Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
Good get to the Fields of Harvest and to work for the Lord, Friday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is Friday, HAPPY FRIDAY, folks, it is beautiful here at the Southern Location of the North Pole, and would you believe that old Santa is getting very busy already. Ok, enough about Santa, we are just not going to worry about that, just keep moving forward. Pastor Tony has been transferred to Manor Care from the hospital for rehab and he really needs our prayers. Likewise pray for his dear wife Ruby. Please keep praying for Dale and Blanch and pray that the property settlement goes well for Josh this afternoon... God bless your new home Josh, take good care of your mamma...
No Worries: Day 5: Luke 12:35 - Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. (NIV)
God led me to this scripture and it took me a tad to put it together in a message about worries, or in trying to talk to you about No worries. Again I say that one of the hardest things for all of us to do is to stop worrying about things... I have told you in the past, I have bundled up worries, and went to the altar of churches and prayed about these things. I put them at the feet of Jesus and prayed and prayed and prayed, and then when finished praying I got up, picked up my bundle of worries and went back to my seat. What good does it do to take something to God if you really do not have the faith in Him to let Him take care of the worries or help you deal with them?
In this scripture today, Luke 12:35 tells us to be dressed and ready for service. I think that a lot of our worries is that we are just not ready. I am talking here things in life that cause worries, and one is of course paying those bills. How many people have what we call a rainy day fund, or money back for the roof if it starts to leak? Most often we need all of what we have to pay the bills. I mean if you are one who goes to the food store a lot, you can see the prices going up daily.
Let's talk some about being dressed and ready. When it comes to money, do you have a budget and do you do your best to follow it? I find it hard to understand and I talk to people about it, but people come to the food pantry in need of food, and of course we help them, but you can smell smoke, so I talk to them about it. Do you know folks, if you give up one pack of smokes you can buy 12 boxes of Mac and Cheese and most kids love Mac and Cheese. MEN, STEP FORWARD PLEASE... We are to head up our house under God and when we head it up under God, then and only then can it become a home. But are we dressed and ready to do this? Dressed and ready MEN, I am talking about a plan here on how you are going to take care of those kids... MEN, STEP FORWARD PLEASE. If you must work at the food store bagging, and then go work the night shift at Mickey Dee's pumping out burgers to feed your family, GET IT DONE. God wants us to do this... LADIES, YOUR TURN... Single Mom, whose fault is it? It makes no difference whose fault it is, you need to STEP FORWARD, PLEASE, and you need to be dressed and ready to take care of the family. If your X or the sperm donor of your kids is absent from the picture, it is up to you to take care of your family, UNDER GOD OF COURSE. LADIES, STEP FORWARD, PLEASE... Go and read the scripture, "Be dressed and ready for service." Gentlemen and Ladies, if you are working with God and you are ready, things will go better, not always perfect, mind you, but it will go better for that is the way God works for those who love Him. Folks, you must put God first in your life and then your family, yes, put God first in your family.
GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, STEP FORWARD PLEASE. No place in the Bible have I found a place where it said we are too poor to help others. In fact if we give from what we have been blessed with, our blessings will grow. This scripture, and I want to repeat it... Luke 12:35 - Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, 36 like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
What is God telling me about keeping your lamps burning? Well, folks, God is the lamp unto our feet and we are to be Christ-like, (Christian = Christ-like) so we should keep our lamps burning and we should be doing it for God. Have you ever tried to go through your home on a dark night with no lights on at all? You bust your little piggy that goes to market on the corner of the bed, but if you have your lamp burning you can see the way. Poor talk, you might say, but no, it is not, you need to keep your lamp of God burning. One big reason to keep that lamp of God burning is so that others can see Christ in you.. Don't you want your kids to see Christ in you? And what is the Bible talking about when it tells us we need to be ready to open the door immediately when the master returns from the wedding banquet? That one to me is simple... If we are not ready when the Lord knocks on our door for the final call, IT IS TOO LATE FOR US TO GET READY. If Jesus were to show up at your door right now, would you need to get out the Bible and dust it off and put away the Playboy and Playgirl books? OR would you be ready to open the door? When the Lord returns, we need to be ready, not getting ready, we just out and out need to be ready to go. So as this week ends, let us get rid of one worry and know that we are "Born Again." Folks, we need to be dressed and ready to serve the Lord, to do His work, to help others to be saved, but before we can really do that work for God, we need to have our own house in order, we need to be dressed and ready and let me tell you now, God has called on us, He might not have called us home, but He has called us into His service, to be working for Him... Let's pray...
Dear Father in Heaven, please, please forgive me of my sins and hear the prayers of others as they ask for their sins to be forgiven. Help us to help others, help us to get into the fields for You and work on those that need the word, help us work at our own families. Help us, Lord, Lord, help us. In the name of Jesus, I pray. Amen.
Now go forth, being dressed and ready and sharing your blessings with others... Love ya, Pastor Dan... and yes, I am going to do it again, because I need to do it again... So come on and HIT IT --
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, How great Thou Art, How great Thou Art.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee, How great Thou Art, How great Thou Art.
HOW GREAT THOU ART, HOW GREAT THOU ART!!
See you next week. Tomorrow a double wedding... pray for it please, Thank you.
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