Abiding In Christ Ministries

Air Date: 12 06 21 The believer's life is characterized by faith in what they cannot see.  Regardless of circumstances, the believer should seek to please the Lord. The believer will receive reward or censure for their actions in this life. 2 Corinthians 4:15–18  |  15 For all these things are taking place for your sake, so that the more grace, divine favor and spiritual blessing extends to more and more people and multiplies through the many, the more thanksgiving may increase and rebound to the glory of God. 16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is progressively decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being progressively renewed day after day. 17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!,   18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.   Second Corinthians 5:6-7   6So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord that is promised us.  7For we walk by faith, that is, we pregulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk not by sight or appearance.     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

January 1, 2022 The Lord is my Light and my Salvation—whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? | Psalm 27: 1 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.  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, realize, 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!     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

Air Date: 12 16 21 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.—2 Corinthians 5:17     God regenerates our spirit but our minds are renewed by the Word of God. He has also put healing ministries in the church to aid your body and mind and opened the way to the throne of grace where we can enter in prayer according to scripture.  Sacred Scripture tells us what God's will is and healing scriptures guide us.  God requires faith and scripture will build our faith. It is especially important to go scripture daily to triumph over pain and fear.       Christianity is often called “The Great Confession.” All things in Christ—salvation, healing, deliverance—are dependent upon the confession with our lips of Jesus' lordship. Paul said to Timothy, “You…have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses” (1 Timothy 6:12).         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

Mark 11: 22, 23  |  22 And Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God constantly 23 Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.   .The first of these was a lesson about faith: (literally) “Be having faith in God.” The drying up of the fig tree had amazed the disciples;  Jesus wanted them to understand that the truly amazing works are those done as a result of exercising faith in God. There are no limits on what can be accomplished as a result of one's faith in God, simply because there are no limits on what God can do and human faith provokes God to act. Mark 10:27 has already insisted that “with God all things are possible.”       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

Air Date: 12 02 21 Passionate, Specific Prayer                      12/2/2021 Thursday My feeble hand lies in His.  His omnipotent hand is clasped around mine.   I am helpless and He is all powerful and knowing.  Sensitivity requires listening to the Lord as a vital part of enjoying intimate fellowship with Him.  (John 8:28-29). The ability to hear His voice is an absolute essential for the Christian life.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life .  No matter what the ups and downs of life are, fellowship with Him transcends them all.  We have to listen to God in our spirit.  God speaks to us in spiritual influences and we listen or focus on this spiritual communication Asking, Seeking and Knocking Matthew 7:7-8    A person who hears the voice of the Lord will be equipped to make wise decisions (Eph. 5:15, 17). But learning to listen to God rarely happens without an individual deliberately seeking Him through prayer and solitude. If you want this quality, you must make spending time with the Father a priority. Scripture: Through studying the Bible, we can learn how to please the Lord and what attitudes and actions to avoid (Ephesians 4:17-18). Supplication: Passionate, specific prayer is essential in walking with God. A person who is building an intimate relationship with the Father must talk to Him and listen to His voice. Jesus often withdrew by Himself to pray in the early morning hours (Mark 1:35). If it was important for the Son of God to connect with the Lord, how much more important is it for us to start the day with prayer? When you wake up, thank God He has a plan for your life. Each morning He is present to take you through everything—this gives us joy, peace and purpose—as we are walking in unity with Jesus. Life will not always be easy nor will it always go according to your expectations, but God will bring spiritual benefits out of any negative circumstances you face (Rom. 8:28). For instance, the apostle Paul might have never written the letters that became part of our Bible if he had not been imprisoned for his faith. He is omniscient and knows all things in the past, present, and future. The Lord sees every aspect of our lives, including our needs and desires. In His great wisdom, He understands what's best for us. His divine schedule for our lives is always perfect and achieves His good purposes.     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

