Friday: The Journey 4

"Cursed is the ground because of you."
"I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Friday and the day we pray for all workers in the fields of Harvest for our Lord Jesus. YOU SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST!!

Before I start the message I must share this with all of you... Tomorrow we are having a sort and pack party at 2:00 PM at our home, sorting food and then packing it for families. Yesterday Dolores and I, AKA for this event, Santa and Mrs. Claus, went to Saint Joseph's School in Mechanicsburg Pa. to be Santa and pick up food for the food pantry. This is the first time we have had them collecting for for us.

First we went in singing and just being Santa and Mrs. Claus. I sang about the red nosed deer and then said Merry Christmas and said this is the biggest birthday party in the world. We then sang Happy Birthday and I did not say to who, everyone put the name Jesus in. Before we left we shook over two hundred hands of THE BEST BEHAVED KIDS I EVER HAD IN FRONT OF ME. And then the fifth graders brought the food out to the bus. Folks, I am not kidding about this..We have a big Silver Eagle and the three bays were full. THANK YOU JESUS. I was so overwhelmed I leaned on the side of the bus and cried and cried, and just telling you, I am doing the same thing. Folks, I have received checks from a lot of people on this line and we have helped some people on the line. This morning I wrote a check out to our credit card company for almost $1,700.00 for food... the check will not bounce... PRAISE GOD. Monday a truck is coming with 50 hams and 50 turkeys and we purchased 35 turkeys and will still need some more. God is good. Two things I don't want to do ... not have enough for the families and to not have food on the shelf after Christmas for families who need help to eat year round. We figure about 15% of the families will call on us during the year for help. Without the help of a lot of you, this would not be going on. I wish I had a way to download some pictures for you... I will try. Thanks for those who are helping and God Bless You.

The Journey 4: Genesis 3:16 - To the woman He said, "I will greatly increase your pains in Childbearing: with pain you will give birth to your children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. 17 To Adam He said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'you must not eat of it,''' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat of your food until you return to the ground since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." (NIV)

So folks, for all of you who think that we are not punished for our sins, wake up and learn. If we would learned to have walked with Jesus from a child it would have been much more special. But we are sinners and even though our Lord Jesus will forgive us, no sin goes unpunished. Think about it. Sometimes it is just the worry over what you might have done. Now folks, I really am talking about those direct commandments, and that is what sin is. Ladies, you could blame the pain of giving birth on Eve, but let's face it, did you sin? You know, ladies, if you stopped sinning maybe that pain would go away. Men, including me, when I go to my garden or just around the house I pull weeds and some have things on them that cut right through the skin, and folks, the weeds grow better than the plants if we do not work the garden. MEN, INCLUDING ME, maybe if we did not sin our gardens would grow without the weeds, so please men, including me, do not blame all of this on Adam. Men and women, hear me on this. If we walk with God, if we pray and listen to Him, our days will go better. We need to start each day with Jesus and we need to be with Him all the time.

I am not putting you on one bit that right now Dolores and I would not get through one single day without Jesus. Both of us are retired, Dolores with be 75 on January 2nd (don't tell on me for telling you) I am 68 and change (a lot of change) we work more hours each day now then ever. We rise early, we work for Jesus and then go to bed. We are tired, we are worn, and we are being blessed and having more fun than we ever had in our lives. Working for Jesus is rewarding. I am not going to blame Adam for my pain, for I earned it on my own. Dolores does not blame Eve for her pain, she earned it on her own. Both in our younger days. Each day we draw nearer to our Lord Jesus. It is rewarding and it is fun. I can tell you now there are others like this... Duane, Dave, Neil, Tim, Larry, and another Larry, and many more on this line will tell you that working for our Lord Jesus is rewarding and fun. Yesterday at Allenberry, we were singing to about 50 people who were waiting to go to the theater... God really got to me, and believe me when I tell you I did a call for Salvation right there. I don't know if anyone got saved but a lot were teary eyed. Now we always talk about Jesus, this went right from the manger to the cross... GOD IS GOOD AND WE WANT TO GIVE HIM THE GLORY. Folks, if you are not working for God, get on the Jesus team and get going. If you say you are a Christian, do something to prove it. Yes, I said that, prove it to all who you see. Have a Jesus smile on your face. If someone asks you, how are you, tell them like my friend Doug Boyer, who had a stroke, tells them, "never better". Come on... I hope today, folks, I got your mind back on Adam and Eve and have made it clear what they did was wrong. And although they were wrong, it is not their fault we sin. AMEN.

Dear Father in Heaven, you blessed us well each day, and we just ask that we can keep working for you and help to bless others in Your name. All honor and glory to You, dear Lord. In Jesus name I give thanks, and pray. Amen.

Go forth now and find the glory and rewarding things you can enjoy when you share your blessings each day and live for Jesus... Gosh I love you folks... dan.

Carry The Light Ministries
16 Dewalt Drive
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17050
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