March 22, 2010 God's Animal

"Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me."

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. This week I will be doing messages as God gives them to me, and I am praying for them to lead me into Palm Sunday. As I look out my window this morning the sun is covered by the clouds, however the Son is in my heart as always. I was with my singing partner at the hospital early this morning and am now back at the keyboard. Monday, and the day we pray for our leaders, and folks, after what I saw yesterday in Washington, THEY NEED OUR PRAYERS REALLY BADLY. This is also the day we pray for our military, and all others like our police and firefighters who work to keep us healthy and safe. By the way, this new health care is not going to keep us healthy and safe it is going to bankrupt the country. I will get into trouble for this statement but from the bottom of my heart I think we now have too many people riding in the wagon and too few pulling it. Prayers today for Pam Bower and for Sharon Saylor, both are having surgery today.

God's Animal: Matthew 21:1 - As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethpage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 Say to them, "Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me." 3 "If anyone says anything to you, tell him that the Lord needs them, and he will send them right away." (NIV)

Gosh, as I read this it almost sounds like our Lord Jesus is sending two disciples out to steal a donkey, but we know different . According to the Bible I can only find two places where the Lord rode on an animal, and both times it was a donkey. Who can tell me what the two times were? I will give my opinion on the two times tomorrow.

God's Animal. First of all let me say, like we all are children of God, all animals also come from God, but the donkey is very special, so special that God has placed a cross on their back. Please take time to look at a donkey, maybe on a farm, or at a petting zoo. I would love to have a miniature donkey in our back yard as a pet just to use it to witness for our Lord. If you see a donkey and it is a dark colored donkey look for a light strip from the back of the neck to the base of the tail and then over the front shoulders, forming that cross. How many times did Jesus ride the donkey, come back tomorrow as we take a ride with Jesus.

Dear Father in Heaven, thanks for caring about us and thanks for caring about our animals also. You are indeed worthy of our Praise each day, so often we forget. Thank you, Jesus, for all you do for all of us. Thank You, Jesus, for hearing and answering our prayers. Lord, we pray again today for our leaders and ask You to intercede upon them and straighten them out. Lord, protect our military regardless of where they are this day, and protect our police and firefighters and all others who work to keep us safe and free. Please watch over Sharon and Pam as they have surgery this day and let the healing begin even before the doctor lays a knife on them. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth, and share those blessings, and folks, we are so blessed we have so many to share...
So share and pray, and pray and share and work for God in all you do... Love ya, Pastor Dan.

PS. Carry The Light Ministries has applied to be incorporated and to have 501C3 status, and it looks good. It is costly to do this, but should help a lot with us getting more and more food for the food pantry as that part of our ministry grows. We are looking for a trailer (enclosed), used, and even heavily used is ok as we can rebuild one. Also we might need to expand out of our basement.

Please pray for our ministries... We are in our 17th year of singing the gospel, we are since 1982 doing Santa, and 12 years at Allenberry Playhouse which in part is one of the reasons we opened the food pantry. We are also in our sixth year at the Bridges as pastors and this is the fourth year with our own food pantry. Is God good to us, yes, we are really blessed... we need your prayers. Oh and I keep forgetting how we adopt those senior unwanted little dogs... We have eleven right now.

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