Air Date: 12 01 21   God Gives all Things Through Jesus   Wednesday  Dec. 1, 2021   He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?     |   ROMANS 8:32   You can depend on God. You can count on His loving provision as a fact because you know how much He gave to solve the greatest problem you have—the sin that separated you from His presence  |  ISAIAH 59:2   The Father understood your deep need to have a relationship with Him, so He gave no less than the One “far above . . . every name that is named” (Ephesians 1:21), His only Son, Jesus. If He would give His own precious Son so you could know Him, why is it you doubt He would want to help you with what you face? Of course your problem matters to Him—because it means so much to you.   The truth of the matter is, the God of all creation, the Great I AM, the King of kings and Lord of lords loves you. And He is wholeheartedly committed to you. So listen to Him and trust Him to help you with whatever you need today.   God says that the knowledge of God is in the heart: “I will give them a heart to know that I am the Lord”  Jeremiah 24: 7           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

Air Date: 11 30 21 The Exchange at the Cross            Tuesday  11/30/2021 Once we have been translated out of the Kingdom of Darkness and into the Kingdom of God's Dear Son, we begin to prosper due to Jesus taking the curse for us that came about due to our alienation from God—the Way, the Truth and the Life.   On the Cross the Son of God enters into the greatest union with man—He enters into the experience of what it means to be a human person, who is a member of a race under the curse. It is in death that the Prince of life conquers the power of death; it is in death alone that He can enable us to partake of that victory. The life He imparts is a life from the dead; each new experience of the power of that life depends upon the fellowship of the death where the sinful nature is crucified with Christ. The death and the life are inseparable. All of the grace that Jesus the Saving One gives is given only in the path of fellowship with Jesus the Crucified One.   Galatians 2:20-21 |  “My old identity has been co-crucified with Messiah and no longer lives; for the nails of His cross crucified me with Him. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives His life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, and dispenses His life into mine! “So that is why I don't view God's grace as something minor or peripheral. For if keeping the law could release God's righteousness to us, the Anointed One would have died for nothing.”     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

Air Date: 11 29 21 The Blessing of Abraham is the gracious heavenly gift that Abraham received as part of God's plan to create a new nation on earth.   God's blessing to Abraham is recorded in Genesis 12:1–3: “The Lord had said to Abram, ‘Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.   “‘I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.'”   Here, Abraham is blessed, and that blessing includes the promise that he will have a great name (reputation) and that he would become a great nation (have many descendants). God will bless those who bless him; furthermore, Abraham will be a blessing. Through Abraham all nations on earth will be blessed. The blessing of Abraham finds its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, the “Seed” of Abraham (Galatians 3:16) and the Redeemer of the world.       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

Air Date: 11 26 21 Commit Your Way to the LORD - Friday   Psalm 37 |  3 Trust, lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed.   4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.   5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.   6 And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday.   7 Be still and rest in the Lord; wait for Him and patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.         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

Air Date: 11 25 21 The Law of the Spirit of Life - Thursday   Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus the law of our new being has freed me from the law of sin and of death.   The Means for No Condemnation (Romans 8:2–4)   The way to being free from condemnation is stated here. It involves both the Spirit of God and the Son of God.   The Work of the Spirit of God. “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). The Holy Spirit is much involved in our salvation. However, the Spirit's involvement is not apart from Christ Jesus. It is the law of the Spirit of life “in Christ Jesus.”   The Work of the Son of God. “God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us” (Romans 8:3,4). Jesus Christ is the Savior. First, the sending. “God sending his own son.” God sent Christ to the earth to die for sinners. Second, the seeing. “In the likeness of sinful flesh.” This is the Incarnation. Man could see the Savior incarnated in the likeness of sinful flesh—not in sinful flesh but in the likeness of sinful flesh. Third, the sacrificing. “For sin” involves the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary. Christ did not die a martyr but died for our sins. Fourth, the sanctifying. “That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.” The death of Christ made it possible for sinful man to have the righteousness of Christ imputed to him.       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

Air Date: 11 24  21 George Müller's autobiography is a fitting textbook on answers to prayer as much of his time was spent in prayer. God was his friend to have conversations with and it was God who answered his prayers in a million ways.   Every gift received was carefully recorded. None of these gifts had been asked for directly.  Money went to missionary operations, children's work, or the distribution of Scriptures and tracts.   When the Müllers began to ‘live by faith', Mary and George often started the day without the financial means to meet the requirements of the day. They were living completely ‘hand to mouth'. But God met each of their needs as it arose and George's diaries are full of stories.   On one day there was no money to buy food. A certain sister had sold some trinkets meaning to give the money for the orphans. On this particular day, during her prayer time, it was impressed upon her not to delay, but to hand over the £5 immediately. The lady was not to know that at this time there was no money to buy food for the children. Her gift provided the next meal.       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

