April 26, 2010 Great Promises 1

"I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."

Good rainy Monday morning, my dear brothers and sisters. This is from Ron who HAD stage four cancer... His treatments are going good, he feels great, and feels God is clearing his body of cancer. From Pam, who HAD breast cancer... They think her body is clear of cancer, follow up treatments are going great. Also this blessings... Courier Gospel Singer Larry More's house burnt while they were out on concert. No one was at home, no one was hurt, but they lost most of their personal things. So please pray for Larry, Raylene, Doug and Jeremy More as they go through this trying time in their lives.

Monday, and the day we pray for our leaders and our military, our police, firefighters, all those who work hard to keep us safe and healthy. Pray for "family doctors" today as well. Yesterday, for a while anyway, President Obama was in good hands. He went to visit the Reverends William (Billy) and Franklin Graham and spend some time with them. I just know seeds had to be planted... start praying for our president and pray hard for the seeds to take root.

Genesis 1:29/30 29 - Then God said: "I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food." 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground everything that has the breath of life in it I give every green plant for food." AND IT WAS SO!

This was one of the first promises that God made to man. During this week I want to talk about promises that God made and also bring up some that we made. Now we know that God has kept all of His promises, well with the exception of one, and we will learn about that one later in the week. How many times have you made a promise, and then think to yourself just how many have you broken. No I am not going to ask you to name all that you have broken, for if you are like me, you could not remember them all. For sadly I did not just break promises over the years that I made to man, I also broke some promises that I made to man in front of God as my witness, and yes, I even broke some that I made to God.

One of the first promises that God made to man was that He would furnish our needs, and we need food. Now we see here in Genesis how God set up a food system for us. Now while God did say He would supply our needs He did not say that we should not have to work for them. In fact, in fact God has said that if man WILL NOT WORK, he shall not eat. Now I am going to say this and please read it and reread it so you hear it the way I said it... We need to take care of and help all of those who because of illness or because of age (young or old) cannot take care of themselves, we have a whole lot of people who could be working and choose to do nothing and expect others to take care of them. I want you to think about that. For those who can work but do nothing are the ones who shall not eat. While we do not ask a lot of questions at our food pantry and we are just feeding the poor and needy and a lot of times that means the working poor, we work for God. All of us know people who just, and these are my words... "Ride the System", and some have been very good at it. In fact some have been known to have more children so they can get more system help and a lot of the time that help does not reach the ones who need it (the little ones) so that is why we take over and help.

So as we talk about promises this week, one of ours should be that we are going to help God take care of the needs of those who cannot take care of themselves.

Ok, now I must confess, what is the first promise I remember making and what was the first one I remember breaking? Yes mother, I will wash behind my ears, and I will brush my teeth. Up the stairs I went after making that promise to my dear late mamma and then would wet the wash rag as we called them and wet the tooth brush and go to bed. Did you brush your teeth? Yes I did, mamma, honest... Today I have dentures (the price of a broken promise?) Would you share your very first promise that you can remember, and the first one you broke?

Dear Father in Heaven, forgive me for all the times I broke a promise, be they big or small. And Lord, I look forward to Your help in helping others have their needs filled. Maybe I said that wrong, but I want to be Your helper, but I need Your help to do just that. Thanks for the good news on Ron and on Pam, and we are thankful also that no one was hurt in the fire at Larry More's home. Dear Lord, please keep your healing hand on Ron and his wife Donna and on Pam and take care of cancers. Heal in the name of Jesus, we ask. And Lord, please help the More family come up from the ashes and recover. Also be with our President and I pray for his soul and his salvation through You, dear Lord. I pray for our military, our police, firefighters and all others who work to keep us safe and healthy. I pray for family doctors and for my family doctor, Lawrence Cox, who loves You dearly. Also, Lord, be with Dolores and me today as we have tests done on our backs. Mine requires them putting dye in my spine, please, Lord, help it go well. Into Your hands I put us both for Your care and custody as we also place in those same hands, the More family, Ron and Donna, Vicki, Pam and the Saylor and Idler families. In Jesu's name, Amen.

Go forth now, sharing your blessings and helping others and making only promises that you can and will keep. Love ya, Pastor Dan

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