May 7, 2010 Great Promises 10

"Ask and it will be given to you."

Good Friday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and it is a beauty here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. REMEMBER TOMORROW. On the Capitol steps in Harrisburg Pennsylvania at HIGH NOON, a support your troops rally. Come out and shake the hand of some veterans and pray and reach out to the fighting men and women of our military. We are indeed a nation at war and it is not just in foreign countries... Look at our border states where people are sneaking in, and look what happened last week in New York City. Folks, we get our personal freedom from Jesus Christ and only Jesus Christ, but our freedoms in our country are thanks first to God and then to the men and women of our military, past and present. Come out and get to shake the hand of one the best looking veterans of all times... My wife. She will be at the top of the steps tomorrow along with me (I am not a vet, but am honored to be the one praying for the event and the country). God is good, I hope to see you tomorrow... Bring your flag and wave it... Amen.

Great Promises 10: Matthew 7:7 - "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (NIV)

Yesterday I was listening to a local talk radio show and the host, the man from under the hat, Bob Durgan (he will be on the steps tomorrow also), was interviewing an atheist. There were several people who called themselves Christians and even Born Again Christians (if you are not born again you are not a Christian) who tried to sell this man on God. The atheist said he just wanted proof that there was a God and He made all this. Each person would point out parts of the Bible and did a good job of quoting scriptures but the atheist always had a comeback. None of the persons calling in stopped and just prayed for the man. Folks, we just need to pray for these folks who do not believe and keep loving them as our neighbors. They will best believe when they see Jesus in you, not a salesman trying to sell them something.

Brothers and sisters, our relationship with Jesus is based on faith, love, trust, and knowing in our hearts that He is real. Look at the scriptures I have been writing these past two weeks and there are more to come on Great Promises, what good are they if we do not have faith in them? Yesterday the atheist said that if today God would set in place the missing pieces to the Walnut Street Bridge then He would believe in God. Does he not know that God put in the ground the steel that was brought up, molded, and formed, and the talents of men given to them by God was used to make the first bridge. No, he cannot think that far. He admitted that he did not know where the things came from for if indeed God made it, who made God, he asked.

Folks, my message to you today is clear, we need to believe all that is in the Bible from one end to the other, but we also must live it, for the way we live is the selling point for others to believe. Remember it is faith, love, believing and Living for Jesus that will sell Him to others, not just talking about it. Pray for those you are working with, pray for God to open their hearts, get the seeds planted, water those seeds, keep being nice to them. Treat them like your brother or sister for they really are, remember they are also children of God, they just don't believe it, we already know we are all God's children.

Myself, I would find it harder not to believe, for everyplace I look I can see God, but it was not always that way. Folks, this man, and I forget his name, comes on the radio often and talks about being a non-believer and I really think he wants to believe and is fishing. He wants it proved to him. Folks, living a life for Jesus is so important, and once you sign on for Jesus, people really watch you, even others who are saved. The scriptures I picked today, are really three great promises. You count them... In fact you might get more than three. Here is that word again...

Matthew 7:7 - "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." (NIV)

You see, a non-believer might ask for a million dollars, a believer just asks for a blessing they might share. Seek and you will find... A non-believer might be seeking the wrong things, and while believers can also seek it, what God is really telling us here is to seek Him and we will find Him. And the knocking, well folks, I am going to someday stand at the door and knock and I pray the door will be opened to me. The Bible and the song tells it like this... Prayer is the key to heaven, but it's faith that unlocks the door.

Dear Father in Heaven, today we pray for all those working in the fields of Harvest for You. Lord, I pray we are all doing just that, working for You. There are many non-believers and many sitting on the fence. Lord, help us to get the word out by living it to please You. Help us this weekend on the steps of our Capitol, and Lord, may people see You in me and may my message be about You and for the troops and others there. Lord, help us to remember that all things good come from You. Please, Lord, help us to learn to share our blessings. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Go forth now sharing your blessings, sharing the love of Jesus and living to please Him, and if you indeed live to please Him, all others should be happy with You. Be blessed, see you tomorrow on the Capitol steps. Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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