Wednesday: Feeding the seeds

Feed My sheep, take care of my lambs, feed my sheep!

Good morning, my dear brothers and sisters. I am sorry I am late, I had an early morning appointment at the dentist this morning, as I will also tomorrow. Also to let you know I am in that process of changing to Comcast, and the first error has happened. My phone from Comcast is to be installed next week, but they put the order out to disconnect the line today, so my home phone is dead. I hope the message will get out, as it goes by DSL, same phone company.

Today, Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday on this line and the day we pray for the unsaved, and those we are not sure of and also those who are on the journey. Other prayers also for Sharon and Oliver and for Vicki. Don't know all the details but please pray. Thanks for your prayers for Danelle, she was hired at Central Dauphin ... it is part time.

Feeding the Seeds: "Feed my sheep, take care of my lambs, feed my sheep." These are the words of Jesus taken from John 21: 15/25 . Please take time to read those verses today.

All farmers know and all those who work gardens, be they flower or veggie gardens, that you need to be feeding and watering those seeds that you plant. Yes, we need to put fertilizer on the earth and work it into that ground. It also needs to be watered. It amazes me just what all we can use for fertilizer that is good for the earth. God really planned well for us when He made all of this, He really did. One of the very best things to use as fertilizer is animal waste. I don't know of any real farmers that don't have some sort of manure spreader. Dolores and I love to go to Lancaster County (Pa.) and ride that old train. We often see the Amish working the fields with their big work horses or mules, and one of the things they do is spread it on the land, and you really get the country smell when they are doing that. Then they turn the ground over and over by pulling the plows. It is also neat to watch the young Amish kids working the farms. Most kids at 12 are playing with the computer games or watching TV while the Amish boys are out working the fields. But wait, this is about feeding the seeds ... let's get back to the Bible and to feeding the seeds for the Lord.

On Monday, we prepared the ground, and on Tuesday, we talked about planting the seeds or setting the plants ... today, we talk about feeding them ...

The same is with the seeds we sow for our Good Lord. If we just tell someone about Jesus and maybe get them to church or Sunday School, we get them ready, we plant the seeds of Salvation through our Lord Jesus. But if we just walk away, what we have done might just die, and the person we planted the seeds in might turn back to where they were. So we need to keep in touch with those people, we need to try and keep them going to a good church and getting involved in Bible studies. We need to keep working with the person until we are sure they have come to Jesus. And you will know when that happens, for people will change. There is a big difference in a person once they are saved ... a big, big difference. Look at yourself if you are indeed saved, are you not different than you were before? Did you not change? So folks, please, where you have planted seeds, please feed them and water them, see that they keep getting the word of God.

How would it be if I wrote one message a year, or a pastor just preached once a year, would the flock grow or get eaten up? Think about it ... Tomorrow, after preparing, planting, feeding, next we must weed. All this must occur before the harvest.

Dear Father in Heaven, please help us as we seek out the Lost for You, and help us to get them to Your feet, help us to feed them the Word, and help please by opening Your Word up more and more to us. Lord, You are so faithful to us, each time I read a passage from the Bible, I can see another message in it. Open our hearts and deal with us oh Lord. Please bless Oliver, Sharon, and Vicki. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Go forth now spreading the Word, and spreading your blessings around to others ... Love ya, dan.