February 18, 2011 Real Love! 5

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.

Good Friday, pray for those workers for God, Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Please pray for Kathleen Sansoni who will be coming home today for treatments for cancer at "Duke" hospital... Please pray for husband Tom as he stands beside Kathleen in this time of trusting it all to the Lord. Please also pray for Museum of Bus Transportation member George Herwig who had open heart surgery on Wednesday (sorry I missed this request, I had it in time to have had it on Wednesday requests). This request in from my dear friend Tom Mozer. Other than these two men having the same first name, and other than they are both Christian brothers to me... I married both of them (to their wives, folks, to their wives). Today I ask you to pray for all those who are going out into the fields of harvest working for the Lord. Folks, you have been watching the news, it is bad and it is time that we tell folks the good news of Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven. Our country like so many is broke, our states, or most of them, are broke. Teachers, those paid to teach our children and again setting examples is a good way to teach, and those teachers in Wisconsin are calling off sick when they are not and shutting down schools so they can protest the government trying to balance a budget, and then those in the capitol, some of them have left town so they do not need to vote. Brothers and sisters, please pray for our country and please pray for peace, and please, please start trusting more and more in God to take care of your needs, for the time is coming and I think soon, that those who really trust God will be the ones with food on the table... And folks, we better be getting ready to eat spam and manna... God is good and He will supply our needs... TRUST HIM.

The Big Trip 10-5 Real Love 5: 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)

Folks, Real Love is taking care of you in all kinds of trouble and in all kinds of times and all the time... God pointed me to this scripture which is one that I like very much. So often though people when quoting the scripture leave out some words. Pull it out of context so to speak.
I have heard people tell others at a funeral, a funeral of a young person that they need to remember that all things come together for good.

Wait a minute, a parent just lost a child and someone, maybe even their pastor just tells them that all things come together for good. And brothers and sisters, that is not what that scripture tells us. If you look at it that way, we miss God in it, which is what makes it real love. When we say all things come together for good we take the real love right out of the scripture.

Let's look at the scripture again, read it over again and then take it apart a tad.

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)

All things come together for God, for those who really love Him... Real Love, not just saying you love Him. Real Love for Jesus, a love locked so deep into your heart that regardless what happens that love will not leave you. Love so deep for God that when things go wrong you don't start to question God asking where were you on that one God. Now that real love for God is just one part of that scripture the other part is "who have been called according to His purpose." What does that mean to me? To me it means that God has called us into His service and we have answered the call doing what God wants us to do.

Maybe God has called you into the ministry and you don't have a clue how you can do it, for you need a job to pay your bills. Do you trust God enough to walk out in faith to follow Jesus?
Brothers and sisters, God gave us real love when He gave His life for us due to our sins. He saved us, He really did. Now to show our love for Him, we can say it, and we might even think we mean it, but do we mean it enough to take that walk out in faith? Does Romans 8:28 really fit you, or is it just comfort food when things go wrong? Please, I am going to put the scripture in front of you again, read it over slowly, pray over it and see the real love in it. It is not a bandage for a short time repair, it is love for a life time, if you truly love Him and answer His call. In other words, pick up those nets and follow Him. Here it is one more time... read it, pray over it, and see the REAL LOVE in it...

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, thanks for the lesson on real love and I know, Father, that I could write on them for another week or two. It is not just real love, Your love is real and it is for all of us, if we could just learn. Please, Lord, heal Kathleen and stand by Tom. And Lord, please heal George and be with Him. Lord, thanks for sparing me from an acid bath yesterday, I am so blessed. Lord, thank You for loving me. I will try my very best to love You and to tell others of the Love that comes from You and also needs to go back to You. In Jesus' name, I give thanks for this line and for You trusting me to work for you... Amen.

Now go forth brothers and sisters, sharing His love for you and sharing your love for Him... and believe this... I love ya, Pastor Dan.