My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your
heart. For they will prolong your life many years and bring you prosperity.
Let love and faithfulness never leave you, bind them around your neck; write them
on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the
sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on
your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and he will make your
paths straight.
Good Thursday morning, my dear brothers and sisters. Thursday, the day we pray for churches, schools and families. Also please keep praying
for Vicki, and for the guys at Sonshine Ministries.
Remember the teachings of God. Proverbs 3:1 - My son, do not
forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart. 2 For they will prolong
your life many years and bring you prosperity. 3 Let love and faithfulness never
leave you, bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4
Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man. 5 Trust in
the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. 6 In all
your ways acknowledge Him and he will make your paths straight.
(NIV)
Jesus teaches by example and by doing and also laying down
some rules, or commandments, as they are called. Do you know that if we would
have paid attention in our youth in Sunday School and in Vacation Bible School
we would have learned about all we really needed to live well in our nation? What was it we learned? Well, if the teachers were doing their job, and we kids
were paying attention, we would have learned to above all else Love God, and then
Love our neighbors as ourselves.
God led me to Proverbs 3:1. The first thing God is telling
us is "Do not forget my teaching." As I have pointed out this week, I want to
bring out His teaching and mainly His teaching by example. Lets face it, folks,
the only reason that Jesus let the devil tempt Him was to show us that all
during our lives we are going to be tempted. And folks, we for sure have been
tempted. I think we give Satan too much credit, for I believe there are
temptations that come from other than the devil himself. Temptations come in
the shape of people, temptations come in the form of money and things money can
buy. Temptations come in the form of drugs, and booze and sex and many other
forms. And while I believe that those temptations don't always come for the
devil, I do believe that we need Jesus to fight them off. Brothers and sisters,
money cannot buy off our temptations, we need to just ask Jesus to help us fight
temptations, we really do and we need Him daily. We need to try our very, very
best to follow the footsteps of Jesus daily. Jesus is the only one who has
lived without sin and should be the only one we set our sights on. Earthly
heroes will always fail you, Jesus never will fail you. So please keep your
eyes on the Lord. Work together with other Christians and when you see a
friend slipping, talk to them, and tell them to do the same with you. If you
are slipping a tad from God, your friends should pull you back. We Christians
need to work together and stay near each other as we walk with the Lord.
Dear Father in Heaven, help us this day to walk with You in
all we do, forgive us of our sins and keep us away from evil and all evildoers, and Lord, today I want to just lead us all in this wonderful prayer You taught us
to pray. Our Father whom Art in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom
Come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily
bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against
us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the
Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Thanks for leading us
by examples Lord. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen.
Now go forth sharing your blessings and yes, you may test God
in this one... but only this one, you may test God in your giving, your SHARING
OF YOUR BLESSINGS, SO TO SPEAK... Love ya, Pastor Dan.
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