Air Date: 11 23 21 Finding the LORD When you need Him —  Tuesday Psalm 34 1 I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My life makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble and afflicted hear and be glad. 3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. 4 I sought the Lord and required Him [of necessity and on the authority of His Word, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. 5 They looked to Him and were radiant; their faces shall never blush for shame or be confused. 6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who revere and worship Him with awe Him and each of them He delivers. 8 O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. 9 O revere the Lord, you His saints and worship Him! For there is no want to those who truly revere and worship Him with godly fear. 10 The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek the Lord by right of their need and on the authority of His Word, none of them shall lack any beneficial thing. I sought the LORD, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.       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  

Air Date: 11 22 21 Persevering In Prayer —   Monday The Bible says, “Fret not.” That is an assertion of the correlative that God can be trusted—the one that tells us not to fret; the one that tells us not to worry, is the one Who loves us and is all knowing and all powerful.   Psalm 37:33 | Hints that God's promise of deliverance from the wicked may be delayed mean that the righteous will need patience in various circumstances, not all of which may be deliverance from people hindering us but also of circumstances that we face. But remember that the One for whom you are waiting is the Lord, the all-powerful One, who is faithful to his promise, but is not subject to time and in no hurry. But he knows the right time to act and will do so then: you will see it (Psalm 37: 34).   James 4:2  |  You do not have because you do not ask.        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

Air Date: 11 12 21 In Hebrews 11, we learn about faith from the Bible's Old Testament heroes. One crucial detail stands out in their lives: they placed their whole confidence in God, entrusting themselves into His hands. The actions and accomplishments of these men and women proved that faith pleases God, and He rewards those who seek Him: “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Hebrews 11:6).    The author of the book of Hebrews points out two critical convictions of believers. First, “anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists.” Those who desire to draw near to God must have a deep-rooted belief that He is real. Such belief is not mere intellectual knowledge but a wholehearted devotion to His presence and participation in every part of one's life. Without a genuine conviction that God exists, it is impossible to have an intimate relationship with Him. Second, the Lord's followers must believe “that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” This aspect of faith trusts in the character of God as a good, loving, generous, gracious, and merciful Father (James 1:17; Psalm 84:11; Lamentations 3:22–23). These two certainties are the groundwork of saving faith—a faith that pleases God.        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  

Air Date: 11 11 21 Steadfast Hope an Anchor to the Soul    Thurs Nov 18   In Hebrews 6:16–20, the biblical writer intends to instill steadfast hope in his readers to keep them from drifting about aimlessly through the Christian life. He does so by identifying three wholly reliable sources of hope as an anchor for the soul: God's Word, God's character, and God's Son.   The Lord not only gives us the promise of salvation and eternal life (John 3:16), but He reinforces it by binding Himself with an oath “so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind” (Hebrews 6:17, NLT). God's Word and nature are rock solid. He is trustworthy, and “it is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18). The dependability of God's promise and His character bolster our faith so that we can “take hold of the hope set before us” and “be greatly encouraged” (verse 18).   “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek” (Hebrews 6:19–20). God's Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, is a powerful and dependable anchor for our souls.     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

Air Date: 11 10 21 Faith in God's Trustworthy, Unfailing Nature   Wed Nov 17. 2021   The writer of Hebrews opens chapter 11 with a brief description of faith: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1, NKJV). This statement should not be regarded as a complete definition of faith. Instead, the author focuses on two critical aspects of a much broader theological concept to introduce a famous gallery of Old Testament heroes of faith. The first vital facet of faith is that it is “the substance of things hoped for.”   The word for “substance” (KJV, NKJV) in the clause faith is the substance of things hoped for, is alternatively translated as “assurance” (ESV), “confidence” (NIV), and “the reality” (NLT). In the original Greek, the term conveys the idea of “a firm foundation,” “the real being,” “the actual existence,” “the substantial nature,” and “a resolute trust.” One sense of the word refers to a title deed or a legal document guaranteeing the right to possess a property.   Faith as the substance of things hoped for” could be translated “faith is the title-deed of things hoped for” Faith, as described in Hebrews 11:1, “apprehends reality: it is that to which the unseen objects of hope become real and substantial. Assurance gives the true idea. It is the firm grasp of faith on unseen fact.”   In order for us to take hold by faith, we have to know God's will.  We have to know His principles and precepts from Scripture as the foundation for our faith.  God's will holds the supremacy in all the factors concerned so  God works in us to know His will by the Word and Spirit.  As we ask, seek and knock, we discover God's will in our own personal circumstances.  He works in the conditions and environment to set things up for us and within us to direct us to take hold of that which is His will.       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

