Friday 1/25/13 Greatest Healing

Good Salvation Friday, my dear brothers and sisters.  Dolores and I are sitting in our computer room, which is an enclosed porch.  The snow seems to be ending, and as we look out the windows, the snowflakes look like small cuts of diamonds falling, and the light (we have outdoor street lights on our driveway) shining down on the snow looks like diamonds on the snow.  God sure does have a way of making everything He ends look pretty.  It will look that way until I go out and hit it with the plow.

Anyway, brothers and sisters, I want to wrap up our talk about healing this week, and please remember how it got started this week.  It got started when the news arrived that God took away a cancerous tumor from Dick Mowery.  Once again we give God the glory for that.  Today, Salvation Friday, I want to wrap up the subject with the greatest healing ever and what really causes those healings.

Today I ask all of you who might not be saved to pray for Jesus to come into your heart, and if you are saved, pray for a clean start and that God will use you to help bring people to the feet of Jesus to be saved.  Remember we cannot save someone, only Jesus can do that, but He wants us to  help get the good news out to the masses.  Let me get moving on the message.  Oh, not one person emailed back to me about making a promise to God to try and stay clean, not to break the heart of Jesus by sinning.  Oh, well.

The Greatest Healing Ever (1/25/13)

Isaiah 53:3 - He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering.  Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised and we esteemed Him not.  4 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted.  5 But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed.  6 We are like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way, and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.  (NIV)

The greatest healing ever was not when Jesus took away the tumor from Dick or a tumor from anyone.  The greatest healing ever was not the fact that I was cured of cancer nor when ministry partner Pamela Bower was cured from cancer.  The greatest healing ever was not when our granddaughter Brittany was killed in a traffic accident and snapped back to life on the accident scene.

I could go on and on but let me not belabor the point.  THE GREATEST HEALING EVER WAS WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS TO SAVE OUR SORRY SOULS FROM HELL.  SOMEONE PLEASE SHOUT AMEN.  AMEN!  Yes, brothers and sisters, the greatest healing came when Jesus was placed on the cross to heal us from our sins.  A gift from God to us, each one of us.  He was spit on for our sins, He was beaten for our sins, His head was pierced by thorns for our sins, and He was nailed through His hands and feet for our sins.  This  healing is called the GOOD NEWS, and that news was good for us, but it sure hurt Jesus.  Brothers and sisters, let me get right to it.  If you are not saved, then please today take time to invite Jesus into your heart and live for Him.  It is more than just a prayer of faith, you must go to work for Jesus.  Salvation is free from our Lord, but folks, once you are saved, you cannot just sit in the cart waiting to go to heaven.  No, we who are saved have a job to do, so get out of the cart and start helping to push or pull it.  Every person can do something for the Lord, EVERYONE.  It is called sharing your blessings.  It is called going into the fields of harvest to work for the Lord.  The crop is ripe, let's not let it rot in the fields.

I hate to mention this today, but I am going to.  A lot of people say they are saved but in the next breath support the killing of the unborn.  Just the other day I saw this ad running on TV with my very own eyes.  A black man dressed in a tux holding a glass of wine toasted Roe versus Wade and said congratulations for 40 years.  You made it, baby, he stated.  Planned Parenthood, the number one killer of babies in the world, gets government grants to murder babies.  That is our money.  I want you to think about this number, 525 million.  That would be 525,000,000 babies, live children have been murdered in the womb.  And this ad said congratulations.  If a person who is at fault in an accident and it cost a mother to be her life and that of her unborn baby, the count would be two counts of homicide by vehicle if the driver at fault was drinking.

I ask this question ... Jesus said do not hurt children, and we know that song, Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow,  black and white, and the ones in the womb, they are all precious in His sight.  On the 40th anniversary of Roe versus Wade, I would think our God cried.  Again, 525 million people gone.  Pray, warriors, pray.  Write those congressmen and women.  And let's get a president elected that would at least sign a temporary order to stop the killing for four years.  No question about it, President Obama believes this is a good law.  PRAY, WARRIORS, PRAY.

Dear Father in Heaven, please forgive us of our sins, and Lord, please help us to find a way to stop abortion around the world.  Lord, Your children are being murdered, and please, Lord, please, Lord, come back very, very soon, and until that, help us to get people to Your feet to be saved.  Help us to follow Your command to get to the fields of Harvest.  Forgive us, and Lord, please, please forgive this nation, WAKE THEM UP, LORD.  In Jesus' name, I pray.  Amen.

Please, brothers and sisters, take time to read the scripture above, and read it and read it.  Also go to Exodus 20:13 and read the commandments about "Thou shalt not murder."  Then please go forth sharing your blessings.

Love ya, Pastor Dan.