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September 1, 2018 11:56 am
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We got a car business principle we would like to teach today, and you may thinking Robbie on the reseller cart. Well, maybe you won't. But I would almost wager that you would love this particular principal, especially those of you who love listening prayer because like you I would really titled the show today listening prayer, but it it kinda illustrates a principal I was taught as a young salesman that I took to heart. I never forgot and made a lot of difference in a lot of what I was able to do in the car business over the assorted teach that principle to get to that here in just a minute. But also, today we want to give you a update on the Jesus labor of love, car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis across the country. We have a chance to kinda engage reality.
I was with my father yesterday as he listened to me answering one of the calls of of a family that their car was broke down he needed to get to his dialysis treatments and in all these things going on and you kind, you have an opportunity to come into where some people are really hurting and Suresh are little bit about that coming up in the Christian card I show today, but most of all what we love are your stories Armature story a pretty long story actually here in a minute about this principle discard business principle as prescribed, but after that I want to hear your story where God did that in your life and the number to call in is 866-34-TRUTH 87884 866-34-TRUTH and actually is a written copy of the story. I'm sure to tell if your Sandman. I would love to share that with somebody well you can find a Christian card.
I.com as well as podcast volleys previous shows Christian card I theater all about Jesus labor love how to donate to Jesus labor 11 how to donate cars to Jesus labor love. Most of all how to prayer. Pray for these moms needs as we always have those prayer requests out there, a Christian card. I.com it's great to be back at the I don't know that I ever missed two weeks in a row since I've been doing the films. 12 years now, but I got to go to a boot camp here a couple weeks.
Talk about that and then last week I dropped my daughter off to college in Samford University in Birmingham. That was an adventure and I got to take a road trip where I learned a few Christian card. I things about people's driving so it will a chance sure little bit about that today, too, but this principle that I think is just really touched my heart many, many years ago is made such a difference in my life in so many different ways as I've seen it throughout really my ministry, as well as you know everything I've ever been involved within the principle is simply this presentation without demonstration is mere conversation I may say, Romney won the world. Poor fellow. As I begin to explain what this is, in car business terms on right carried over the spiritual terms.
I think you'll see this extremely powerful and in fact I would say that it was quoted in the book of acts. But anyway, here it is again presentation without demonstration is mere conversation and here's a perfect example like your gonna teach a young salesperson how to sell a Jeep Wrangler in a course they could tell the prospect. All they wanted to about how wonderful it would be to take this top down and take the doors off and go for a ride out in the in the gravel somewhere, but let me just tell you that is just conversation. So if you want to demonstrate that you actually is a salesman need to know how to take off those doors, you need to take off the top and go find a dirt road that's you know safe and all that and have them go experience that Jeep with all that off in that setting. And all it makes all the difference in the world because that is the chance for them to not only hear what Jeep will do. But it's a chance to experience what Jeep do similarly if let's say you wanted to sell a Bose sound system moving Chevrolet used to have those in the Corvette and a lot of different cars. It is one thing to tell people always high fidelity and has this many Watson all these is got this butyl woofer and tweeter all the stuff that you could tell Bradley nothing is nothing compared sitting him down in the seat in Bose used to have these high fidelity. The probably and MP3s now, but back then they were on a CD and if you put that both CBN and had you would actually go in the waterfall and you would like to hear the ocean crash and then they would take you to the Symphony Orchestra and you hear all those you know and all the different speakers that were playing all the different stuff. Can you imagine just sitting in that car and hearing that versus some guy tell you about how many watts per channel, I mean there's no comparison. So understanding. This principle it is is a great way of communicating with anybody about anything so let's think about that spiritually ferment.
Ryan is arriving at demonstrate God never thought about that one will listening prayer is actually way to do that in an I don't know if you've ever done listening prayer when I go through that with this story or to hear, how that works but last cleared two weeks ago we did this advanced boot camp actually North Carolina boys Academy added treetop adventures in Lake Hickory which is just a beautiful neat.