Air Date: 11 16 21 Shalom is one of the most beautiful words in existence. It literally means “nothing missing, nothing broken.” It also means to be completely whole in every way. Shalom is perfect peace.   Our Lord Jesus is the Prince of Shalom. (Isa. 9:6.) His greatest desire for you is that you live in health, prosperity, joy, and absolute fulfillment in every area of your life. If even a small part of your life is lacking any part of these, He feels it. You must realize that your Lord loves you with a perfect love. He cherishes every breath you take. He counts the very hairs on your head and holds as precious every one. Examine this thought for a moment. The Word says that our “hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Romans 5:5). Now add to your meditation of this thought that faith is the substance of things hoped for and that faith must work by love. (Heb. 11:1; Gal. 5:6.) How does faith come? By hearing the Word continually until we realize that the promise is for us. (Rom. 10:17.) How can we be disappointed? When we don't know the love that God has for us and how willing He is to fulfill His Word in our lives.       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

Air Date: 11 15 21   2 Corinthians 5:18-20… All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men's trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.…   The Gospels of Mark and Luke both relay an incident involving a widow's gift to God. She didn't give much—just two mites—or did she?   The story is often called the story of the widow's mite or the story of the widow's offering. One day, Jesus was sitting with His disciples near the temple treasury watching people depositing money into the offering receptacles. The court of women held thirteen such receptacles, and people could cast their money in as they walked by. Jesus watched as the rich were contributing large sums of money, but then along came a widow with two small coins in her hand. The ESV calls them “two small copper coins, which make a penny” (Mark 12:41). The KJV calls the coins “mites.” These were the smallest denomination of coins. The widow put her coins into the box, and Jesus called His disciples to Him and pointed out her action: “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on” (Mark 12:43–44; cf. Luke 21:1–4).         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

Air Date: 11 12 21 May you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. .—Ephesians 3:18, 19.     17 May Christ through your faith actually dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,   18 That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints God's devoted people, the experience of that love what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it;   19 That you may really come to know practically, through experience for yourselves the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience; that you may be filled through all your being unto all the fullness of God may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!   20 Now to Him Who, by the consequence of the action of His power that is at work within us, is able to carry out His purpose and do superabundantly, far over and above all that we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams—   21 To Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen (so be it).         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  

Air Date: 11 10 21 The Prayer of Agreement            Wednesday           November 10, 2021   “Again I say unto you, that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.” —Matthew 18:19   20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” 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) So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. —Romans 10:17 We stand on God's Word and instead of looking at the storm, in the face of it, we say as Paul did: “I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me” (Acts 27:25). The opposition will relent and the answer will come. We stand our ground. God's Word works!  Our trust is not in our ability to manipulate and access God's power to apply to our situation, but in God and His Word.  We seek God's will above what we want at any certain time.  This is the attitude of our hearts upon which we can proceed to faith for what we pray for. Everything is in the context of the knowledge that God has a plan.  Our prayers are important as Holy Spirit works in us with hidden influences to get us in agreement with God's will.  That is the solid rock of our salvation.  This rock is Jesus.  He is always present to rest in our hearts, our souls and exchange so that He protects us from false notions and brings us into agreement in accordance with His will.       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

Air Date: 11 09 21   There is a new power of prayer in faith without doubting given in these verses.  Prayer has authority to change things.  We are told that We must be willing to forgive if we are to experience God's power.   Beginning here with the scriptural account of Jesus teaching on faith , we will also be looking at the hindrances to faith and how to overcome them.   The clearing of the temple and the cursing of the fig tree (11:12–18) portray the messianic authority of Jesus to act for God, and here this authority is passed on to Jesus's followers through the power of prayers made in faith.       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

