July 28, 2010 Tests

Test Everything!!

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is Thursday and family day on this praise, prayer and message line. Today is the very first day of the rest of your life, why not walk it with Jesus and make it the best ever? As we pray today for families, please pray for the Sansoni Family and center your prayers on Kathleen who has cancer and has been fighting it off and on for a long, long time. Yesterday she had a chemo treatment, and we want to pray that it works and she will not be made sick by the side effects. Pray for Pastor Tony and Ruby and their daughter. For Pastor Charles and Katie Idler, Pastor Charles had a major stroke sometime back and had been residing at the Bridges. He has been moved. Please pray for Pastor Charles to be able to handle the move to a new retirement home. And today please try and get on your knees at least once to pray and please pray for our nation. Folks, God just cannot be happy with what is going on in America right now. And remember on family day to pray for all families, and please pray for the family of God. And also pray for the family of Pearl and also the family of Vicki.

We want to thank God for the new families that came yesterday for food and we want to thank God that we had food to give them. GOD IS GOOD, and we must not forget it... AMEN.

Tests 3: 1 Thessalonians 5:16 - Be Joyful always; 17 pray continually; 18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do no put out the Spirit's fire, 20 do not treat prophecies with contempt. 21 TEST EVERYTHING. Hold on to the good. 22 Avoid every kind of evil. (NIV)

Test Everything. Do you remember the commercial a few years back about some sort of food and the kids would give their food to little Mikey and if he liked it then they would eat it? Well, brothers and sisters, the Bible tells us to TEST EVERYTHING, it does not tell us to let someone else take the test for us. As we test everything we are told to hold onto the good and avoid the evil. Now how can we do that if indeed we trust someone else to test it for us? If we are truly walking in the light of the Lord, if we are working and walking each day with Jesus, our standards should be much higher than those who are not walking with the Lord or those who walk with the Lord when they need him.

Test everything. As most of you know I love to cook and as I cook, like most cooks I am always tasting the food. And while I love to cook, I also love to cook for others, and cook at events. The other night I made some different stuff, and was in a hurry and did not taste as I was going. Thankfully it was just something small for Dolores and me. Now I set this "stuff" on our counter table and we sat down to eat it. What was it, well it was a squash dinner, all kinds of squash just steamed and then I had melted butter to dunk it in. We had some butternut squash, it was good, we had some other squash and it was, well, fair, but needed more than butter. Then it came, we bit into it, I looked at Dolores and she looked at me, and I took the plates to the trash can and scraped off the food. It was that bad. What would have happened if I would have sent that food out for others to try? Folks, like a good chef we need to be testing everything and we need to keep the good and even share it with others and we need to get rid of the bad. And listen to me on this, we need to test things that others tell us is good. An example might be, you get something on the email from a friend and it looks good but you did not read it all, but you forward it to others, maybe your friend did not look at all of it, and at the end or near the end there is bad stuff and you put it out... No, test it yourself.

Now let's go to church, you have a great pastor, you love them with all your heart, as we should love all people. You should be taking notes, you should have your Bible in church with you so you can follow along. You need to know where your pastor is getting what he preaches. Does it come from the Bible or from some writer or some other book? Does your pastor believe in ALL of what is in the Bible, or do they pick and choose? I am not picking on your pastors today, just need to be sure you are testing things. Each day you should be doing the same with me. God gives me topics and helps me research them and I can say this, 99% of the time I get my information from the Bible. Once in a while I will go over a news story and fit it to the Bible.

We need to TEST EVERYTHING, and we need a standard to test it against, and that standard should be Jesus Christ and how He lived and our Bibles for the word. In big things and small we need to test things, and parents with young kids, we need to test things for them. You do not put hot water in the tub and jump in without testing the temperature of that water and burn our backsides. And for sure we need to test the water before putting in a baby. Why I even test the temperature in the shower before I put in one of our dogs. When you get a cup of coffee, do you test it first or just take a big swallow and find out it was real hot?

Another test we need to make is testing our schools and what they are teaching our children. Don't just think they are being taught good stuff. We also need to teach our kids how to test things. And also when we make purchases, if the deal seems to be to good to be true, it more than likely is a bad deal. Cheap price and you purchased junk. What was that saying "buyer beware".

In review, test everything and hold it up to the standards of Jesus Christ and His Word found in the Bible. If it will not stand the Bible test, it is not good. While we must trust on others for a lot of things, like are you getting a gallon of gas out of that gas pump for a gallon on the meter... Are you getting a pound of meat if it tells you that on the package... Are you trusting others and then finding out that they have lied to you on a lot of things... Again, test it for yourself. Test it to God's Standards.

Dear Father in Heaven, please help us test all things according to Your standards and also for Your will. Lord, help Kathleen today and take away the cancer from her body. Be with my brother Tom Sansoni and help him as he walks with his wife Kathleen. And also take the cancer from the body of Ron, and Lord, be with Pearl and her family and heal her and comfort the family. Lord, be with pastors Tony and Charles and their families. Bless Vicki and her family, and Lord, please heal Vicki. Lord, help us walk in Your light daily, 24/7, Lord, help us never take our eyes off of You. Help us to read and understand Your word. And Lord, be with Your family, the family of God, and help us get ready to be the bride of Jesus, and Lord, teach us to share those blessings You send our way. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings, and folks, please test things to be good before you get involved in them. Love ya, Pastor Dan.

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