Thursday: Wash Job 4

Wash the evil from your heart and be saved!

Good Morning from the Southern Location of the North Pole, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Thursday and fall is here, and yesterday we felt like midsummer. What a great day. Thursday is family day on this line, so I ask today you pray for all families and for the family of God. Also please pray for Vicki and her family, for Donna and her complete family, her mother, her sisters and her brothers, Lord, and for her nephew Jeremy. Please pray for Blanch Stambaugh and her husband Dale. Pray for our families at the Bridges and pray for the family in the White House.

I want to share this with you, yesterday a bunch of gospel singers, pastors and others who just love the Lord met for breakfast at a local diner. I think there were 18 of us. Pastor Larry Hale blessed the food before we ate. As we ate we shared the Lord, and some really funny stories that happened to the singers on the road. It was indeed a great morning. Two of the original Couriers were there along with one of the present Couriers. When we were all finished eating we sang Amazing Grace and we sang it out for God. You could have heard a pin drop in the diner. Our waitress stood silent and then just praised God. I jokingly told her, "That was your tip". Brothers and sisters, there is always a way to witness for God. Yesterday we did it this way, no show, no talking, just that one blessed song. Oh, and it sounded pretty good, sitting near me was one of the best tenors in all of MUSIC, (Duane Nicholson) not just gospel music, and one great base/baritone singer (Tim Beitzel). I was facing Neil Enloe who can sing about anything and I could hear his "award winning" voice coming loud and clear (Neil was just inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame). That is a really nice thing, but someday it gets even better for we who love Jesus get inducted into Heaven... YES!!

Wash Job 4: Jeremiah 4: 14 - O Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts? (NIV)

Dear brothers and sisters, if you recall last week I talked to you about casting your worries over to Jesus, today I am asking you to wash the evil from your heart. And yes, you can also turn the evil over to Jesus, have Him help you deal with it. So many people harbor evil in their hearts and one way evil comes is in hate or even just dislike. If you hate someone, do you think our Lord Jesus is going to be happy with you? Let me answer that for you... NO!! If someone has taken you to task, or has upset you for whatever reason, or even for no good reason at all, and you for whatever that reason was you are holding hate in your heart toward them, let it go. If you harbor evil in your heart and if you harbor hate for others it will "eat you up." Oh yes it will, it will "eat you up."

Folks, make amends to others. You know yesterday or was it the day before we talked about what comes out of the mouth, and our words. I told you that I was raised by a mamma that taught me that if I had nothing good to say to someone or about someone I should say nothing. But sometimes you would like to just say something. You are really upset with someone for maybe taking you to task for something you had nothing to do with. You would like to really call them down on it but we were raised to not do that, or are told, "Buck it up". As a Christian, and more so as a Pastor, we are expected to not bite back, so to speak. So we keep it inside. Brothers and sisters, we need to not let it in us to a point it can form hate or evil. So what are we to do, we are upset with someone and we really would like to dress it down. Well we could try and talk it out one on one and hope that works out, and/or and we should really do this, give it to God. We need to wash this stuff out of our hearts and keep it out. Folks, we are human and it is hard to do sometimes. You know this even happens in families. I was raised to not take things to bed when it comes to family trouble. Meaning get it ironed out before retiring for the night. We raised the kids the same way. Even if our kids do not agree with each other, they will hug and love each other. Again, hate in your heart will "eat you up" and on the other end, forgiveness will set you free. So if you have a problem and it is eating you up, first pray about it, then try and work it out with the other party and feel better about yourself and them, and be blessed even more by God.

Dear Heavenly Father, I love You and I ask today that You wash my heart and wash away any hate or evil in it, that, that I might know about or that, that I might not even know is there. Lord, wash my heart as only You can wash it. Oh Lord, please look over our prayer list and for the families on that list. Bless and heal them Lord. Help us to love each other this day as You love us. In Jesus name, Amen.

Time to go forth and show your blessings... and folks, please remember this last thing that I want to leave with you... If you fill your heart with love and I mean really fill it, there would not be room in it for hate or evil. Fill the heart and share the love and your other blessings. love ya, dan.

PS. Tomorrow remember to bring your bread and your juice to the computer with you. We will have Holy Communion and ALL ARE WELCOME AT THE LORD'S TABLE. Also, I have been putting it off all week. Tomorrow we find out what cleans the best... Lye Soap, 409 cleaner, Tide, Dove Soap, what does clean the best. Come tomorrow and find out... yes, I will tell you tomorrow. love ya, dan.