many of you do, although we don’t have two-way radio here, but well, we’re connected together by the blessed Spirit of God. Anyway, I’d wait. This is your good friend, Bob Cook, and I’m back again with some precious thoughts from the Word of God. I count it as the highest, holiest privilege of my life, to share from God’s Word those things that sort of pop out as I read the Bible and compare one passage with another and think and pray about it. You know, it’s interesting how the Bible agrees with itself. There are three verbs in John 3:10, 11 and 12. And I noticed them as I was going over the verses and talking with you about them, “Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?” The verb ‘to know.’ Verse 11, “Ye receive not our witness.” The verb ‘to receive.’ Verse 12, “How shall ye believe?” The verb ‘to believe.’ To believe, to receive, and to know. This is the way God works it. I’m looking back now into the Gospel of Mark chapter 11. Our Lord Jesus said, “What things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that you receive them and ye shall have them.” Believe, receive, and have or know, in other words. Same things. See, the Bible agrees with itself.

The way God deals with you and with me is first of all, a commitment of faith. It doesn’t work any other way. I know some of you have analytical minds. You like to think through everything. You like to have a reason for everything. You have a million questions to ask and as soon as one is answered, another pops up, because that’s just the kind of an inquiring mind you have. And that’s all right. It’s good to have a bright, sharp mind. Use it. But when you’re dealing with God, He says, “I just want you to believe me. I want you to receive me by faith.” “Therefore, it is of faith that it might be by grace,” says Paul. God wants to save you freely but He doesn’t want any bargains, He doesn’t want any small print in the contract. He wants your commitment of faith, just to believe Him. Faith, and this is a Cook definition, faith is the willingness to risk the situation on God and His Word. To risk the situation on God, that’s faith. So, believe and then receive and then have or know it personally, as the verb is there.

Do you wanna try that out in your own life, beloved? What is there in your own life concerning which today you could say, “Lord God, I don’t understand it and I can’t manage it, but I’m gonna believe you for it. I’m gonna trust you, I’m gonna turn it over to you.” A dear friend of mine who’s now with the Lord wrote in one of his books that he was so burdened for a daughter who was away from the Lord and who had become suicidal and who was deeply depressed and the more he tried, the more he prayed, and the more he talked with her, things just went from bad to worse. She tried suicide and was hospitalized and was in a very fragile physical condition. He was so burdened. And then he said that he just gave up and he said, “God, I just give up to you. I’m not gonna try, I’m not gonna lecture, I’m not gonna preach, I’m not gonna nag, I’m not going to worry, I’m just giving it up to you.” And he just turned it over as his tears flowed and his heart was breaking for that precious daughter. Well, he said, almost that very day, she began to mend, and her attitude began to change. When he let go, God took hold.

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Isaiah 55:11:
“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”