Tuesday: Ready or Not

It is not for you to know!!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. What a beautiful morning here in Central Pennsylvania and another day closer to spring ... Come on spring!! In less than three weeks, we will be back on daylight saving time. Hang in there brothers and sisters, warmer weather is coming. Today is Tuesday, and that is schools day on this line, the day we pray for all of our schools. Folks, some think that our schools need more and more money, newer buildings, bigger sports complexes, so the kids get better grades. I think what our schools need is our Lord Jesus. So how do we get Him back in the schools? We send Him in the hearts of our children, the hearts of our teachers, and the hearts of parents. Let me ask you this. Other than on Schools days on this line, how long has it been since you really prayed for our schools? If you don't have kids in school, do you forget about our schools? Hey, we are footing the bill, so let's send in the new Super ... the top man, our Lord Jesus. AMEN! So pray for our schools, from early childhood to the schools of higher education. Pray for all going through the doors. Also today, please pray for Vicki, Josh and her family ... again, her plate is very full.

READY OR NOT! I remember standing in the evenings when I was young (back when the streets were still dirt and the Dead Sea was just sick) with my head buried up against a power pole or a tree counting to a hundred while all my friends and neighborhood playmates would hide. Then I would turn around and say ... READY OR NOT, HERE I COME. In most cases, all would be hidden from me, for it was my turn to be "It". If someone did not get hidden in time and you called out their name, then they would be it for the next game. But you still had to hunt down the others and try and get them out ... READY OR NOT, HERE I COME ...

Brothers and sisters, we are not even going to get that kind of warning for our Lord Jesus when He comes back, so we are getting our warnings now. And remember this, when our Lord Jesus returns, it will not be a game of hide and seek, for you will not be able to hide from Jesus. Le'ts face it, you can't hide from Him now ... Jesus is good. Now you might go to your Bible and try and figure out when Jesus is coming back, but it tells you, you just don't know. In fact, the Bible tells us that our Lord Jesus does not know ... Only the Father ... "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by His own authority." Acts 1: 7 (NIV) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" Matthew 24: 36 (NIV).

Folks, all last week I wrote about Salvation, and I can't help wonder how many put it off. How many did not read, or did not repent? But my job for Jesus is to just get the word out that He is coming back, not to tell you when ... gosh, I don't know when ... and neither do you, nor does any other person. Not one person knows. And again I tell you to be ready. God The Father, someday will get tired of the way we are living, get tired of the cursing, the swearing, the abortions, the unfaithful in marriage, and I could go on and on. He is going to get tired of all the sin. In the days of Noah, He went to Noah and had Him build an Ark. He had warned people. It is the same today, we have been warned and warned and warned. From John the Baptist to Jesus Himself, we have been told to "Repent for the Kingdom of God is Near". So brothers and sisters, maybe, just maybe God the Father is doing the count down ... or count up ... You have heard some parents counting when their kids are bad. I am counting, I heard a mother say,... 1,2,3 she went, and then she said, I really mean it ... I am counting 1,2,3. You are going to get it. You are going to get it. My dad was a math teacher, but he never counted when I got out of line. He punished, and I love him to this day for it. But then he would forgive me. Folks, God the Father is going to send Jesus back to get those who are saved, those born again, those washed in the blood. ALL OTHERS WILL BE LOST. The game will not end like a game of hide and go seek when the one who is "it" would yell after giving up ... "All in Free, All in Free". Oh, no, no free pass to heaven after the big event. Your free pass needs picked up now. If Jesus would return right now -- WOULD YOU MAKE THE CUT?

Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive me of my sins, and even my sinful thinking. Lord wash me clean. Lord ,I pray today for our schools, and ask You, please go and take care of our schools. We who love You know that the only way our schools will work for good, is if You are involved. Some don't want You there but we do. So please Lord, enter in the hearts of the kids who love You, kids Like Julie Campbell and others whose parents have raised them to love Jesus. Lord, bless each one that carries the message in. Bless teachers who love you like big John from Carlisle and Larry from Dauphin County Tech School. Let Your love ride in on them, Lord, and many others like them. Like the principal named Tommy from Paxtang. Lord, help them. Lord, bless them. Lord, bless our schools. And Lord, Your hand is needed on Vicki and Josh and even their dogs. And Lord, thanks for looking after Oliver, and bless that book he wrote ... In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Go forth sharing your blessings. Jesus loves you ... and yes, I love ya also. dan.