Wednesday: Back to the Basic 8

"For God so loved the world"!!

Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, ask God into your heart and be saved! Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, Repent from your sins and be saved! Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, Confess your sins and you will be saved! Salvation Wednesday, Salvation Wednesday, Believe in your heart that Jesus died for you and be saved!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and yes, it is Salvation Wednesday on this line, the day we pray for the lost and we pray that God will use we who are saved to help bring them to His feet. Remember, you and I cannot save a soul, not even our own, but if we trust in God and believe that Jesus died for us and we repent of our sins, we will be saved. And then we must work for God, and working for God is to help bring in the lost. Also, folks, it is not just good enough to help bring them in, we must also feed His sheep...

Please pray for Dolores today as she is off very early today and already at the Hershey Medical Center checking in with a new team of doctors to see if they can get a handle on her pain and her ever more curving spine. Please keep praying for Doug Boyer as I try and get an update on his condition. Also please, please pray for Vicki, she really needs our prayers and also needs help getting through the holidays. She has been on this line a very long time and is a daily reader and prays for all those on our lists. Vicki is one of our Native America ladies.

Back To The Basics 8: "John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him." (NIV)

Folks, that is about as basic as it gets. Jesus came to save our sorry souls and all we need to do is accept it, repent of our sins, and go to work for Him. Folks, as I talk to you today I want to talk to you about targets. You know all about targets, right? But let me talk to you about a different kind of target, let's target the unsaved for Jesus, now please do not stalk them, target them. Let's say you have a neighbor that you are not sure about... one thing you should do and should always be doing is to live a life that they can see Jesus in you. If you are standing out at your mailbox with a cigar and a beer, half drunk, and you are telling some dirty jokes, are you going to be a good witness to them? I am not saying here that there is a thing wrong with A beer or A drink, if you are not drunk. I am concerned about the smoking because it really hurts you, but I am not going to judge you on that one. So what I am saying here is that we should be living so people can see Jesus in us. So let me get back to the neighbor. One thing you could do that would scare them off would be take your Bible to the mailbox and shove it under their nose and point things out. The best way is to win them over by being nice to them. Help them, if they work, pull trash cans back in from the road, if you are cooking something save some for them, and when you see them come home from work walk over and say... Hey, take a night off from cooking and have dinner on us. Be kind to them. Folks, it works, and then if one of them has a problem ask if you can pray for them and then do it on the spot. I only ever had one person say they did not want my prayers and I pray for them most everyday. Then someday ask them if they are saved. If they are asking you questions about God, take time to answer them and don't make things up, tell it like it is in the Bible. If people are saying things like I believe in the man in the sky, chances are they are not saved, but are reaching out. There is a difference between believing in a higher power and being saved and washed in the blood of Jesus..

Years ago I was cleaning the windshield of a car at one of my service stations when a really nice Christian lady said to me, "Dan are you saved?" And I had come to Jesus not long before that, or came back to Him, as I was a lost son. My answer to her was yes, thanks for asking. Since then I have asked many people that question, are you saved? I even asked my pastor that one time. And I ask my flock that almost every week... Are you saved?

Now folks, one more short thing today and it again is basic. We must feed the sheep for God. If God did not tell us to feed His sheep, then what would pastors do once people came to Christ? Each day if we are going to go out and work, or play or just survive, we must feed our bodies and we should feed them "good stuff" and the same is with our souls. We must feed them good stuff. That is why we all need to be going to a good church. We need to do Bible studies, and read things, and I hope your reading this is helping to feed you, for indeed I think of all of you as part of the flock that God gave to me to watch over. Also, it is a way that God helps me get fed for He sends me the word and I must research it in the Bible. I also take in some church services and gospel concerts. Yes, pastors need fed also. Most of us get plenty when it comes to the food for our bodies, but we must also be careful to get food for our soul. Some pastors on this line will surely say amen to this.

Dear Father, help us to feed Your sheep, and also Lord, please help me remember that I am one of your flock, not just one of your shepherds and I need fed also. Lord, please forgive us of our sins today and help us to bring the lost to Your feet. Open doors for us, and give us feed to share. Lord, be with Dolores, Doug, Vicki and others on our prayer list and heal them please. Thanks again for this line and for feeding me the messages each day... in the name of Jesus, Amen.

Now go forth sharing those blessings, and yes you can feed others with food, and feed others with the word, just a couple ways of sharing your blessings... and know this... I love all of you... I really do, so I will sign off like this again... love ya, dan. I just don't want you to think it is just a habit I do.

Carry The Light Ministries
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Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17050
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