Endure hardships with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Good Tuesday, pray for Mayor Linda Thompson, City of Harrisburg Day. Yes, my dear brothers and sisters, please pray for Mayor Thompson as she starts three days of fasting and praying for Harrisburg, Pa. You can read just a few things about the Mayor in this morning's Patriot News.
Please keep Vicki in your prayers...
Please remember the picnic at Willow Mill Park. Music by Tim Beitzel starts at 11.00 AM. Lunch at noon, and then some more music. Do you want to sing, we are going to open the mike during lunch. Gospel, Oldies, show tunes, your choice. Then after lunch, some more gospel singing and yes, Carry The Light will be doing a few. It is all free, food, drinks, and lots of the deserts, even the toilets are free.
Onward Christian Soldiers: 2 Timothy 2:3 - Endure hardships with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. (NIV)
Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ the royal Master, leads against the foe, forward into battle, see His banners go!
Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before...
Brothers and sisters, we know that as Americans we have been in a lot of wars, and we are in at least three right now. But our Lord tells us in Matthew 24:6, "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. (NIV)
And yes. my dear brothers and sisters, we do hear of all these wars and we see them happening, but the war that has me concerned most of all is the war against our Lord Jesus and those who follow Him, the real Christians. Christian means Christ-like and the word gets a really bad rap. For instance, when people talk about Muslims blowing up the buildings in New York, Washington and bringing down the plane in Pennsylvania on 9/11/2001, others will come back and say that it was Muslims who have gone bad. Then some will say that it was a Christian who blew up the buildings in Oklahoma, and if I recall the man who did that was Timothy McVey, but I could be wrong on that name. Anyway, people refer to him as a Christian... No, No, No folks a real Christian would not do that, a person with that kind of hate in their hearts is NOT CHRIST-LIKE and is no way a Christian. Those Muslims were Muslims gone bad, for all of them are not like that, but remember folks, people are not a Christian by default.
Yes, there is a war going on against us, us who are true followers of Christ and it even happens in churches. Did you see the news about NBC the other day, they edited out the words Under God when doing a story about some kids leading the pledge to the flag. And they not only did it once but twice. They said it was due to time. Yea, right. It was someone just trying to get we who really love God upset, or someone who wants to get those words out of the pledge.
Back in the days, 25 years of them, but after I found Christ, I put a picture of Jesus holding the lamb in my office at the school district transportation office. And this office was owned and in control of the school district and paid for by the tax payers of the United States of America. No one ever asked me to take it down. Also each morning I would arrive at work at 5.00 AM and several drivers would come in early, different ones on different days, and we would pray in my office. Also at least once a week we filled the office and held hands and prayed. I even posted on the time clock about those prayer sessions, I called them "Caring and Sharing". Only once the buildings and grounds men who were at the back of one of my drivers' meetings when I opened in prayer complained. When they did, they were asked by their boss what they were doing at the Transportation Building when they were to be mowing grass at one of the schools. But there were times when people would throw my past at me, and MY PAST WAS TAKEN AWAY WHEN I CAME TO CHRIST.
Brothers and sisters, one of the parts of the war we Christians fight each day of our life is when others who do not know Jesus will try and trash you because of something you might have done before you came to Jesus. Don't lose that battle, my friends, hold high the cross of Jesus and tell them those sins have been taken away. Each day of our lives we should be going into battle for our Lord Jesus, and trust me when I say, most of the battles are fun, really fun. We who really love the Lord are many in numbers; however. so many when faced with a battle, will not come forth. "Stand up, Stand up" for Jesus, brothers and sisters, and go forward for Him. If you hear others downing Christ, stand up for Him... If you hear someone use His name as a curse word, tell them about it. Oh, and when someone tells the boss you were talking about Jesus at the coffee break, tell the boss, "they started it". Stand up for Jesus, Stand up for Jesus, for nothing they could ever do to you would be like they did to Jesus who covered our sins. ARE YOU READY TO FIGHT FOR JESUS? Please come back tomorrow when we talk about more battles and bring some battles forth out of the Bible.
And never forget this... With Jesus, in the end, WE WIN!!! And the rest will lose...
Dear Father in Heaven, we are tired of hearing Your name as curse words, while some in our governments say, we cannot say the name Jesus or call on You in public. Lord, I for one am tired of hearing those curse words, and Lord, I pray that when I hear them on the TV, you give me the power just to reach up and change the channel, and Lord, it is time we stand with people like Mayor Linda Thompson and say, why not a person of faith praying in their office. Lord, protect the Mayor and help all others on our prayer lists from the past weeks. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Now go forth my dear soldiers of the cross, lift high the cross as you share your blessings with others... and know that I love ya. Pastor Dan.
And now put this tune on your lips and heart today...
Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ the royal Master leads against the foe, forward into battle, see His banners go!
Onward Christian Soldiers marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before.
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