Thursday: Bankruptcy 4

"You are under a curse, the whole nation of you, because you are robbing me." (God)

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is a beautiful morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Rain is expected and really needed, and praise the Lord we do not need to shovel the rain. Today is Thursday and family day on this line. Please pray today for the Orner Family, the Lehman family, the Ogden family, our online family, and most of all, the family of God. Pray for peace, healing, and salvation.

Bankruptcy 4. As I talk this week about our Nation going morally bankrupt, here is just another reason why ... WE ARE STEALING FROM GOD, and I did use the term we, meaning you and me. It is bad enough that people break God's commandment and steal, but we are stealing from God. People who would never think of stealing a thing, people who would find a dollar in front of a store and take it into the store and turn it in, some of those very same people steal right from God. And you are saying, what the hum are you talking about, Pastor Dan? Well, brothers and sisters, read up.

Malachi 3: 8: Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. "But you ask, 'How do we rob you?" "In tithes and offerings. 9 "You are under a curse the whole nation of you because you are robbing me. 10 Bring the WHOLE tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. TEST ME IN THIS," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." 11 I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit, says the Lord Almighty. 12 Then all the nations will call you blessed for yours will be a delightful land says the Lord Almighty. (NIV)

Now folks you can see why our nation is in big, big dollar trouble. We have drifted from God morally and we have drifted from Him with the trust of our blessings ... our wealth ... I want you to note something here folks. Our Lord has told us Not to test Him. Luke 4 12: Jesus answered, "It says 'Do not put your Lord your God to the test.'" (NIV) However in the book of Malachi, chapter 3, in verse 10, "Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty." (NIV)

My friends, if you are down to your last dollar and want to make it count the most, give it to God. I have had even some in my family tell me that when they are done paying the bills there is nothing left to give to the work of our Lord. And I tell them they must do it the other way around. Give to God off the top and you will find it makes a difference.

Yes, I think our nation is going morally bankrupt, and this week I have been going over the reasons I think it is a fact ... from killing our unborn children, to drugs and prostitution, to our elected officials stealing from us, to investment brokers you trusted your dollars to not putting them back for you ... to the drug addict walking into a store or a bank and sticking it up, to out and out robbing from God, and I am not talking about breaking into a church to do this. In fact, dare I bring this out? When we have a person going around breaking into churches and we get them once in a while, the news media will interview pastors and others and they always say how it is so sad to steal from God by robbing the church ... daaaaaaaa, while breaking into the church building to steal might get you time in jail, in the eyes of God, robbing from Him is a sin, regardless if it is by breaking into a building or just not turning over to Him your tithes and offerings. You see, when we go against God, regardless of how, it will put us into bankruptcy. Tomorrow, digging out of bankruptcy. We are coming back, we, must start saving our Nation. Join me tomorrow and let's get started.

Dear Father in Heaven, I confess that I am a thief, not always turning over all I should to You. Forgive me, dear Lord, and please forgive others today as they ask. And yes, Lord, as we do share our blessings, I ask that You pour out Heavens gates upon us. Bless the shelves in homes that they might have more food, bless the closets of those who need clothes, bless hearts that need healing, and bless all those sharing their blessings. And Lord, bless families, all of them. And help us to work with Your people, leading them into Your arms. And yes, Lord, I pray for our Nation today. Lord, thanks for the message, and Lord put me on fire as I ready for the message tomorrow, and open hearts and minds to hear it ... In the name of Jesus, Amen.

No go forth, sharing your blessings, and giving God what is His, and you will be blessed, you really, really will. Please share from the top, not from the "leftovers", for all so often there are no leftovers ... Love ya, dan.