John's clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a leather
belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey. People went out
to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan.
Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.
Good Tuesday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters. It is a
beautiful early morning here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Today
we reach out in prayer to our Father in Heaven, through our Lord Jesus for
healing for those who have cancer, heart problems, failed kidneys, bad livers
and all other major health issues including depression and just plain major
pain. There are so many people who have more than one of the health issues
listed, yet each day they push forward, keeping their eyes on Our Lord. Have
faith, my dear brothers and sisters, and just keep keeping on for Jesus. God is
so good to us, so very, very good.
Please pray today for Vicki, first Vicki from The Bridges who
has been HEALED from a rare disease, all honor and glory to God. Also pray for
Vicki from Dayton, Ohio, who has more than her share of health issues, in fact
she is flooded with them, she carries a very full plate.
Please pray also for Ruby, Dolores, Glenn and Marie. Pray,
please, for me this day as I go to see the surgeon about surgery on my right
hand.
Once again we also want to give all honor and glory to God for
His heading up Carry The Light Ministries. We keep asking for your prayer
support as we want to keep our missions for the Lord moving forward. Years
and years ago, when I purchased my Exxon Service Station business and was sent
to Exxon Dealer School, I was taught there is only two ways to go in business,
move forward or lose out, you just cannot stand still. I think the same can be
said about our walk with our Lord Jesus and working for Him, we keep growing and
moving forward, or we stall out and backslide. How about it, let's move forward
in and with and for our Lord Jesus. Not just with Carry The Light Ministries,
but in your personal walk with Him.
Best Dressed!! Matthew 3:4 - John's clothes were made of
camel's hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts
and wild honey. 5 People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the
whole region of the Jordan. 6 Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him
in the Jordan River. (NIV)
So here we find John, out in the wild and preaching and
teaching about the coming of our Lord Jesus. Let's just take a minute and review
what we learned yesterday about John and what he was preaching. You could sum
it up in one word, "Repentance," and brothers and sisters, we all need to be
reminded of that each day, each and every day of our lives. Or at least I do,
for it seems each day, I make mistakes, or sin against our Lord. Those who
drive on our highways and roads of today, might be like me, and I find myself in
my car sort of yelling out, "why don't you hang up and drive", and while no one
outside my car can hear me, except our Lord Jesus, He knows my thinking, and
brothers and sisters, He knows all of what we are thinking. So folks, each day
when we rise we should have a heart to heart with Jesus, asking Him to forgive
us of our sins, and then repenting from them, turning and walking away from
them.
So John preached in his camel haired coat, with his belt
around his waist and would tell people to Prepare the way of the Lord, "REPENT
for the kingdom of Heaven is near." Tomorrow, on what we call Salvation
Wednesday, we will talk about this. If a man coming in from the wild, a man who
lives off the land, so to speak, a man without formal education, can preach and
teach about the coming of our Lord Jesus, then by gosh, there is just no reason
at all why we cannot also preach, and teach for our Lord Jesus. So as we talk
about a wild man, with a camel coat, and eating locust and wild honey can work
for God, there is just no good excuse why we don't work for Him also. So today
and into the night please pray about this. If Jesus were to walk up to you
today and say, "pick up your nets and follow me", what would you do? Would you
go to work for Him? I tell our flock at the Bridges, even at the age of
those living there, and most are the age of Dolores and myself, or a tad older,
that they are not too old to work for Jesus. Dolores and I have been very
blessed by our Lord Jesus to pastor the Bridges and blessed with a ministry team
that helps us. Folks, we never get too old to work for Jesus and each day when we
rise we should think of how we are going to work for Him that day. At the
Bridges we tell folks, one thing they can do is invite new folks moving in to
church, and also someone from each table take the lead in praying for meals. We
have had many people tell us that it is very hard to give up their
home, their things, even, in some cases their pets, to move into a senior
community, and they also tell us it is very hard to give up their
church.
Dear Father in Heaven, You have blessed us with another day of
life, and Lord, we want to show our appreciation for it, by not just living it to
please You, and we want to do that, but we want to do more, we want to help get
the word out as John did, we want to tell others to repent and work for God.
So help us this day to pick up our nets and follow You each day for the rest of
our life. And may we take the lead from You and John and tell others to repent,
and may we, Lord, look in the mirror and have it start with us. Please answer
our prayer requests now according to Your will... in the name of Jesus,
Amen.
Now go forth, sharing your blessings, repenting and working
for Jesus. Have a blessed day and know that I love ya. Pastor Dan.
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