January 15, 2010: The Journey 29

"Away from me, Satan! for it is written: 'Worship the Lord your god, and serve Him only.'"

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters... before I go one minute more let me get this off my chest. PRAISE THE LORD - I had to get that out right away. Remember last weekend I sent out that emergency pray request for Skip Shoemaker? He went home from the hospital yesterday morning... Now it is time for all of us to do this together...

Dear Father in Heaven... Thank You Jesus, Thank You, and Praise You. Lord, forgive us for we do not praise You enough. Thanks for all You do and for hearing all of our prayers. And thanks for always answering our prayers according to Your will for us. We give You all honor and praise and we do it in Your wonderful name... Amen.

Today is Friday and the day we pray for all those who work for our Lord Jesus. Other prayer requests and the report on Skip from Pastor Larry Hale will be at the close of today's message.

The Journey 29: Matthew 4:8 - Again the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." 10 Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.'" 11 The the devil left Him and angels came and attended Him. (NIV)

Today we see that once again Jesus permitted the devil to lead Him, and again I am telling you that we are not strong enough to let the devil lead us, but what follows we need to be right in step with. We know that Satan is always wanting to get us, we do not need to let him lead us, he is always throwing things out in front of us to try and get us, but we have a weapon against him and other evildoers. Our weapon is Jesus Christ, and He will protect us from evil if we let Him and if we ask Him to. When you are confronted with evil use these words of Jesus... "Away from me, Satan!" and do it in the name of Jesus and in faith. Away from me, Satan, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, get away from me, Satan. You see, we are not strong enough to let the devil lead us, but when we do fall into evil we have a way out through our Lord Jesus. As we see in verse 11 of today's scripture when Jesus ordered Satan away He left... And the Bible tells us when we do things in the name of Jesus and in faith, it happens.

You also notice that Satan wanted Jesus to bow down to him and worship him and Jesus told him that there is only one God and we are to serve Him only. Can you see Satan trying to tell Jesus that he would give Him everything when Jesus, who is God, was the one who made it all in the first place. The world does not belong to Satan, and folks, it DOES NOT belong to us. God made it and loaned it to us while we are here, and we need to take care of it. Now I could get started on how some might be going way overboard on this by telling us we cannot drill for oil, and about global warming. I think God put the oil, gas, coal and those things in the ground for all of us to use, and we should find good clean ways to use it and use it wisely. One of the things that I think we need to do when using this earth is to clean up after ourselves. The next time you walk into a store notice all the trash laying near the doors and a trash can and a place for those smoking butts to be placed, but in most cases they are on the ground. Also notice all the chewing gum on the ground. And when sitting at a traffic signal look out your window and see all the butts there, for it seems many, not near all, but many empty those ash trays right there on the street. We must care for this earth for it STILL BELONGS TO GOD. If God was in the back seat of your car, would you throw trash out the window? Remember that God sees all we do, period.

And for worshiping The Lord your God, that is one of the two great commandments, the other, of course, is loving your neighbor. In closing this lesson, please learn these things, do not let Satan or his evil ones lead you, and do not follow them. When you do come under attack, in fact before you come under attack, call on Jesus to protect you. This should be in your morning prayers when you first awake. We need to thank God for another day and ask for His protection for the day.

Next week the Journey moves on as Jesus calls His disciples. Do you know all of those disciples' names? Here are just a few that you might not think about as being disciples.. Larry, Tim, Duane, Neil, Dave, another Larry, Dolores, Pam, Joanne, Daniel, and more than one John, and many more who are not listed in the Bible but have been called to be disciples... Find out this next week and more.

Dear Father in Heaven, protect us from evil in the name of Jesus, and Lord, protect all those who are working in the fields of harvest for You. Keep them safe, and Lord, protect those in Haiti from more death from sickness and protect all who are alive and all going in to work with them and help them. Lord, protect also the dollars that are being sent in that they get used to help the needy, and Lord, in that country there are millions of needy, not just the ones hurt in this earthquake. In the name of Jesus, I pray, and Lord I give thanks for this line... Amen.

Now go forth and share those blessings... thanks for being with us each day and for praying for those listed for prayer. love ya, Pastor Dan.

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Now that praise report, and there are no new prayer requests for today.

From Pastor Larry Hale

That Skip Shoemaker is even alive after the serious aortal dissection that he had. Jan 12 - 3:50 PM. Rhonda called to say that they took the tubes out of Skip's chest. They had an incident of a high BP yesterday and are monitoring it. They are starting to meet with Cardio Rehab in hopes of getting him to their home soon. Rhonda also reported that her plumbing at the house is now working. She was without water Sunday night, Monday and part of today. Skip had an EKG done that looked good. They also x-rayed because he has had to have 4 units of blood since the surgery. But, they see no problem. They are still having some problems stabilizing his blood pressure. Rhonda said he may be home as early as Friday. Praise the Lord!! I visited with Skip this morning. He is looking very well and may even go home today!! 10:26 AM Rhonda just called to tell me she is taking him home now!!! All praise be to God!!!