July 13, 2010 Who is your spouse?

"The People of this age are married and given in Marriage."

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters and welcome to Schools day on the prayer line, the day we pray for our schools and all who have anything at all to do with them. Praise God for the overnight rain we had here in Central Pennsylvania, we sure did need it. God is so good, so very good. Another praise report, and listen to this one... Allison Speck, who had the major surgery just last week, and I think on Wednesday and you remember how Carl (name for her very large tumor) was removed, and so were all the other tumors, and she had to lose part of her liver, I think over half... She was released from the hospital yesterday... CAN YOU SAY PRAISE GOD. Now I am relaying this message from her mother, please, if you know her, give her time to rest before you come to visit. Please honor that request. Prayer requests for Pastor Tom Dewolf, who has congestive heart failure. Prayers for the mission team from the church in Selinsgrove, Pa., who were injured in the bomb blast in Uganda. Here are their names, please note, the pastor from Uganda is now confirmed as deceased...

"There is news coming from Uganda about an explosion in a restaurant in Kampala. Carla Gotshall reports that six members of her mission trip stayed behind for an additional week of mission work and were having a meal, along with Pastor Peter, in the bombed restaurant. The status of the team members is as follows:"
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> Lori Ssebuline - Alive but no word on her injuries
> Joanne Kerstetta - Alive with facial injuries
> Emily Kerstetta (granddaughter of Joanne) -
> Alive but with part of a leg missing
> Kris Sledge - Alive but with a broken leg and
> blind in one eye
> Pamela Kramer - Alive but no word on injuries
> Thomas Kramer (14 year old son of Pamela) -
> Alive but no word on injuries
> Pastor Peter Mutabazi of Bwaise Pentecostal
> Church - No word - missing (now confirmed as deceased) (added in by pastor dan)

Prayers today for Harrisburg Pennsylvania Mayor Linda Thompson who opens each meeting with prayer. One of her staff has called on the American Civil Liberties Union to make her stop.. We need to support this lady in prayer. Also today please pray for Carry The Light Ministries, God is good and this old pastor went out and ordered a lot of canned veggies for the food pantry, I ordered them last Thursday and they came in yesterday, they also went on sale last Sunday meaning we got the sale price, even with that, the bill at the Giant was over $1,200.00. Praise God we had the money to pay most of it and the credit card came out for the rest. With these canned goods we should be back up to a good level for this time of year. Next week we have our kickoff for the food drive at a local football camp. Pray for a good gathering of food there. Please remember our The Ministry food pantry is open year round.

Who is your spouse? Luke 20: 34 - Jesus replied, "The people of this age marry and are given in marriage. 35 But those who are considered worthy of taking part in that age and in the resurrection from the dead will neither marry nor be given in marriage." (NIV)

I am sure all of you at sometime or another attended a funeral of a person whose long time spouse was standing at the end of the casket greeting people and you heard these words over and over again. We will all meet in heaven again someday. Ok, I must insert here, we will all meet in heaven someday if we have followed God's rules set forth in our Bibles to get into heaven (see John 14:6 for a start). But let's say for right now that both the husband and wife who were married for about 40 years knew and know (one is alive and one is gone) our Lord Jesus. So God is good, and they were married here on earth for 40 years, a lot of years. The marriage must have been blessed for when they got married the man was just 20 and his wife but 18. That would make them 60 and 58 and let's say today that the man who was 60 was the one in the box, and the lady was the one greeting others.

So I insert this question right now, saying the lady will not marry again, will they meet up in heaven as a married couple again? What would your answer be? Will you send me an email and let me know? Yes, I am stopping here for tomorrow we are going to change the playing field a tad... This will get interesting I am sure.

Dear Father in Heaven, we are thankful for a spouse and pray you will take care of them, we pray also this day that a marriage will always be between a man and a woman for some in the United States want to change that. Father, I pray that You will send a new pastor to the church that lost theirs in the bombing and that the pastor will pick up the work with those children. And Lord, bless those who were injured on the mission trip, and please, Lord, don't let this keep them from working for You. We know, Lord, that we are always in danger when we commit to working for You. Bless others that are working for You, Lord, and bless our schools, bless them please, Lord. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings and as God has given you this day, try this, give it back to Him by living to please Him in all you do... Love ya, Pastor Dan.
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