Air Date: 11 08 21 Partakers of the Divine Nature   2 Peter:2-4  Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4Through these He has given us His precious and magnificent promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, now that you have escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.…   Hebrews 4:12  — God's Word is Living and Active   11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience. 12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.…       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  

Air Date 10/27/2021 Wednesday The Christian who compartmentalizes his or her life into two sections of the religious and the nonreligious has failed to grasp the big idea. The big idea is that all of life is religious or none of life is religious. To divide life between the religious and the nonreligious is itself a sacrilege.   This means that if a person fulfills his or her vocation as a steelmaker, attorney, or homemaker coram Deo, then that person is acting every bit as religiously as a soul-winning evangelist who fulfills his vocation. It means that David was as religious when he obeyed God's call to be a shepherd as he was when he was anointed with the special grace of kingship. It means that Jesus was every bit as religious when He worked in His father's carpenter shop as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane.   Integrity is found where men and women live their lives in a pattern of consistency. It is a pattern that functions the same basic way in church and out of church. It is a life that is open before God. It is a life in which all that is done is done as to the Lord. It is a life lived by principle, not expediency; by humility before God, not defiance. It is a life lived under the tutelage of conscience that is held captive by the Word of God.   Coram Deo ... before the face of God. That's the big idea. Next to this idea our other goals and ambitions become mere trifles.     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  

Air Date: 10 26 21   Observe also that one basic principle of prayer is set forth by this example of delayed response. It is the principle of undiscourageable persistence. Jesus taught his disciples that “they should always pray and not give up” (Luke 18:1). There may be hindering factors of which a praying Christian knows nothing as he wonders why the answers to his requests are delayed. Nevertheless, he is to keep on praying. It may be that he will not receive an answer because he has given up on the twentieth day when he should have persisted to the twenty-first day. If Daniel had become discouraged, as many Christians do, then he might not have received the words of ch 11.    Daniel 10:12-13…“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. 13However, the prince of the kingdom of Persia opposed me for twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.        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

Air Date: 10 25 21 The certainty of our hope has a remarkable effect on our lives. Hoping Christians cannot live carelessly, seeking self-indulgence and pleasure. Prepare your minds for action: literally, ‘Gird up the loins of your mind.' The figure describes what a man wearing a long robe had to do if he were to go into action—gather the garment up between his legs and tuck it into his belt. Like Israel in Egypt, we have been called out of our slavery to begin a journey to the promised land. The Israelites were commanded to eat the Passover, their last meal in Egypt, ‘girded' for travel. God calls his servants to be girded for mission; Elijah to run and Jeremiah to prophesy. Peter may have been thinking especially of the words of Jesus, ‘Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning; and be ye yourselves like men looking for their lord, when he shall return from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may straightway open unto him.'      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

Air Date: 10 22 21   “The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain or trouble, but a weak and broken spirit who can raise up or bear?” PROVERBS 18:14    Peter does not begin to exhort Christian pilgrims until he has celebrated the wonders of God's salvation in Jesus Christ. The indicative of what God had done for us and in us precedes the imperative of what we are called to do for Him. ‘Without the pinpointing of what God does, the essential is addressed to a helpless sinner, the victim of his illusions; it becomes a commandment that crushes or that drives to vain and presumptuous efforts.  Our hope is God's gift, an inheritance created for us by Christ's resurrection (1:3). Because we have been given hope, we are called to live in it. –Romans 1:17  |  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”    Peter's exhortations continue through his letter. Yet he also continues to remind us of the reality of redemption that underlies his call to obedience. In the rest of this chapter he summons us to the obedience of hope, hope that is marked by readiness and holiness.    3 John 2—NLT: “Dear friend, I hope all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit. The Degree of Success We Experience Is Directly Connected to the Condition of Our Spirits        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

Air Date: 10 20 21 All this I have spoken while still with you. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:25–27)      When the Counselor comes, whom I send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, He will testify about me. (John 15:26)      Now I am going to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, “Where are you going?” Because I have said these things, you are filled with grief. But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. (John 16:5–7)          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

