February 18, 2010 The Journey 55

"Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is a beautiful morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, and last night for the first time in what seems to be like forever the temperature did not go below freezing. It was 33! God is good and we all know that spring is just around the corner. Thanks for your prayers for my wife Dolores and our son Matthew... Matthew was released from the hospital yesterday with new meds and we just give him to God to be taken care of. We pray he will stay with the program laid out for him... Dolores had a bad night and is not feeling good this morning, she remains in the Holy Spirit Hospital with pneumonia.

Please add Ruth Sanderson to your prayer list and please keep praying for Ronald and all the others we have with cancer and please also keep praying for our Allison, our high school girl with cancer... I will post updates as I receive them.

Also remember this is family day on the line so we pray today for all families and be sure to pray for your own family. I think sometimes we pray for others and forget our own family.

The Journey 55: Matthew 6:9 - "Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. 10 Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the Kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen." (KJV)

Back again for another day with the Lord's prayer and we are almost done, I hope to finish it up tomorrow and then maybe write a recap on Saturday. Today let's look at this line.

"For Thine is the Kingdom": When we are praying this line we are indeed praying that it is God's Kingdom and here I am not talking about just Heaven. It is His Kingdom and that includes the United States of America, even Washington DC, but I do wonder if He might want to dump that one... just kidding, It is all His, and not just the United States, but all of the world, all of the stars, the sun and moon, and planets and those planets that we have yet to even know that they are there. Just think once in a while our people who study the planets and stars, etc., will put out a news flash... New planet just located. And I get to thinking, did they just find it, or did God just let them see it, or did He just add to His vast Kingdom? It does not make a difference, for it is all His. The snow covering your lawn, it is His, the lawn that the snow covers, it is His. And folks, like it or not we are also His, we are part of His Kingdom, and even those who say there is no God, He loves them just as much, listen to me here, He loves them just as much as He loves those of us who work for Him. Which by the way is another good example of why we should love ALL of our neighbors, regardless of the color of the skin or if they worship like we do. We need to love them and we need to try and lead them to Jesus.

Thine is the Kingdom, yes, and we are praying just that when we pray this wonderful prayer. We are saying, Hey God, we know that it is yours or are we? Do you believe it in your heart? You know it is true that even if we purchase a house we will never really own it because we have a government that taxes us on it, like we are paying rent for it, and if they want it for any reason they have the power to just take it away. Oh, they say they will give you fair market value for it, but it just shows a point. But our governments around the world, local, state, national, none of them have a right to it, because it belongs to God and is only on loan to us.

Right now a lot of people are hurting for jobs, they are out of work, down to their last dollars, and to top that our governments are broke or going broke. The City of Harrisburg, Pa., is about to go under. Our state of Pennsylvania is in trouble, and our National Government is just running the money. Let me tell you how we can all get back on our feet... Listen to this old man here, and it must be done in faith. We need to give back to the Lord and we need to do it off the top and we need to do it in faith. You can test God on this. America is to be a Christian Nation, we were founded on those principles and if we had a president that would go before the people and tell them just what I have said you would see the country start to turn around.

We need to return this part of God's Kingdom back to Him. People need to give to His work and you can do it by helping others, you can do it through your church, your support of His work is needed. We need to have laws that stop abortions, we need to shutter those gambling places.
If our president had faith in God, deep, deep faith, he would just make this speech... "Folks, tonight get on your knees to God (every knee shall bow). Confess your troubles and sins to God, and give to God. Let's pray for this nation to come back to God." And the speech can be short and to the point. When we bring God back into our lives our lives will go better. Not always perfect, that comes in Heaven, but it will get better. God will take care of us.

Thine is the Kingdom, let's not just say it, let's not just say the words, let's pray it and mean it and let's believe it and have faith in it. Will you pray this with me today and mean it?

Dear God, I am only one of this United States, but I know this country is Yours, it is part of Your Kingdom and starting today I am going to do all in my power to help You be proud of us again. This is Your Kingdom and I appreciate it, I am afraid that You are not going to keep letting this Nation go down the drain, I don't think Lord that You are going to keep on letting things like abortion keep going on. Lord, I for one want to get back to living fully for you. Thine is the Kingdom, that You, Lord Jesus, for this being part of Your Kingdom... Now help me and others act like it. In Jesus' name, I pray... Amen.

Go forth now sharing and giving of your blessings, talents, etc., and do it from the top... Love ya,
Pastor Dan.

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