Oh I think they got 30 zip lines and all sorts of bulges.
Fun stuff. But these guys are sort of teams that have struggled with some stuff in there almost like you know put on this peninsula here to get some recovery and their parents have dropped them off and there can be there 18 months, and so that's kind of the setting that these boys were in and we wanted to do this advanced boot camp because a lot of the boys had been through a regular boot camp, but we also had guys come in from all over that wanted to get more advanced off one of the advanced things that we do is called listening prayer and we really pray that we are really asking goddesses in Elliott 14 to 18-year-old boys and honestly as we found out when we got really close to once we are at the North Carolina boys Academy.
Several of them really didn't have a relationship with Christ. They weren't really certain God existed no and they came to that camp. They were kind of brought against their will by their parents or whatever had happened and they were optically happy to be there infective to where little thing around her ankle to make sure they don't run away in you as you begin to try to explain these boys about God and they've never heard anything about an hour. Obviously there's some resistance to that sold this idea of trying listening prayer really gonna jump all I like. Is this something we can do so essentially what listening prayer that the exercise that we wanted to do with them. You getting groups about a dinner about eight people in my group and then you sit down and you ask again. Again, it's all about the listening is not about the talking stick is a simple prayers like God. Would you please tell us who in this group. You want to speak over so you can imagine 14 to 18-year-old boys. As we said that in this group we we felt led that God wanted us to do this, but as we sat down, you know these boys. They started to giggle and I don't know if you ever word like that when you're a teenager, but I used to giggle at what you know I still giggle a lot more if they still wonder about that, but I guess these boys were in the giggle group so they were laughing and carrying. They were really struggling with a very polite Aiden and they would get up and say I don't know why I can't stop laughing but of course you sit down with a group of boys and silk. I want to hear from God, you, you can imagine what that was like for them. Well, we had not been sitting there long and their counselor whose name I will call it Leo I'm not in use. Anybody's actual name in the stores but working to call him Leo. He was kind of an wonderful wonderful godly man kind of an older hippie kind and laid-back and so the first thing were asking, is God who you want to speak over in this group and in others a different people there and all of a sudden Earl excuse me Leo start saying he start her were hearing a story so you can imagine the boys. All the sudden just break out into just hysterically trying to hold back is is Leo is saying her and so you find out about the whisperer.
This principle when you actually go to demonstrate God. What happens with that.
Plus we want to hear your stories at 866-34-TRUTH 878-848-6634.
We got so much more for you today at 1500 � as they do. Being that's an amazing thing. I love that song when we turn turn we come round God as is in each of us the story and the principal were teaching today which actually I learned in the car business but applied to life in so many different ways is presentation without demonstration is mere conversation. I mean if if you are a car salesman and you try to tell somebody what this cars got 16 ft.� of trunk space well at this means a lot right now but if you open up the trunk and you climb in there, you know, people get the picture. Well similarly, if you listen to people stories �where God actually interacted to illuminate experienced God yeah I'm I'm I understand it may be a Scripture that they experience that came to life for them and that's really a beautiful gorgeous unbelievable but it's still an actual demonstration how God came to them through that Scripture or they failed him actually speaking it was something that they experienced and its way beats just talking about God is how you actually experience God and so presentation without demonstration is mere conversation is a principal retirement today in a Christian card I show a course we would love to hear your story of how that presentation that, met demonstration to you of God changed everything at 866-34-TRUTH 87884 as a member to call in and share courses can be few more minutes before I finish my story, 866-348-7884. So there we were sitting in a circle of these young boys, a lot of them in my view, not nonbelievers and we are trying to hear from God and the dimension Leo was like the whisperer he was going, and these boys began to just know they were really struggling to concentrate and they were laughing and they were standing up and Sam and Mr. Robbie were so sorry we don't know why we can't stop laughing of the disc and stop laughing and in the idea of this particular thing was we were trying to hear who in the group that God wanted to speak over and so what the that Leo was talking about. I'm so I asked my Leo. What is this and he said well you know three of the boys in the group.