Air Date: 10 21 21 The term comforter includes advocate and helper. In 1 John 2:1, where John speaks of Christ as “an advocate with the Father,” the RV margin gives comforter. In Scripture, a paraclete, the Greek term for comforter, is an intercessor, a capable helper in time of need, or a person called to the side of another to aid them.    A certain missionary was struggling with the language of the natives among whom he labored. When he came to “advocate” in John 14:16, he tried to translate it into a word or phrase expressing the meaning to the native mind but was baffled. Calling to his native assistant, he said, “Come over to my side and help me with this word.” Thus, all at once, the missionary had his translation: “one called alongside to help.”    During His earthly ministry, Jesus had been God's advocate with men, pleading God's cause with them, seeking to win them for His Father. He was ever at the call of saint and sinner alike who needed His help. He was going away however, and both He and the Father would see to it that their own would not be left without another advocate on the earth. This further heavenly Comforter would not be recognized by an unspiritual world, but all true believers would know and welcome Him.  And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever.… After a little while the world will behold Me no more; but you will behold Me; because I live, you shall live also.… These things I have spoken to you, while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. (John 14:16, 19, 25, 26)          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

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)          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

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

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  

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

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

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

Air Date: 10 11 21 When we receive the new birth, we immediately are co-heirs with Christ in everything.  We are yoked with Him by Holy Spirit and share in His life and He shares in ours as a child with a parent.   The term heirs of God emphasizes our relationship to God the Father. As His children, we have “an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade . . .kept in heaven” (1 Peter 1:4). The Greek term translated “heirs” in Romans 8:17 refers to “those who receive their allotted possession by right of sonship.” In other words, because God has made us His children as we see in John 1:12, we have full rights to receive His inheritance. We are His beneficiaries   (see Matthew 25:34; Galatians 3:29; Colossians 1:12; 3:24).   Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, is the natural “heir” of the Father. God said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you, to identify with humanity, becoming your Father where all may identify with you and become my children.   (Hebrews 5:5; cf. Psalm 2:7). Christ's inheritance is the whole universe, all that is in existence: Hebrews 1:2 says that the Son has been “appointed heir of all things.” Being a co-heir with Christ means that we, as God's adopted children, will share in the inheritance of Jesus. What belongs to Jesus will also belong to us. Christ gives us His glory (John 17:22), His riches (2 Corinthians 8:9), and all things (Hebrews 1:2). We are as welcome in God's family as Jesus is; we are “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6,). All that belongs to Jesus Christ will belong to us, the co-heirs, as well.         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

Air Date: 10 08 21       Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (Hebrews 4:14–16)   Hebrews 8:1  What does it mean for a person to be in Christ?  In the simplest of terms, to be in Christ means that a person's faith in Christ places him or her in Christ.  Positionally, the person is placed in all that Christ is. Christ lived, died, and arose, so to be in Christ means that a person lives, dies, and arises in Christ. Christ is the person's Representative, his or her Agent, Substitute, Mediator in life, death and resurrection. The person who believes in Jesus Christ is identified with Christ: counted and considered to be “in” Christ; reckoned and credited as “in” Christ.       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

Air Date: 10 07 21   "Casting all your cares on Him, for He cares for you." - 1 Peter 5:7   Keeping our eyes focused on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.  Hebrews 12:2   "Casting the whole of your care all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully." 1 Peter 5:7           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

Air Date: 10 06 21 "Casting all your cares on Him, for He cares for you." - 1 Peter 5:7   Keeping our eyes focused on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.  Hebrews 12:2   "Casting the whole of your care all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully." 1 Peter 5:7   When something comes up we tend to see ourselves alone having to face and resolve the problem on our own.  But with the Christian is the omnipotent Son of God — the all-powerful, all knowing one.   John 14:16-18   And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—   17 The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you constantly and will be in you.         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

Air Date: 10 05 21 Dear God, I know that You can open doors that no man can ever shut. It's not always easy for me to see and sense the direction I need to take. And so today, I trust and ask You to lead me to open doors of opportunity that you have prepared for me. Help me make sense of the options that lay before me and help me see and make the right choices today. Amen.           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

