Wednesday: Following Footsteps 4

Keep your foot from evil!

Good Morning, brothers and sisters. Sorry I am late this morning, I had a very early morning doctors appointment with my family doctor. Here is how it went. Appointment time was 6.30 AM which is ahead of the nurses time to report to work. My doctor, Doctor Lawrence Cox, took me to the exam room. First I anointed him with oil and prayed for him and all who he would touch and that people would be healed through his work as a doctor. Also that his music that is played and his staff of believers would be able to witness to others (his office music is worship music). Then we prayed together and he talked about supporting our food pantry again this year at his football camp. He is a big supporter of Carry The Light Ministries. He has me coming to the football camp to open it with prayer.. Then we talked about me. And except that I need two knees replaced and surgery on two shoulders and my back, I am in great health. All signs are go. He injected my knee again. Now tell me, do I have a great doctor? Oh, and we prayed for others also. To the patients behind me, sorry your appointments are late ... God was working ...

Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday and the day we pray for God to use us working in the fields for Him ...

Following Footsteps: Proverbs 4: 26/27 - Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil. (NIV)

Brothers and sisters, I am going to try and be brief today (stop cheering). What God has pointed out to me this morning very early is that if you are not walking in His footsteps, if you are not following the footsteps of the Lord, then you are walking in the footsteps of Satan, you are walking with evil. Like heaven and hell, there is just no place in between the two for after we leave this earth. No place to go but up or down so to speak. And again, as I have pointed out so many, many times, the choice is all yours. The scripture I just wrote, Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil, means just that ... Walk on level ground, now that could be uphill or down, level to me meaning be on the level, be right with people, and be right with God. Do not get on those slippery slopes where you can slip and fall. So many people, and we have seen it a lot lately, walk on those slopes. Some of the people even go to church, and in fact some work for the churches. Have you noticed how remorseful people get once they are caught on that slope of slime? The church treasurer gets caught with his hands in the till, a pastor gets caught peeping over the wall into a dressing room at a mall ... and on and on it goes. So it is not just the lay person. Once they are caught they are so sorry. Are they truly sorry for what they did, or are they truly sorry for getting caught? Brothers and sisters, if you keep your feet on solid ground, if you walk with Jesus, you don't need to worry about getting caught. And if before you came to Jesus you walked on the slope of slime, you can get cleaned up with Jesus. Yes, He went to the cross to clean us up, and remember He also washed feet, so He will for sure clean your feet and give you that fresh start. Today we are going to pray for just that, for our souls to be clean and our bodies and minds also. We are going to pray to be cleaned from the top of our heads to the very bottom of our dirty feet. Let's do it now and then let's get those feet on solid ground and walk in the footsteps of Jesus.

Dear Father in Heaven, Clean us this day oh Lord, clean us this day. From the top of our heads to the bottom of our feet, wash us white with the blood of Jesus, still flowing today. Yes, Lord, then help us to keep our footsteps in the footsteps of our Lord Jesus. Help us walk with good and not evil. Put us to work for You in the Salvation pool, help us to bring the unsaved in to be cleaned as we have been. And Lord, thanks again for all You do, and thanks Lord for a wonderful doctor, God bless Doctor Cox and all the other doctors who know, who know, that You are the reason they are doctors as they have talent from You, on loan from You ... In the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.

Go forth now, walking with Jesus, keeping your feet on solid ground and please keep on sharing those blessings. I should be on time tomorrow ... love ya, dan.