There's one name, and there's one named Tucker and there's one name Park with the errors if you know we all start laughing more but that's you know that's what he was near whisper. Well I you know this� Keep trying to listen see who God wants to speak over in this group and it didn't take very long and spent no actually, Parker spoke up and said I hear Connor Connors who am hearing and we're like, okay, God, you want to speak over Connerly began to pray along that way and all the sudden talk says I am hearing Lee you know that obviously was not in.
It was kind of a shocker, but I said well does anybody in the group have the middle name of Lee and sure enough, says yeah that's my middle name and I was like okay so it looks like God wants to speak over Connor, which by the way have changed all these names so that we would get anybody you know stories, you know out there on national radio waves anyway so I said okay well it must be Connor. The God wants to speak over so I start listening God what you want to say to, and I hear very clearly the word honor. So I turned to Connor Nessa. Connor is there something that you that you've been honored for that that that God honors you for that bit bit you know you want some awarded school or something in and he looked at me now. He looks like the All-American 1415-year-old boy know he's got glasses and all of them have a butcher cut and he does look like the sweetest kid you could ever see. But he looks at me because Mr. Robbie you and understand I'm a bad boy. I've been in trouble my whole life. Nobody's gonna honor me and and actually he'd been one of the ones laughing and laughing allotting and giggling and it was kind of a sobering moment as he said that but I was like a decisive Connor II just since God wants to honor you. I think I've got a different view of you. I wouldn't take on that label. A bad boy, I would see what God has to say about you because a lot more important with the other people of the state budget, and so by the time. Interestingly, Parker says yeah I'm hearing strength. I'm here encourage and you could see that this had an effect on Connor course the other boys who professed their still giggling and laughing is still it's it's it's it's hard for him while a few minutes later Connor says you know I'm hearing light and and we begin to pray some more and actually there is a sort of actually got really good guy but you know little hard because you know that exploring the thing that comes off and and and he's frustrated because the boys continue to giggle and continue to laugh but remember Jesus, told me just let them laugh, let it go, let him hear from me. And so, but my friend you know he wants to just come to call him out and says do you boys really even want to hear from God that he says do you know who God is and he is he's gotta frustrate isn't terribly condemning but there's some condom it's been there a little bit unlike well is neglect. At but the boys get really sincere and they say well you know and we came to this camp. It was not necessarily on her own free will and will you know we didn't come out of the church background and and were not so sure you know we we like these people and we like what they're teaching that we don't know for sure that there really is a God. I'm still working through some of that will that put my friend like the leg would even say that. And I suppose just go back to what was supposed be doing here, which is to listen for God and listen what God wants to speak over Connor.
Or maybe he has something else that you want to share so you know we all go back to listening and in the group has a few more encouraging words to say over Connor and the course.
This this process is taken about an hour and I'm looking at my watch, thinking for this is maybe we went over their heads.
Maybe this was just too much for them.
You know they didn't really so I was like okay well we got a movie coming up and spent about an hour when we get ready for movie night tonight and you guys go ahead and find your seats in there and do that on my way out the door Connor says Mr. Robbie, can I talk to yourself will hear the rest of that story. We would love to hear your story where it wasn't just mere conversation but demonstration made all the difference. 866-34-TRUTH 87884. That's what we did that with our show to say yes to the dress a few weeks ago and I can't get it out of my soul that forever now and I think it all has to do with what we talked about today listening prayer this story that I'm sharing on listening prayer.
We sat down with the guys that the North Carolina boys Academy and we just tried listening for God and been sharing that story along with the principal that were teaching presentation without demonstration is mere conversation.
