Wednesday/Thursday: Triumphal Entry 3

"Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Thursday and this is a message for Wednesday and Thursday. First, let me thank you for your prayers for me. Please keep praying as things did not go as expected. The pain is back and I cannot control my water. I trust that God will work this all out and have me back preaching for Sunday. I did cancel out our Saturday concert.

Ok, enough about me, how are all of you? Prayers today for Salvation from yesterday and for Family today. Let me see, let's put that together this week, as the message is going to be, and pray for Salvation for families. Let's look at Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV) So you see, brothers and sisters, because of my health, we are putting together Salvation and Family this week, and let me ask you to join me in prayer right now for President Obama and his family. Now I don't know if any are saved, one is saved or all are saved, but let's say, how could our president be saved and feel like he does on abortion? So let's pray right now ...

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the doctors that worked on me, and I am trusting in You to get me in shape so I can handle all the services that I have booked for this coming week. Now Lord, enough about me. I pray today for President Obama and his wife as they travel that You will keep them safe, and please keep those girls safe at home. More so Lord, I pray for Salvation for our president and his wife and children. I pray that if they have not already come to You for Salvation that You will open the door for them, and Lord, let someone lead them in. Lord, use me if You want to, send me on that mission Lord. And Lord, I pray for families worldwide that they might come to You. And Lord, I pray today for that one man, the one on TV at the protests that had his head split open. Lord, he wanted it done and you could see that, and I think a lot of us might think he got what was coming to him. But Lord, I am praying for him today that he might come to you to be forgiven and that he would be saved through Your blood. Yes, it is family day on the line and I today lay my family, all of them, at Your feet to be saved, from our kids and their spouses and grandkids and great grandkids, I bundle them up with Love and hand them over to our Loving Jesus to take care of and save. Lord, help them. Likewise, I do the same for families on this line ... bundled up, family by family, as they ask and placed in Your hands to be saved. In the name of Jesus, I am trusting that it is done as my prayers also come that same way ... Amen.

Triumphal Entry 3: As I said way back on Tuesday morning, I am going to try and bring you this message out of my mind as given to me by our Lord Jesus. How I picture it in my mind if I was there ...

Today I picture myself as one of the disciples of our Lord Jesus. I am in the shoes of one of the disciples that were sent in for this donkey colt. I am a tad nervous, but excited about this as Jesus told us where to find this colt and to just untie it and take it. What if we were "caught"? I am thinking, will I get killed for stealing it, or will the words from my lips just saying the words, "The Lord needs it" make the owner happy? But why am I nervous at all? Well, remember I am looking back and maybe I am not trusting God fully on this. But looking at me today, I still get a tad nervous if called on by Jesus to do something and I might not be ready. Then I remember how He works with me. He just has never sent me out to work for Him without the tools for the job. So I got my trust up more and more, and when we came to the donkey, we found it was just as Jesus said. He opened the door all the way for us.

Taking the donkey back to Jesus and then just walking with Him as He rode it into Jerusalem was about as excited as it can get. I would like to lay it out with something done today, but I just cannot put it into words that become a TV in your mind. Maybe it would be like all the people on the Mall in Washington DC when marching with Martin Luther King Jr., or maybe like the crowds of people that line up for The Pope when he is in his pope-mobile. I guess in some ways it would be the same as was the case with Reverend King ... a big welcome parade, lots of singing and praise, lots of hope and joy, and then someone took him out. Now that has not happened to the Pope but when he is out, the security is very high. Anyway, as I walked with Jesus and watched the people, I saw the excitement in their eyes, and on their person. Some took off their coats and laid them on the road, others laid palm branches on the road, while others waved the branches and sang ... "Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord... Hosanna in the highest."

People, for the most part, were very excited and very happy. Some of course were there to be healed, while others came, I am sure, to protest just as we find people today protesting. What was missing were the news people, not one TV truck with a tower on the top, and not one microphone stuffed under the nose of our Lord. Gosh, it was a sight to behold, people just loved Him and loved Him as He healed so very many people along the way. However, these people did not know what was ahead, not even we disciples knew at the time that He, our beloved brother and Lord, was in His last week of life as we knew it. How things were going to change. But for that day, people were excited, maybe like people at a big parade, men and women standing with their children, younger children sitting on the dad's shoulders ... those in their teens spreading the palm branches, and yes I can even envision the clean-up detail following the donkey colt. There were no hot dog vendors, no balloons, not one thing being sold, it was a handout of love, and on this day the love was flowing both ways. Jesus was showing total love for His followers, and they were showing love for Him and giving Him praise. As I envision this and look back in the life of Jesus, I can think of times when the crowds were big and Jesus would feed them, breaking bread and fish and making more and more out of those pieces. But with all those crowds, I never saw Jesus taken in by the crowd, as normally He did not want the praise. He would heal people and tell them not to tell others ... but the word would spread, even without any radio, TV, newspapers, cell phones, and those blackberries. Yes, this was a great day in the name of the Lord, and it will be fun again tomorrow as we watch through my eyes what happens when Jesus gets upset. Oh yes, Jesus did get mad. Tomorrow we look at that part. As for now, my brothers and sisters, let's go out singing, right to the end today. You will know these ...

Go forth, singing and sharing your blessings. Love ya, and God willing I will be at the keyboard again tomorrow ... dan. Come on now and sing your heart out for the Lord ...

"Some glad morning when this life is o'er, I'll fly away,
to a home on God's celestial shore. I'll fly away.
OHHHH I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away.
Oh, yea, I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away.
YES, I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away."

"When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be!
When we all see Jesus, We'll sing and shout the victory."

"Yes and I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away.
I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away."

"Love lifted me, Love lifted me.
When nothing else could help, love lifted me.
Love lifted me, love lifted me,
When nothing else could help L O V E LIFTED M E

One more time.... I'll fly away, Oh glory, I'll fly away.
When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away."

AMEN!