Air Date: 10 04 21 Through Jesus we get to know what the Father is like, what to expect of Him, and how to come to God through Jesus his Son.   We learn that our approach must involve faith but also knowledge of God's character. As we read in Hebrews 11:6, “Now without faith it is impossible to please God, since the one who draws near to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” So approaching God requires two things: faith in his existence and an expectation of his reward for seeking him.   Hebrews 11:6 is Luke 18 in a nutshell. The chapter features five people who want to draw near to God. In each case they come to Jesus with a question, need, or desire. In four of the five cases we see Jesus reward these seekers. The Lord responds to them in answer to their prayer with an act of mercy. In verse 1 the Lord tells a parable to “them,” meaning his disciples. The Lord tells another parable to “some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous.” Verse 15 features a group of parents bringing their infants to Jesus and the disciples. “A ruler” approaches Jesus with a question. Finally, the Lord addresses the Twelve in verse 31 and a blind man in v 35         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  

Air Date: 10 01 21   The word blessing in Ephesians 1:3 is a translation of the Greek word eulogy,and it means “to speak well of.” Since God is the one acting in this verse, we can say that God has spoken good things about us, or pronounced good things for our benefit. The good things that God has decreed for us are probably beyond our ability to number, but we can outline a few by looking at the verses that follow the statement (Ephesians 1:4–13.   Ephesians 1:4 says that He has “chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.” God has chosen to make us holy and blameless, and all because of His love, His good pleasure, and His grace (verses 5–6). What a blessing, that “even when we were dead in sins” (Ephesians 2:5), God chose to extend His grace to us and offer us salvation. This is even more amazing when we realize that He made that decision before sin even entered into the world.   In verse 6, we are made “accepted in the beloved.” The word is related to grace and gives the idea of making us graceful or favorable through Christ, the beloved of God. When we put on Christ, the Father sees His loveliness when He looks at us. The blood of Christ has taken away the guilt of our sins, and we stand before the Father as perfectly accepted.     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

Air Date: 09 30 21   And look at the interesting choice of words about the connection between God's Word and life. To those who find them, God's Words are life. To those who find them. God always requires that we look for Him, that we choose Him. The good news is that He is always available, never hiding.      If I speak only what my senses dictate, I will not agree with God. It is speaking the word only by which I agree with God. It is the confession of faith that is my victory   God never forces us to believe in Him or to follow Him or to be obedient to Him. He simply says, "Here I am. I am the beginning and the end. All power is mine. With Me nothing is impossible."   So we must seek after God. We are told to look for Him in Holy Scripture and to integrate His Word into our hearts and our total being so that we are filled with faith in Him. When that happens, there is no room for the seeds of the evil one to grow, there is no room for doubt, and there is no room for illness. Look to your Heavenly Father and you shall live.             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  

Air Date: 07 29 21   The God of Compassion and Mercy |  Exodus 34   Exodus 34:6   |  with “love,” omitting the last word (“faithfulness/truth”) of the formula of grace, most likely in order to put stress on the “love” of Yahweh, a point that the context of 103:8 bears out. The psalm, in fact, downplays God's anger (“nor will he harbor his anger forever,” 103:9b) and accentuates God's love (130:8) and forgiveness (103:10–12).   4 So Moses chiseled out two tablets of stone like the first ones. Early in the morning he climbed Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.   5 Then the LORD came down in a cloud and stood there with him; and he called out his own name, Yahweh. 6 The LORD passed in front of Moses, calling out, “Yahweh!* The LORD!  The God of compassion and mercy!  I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.    7 I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations.         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!  

Air Date: 07 28 21   God Meets the Need for Provision and Satisfaction  Psalm 23:1   This is an awesome statement. Perhaps, David said it while sitting down with his own lambs who were happy and content to be at his side. He looked at the peace they enjoyed and applied it to the feelings he had about the Lord and said, “I shall not want.”   The word for “want” is the Hebrew word chacer {khaw-sare'} which means “to lack, to be without, to have a need.” The same word is translated differently in these verses. In Psalm 23:1, this word “want” is in the imperfect tense which means “continual action.” David was saying, “I shall continually not be in want and I shall continually not lack anything.           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!

