Friday: Silver, Gold, Platinum, Clay 5

But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Today is Friday, "blessed Friday" (RJ Harris WHP Harrisburg Pa) and the day we pray for all those who are working for the Lord in His Fields of Harvest. And again I will say this, we are to all be working those fields. ARE YOU WORKING THEM??

My dear brothers and sisters, we need to be praying for this country more and more. I really and truly think we are in the end times or at least in America... Abortion, Gay Marriage, Drugs being sold on every corner, corruption in Washington and our State Houses and if you have not noticed, our President has not gone to church since he took office. We need to pray for this man to be saved.

I want you to start doing something, and not for me. Everyone wants to take "In God We Trust" off buildings, off our money, and soon there is a Muslim stamp being made for the our mail. First I ask that you do not purchase this stamp. Next I ask that on your United States Mail you write across the front and the back.... "In God We Trust" And also put it in the closing of all your emails. I am going to try and remember that also. One church in our area has purchased rubber ink stamps with it on and gave it to their members. Let's take our country back one step at a time, and let's get it STARTED NOW. I just heard on the news that the nuts who are wanting to control the carbon now want us to get chickens for pets instead of dogs and cats (Fox Cable News Today). I have chickens. and folks. Martin sleeps in my bed along with two other dogs, I be darned if I am sleeping with my chickens.

This might sound funny folks, but it is not funny anymore. Some of these folks are NUTS. And folks, some of our churches including some of the main line churches are giving in to this junk, supporting abortion rights and also the gay stuff... Come on Christians, BE A CHRISTIAN.

Silver, Gold, Platinum, Clay 5. Jeremiah 18: 1 - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 "Go down to the potter's house, and there I will give you my message" 3 So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. 4 But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. (NIV)

My brothers and sisters, all the metals that I talked about this week, silver, gold, platinum, you need heat to shape them. You could not just pick them up and rework them by hand, reforming them is very different to do, but the clay, well it can be worked and reworked over and over again. I remember as a little tike (yes, back when the streets were still dirt) I had clay that I played with. I would make little cars and trucks (they did not look all that good) and the next day I could make a dog or cat (even a chicken, thank you). I would roll it into log string-like things and just play and play with this clay (no TV back then). When bed time came I would roll it into a ball and put it on my dresser for another day. A few years back, maybe 10 by now, Pastor Jamie Kjos was preaching on the Potter and while he delivered his message a man worked the potter's wheel on the stage beside him. He worked and worked until by the end of the message this young potter formed a really nice big flower pot, and at the second service he did the same thing. Now this potter would work it and rework it till it just was what he wanted.

So let me get to my point... Of all the things that I have talked about this week which one is most like us? Are we like silver, or gold, or are we even like platinum? Remember the song, make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold. Which one does God like us to be like? Folks, it is the clay, the thing that costs the least but can be worked and reworked. Folks, don't be like the silver, or gold, or even the platinum.. Pray that God will treat you like clay and that He will work you and rework you into what He wants you to be. Brothers and sisters, God does not work us into something and then go off and forget us, He keeps working on us over and over again till He gets us just like He wants us to be. And folks, I want you to really think about this. Sometimes He will keep reworking us by putting us different places. I want to use Jan and Phil Enloe as an example. Phil for a long time sang along side his brother Neil in the Couriers, then out on his own with his wife singing and sharing the Lord. Just recently Phil and Jan were reworked into pastors to start up a new church. You see, we must always be like clay that is never fired (hardened); we must always be ready to be shaped and reshaped, worked and reworked by the hands of God. And that work will not stop till we get called home. God will never harden you so that you cannot be reworked but Satan will try to get you into his fire so you are hardened. Today I ask you, are you ready to be the clay on the potter's wheel, are you ready to be worked by The Potter, our Lord Jesus? I've been to The Potter's House, and I have been reshaped from my past, but brothers and sisters, I still am a sinner and The Potter is still working on me and I pray today you are clay in His hands. You know those hands, the ones with the nail print in them. AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven, let me be the clay today and please mold me and make me the way You want me to be. And when You want to put me someplace else, let me be the clay again and again. And please use me in the fields of harvest. In Jesus Name, Amen.

Time to tell you to share those blessings, and tell you to be like the clay in The Potter's nail pierced hands... Yes, One Nation Under God, love ya, dan.