Tuesday: Bankruptcy 2

"If my people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land."

GOOD MORNING, Good Morning, it is a beautiful morning. Do you get up in the morning and say, Good Morning God? OR do you get up in the morning and say, Good God, it is Morning? Do you know that each and every one of us, meaning you and me, have an attitude? Yes, all people have an attitude, and they are pretty much all different. Think about yours; in the near future we are going to talk about attitudes and how they can make a difference on your life ... even your health!

School days, school days, dear old golden rule days, reading and writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick ... Yes, today is schools day on this line, the day we pray for all of our schools and all who go through the doors, and all who board those yellow buses. What might be missing in our schools today? Yes, Jesus, prayer, and maybe, just maybe that old hickory stick. Put them back in and our schools would shape up. Until then, warriors, keep praying and sending your children, grandchildren and all others you know to school with the knowledge of our Lord Jesus and how to be a good witness in a place that really needs it ... OUR SCHOOLS.

BANKRUPTCY 2: 2 Chronicles 7: 14 "If my people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land." (NIV)

My dear brothers and sisters, businesses may or may not be bankrupt, but there is no doubt in my mind that for the most part our country is bankrupt, and I am not talking about money here. No, I really think our country is for the most part MORALLY BANKRUPT. Down the old tube as we say, and speaking of the old tube, maybe that had a lot to do with it.

When I write about this, and folks, this morally bankrupt country of ours cannot be blamed on any one president or leader, I want to put the blame squarely where it belongs ... yes, our country is going morally bankrupt due in part to all of us. WHAT, you and me cause moral bankruptcy to our nation? Well folks, if we are not doing anything about the problem, then we are part of the problem. I want you to think about this. Let me start with an eating place that you can even take your family - Hooters. Where the waitresses get half naked to get better tips. A few years back, maybe 6 or 7 years, I had one of my old cars in a car show. Two "Hooters" girls were there going from car to car getting their pictures taken (for a price) in front of those collectors cars. When they came to me I guess I spoke out of turn, for I not only turned them down, I said I do not deal in prostitution, and that did not go over well. But facts are facts, even though the money was going to charity, I just figured that when a woman or a man sold their body for money it was prostitution. I would appreciate your thinking on this. I heard from a lot of people that day, and was told to "get a life". Well folks, I have a life NOW, for I now have Jesus in my life.

If you get a good hot rod or custom motorcycle magazine, you will find a lot of the cars and bikes have a half nude woman in the picture. Believe it or not, when I look at the books, I want to see the cars and bikes. Anyway, let me get back to our Nation and some other reasons why I think it is going morally bankrupt. While one might expect that we find some of the things I just mentioned at beaches, in bars, etc., but not in an eating place that permits families. Tomorrow I am going to go deeper into this subject. For homework, I want you to go to your phone book, turn to the yellow pages, and tell me what ad jumps out at you in the very, very beginning of the yellow pages. I am not going to tell you anything other then it starts with A, and if you have a phone book with yellow pages you will find it, and it is one of the reasons you will find us going downhill in a hurry.

Remember this ... God destroyed the earth and all in it except for Noah and those on the boat, and of course the birds in the air above the flood, and the fish of the sea. MAN BIT THE DUST, OR IN THIS CASE, DRANK THE FLOOD WATER. WHY, we will look at it tomorrow when I will go deeper into this subject. Here are some more questions ... What about government, is it going morally bankrupt? And what about some churches? What, dare I say some of them might be just that!

Dear Father in Heaven, please, please watch over our kids in our schools and watch over all who work there, and all who go through the doors. Lord, we want You back in our schools, in fact we want to make them Your schools for in them are "children of God". Oh yes, Lord, and we want all in the schools to know You, not just know of You, but know You. Lord, thanks for the message, and please Lord help me with the rest of this series. Lord, keep Pastor Charles in Your arms as we ask for healing so He can preach again. In the name of Jesus, I ask for help for our nation to keep us from going full belly up bankrupt. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Go forth, and remember that homework, look in those yellow pages, and folks, please remember to share your blessings. And also remember to support your local food bank ... the poor and hungry eat year round, not just at Christmas. I know that shelves at our pantry are looking empty... and families keep coming. Now share those blessings. love ya, dan.