Wednesday 9/5/12 New Direction

Dear Father in Heaven, as I start this message today, I ask for Your help, and Lord, I ask that You forgive me of my daily sins and also hear those prayers for forgiveness from all who pray them.  In Jesus' Name, I pray.  Amen.

Good, good morning, my dear brothers and sisters.  It is a great day here at the home of Carry The Light Ministries.  Today you will notice that my work on The Story has halted after just five days.  Yesterday I sat down at the computer three times and I could not write a message, so I talked to God a lot.

Last week, I was trying to write "The Story" going from before the birth of Christ through to the Cross and beyond.  I was doing this so as to set up a child's book for me to follow when I do Santa.  In short, I was praying for messages, but was praying for what I wanted to write about and not what the Lord wanted me to write about.  Brothers and sisters, I must get back to praying and listening to God and then doing what He tells me to do.  Yesterday was a good example of Him just stopping me cold in my tracks ... Praying and listening for direction, gosh, sounds like I should practice what I have been preaching.  So I have been praying and waiting and waiting and praying.  God is telling me, we are going in a new direction on the line.  I do not know what that might be, but I know I must take more time talking to God and planning the messages with Him.  So each day as I write you might see different changes.  I also need to put more prayers in the messages, not longer, just more, and I know that.  I need to open the message and come clean with God, so you will see that is done, and I pray each day you will join me.  I feel it is important for us to start out clean with Jesus daily, and again, since I think and feel this way, we all need to get that done for Jesus.  I also need to do a better job at posting prayer requests, for there are times that when I get them, I don't always remember to put them down for prayer on the line.

Also, I need your help, PLEASE, furnish last names on prayer requests.  Take today, I had a prayer request for a lady by first name, and we have at least 3 other ladies on the line with that same first name.  If it is a sensitive matter and you just want a first name listed, I will honor that, but I need the full name.  I know there are sensitive things.  I would also like to know why we are praying for someone, like does he/she have cancer, or a bad heart, whatever.  I do not think we should just post, "God knows what the problem is."  Also, please, we must remember this, in all things, God's will is to be done.  And yes, that is not just in my prayers, but what I am writing about.  Also when God has touched you or the one whose name you sent in, let us know so I can post a praise report.  WE REALLY NEED TO BE PRAISING GOD.

With that said, I am going to use this scripture from Proverbs:

Proverbs 18:13 - He who answers before listening - that is his folly and his shame.  (NIV)

I need to get back in line.  Today is healing day on the line, and we will pray for that, and I will try and get the names posted for tomorrow.  Also starting with today, all daily messages are going to lead to salvation.  Those of you who are saved understand why I must write it this way.  Why, for some readers might not be saved, and we also have people forwarding my messages to friends and family, and it might be that on a day when someone's heart is open to receive the Lord.  So let me wrap out with this by asking all of you to pray for me, and for God to keep using me on this line, and that a new direction is going to come forth from it.  Thank you.

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)

Dear Father in Heaven, Thanks for another fine day, and thanks for letting us live again here on earth among our family and friends.  Lord, it is healing day on the line, and forgive me, Lord, for I have failed to get the names posted today, so today, according to Your will I ask that Your healing hand goes out with the message, and You are healing those in need of that.  And yes, Lord, help me, help me listen more for You and to talk more to You and then listen even more.  Please, Lord, get me back on track.  In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

Go forth now and share those blessings.  I love Jesus, and Jesus loves us all, and I love you also.

Pastor Dan