Monday 4/16/2012 Promises from God 1

In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.

Good Monday Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, it is a beautiful day here at the Southern Location of the North Pole. Just beautiful, and Monday is the day we pray for our leaders and veterans, military, police, firefighters, and all those who work to keep us healthy and safe. Also please pray for those that have been hit so hard by the twisters coming through the Mid-West. Let me just take a minute and tell you that I met one of my best friends because of a big twister that hit our area a few years back. And then in turn because of the storm, he met this pretty lady and their love grew and they were married a few years back. Sometimes it is hard to see at the time, but if we take a good look at Roman's 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)

My good friend, Tom Mozer, had lost half of his house, and his insurance company put him up at a motel where his future wife worked. I did not know Tom at the time, but we had ties due to antique buses and cars. Our friendship grew, his love of Diane grew, and I got to marry them a few years ago. So when I think about storms, I think about the peace that often comes from them as people come together to clean up. Hey Tom and Diane, have a great day, I love you both!

Ok, pray for our President and other leaders, and pray that the mess about our men and women who guard our president gets taken care of. Regardless of who the president is, those folks have a job to do and they have disgraced our Nation.

Please pray for President Obama, first for Salvation, then that he works through Jesus to get the business of this nation done. Pray for all of our leaders, Federal, State, Local, and school. Pray for our military, and please pray for our veterans, and remember, please, those young, some just 18 years of age, who have lost limbs and parts, fighting so we can still speak out for God in our country. Pray for our police, not an easy job, folks, and for our firefighters, most in small towns who do not get paid. Also, when praying remember your family doctor, almost a thing of the past.

Please pray for Allison who will be starting a new type drug to fight cancer. Also, please keep praying for Ronald who also has cancer. And pray for Dolores who has this bad infection and will be having knee surgery on Wednesday to try and wash out the infection from that last new knee. I have cancelled my knee replacement surgery as my place is to take care of Dolores.

4/16/2012 Promises from God (1) Acts 2:17 - In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my spirit in those days and they will prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. 21 AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. (NIV)

Unless God changes directions on me, I will be writing about promises that have been given to us by our God. And you will find that if we talked about promises of God each day for a year we would not get them all covered. God has promised us a lot, folks. Let's look at these scriptures of today and just see the promises in just these verses.

From Acts 2:17 - God promises that in the last days, He will pour out His Spirit on ALL people. I want you to notice right here that God promises to pour out His spirit on all people, not just those who love Him, but all people. If you go into a neighborhood and find those who love Jesus and those who hate Him, and then watch the next time it rains, you will find that both those who love God and those who don't all get rain on their yards when it rains. Please use that as an example for yourself, for when you "share your blessings" as this "good looking pastor tells you to each day", please share them with those who love God and those who don't. Also in Acts 2:17 it talks about sons and daughters will prophesy, and the young men will see visions. And brothers and sisters, in those last days, more and more people will come to the Lord.

From Acts 2:19.  Here God is making a promise that in those last days, He will show wonders in Heaven and on earth, and show us signs that it is coming to an end. Once again, folks, He is going to show us all, not just those who are saved.

From Acts 2:20, He makes this promise, that the sun will become dark and the moon like blood. This is  another warning of the end of the age.

From Acts 2:21. This great promise and again not just for those of us who believe now, but all who will "Call upon the name of the Lord to be saved."

Acts 2:21 - AND EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. (NIV)

That verse was the center of our scripture today. Please be sure to call upon the Lord in the name of Jesus. A great promise for today's lesson...

Dear Father in Heaven, we call upon You in the name of Jesus today asking You look over our prayer requests and honor them according to Your will for us and for those we are praying for. Lord, thanks for the promises and may we try and keep a promise to You by saying we will try our best to repent of sins, and Lord that will take Your help, as we are indeed sinners... Lord, help us through this day. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

Now go forth and share your blessings.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.