December 30, 09 The Journey 20

An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Salvation Wednesday and the day we pray for the unsaved and for our Lord Jesus to use us to help seek out the lost and bring them to Jesus to be saved. Remember, folks, in this mission, we can only witness to people, try and get them to the feet of Jesus, we cannot save anyone, that job is for Jesus, and only Jesus. Read John 14: 6 and you will find that to be a fact. Please keep praying for Ronald (cancer) and Allison (tumors on her liver). Also pray for my dear wife Dolores... Dolores is just riddled with pain throughout her body. She keeps trucking on and does not say much, but she needs those prayers, and the healing hand of God...

Thanks to all who have been supporting Carry The Light Ministries. In the near future, I will be writing on what all we did this past year so that you know what is going on. Please keep praying for the Ministry.

The Journey 20: Matthew 2: 13 - An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and His mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill Him." 14 So he got up, took the child and His mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son." (NIV)

Ok, back into the shoes of Joseph and Mary. After a long trip for Mary and Joseph, Mary being on the back of the donkey and then going into Bethlehem and finding no room in the inn, and after giving birth to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in a barn, and then moving to a house for a short time... The angel of the Lord comes again. Think of it, Mary is just getting settled in and right away someone wants to kill her baby. This after all those came to see Jesus, after shepherds left their flocks and while the Magi came with gifts, someone put out the word to kill Jesus.

I can picture in my mind, Joseph coming in to Mary very, very calm, maybe sitting on the bed beside her and waking her in a soft voice saying something like this... Mary, an Angel was sent by our Lord and has told me that King Herod wants to kill or have Jesus killed. We have been told to escape from here to Egypt. I don't think that Joseph would have panicked and would start to yell at Mary yelling out GET UP MARY WE MUST GET OUT OF HERE. No, I think Joseph would be very calm trusting in God, if he would just follow the orders of God. So also I think Mary would not get upset but I think she would be nervous about this, knowing someone wanted her baby killed. I think she would be very protective about her baby, even if the baby was not a special child.

So after Joseph woke Mary and told her, I would think that Joseph would call for a limo with darkened windows so they could escape in style... Just kidding folks, I think it would be Mary back up on the donkey with Mary holding the baby in her arms as they traveled. Now it really does not say in the Bible if they traveled by donkey, but we do know that they had their donkey with them.

I just want you to think about this, how would you feel if you were Mary or if you were Joseph? Someone wants to kill your baby and you more than likely do not understand why. Why would this king want to kill their baby? Now let me plant this in your mind.. Are those same hateful people trying to kill off those of us who follow Jesus today? Think about it, folks. We need to be ready, and by being ready I mean we need to come fully to God, not play around with it. We need to follow and work for Jesus each and every day of the rest of our lives. In all, we do need to be loving on Jesus and we need to be sharing that Good News about Jesus and Salvation. It needs to be on our minds and lips always and we need to let people see how we love Jesus.

The other day a nut case, a terrorist, got on the airplane with a bomb in his underpants. If that bomb would have gone off, all on the plane would have more than likely been killed. How many of those would have been lost and how many saved? See where I am coming from? We might not be able to stop those who want to kill us, but we who are saved now will be safe in the arms of Jesus if something goes wrong. Folks, we need to be alert, but we also need to be working to get all saved as our only way to survive is to be BORN AGAIN... Amen.

Brothers and sisters, the prayer today is an I prayer... I can only ask you to pray it from your heart.

Dear Father in Heaven, wash me clean today, save my sorry and unworthy self and then let me get to work in the fields of Harvest for You helping bring in the lost, help me to spread the good news in all I do. I pray others are praying this same prayer today. I want to follow Jesus and I want to do it daily. I don't want to just talk about it, I want to walk the talk. Lord, help me with that, and Lord, help me repent of my sins. In Jesus' Name, I pray. Amen.

Go forth now sharing those blessings, and sharing them from your heart... guess what... I love all of you. Sorry about yesterday, I was not feeling well, had a doctors appointment, and then just sort of rested and before I knew it, the day was gone. Thanks to all who checked on me. Love ya, dan.

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