I mean, let's just the one you want to say that you know this minivan. If you if you lay down the backseats of the just all sorts of room back there but if you lay down all his backseat to take them out or whatever and then you lay out across the back.
It just it's it's so much more powerful than just telling people that there's a lot of room back there well similarly when you're sharing God. One of those people can actually experience God themselves and and and and like going on that ride in that Jeep Wrangler with the top down without any doors. What would that be like if they could take God for a test drive. I just think that that's a an amazing idea and so we reluctantly came into the Carolyn of North Carolina boys Academy trying out this listening prayer. We are praying that God would would show up for these guys that actually did not necessarily have a relationship with him and so as I was mentioning earlier. The boy that Connor that came up to me after the session and said Mr. Robbie, can I speak to you know he'd made it obvious that he wasn't necessarily completely in the faith.
At this point in time not he wasn't church coming up and so you know what you think and Robbie that this person it's not a Christian from your certain point of view, would be able to hear from God.
Well, listen, what happened. He said Mr. Robbie, did I really hear from God and he remember he'd heard the word light and so I was like Connor do you feel like to get you were just thinking of the word light and somehow that came in he goes know I I know I just kinda came in there and I just heard it. It was just really clear possible.
Did you know that Jesus was the light of the world and when you think about light in your own life, you know, what would you what would you say, anyone on the share very intimate detail about his life. Actually, a death of one of his parents for suicide through a lot of darkness and it was light was Jeff exactly what Connor needed to leave me and even said you know I'm always a jokester.
He was one of those.
It was laugh. You said you know but honestly I'm really really depressed. I said leave.
It's not believe what light does for depression. In fact, people are being treated for depression often are given most sunlight treatments and those kind of things are think that that the suicide rate is the highest in Finland because what they normally light up there at midnight date in a similarly and ask Alaska base Bay 50 coveting so you know what we're sharing in and I submit Connor the.
The neatest thing would be if you could get back to that place where you heard that word light, you know, go get alone somewhere and spend the time and do the work to get back to that place where you heard that Reagan is clear your mind and ask God to speak to you and ask Jesus to love me and I said Connor. If you can hear that from him. Just ask him. It's just a question. Jesus, do you love me. I said I think when you hear the answer to that question.
The cross will make sense to you. I just ask Leavitt will well.
As I'm standing there talking to Connor up walks talk and Tucker has almost exactly the same question Mr. Robbie, do you really think I heard from God in a civil did you know the lien was in O'Connor's middle name. I mean, was that something that you just dreamed up or what you know. Do you think that's just a coincidence and and you could see this it really impacted him and similarly you know why I said you know it would be a really good thing if you just went out to cheat.
Got that same place as Jesus. The question we had a really meaningful conversation and these guys want to go watch a movie.
So they headed off to do that and I headed off across another part of campus and the Canton of the Council of the The chief counselor comes up to me and said Mr. Robbie, there's another boy wants to speak to you.
Guess who the yeah, you guessed it, Park is so I guess the Earl of Leo was actually his was exactly right, because here we had Connor and Tucker and Park and so Parker story of the three years he began to share with me just broke my heart as he shared what happened with his parents and and actually gotten the text from one of his parents when they said you know is kinda nice after you moved out you know what you need to come back in and you could see what that addendum is hard and and and he was the one. If you read the story there Christian card data, that actually had gone to church and actually did believe in God prior but he was really struggling because God and answered his prayer, but to hear his friend's name and to hear those words and to see the encouragement that it spoke over Connor was mean the world to him and he could really sense that wow why can I hear about my friend but I can hear about my you my own. I said well you know it's hard to hear about her own situation as we have so many preconceived notions. We have so much drama but also sometimes used as warfare like Daniel, you know, was resisted from you I would be answering his prayer that was resisted for some time by know the power the prince of Persia I think. Anyway, he said, is that in the Bible.
I said oh yeah I look to the foreman and and all that had a tremendous but the thing that had the tremendous effect was what God did.
