Thursday: Do Unto Others 4

"Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them WITHOUT expecting to get anything back."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is another beautiful day at the Southern Location of the North Pole. The 12 inches of snow is not coming today, so the reindeer will not get to practice with the old sleigh.

It is Thursday and that means it is family day on Carry The Light Ministries prayer, praise and message line. As we pray today for all families, please pray for Vicki and her family and center on her dad who has been taken to the hospital (no reason given yet) . And folks, the most important family you can pray for is not yours or mine or the one in the White House, it is the family of God. Pray warriors pray for the family of God. I belong to that family, DO YOU??? Now that might be a dumb question to some, for I cannot think of a person who really spends time reading my messages who does not love the Lord already. But who knows where all this goes as I always tell people they can use anything I write, if they want to forward it all, it is ok. Let's work to get more people in the family of God. Let us all become brothers and sisters.

Do Unto Others 4: Luke 6: 35 - "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." (NIV)

Again I go back to "Do to others as you would have them do to you." (Luke 6 31 NIV)
Here we have Jesus telling us again to do unto others as we would like them to do unto us, EXCEPT don't expect it to be returned. I don’t believe that the word lend in this case just means dollars, for you might want to lend a hand to someone, mow a lawn for a shut-in neighbor, or a neighbor on vacation. Shovel a walk or two when the snows of winter hit. Help an older person to the car with their food from the store; help load that car. Push a cart back to the store for someone when you are going into a store (I do that one a lot, for it is something for me to lean on).

Yes my dear brothers and sisters, doing unto others and expecting them to do it back to you is not what our Lord God expects of us. We need to really break this down. It tells us to "Do to others as you WOULD HAVE them do to you". It is saying that we need to treat people just the way we would love to be treated. But we should do this for others, even if we never see a return from them. Remember, we will get our rewards in Heaven, where our rewards will be, well they will be, are you ready for this? Where our rewards will be HEAVENLY. Folks, if you really do things for others, and this I call "sharing your blessings", you will find that you do not need to expect things back from the person you did for, for our Lord Jesus will bless you over and over again.

I get a real kick or charge out of those who write and forward things that tell us if we read this and pass it onto ten people God will bless us in five minutes. This is real bunk, and I never forward things that say that. This is my reason, God is going to bless each of us and if we are still alive in five minutes He has blessed us with five minutes more of life. Think about it, this to me is someone making things up to see just how far they go. Folks, if you share your blessings, if you love your God and Love your neighbors, regardless of their love for you, God is going to bless you over and over again till you will find your blessings over flowing. You want to know why some people are really rich in dollars? They give a lot of it away. Maybe not all to their church, but to the needy, to cancer events, to help the homeless. And think of this ... and I will put this first hand ... If each of you would share one can of veggies, God will see that you have more in your pantry.

Do unto Others 4: Yes, brothers and sisters, do unto others, and do it without expecting a thing in return, do it in faith, do it in the name of Jesus, and stand back and watch for the returns. Amen.

Dear Father in Heaven, bless the families today, not just ours or those on the line, but all families, and Lord, for those broken families, help put them back together again. And Lord, help men, and Lord, it is most often men, but help the ladies also, to not just have kids, help them to love You and to love each other. And Lord, please help those unwanted children find homes with loving families. And Lord, even at our age, the age of Dolores and I, if there is a child in need that we could help with, let us know. And Lord, help us to work in the family of God. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Now go forward this day, doing good things to others, helping them, sharing your blessings, and having a really blessed by God day. I am going to close just a little different today, not the normal "love ya" but by me saying this to you ... I really, really do love all of you, each and every one, and most I have never met. I would love to meet all of you, and someday we will meet, but for today ... I LOVE YOU ... Pastor Dan.