Friday: Staying Attached 5

"As my Father has loved me, so have I loved you!"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, can you believe it is Friday already, Friday, "blessed Friday", as my dear friend R.J. Harris tells us each Friday morning. R.J. is the morning talk show guy along with Dan Steel on Radio 580 out of Harrisburg Pa. Friday and the day we pray for all those who are working in the fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus. So pray for those missionaries, those in foreign lands and those working the streets of the United States of America. Pray for all pastors and pray that those who are picking and choosing from the Bible get back to using the complete word of God. Pray for all those on the road singing for our Lord and pray for Pastor Phil Enloe and the church he has started in Florida. And folks, again I tell you, we all should be on this prayer list...

Please pray for all of our Military and please pray hard for those at Fort Hood in Texas And yes, please pray for the shooter. And pray for our President to act on what has been on his desk for months about more troops in the war zone. He has time for everything but our troops. Wake up, Mr. President, you are now the commander in chief, and that is you first job. Pray for this man, folks.

Staying Attached 5: John 15:9 -"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete." (NIV)

Now brothers and sisters, these are quotes from our Lord Jesus, and I want you to really think about them. "If you obey my commands you WILL REMAIN IN MY LOVE." Now folks, does this tell us that that if we break the commands our Lord will not love us, or will just cast us aside? No, but if we do not obey His commands His love will not be in us. Let's face it folks, if we break the commands if we do not stay attached, then how can that love be in us, for when the love of Jesus is in us and we are walking with Him, we do not break the commands. YOU JUST CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS HERE FOLKS... Yes, we all sinned and Jesus loves all of us, even the sinners, and I don't want to confuse you folks... So let me make it personal for a minute. When I took my walk years ago, my walk away from Jesus and was not living a life to please Him, He still loved me and was waiting for me to come back, but His love was not in me as I had put it (His Love) out... Again He still loved me, I just blocked His love out. When I came back to Him, I invited Him back into my heart. This, folks, is very clear if you read the story of the lost son.

Jesus makes it very clear here also if we are to have the Joy of His Love we need to keep the commands. Folks, so many people try and turn Jesus on and off. Jesus is the same each day, we are different. We can put His love out or take it in, but His Love for us is there as shown on the cross for us. While we were still sinners Jesus died for us. When we have Jesus in our hearts we are attached to the vine, and we will bear good fruit. The minute we break commands we are indeed cutting ourselves from the vine and we will wither and die.

So how about it, do we go out each day and try and please Jesus or do we go out each day and try and please ourselves? You know this is really our choice. Folks, I want to point this out to you. When Jesus, the one who is the vine master for us, the one who keeps us pruned, will never cut us loose, we do it to ourselves. It reminds me of the day I was out trimming bushes and was using the electric trimmers. This was back in the day when you still had the cord type. And yes, I was trimming away when I cut off the cord. I cut off the life line of my trimmers. When we cut ourselves from the true vine we are indeed cutting off our life line.

If we really stop and think about it each day and before we start the day we should ask this question of ourselves... How do we want to do the day? Do we want to walk it alone or walk it with Jesus? It is our choice, Jesus does not have us on strings... Do we want to prune ourselves from the vine or do we want to stay attached? For me, I did my walk, I want to stay attached and I am going to pray that way... will you join me today and stay attached? Come on and pray with me.

Dear Father in Heaven, We come to You today through our Lord Jesus and we want to make this commitment today, we want to try as hard as we can to obey the commands of Jesus, and Father, not just the ones in the Bible but the ones He tells us when He answers our prayers. We are pleased with Jesus just as You were and are pleased with Your Son. Father, hear our prayers today for help in staying attached to the vine and to work and love Jesus even more. Lord, be with all the workers today in the fields of Harvest, and Lord, please let them see you today at Fort Hood. In the name of Jesus I pray and through Him I want to stay attached... Amen.

Now go forth staying attached to Jesus, and of course sharing your blessings with others. God is good... and you are loved, by the Father, by the Son and by the Holy Spiri and yes by me... love ya, dan.

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