Now what Robbie did or what Robbie said but what God did, and the bow that God gave the messenger. Any team as we finished up at boat boot camp as we we ask actually all that distance always in every bit Ago did you hear from the father and and actually more students or more of the people that attended the camp said they heard from God. The first time, then didn't. It's a shock tested that we had that that the God really come through and stole the show so well with really wonderful, but the one that just wowed me. The one that I will never ever forget that God gave me as a present was what Connor said. Here's what Connor said this is the quote father God told the other people in the prayer group that I am not a failure. You have, here's a boy whose whole life it only heard he was a failure.
But now he said he got says no that's not true and is not true. You know, we are not necessarily our behavior, and he died while we were still in our sins. If there was ever a prettier picture of it. I mean, there you go. And so you gotta see hope you do that in this case. When God demonstrated the new note that he would show up and he would talk and these people could actually hear his voice, which by the way, for struggling with the concept go read job John chapter 10 I merely find four times in that passage where Jesus says my sheep hear my voice again four times that passage, Jesus says my sheep hear my voice, and you can read the Scriptures and I love reading scriptures and I'm all about reading the Scriptures because I think it's a great way to hear his voice, but the question you kinda come to is the book is the Bible a book of examples or is it a book of exceptions. In all these people, Moses, David, Paul, Peter know these are people heard God's voice and and they all followed him and they all did certain things or in the case of you know all the prophets.
Guess what, in order to make their privacy. They had to hear from God and so is it a book of examples is this how it's supposed to be or is it a book of exceptions may be struggling, but I can tell you that when I hear stories every week in a Christian card I show and y'all are usually very, very, very faithful to call in with those which you can do that now it 866-34-TRUTH 8788 store 866748 excuse what else it will more time right 866-34-TRUTH 87884. You call that number and tell us what God demonstrated his love and believe me, you know that's where I often hear just tremendous, life-changing stuff so we would love to hear your story, but also we got some stuff on the Jesus labor love which you know I get see those stories every week as God comes to the rescue of single moms widows families in crisis.
There car problems and we got some of those stories coming up most of all I would love to hear your story or God's demonstrated to you, 866-348-7884 about listening prayer and the concept of principle of presentation without demonstration is mere conversation and that listening prayer story that that we went through.
If your wanton of the details of that maybe didn't come in and all of it or maybe you want to try listening prayer with your group. It's all explained merit Christian card. I.com II wrote out the whole story road out the prayers that were involved in it. You know how it was organized etc. etc. it's all there Christian card. I.com on your listening prayer as well as of course podcasting previous shows and Christian card.
I theater the Jesus labor of love, car repair labor for single moms widows and families in crisis. Well, as I was hoping we have a story we have Clay's in Raleigh wants to share about how God spoke into his life. Hello Clay brother Robert got a wonderful Saturday yell at latter-day Saturday yeah and I shared a little bit you know. I slightly ended up with the big A couple weeks ago but you know the ones that I've been able to come to be a part of you know, get from you know, feeding and nourishment. You have to question before you went to the break and I have come to the conclusion that you know when you said is it good example or as an exception will what I heard you say that ensure that what the main thing that came to me was because of the way the Bible was laid out no matter where there's an Old Testament of the New Testament. I came out, came up with. How about an exceptional example of what has foreknown in the Bible bringing for his work. I like that Clay so well you know you know me and you only for about two or three years of the like, and I can get a bit creative when things come out like that you know but I just tell your brother, you know. Here you to keep going about these these young men think they children because conduct children because there you know there get to the grown-up plate, but to hear these young man come out and open up you don't have that happening and these these young men are doing that and that says a lot because of people like you and brother Sam and everybody else that there is no better at boot camp in November or November and April that it it's it's a strong you know exceptional example of what the Lord is doing in that situation and I'm so thankful that I'm able to be a part of that need to be to plaintiff, you got a story zero. Well, you know, I would rather somebody else sure that okay that's fine another time. I have no but that's okay there though, but you know there's the thing that I would bring out is that you know what it says in the book of acts it says you can receive power from on high to be my witness and the witnesses what to the what actually happened in your life that God did you know from for me. You know you've heard me. Perhaps tell the story of when I was crushed by the Jeep and God came and gave me a hug where I knew he was there for me through you know that traumatic situation that there's been many times like when my son ran away where he came to me and he said to me Robbie. I've got this. It's gonna be okay, and minutes later my son pulls up in the driveway with the police know those are the kind of things that are like big markers in my life that are set down like a limit with a calm when you lay out a sanction, not sanctuary was that where you worship. I'm trying to think the word you lay them out in your life and you go okay this is a place like Jacob's ladder will you discover say God met me right there and and alters that's the word I'm looking for.
