Friday 9/7/12 Denying God!

Dear Father in Heaven:  Good morning, God, thanks for another night, and please, God, start us, start me fresh this morning, please clean me of my sins and sinful thinking and even the sins that I might not think of as sins, dear Lord.  Help me, please, in all I do today and please walk with me, and yes, Lord, anyone else who prays this prayer.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Good Morning, my dear brothers and sisters, and I pray that God will bless each and every one of you this day, and I have faith He will.  Just so you know that all blessings do come from God, even if you receive them from others.  And remember you do not need to forward anything to ten people and send something back to the sender to be blessed.  May I suggest to all of you, if you are sending out something to receive from someone else and there are a lot of nice prayers, etc., to forward, but please go to the bottom and take off the disclaimer about how you will be blessed if you send out the "chain email".

Today is Friday, yes, SALVATION Friday, the day we pray for the unsaved, and also today we pray for those who work the fields of harvest for our Lord Jesus.  Besides praying for your local pastors, please pray for all on the missionary field, all those who sing and preach the Gospel together, including our dear friends Tim Beitzel, Dave, Duane, and Neil, and the Men in Harmony, and Dan Stoner and is family who fly into Togo, West Africa.  Also these others by name.  Brian Clugston, serious dental work, for Dave Fortney and his family, his father is in the hospital, his mother struggles daily, pray also for his wife Joanne, and his sons, Arthur and Sean and his brother, whose name has slipped this old man's mind.  Pray for God to wrap the family in His loving arms.

Dear Father in Heaven, please hear our daily prayers for Salvation of the unsaved and help we who are saved to work the fields of Harvest.  Please, Lord, be with the workers in the fields, all of them, and please be with those we have named.  Also, Lord, be with those who need the healing hand, including those who have been on our list before who need prayers and those listed today.  Please hold Dave and his family tight this day.  Lord, we pray for Your will in all things.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Denying God:

Titus 1:16 - They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him.  They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.  (NIV)

Dear brothers and sisters, once again you need to know, I am back listening to God, and I know some of you will get upset with this message today, but God is telling me to write about it.  As we all know, it is about time to elect a new president, but it is not about the election today and who you vote for, it is about all of those, both parties, and others who fit this writing that God is giving me as I type it.

I have watched with interest both of the party conventions, and I would like to ask this question, and you can quote me on this.  "Do all politicians lie, or do all the liars become politicians?"  But what upset me the most is that one party removed the word God from their platform and also anything about Jerusalem.  In other words, they wanted nothing to do with God in their convention platform, or in what God is telling me, they "denied Him."  Then they had a vote to put God back into the platform, after the press was telling the public, or voters.  When the voice vote was taken, some voted yes, they wanted God in, they to me did not want to deny God, but others said no, and a loud NO.  They were still denying God.  Long story made a little shorter, after three votes, a lady told the chairmen to make a decision and he said the ones voting to put God back in won.  Others booed the decision or they, in my opinion, denied God.  That is not the sound I hear, more wanted God out than in.  But folks, it did not end there, some would speak of the murder of the unborn, "my words, not theirs," they called it women's rights.  Some spoke of gay marriages, that they should happen, and then some of the same people quoted scripture for other things.  HOW CAN ONE DENY GOD IN ONE BREATH, AND THEN CALL ON HIM IN ANOTHER?

So let us look together at just this one scripture in Titus, and I pray you would read Titus Chapter One.  This one verse, and let's look at just the first part of it.  "They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him."  "They claim to know God, BUT BY THEIR ACTIONS THEY DENY  HIM."

"They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him."  And the scripture goes on to tell us

"They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good."  And brothers and sisters, this is not just happening at these conventions, or in the one party, it happens in both parties, but more so it even happens across the Nation, forget the world, and it even happens in some churches here in America.  Remember this part again, "They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny Him."  It is sad, folks.  Last night a lady at the convention, a speaker, who is Catholic, tore her church up, and by her actions she was denying God.  By the way, the Priest who closed the convention in prayer was great, and he did both conventions.  Yes, he spoke out for God, while praying, his actions showed he loved God and did not deny Him.

Brothers and sisters, I want us all, and I am saying us all, to look ourselves over, and ask this quest6ion, do my actions tell others I am denying God while we stand up and give Him praise?

Folks, I was taught growing up that actions speak louder than words.  Again, do our actions tell others that we are walking away from God while we stand up and praise Him?  I am not judging the hearts of anyone at the conventions, I just don't understand how sometimes even in the same group of words, someone can quote scripture and deny God at about the same time.  And if we deny God, if we deny our Lord Jesus, He is going to deny us entry to Heaven when we stand before Him on Judgment Day.  WHERE DO YOU STAND?  Do you tell others you love Jesus and a few minutes later you are damning Him by using His name in vain?  Tell me, which is worse, someone who just denies God, like a non-believer, or one who claims to be a Christian but denies Jesus in their actions?  We who are born again need to address ourselves and then go out and work those fields of harvest for God.  But be sure when you are talking with others that you are not denying God by your actions, including your appearance.

Dear Father in Heaven, please bless the message You have given to me, and Lord of our Salvation, help us this day to come fully to You, and renew as we pray this prayer ... Dear Lord, save me, come into my heart to live, wake me to Your love, and help me bring others to You.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

John 14:6 - Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me."  (NIV)

Romans 10:9/10 - That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.  (NIV)

Now go forth, standing for God in all you do and sharing His blessings that are given to you in abundance.  I love Jesus and I love all of you.  Please take this message to heart.  Love ya, Pastor Dan.