Air Date: 07 27 21   To be the dwelling place of God is the highest and most sublime glory of the Spirit's indwelling in the saint.   An ancient architect was asked to build a temple for the sun. After others had constructed their beautiful models of granite and polished marble and resplendent gold, he brought a design made of simple transparent glass and said, "This is the true temple for the sun, for the sun himself can live within it and pass out and in without restraint."   God is wanting temples for Himself as transparent as the colorless glass, reflecting not their own glory but His. We receive Him without the necessity of opening a single door, but with every channel and capacity of ours so open that we live and move and have our being in Him, and He can find in us that congenial abode for which He searches the mighty universe and the highest heaven in vain; for are not we also "the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way" (Ephesians 1:23)   ... Your love in the Spirit. (Colossians 1:8)        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!  

Air Date: 07 26 21   The Parable of the Kind Shepherd  |  John 10:10   Jesus said to the Pharisees, “Listen to this eternal truth: The person who sneaks over the wall to enter into the sheep pen, rather than coming through the gate, reveals himself as a thief coming to steal. 2 But the true Shepherd walks right up to the gate, 3 and because the gatekeeper knows who he is, he opens the gate to let him in. And the sheep recognize the voice of the true Shepherd, for he calls his own by name and leads them out, for they belong to Him.       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!

Air Date: 07 23 21   The LORD has established His throne in heaven,   and His kingdom rules over all ...Psalm 103:19   Psalm 103:…17from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children's children— 18to those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts. 19The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all. 20Bless the LORD, all His angels mighty in strength who carry out His word, who hearken to the voice of His command.…   The God who keeps us is the God who transcends time and space. Thus David proclaims: “The LORD has established His throne, His authority in heaven” Moreover, “His kingdom rules over all.” All are, therefore, under His sovereignty.   Psalm 103 displays the mercy of God. This psalm is a minor treatise on God's love (hesed) and shares a kinship with 1 Corinthians 13.     1 Corinthians 8:6...6 there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.   Philippians 4:19...“And my God will liberally supply (fill to the full) your every need according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” James 1:17...“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”   God is omniscient and knows all things in the past, present, and future. The Lord sees every aspect of our lives, including our needs and desires. In His great wisdom, He understands what's best for us. His divine schedule for our lives is always perfect and achieves His good purposes.         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!  

Air Date: 07 22 21   Their deeds will not allow them to return to their God.   Hosea 5:4 We have observed from the Genesis account of the Fall that when our enemy comes along in the form of a serpent, he does not attack the spirit with his temptations—he attacks the soul. Along came the serpent, and he attacked the soul and severed the spirit from God's Spirit.  Fortunately, the new birth cuts off the devil's impact on the soul and renews the spirit's relationship with the Spirit of God.  If the soul responds to temptation, something negative happens and Satan has succeeded in cutting off our direct contact with God. That is the essence of the result of the Fall.  Paul follows this train of thought, making reference to trespasses and sins “in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2). Who is the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience?  Satan. And he works as a spirit in the area of the soul.   In the Fall man's soul became infected with rebellion. The result of this infection in every succeeding generation was that mankind no longer needed to be tempted from the outside. Rather an inner force of rebellion was latent in their souls.  This is why the new birth is necessary.        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!    

Air Date: 07 21 21   Psalm 37:3–7... Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed.   4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart.   5 Commit your way to the Lord roll and repose each care of your load on Him; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.       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!

Air Date: 07 20 21 Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren    God's ultimate purpose in our creation was that we should finally be “conformed to the image of Christ.” Christ was to be the firstborn among many brethren, and His brethren were to be like Him. All the discipline and training of our lives is with this end in view, and God has implanted in every human heart a longing, however unformed and unexpressed, after the best and highest it knows.       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!        

Air Date: 07 19 21 1 Timothy 1:19...19 Holding fast to faith (that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence) and having a good (clear) conscience. By rejecting and thrusting from them their conscience, some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith.   The Presence of God   Psalm 16:5-6 …5The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure. 6The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.…7I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me. 8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.…   7"I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me."  Joshua 1:8-9— This Book of the Law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal wisely and have good success.         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!