It gives assaulters right and you go. That's the God bailed out right here and honestly play God bailed me out yesterday you want to know how bit you do. I do well okay I so my dad taken a horrible fall went down, face first.
I now know that he broke his neck and he actually broke his nose horribly literally compound fracture of his nose and he was bleeding horribly because he's on blood thinners is 87 years old and he doesn't happen to have his life learned on that you have nice underwear that think they didn't have it on it was on his dresser and he couldn't reach his dresser because he was in so much shock he couldn't stand up and so he slides across his bedroom and somehow or another knocks the phone off the and he gets the phone in his hand. He can't see the phone because his eyes are filled with blood and all these things are happening and he said Robbie had to start hidden buttons as I couldn't dial 911 because I couldn't see anything in one of the buttons I hit you must've been on it because immediately you picked up must've been you on speed dial or some were actually in being that it was 315 in the morning you know I get this call and as soon as I said dad. He hung up and then he called back so we must at that, but the second time and then he was like can you call 911 which he lives. 45 minutes from a sword, try to get him as I but last night as I was putting targeting back, you know, we went to the hospital. He got his neck and a collar got his nose sewn up and all that went through that and God miraculously in my view, you know, kept him alive from bleeding to death etc. etc. but really, really cool thing is I'm putting in the bed. I said not bad.
Where's the speed by thou but many if any at an end.
He could not duplicate what it happened that there is a speed dial button on the bottom but I sit here on the because I'm asleep in the other room and if you need me. Just at that speed. But again, while I got up with him this morning at 1 o'clock. He goes I confinement button see you tell me Clay, since I have you on the phone. Was it a miracle that I mean he he managed to use a phone with his eyes full of blood that last night at 1 o'clock.
He couldn't find a way to call me but when he needed me. He pushed the button and I was there feel that that is what an exceptional example of a foundation that was laid out for that situation, but good.
You never you.
You just don't ever know what is going to happen. What a great place.
You know an outfield that that was a major door opening blessing for the overall situation.
You remember, if you go into the movie the sound of music were the Rev. mother is talking to Maria and there's that conversation about you know when he closes the door. He opened the window world like she sings a great song that two by the way, and climbing a mountain that I can play that's exactly what happened, or just remembered, that is an exceptional example of what happened and that that's where the thing with your father a and you came in so I mean unit that tells me a whole lot.
Thank you God bless you have a great weekend. Enjoy them at the foot out of football game and I'm getting right. Apart from God bless you man and you have a wonderful day. I'm looking for to be able to talk to you and see you soon. Bless you man. Love you and will talk to you less URI will we didn't have enough time to get in the my Jesus labor length stories.
I'm sorry. I had so many wonderful examples of how God came to the rescue just like he did for my father through the ministry that y'all donate to for the job. Pray for is for single moms winners families in crisis. Like all that is it Christian card.com is great to be back. As you can tell and had that much sleep the last couple days but I really enjoyed being with y'all today. Thank you so much for listening.
Remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went and got it all done in 33 years and God bless you this week.
I hope you have a chance to feel his presence