Tuesday: Blessings 2

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want."

Good Tuesday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is schools day on this line, and let me say thank you for praying for the Central Dauphin School District and their bus drivers. Their jobs are secure for right now. Please keep praying and pray for all schools and all who enter the doors and remember those who work for the schools and do not go in or go in very often. Who are they? Well, the bus drivers and the crossing guards and a lot of time the school docs who go to the sporting events and take care of the kids, but do not often get into the buildings except for those group exams.

Blessings 2: Psalm 23: 1 - The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. (NIV)
Each year we plant a small garden, we plant flowers around our Rock of Hope, and also a few tomato plants. This year we also planted string beans and three kinds of squash. I just love squash. I still find it amazing how God works these things. One small seed from a tomato and you get a little plant and you put the plant in your garden and up comes a big plant and lots and lots of good tomatoes. We planted about eight tomato plants and all are doing good, plus I have another eight or nine plants coming up wild, for I toss my spoiled tomatoes on the ground and they grow up wild each year. It is amazing to me. A small seed from a veggie or flower just grows and grows and grows. It reminds me of this story... and it comes from the Bible, Mark 6: 30/44. It is the story of how Jesus fed five thousand people with just 5 loaves and 2 fish... Now I could type out the story, but today I want to put it in my words, what it might have been like sitting with Jesus... Come with me please.

We are sitting on the ground waiting to hear our Lord Jesus speak. We are way out in the boondocks and we are far away from any McDonalds or Burger King. We are waiting for our King... Then Jesus comes and we hear Him talk about Heaven and how we must live to make it to Heaven. We here Him say "REPENT for the Kingdom of Heaven is near." We listen, but like all of us do in church from time to time on Sunday Morning our minds wander off to lunch, that big old buffet. The ham, steak, burgers, chicken, and fish; the veggies, hot and cold, soups, salads and all the desserts you could eat. So our minds are wandering as we are hearing Jesus... We start to think about food, and we are far, far away from those places to eat. There is not even a hot dog truck in the area, none, zip. Then Jesus said, I know you are hungry and we have here two fish and five loaves of bread. Jesus prays over it and blesses it and then He stands and divides it and sends out his staff with it. Oh my, mine tasted like fresh trout, and the bread was so sweet that it did not even need butter...

When all of us were done eating we helped gather up the leftovers. Twelve baskets were gathered just like the Bible said, and we took the leftovers along and gave them to a mission for the homeless. Brothers and sisters, if you don't think that happens today you are so wrong. Think of the millions of people that GOD FEEDS DAILY. Oh, and the helpers, well they are getting less and less, and I am talking the farmers here. Yes, GOD STILL MULTIPLIES the food. From the little tomato seed in my garden to all the tomatoes I can use and even give away. Yesterday I made sauce, for just eating... I had meat balls in it, and fresh squash, fresh tomatoes, fresh celery. And it was and will be so good. Count your blessings, folks, and share them and what God make them grow... Folks, if God was not in your garden, your garden would not grow. If God did not multiply our food supply, we would all STARVE. Next time you eat out, only take what you can eat. And the next time you go to the food store, buy a few extra cans and give them away. Think about it... I know we are. Our food pantry is growing each year, we help more and more families thanks TO GOD and a lot of His workers, and we have leftovers... God is good, don't ever forget it.

I hear some people who complain all the time, we need to get those people counting their blessings, and not the things that are wrong. Yesterday I heard from one on the line, her name is Leslie and she is a wonderful God fearing lady. She loves Jesus and her family... Oh did I say that she is a farmer's wife and they milk about 2,300 head of cattle three times a day... and I love milk. She also told me yesterday that she needs to count her blessings more often as they make us really think how many more blessings we have than things we have going wrong. Hey, things are going to go wrong here on earth, but if we keep looking at our blessings and at our Lord Jesus, you know, we really do have it pretty darn good. WAKE UP AMERICA, GOD IS REALLY ALIVE AND WELL. I just wish all those non-believers would learn this. God is going to supply your meals, enjoy them and know that they do come from God. How could anyone think differently? When you find a non-believer, take your lunch and share it with them, and do like Jesus did... feed His sheep. Remember this... the non-believer is still a child of God, they are just not willing to admit it yet and that is our job to get the message out. AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for the really big plate of tomatoes and the mayo that I had on them last night, they were so good. Thanks for supply our food, and Lord, thanks for the next breath of air. I want You to know, Lord, that I would give that next breath of air up for You, because I love You Lord and I know You gave up your air for us. Be in our schools and school buses Lord. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen.

Blessings, yes, we have them, and we need to share them. Trade veggies with your neighbors. Give some away... put some up for winter. Oh, God is so good. Time to go, I have blessings to share and I am going to do it! You have blessings also, are you going to share yours? Love ya, dan.