Monday: Preamble, Constitution, Bible 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

We The People of the United States.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Monday, and what a great and wonderful weekend. Saturday evening Dolores and I along with our ministry partner Pamela Bower went to hear The Couriers in concert. It was wonderful and very Spirit filled. The Holy Ghost came in at the very start of the concert and remained through out the service. Notice I did call it a service and not just a concert. There was preaching and teaching and good old singing and tears of joy. If you have not heard The Couriers, and I am talking the present edition of these young men, you need to hear them. They are walking with the Lord, and it shows and shows. The Couriers were always tops and these guys are carrying the title and working for the Lord as did the guys who turned the ministry over to them -- Dave, Duane and Neal, you did a fine job in your choice of men to carry on the mission ... Thank You.

Moving on, on Sunday Morning the Holy Ghost came right along with me into the service at The Bridges. Our non-denominational service was indeed filled with The Spirit right from the first word.

Monday, and I hope the messages are touched by The Holy Spirit each day, is the day we pray for our leaders and our troops and all others who work so hard to keep us safe. Please pray hard for our president. I am telling you right now, and this is my opinion, this man scares me. So please pray for him, first for his soul as we do not know if he is saved or not, so pray for salvation for him and his family. Then please pray that before he works on anything he takes it to God, and I mean God, not a god ... there is but one God.

Preamble, Constitution and The Bible 1: This week I want to dig into this subject. I did write about it a few years back, but this will be a fresh rewrite. So please pray for me as I do some comparing these words. Remember this coming Saturday is Independence Day, which happens to fall on July 4th. On Saturday our Nation, you know the one that is UNDER GOD, will be 233 years old. Please let me help all remember that the holiday is not now or never has been the 4th of July ... that is the date of the holiday.

Preamble:
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (Word for word, our Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America.)

Bible:
In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. AND GOD SAID. "Let there be light," and there was light God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day" and the darkness He called "night" and there was evening, and there was morning the first day. (Genesis 1: 1/5 from the NIV edition of The Bible)

Let me just talk about this a tad today ... Just a short message today. First there would not be a Preamble to the Constitution if we did not have Creation of the world, which of course includes our country by our Lord God Almighty. Let's make another note here ... In the Preamble it says.. "Secure the BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY". Let's note right now, in my opinion, all blessings come from God, regardless if a person believes in God or not, blessings, all of them, come from God ... ALL OF THEM.

So putting this together is telling me that our founding fathers in writing the Preamble, wanted to Secure The Blessings, meaning to me they wanted then to call on God and wanted that to go on forever and ever. Think about it folks, our country was made by God, and when the people of the United States, which was again created by God, got together for the business of making some basic rules and wanted all to know that God was going to part of it. Today, well today, everyone seems like Washington does not want God, and it is getting worse. Thank God, He did not pull out and does not pull out when told to pull out. YOU CAN NOT THROW GOD OUT. People have tried and tried, and while it might seem like He has left, all you need to do is call on Him and you will find out He is still standing by, just watching and waiting and will be there when we call on Him. Our Lord will never leave us, we might leave Him, but He will not bail out on us. We cannot even throw Him out. Folks, our schools' district is a good example. We have tried to throw Jesus out, but if we as parents teach our kids about Jesus, if we raise them up in the way of the Lord, they will be a beacon of light in the schools and the beacon will be our Lord Jesus.

Brothers and sisters, I wrote out word for word the Preamble to our Constitution, but I did not write out the full creation story. Please get out your Bibles and refresh yourself on the Creation Story, for it indeed is, again in my opinion, the PREAMBLE TO THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD.

Dear Father in Heaven, please help me with the messages as you always do, help me dear Lord as I talk this week about the Bible and the Constitution, about the differences and about the things that are the same or near the same. Open Your Word to us and also help us understand the Constitution, and most of all the part which some call the separation of Church and state. Dear Lord, be with President Obama, and Lord I pray that he comes to You for all things for his family and for this nation. I pray, dear Lord, that He is saved, and if not that he will come to You and confess to You his sins and take up the Holy Spirit and fill himself with Jesus. Lord, help him and all of our leaders and their families. Help our troops as they complete the pull out of cities in Iraq. Bless also all of our troops and their families all around the world. They, Lord, under Your hand, are the reason our country remains free. Jesus is the reason we have personal freedom. Lord, help us to reach out to others and teach them about You. Help me today as I go to funerals and also to the hospital to visit. Lord, guide all my moves. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Dear brothers and sisters, thanks to those of you who have supported Carry The Light Ministries by supporting the Ministry food pantry. Thanks to those who came this weekend sharing their blessings of food. You are wonderful. So as I close and thank those who are sharing their blessings, not just to us but all over, I ask you to keep it up ... share those blessings and watch how Jesus pours more and more blessings on you. love ya, yes I really love ya, dan.