September 14, 2010 God's Protection 2

"If any of you are without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Good Tuesday Morning, and welcome to pray for a cure day on this line. Yes, now the day we set aside for God to either end things like cancer or lend men and women the talent to discover cures for these diseases. Also I have heard nothing from Vicki about how her surgery went, as soon as I hear I will let you know. Please keep her covered in prayer. Please also pray for Lanie D'Augstina (spelling) who has two tumors attached to her brain, so far, praise the Lord, no cancer, however, let's pray those tumors away. She also has lime disease.

Yesterday I asked if you would send me a short story of how God has protected you. After my closing today you will see one sent in from Glenda Leib of Carlisle, Pa.

God's Protection: John 8:3 - The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say? 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with His finger. 7 When they kept on Questioning Him, He straightened up and said to them. "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." (NIV)

You all remember this story of how Jesus was telling those gathered to stone a woman who had sinned by breaking man's laws. Jesus protected this woman by just asking that simple question, those without sin cast those stones (my words there but mean the same thing). But then Jesus went beyond that and added even more protection. This protection was to start her over without sin, He forgave her. The forgiveness of Jesus is one big protection that we will touch on later in the week. I do have one question about this. WHAT ABOUT THE MAN? I guess she committed adultery alone, right?

How often has God protected you? I would guess hundreds and hundreds of times that if you really thought about it you could come up with. But what about all those times you were protected and you did not even know it? God is good. I want to go way back in time and bring out one of the first acts of protection that God did for us.

Genesis 2: 8 - Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (NIV)

Now we remember the rest of the creation story, God made Adam a wife, and God told them not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.. What about the protection part? Well, folks, God gave them all they needed, there was nothing in the garden they had to fear except, well, except for God, and they should have feared Him and listened to Him for they really had it made. Then they sinned by eating from that tree against the will of God. And we know the rest of the story, the protection was backed down, and things started to happen. Pain on childbirth, weeds in the garden... If man had only learned. I wonder, I wonder if we, each of us had never sinned in our lives, and we would fear God, would we be protected from all things bad today? Today again I want to bring out that scripture that I used yesterday for when those things happen, those hard things in your life and we start to question God. And yes, there are times, admit it, that we question God. I know I do it. So again I turn our eyes on Romans

Romans 8:28 - And we know that in all things God works for the good of THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, who have been called according to His purpose. (NIV)

Dear Father in Heaven, we want to thank You for protecting us even when we do not know we have needed it. Thanks for protecting our military and please keep that protection around them. Lord, please stay with Vicki during that surgery, and Lord, I pray that the brain tumors leave Lanie and the lime disease also heals. I keep praying for Dolores also, Lord, that you take away her pain. And Lord, thanks for sparing our friends Glenda and John, thank You Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.

Now go forth sharing your blessings and do not be afraid to ask God to protect you and your family, in fact, do it all the time. Storm heaven with prayers of protection for your family and mine and also for this line... love ya, Pastor Dan. (now read on to see how God protected Glenda and John AND THANK YOU JESUS FOR THAT PROTECTION... Amen)

Dear Dan:

This is how God protected John and I a few years ago. We were coming back from Norfolk after a show pulling the cargo trailer with a pick up . This was about 11:30 PM and we were on I-295. All of a sudden the cargo trailer was jack-knifing on both sides of the pickup; and then we were going sideways down the road. John got the truck straight and we headed for the medial strip. I thought for sure we were going to roll the truck and trailer. John (with God's help) got it stopped and in an upright position. We had lost a wheel off the trailer (and found out later the grill was in the wrong place for weight distribution since we had used most of the product we had taken). We were scared but not injured. And no one else was involved. Now that is God at work protecting us.

Glenda