Thursday: Faith, Hope, Love 4

"You are my Son, whom I love!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Thursday and that means it is family day on the line. The day we pray for families. Please remember to pray for the family in the White House, and also to pray for the FAMILY OF GOD. Other prayer requests today, for Millard Meyers who is in the hospital with an infection (Ohio) and also for Todd who has family issues and also Diverticulitis (spelling). Also please keep praying for Pastor Charles, Pastor Tony. Prayers of praise as the checks have started to arrive for Carry The Light Ministries additional 33... God is so good.

Faith, Hope, Love 3: Mark 1:10 - As Jesus was coming up out of the water, He saw Heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove. 11 And a voice came from Heaven: "You are my Son, whom I love; with You I am well pleased." (NIV)

Here we see God The Father telling His Son, "I love You". Could we all learn a lesson from this? Just this morning on the local news it showed a man who is facing a murder charge for murdering his own baby daughter by beating her to death with a remote control. How in the world can people do this to anyone, let alone a baby, a harmless child? For sure before a trial is over for this man someone will try and make him out to be the victim. When will we learn from God and from this wonderful book we call the Bible? If we would only just follow the teachings of our Lord Jesus that He gave us when He walked the earth. Listen to these GREAT COMMANDMENTS...

Mark 12:30 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:31 "The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself'. There is no commandment greater than these." (NIV)

Folks, you can think you have it all, but if you do not have love, you HAVE NOTHING! Throughout the Bible God talks about Love and Jesus talks about Love. Where do you stand on it? Do you love your neighbors, all of them? Some people don't even love their family members or at least they do not show it. If you truly have love you will show it. Jesus showed it in the way He lived on this earth, Jesus was always doing for others and setting examples for others to follow. How about you, you might say you love all others but does your lifestyle play that out? Maybe the reason some people do not love their neighbors as themselves is because they do not love or even like themselves?

Do you remember maybe back in school when you might think or even say to someone, "that person loves them self". Or that person sure is stuck on themself. So I ask this, how can one love others if they have no love or let me call it self respect for themself? Folks, this is what can happen if we let Satan take charge of our life. When you let Satan into your life you lose that self respect. When Jesus tells us that we should love our neighbor as ourselves, He was and is not telling us that we should put ourselves above others but was telling us to show at least equal love. So you let Satan into your life, How? Drugs, booze, SIN... and when you do this the love leaves. God is love, Satan is NOT. You might think Satan is love or the things that he brings forth are love. Oh, if I just have another bottle of beer I will feel so good. Folks, as we pray for family today let me ask you to pray for those who Satan has a grip on. Let's call them the really lost! Or dare I say it this way, let's pray hard today for the family of Satan to come over to God.

Faith, Hope, Love 4: Tomorrow I am going to talk to you about some really special love. Please come back and see what it is. Some I am sure you are aware of, others, well please come back.

Dear Father in Heaven, Let me start this morning by giving You praise for sending to us families that need help and let us ask You to help them and help us as we help them. Lord, praise to You for the checks coming in for this mission. Lord, we need Your help for this mission, really need it. Lord, You have told us to feed the hungry and we need You to multiply the food on our shelves. Lord, You are wonderful and, Lord, You are our Savior in whom I am proud and whom I love. Lord, I pray for the family who lives in the White House, the first family as we know them. Lord first that they come to You... fully come to You. And Lord, help us regardless of our feelings for the man as president; help us to remember he and his family are our neighbors. Lord, I pray for Todd and his complete family today as this man has family issues. And Lord, I pray for the family of the man, and even the man who beat his baby to death with a remote control. Oh Lord, if this world would really know and practice love, the wars would end. Lord, I pray today for the family of God that it grows and grows and will eat up the family of Satan. I pray that those in Satan's family will come to Jesus, come to our Lord and Savior. Lord, be with the families of Pastors Tony and Charles, and heal the pastors and bless the families. Jesus, You are my savior and I love You and I am pleased to serve You. In the name of Jesus, I do need help with this... as I pray also in the name of Jesus... Amen.

Go forth sharing your blessings... loving your neighbors and having faith, hope and love in all you do, and remember if you do not have love you do not have anything. Love ya, dan.
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